Taxes are a Big Part of my Life

So, I have just finished my VAT report. As a person with a business license in Czechia, I have to pay my VAT every month on the income I have made.

Income tax, capital gains tax, stamp duty, inheritance tax. The state needs to eat, we need money for Ukraine, money for refugees, money for green transition, money for single mothers. Everybody needs to eat. Eating and shitting is what this is all about… work slaves, pay taxes. I just payed like $3 for a loaf of bread here in Czechia.

By the way, taxes in Czechia hide under insurance payments like obligatory medical and semi-obligatory (for employers) social security, the latter is for pensions for boomers. If you have a business, social security payments are rather high because we have to punish people for being self employed. Wanna use the highway, buy a stamp. Stamp signifies tax paid.

Filing taxes are a big part of being an adult, avoiding tax is ascending…

Woke Left Will Unravel in a Spectacular Way

What actually is the woke left and why is it gear for a spectacular failure?

Well, the woke left follows so called Cultural Marxism. Leftoids say this is an antisemitic conspiracy theory because apparently the vast majority of the theorist of Cultural Marxism were Jewish, and it is apparently antisemitic to point this out. It is also a conspiracy theory because this ideology has pretty much taken over the campuses of Western universities, and you are a conspiracy theorist for pointing this out. These arguments are designed to attack the moral character of critics of the Left. But the so called Cultural Marxism has clear origins in the Frankfurt School, also known as the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Which by the way existed on generous grants of a wealthy Jewish student that was into Marxism, Felix Weil.

The Frankfurt School was born out of a crisis of Marxist ideology that was apparent in latter nineteenth century. The Marxists could not reconcile the dogma laid down by their founder, Karl with the fact that far from being exploitative, the capitalist system was making the lives of ordinary people better. Mind you, the Imperial government of Germany instituted things like pension schemes, and the material wellbeing of the working class was steadily increasing. Theorists such as Eduard Bernstein for instance, rejected Marx’s notion that capitalism would collapse. Further dismay came from the general failure of Marxist revolutions following WWI. Bolsheviks, with their Red Terror were not exactly to the liking of the bona fide champagne socialists in Western capitals.

I don’t even know why it is still called Marxism, I guess such is the impact of that bearded knucklehead that this label cannot be escaped. Why not Leftwing Capitalism? (Also, terms like progressivism and postmodernism float around, make them make sense) Because this is what it actually is. The Frankfurt School with its synthesis of Marx and Freud provided a bourgeois friendly ideology which was more concerned with the rights of sexual minorities, and did not evoke the image of armed workers storming the palace. There was one Antonio Gramsci, who while languishing in prison in Mussolini’s Italy advocated for a slow march through the institutions, and this is exactly what they did. And quite frankly some of its championed causes kind of predate Marx himself.

For instance Feminism is a child of the revolutionary period of late eighteenth century. Socialism itself is not an idea original to Marx. Maybe this is because Marx was a rather unoriginal thinker and his theory was rather born of critique. Cultural Marxism replaces the working class with other disadvantaged groups, such as women, the LGBT, racial minorities, and also in recent years the disabled. Each group, in theory should support the other groups because they all have a single enemy, the white male. This is called intersectionality. For a long time this shit existed in universities, I remember having this taught to me in early 2000s. But since then it seems to have infiltrated other places, not just the government institutions but also the business sphere. In some places, this is the dominant ideology now.

It is interesting how everything this ideology touches is not improving but rather creating a backlash from the silent majority. It seems that these groups that the woke left champions aren’t well served by the leftoids. This was never really about helping the women, the gays, the refugees. This was about using these groups to gain power and grift some taxpayer cash. In many ways leftism is highly parasitic, it feeds on the carcass of liberalism, the gospel of liberty, equality, and fraternity and shits out stinky turds. And it is my contention that much like Bolshevism in Eastern Europe, eventually all this woke shit will be flushed down the toilet because it does not work, and people don’t want it.

Reigning ideologies have a staying power because the people invested in them are not going to easily let go but eventually they unravel, and the more you keep the lid on the better the show in the end. What I want to in the rest of the post is to explore some of the areas wokeism infests and how they are doing.

Feminism

Once upon a time, there was the idea of making women equal, giving them right to own property, the right not to be discriminated against in workplace. The problem is feminism was married to the Marxist idea of class struggle, this is how the gender war was begun. Women are labeled the historically oppressed class, and men are their oppressors. This is why women need to benefit from affirmative action, quotas, and male only spaces are sexist. This no longer is about equality of the sexes but rather the empowerment of women at the expense of men. It reaches ridiculous proportions when you have chubby police women, or secret service female officers in charge of protecting VIPs. The latter thing is a subject of widespread ridicule.

In entertainment, we have been getting Mary Sue characters, a girl boss that knows it all and can do it all, smelly men step aside, hear me roar! I don’t know if this is an attempt to empower the women, or gaslight the audiences. Wokeism is a one big mass gaslighting, it is presenting something obviously ideologically motivated, and then shaming your audience for noticing they are being propagandized in the lamest possible way. Lately there is also the trend of putting ugly women on screen because that also empowers the masses.

Feminism is a seriously maladaptive phenomenon to have in your society. It might benefit some companies that women apply for jobs but the latter cheapens the workforce, and now families need two incomes to sustain themselves. Women with children work less, and that’s why Feminism is highly antinatalist. Abortion is the main area of struggle for women today. Women wanna kill their kids while there is still time. The birthrates are dismal, and this is going to have dire consequences for the future. Low birthrates are exacerbated by Feminist campaigning, the various #MeToo and believe all women make men just simply quit.

LGBT

In a sense, LGBT is a baby of feminism. Back in the days it was the women, who were most supportive of gay rights. Ironically, the radical Feminists do not like guys that dress like women. On the other hand there are women that dress little boys in girl’s dresses because masculinity is evil. I have also heard about the sissy boy to cross dressing pipeline. Bottom line is these are some fucked up people, why do they get a platform?

Homosexuality was legalized like a long time ago but the grift must go on. Here in Czechia, all LGBT NGOs are sponsored by the state and somehow the change of government never means any change to this sponsorship. I could seethe about my taxes going to LGBT organizations, however it is worse than meets the eye. These organizations exist to propagandize the children, and Prague Parade is overtaken by people with kinks and fetishes. This is another form of gaslighting.

They want your kids! Drag Queen Story Hour didn’t come out of nowhere. Many pedos use drag as a cover. If the majority objects to your grooming, you can gaslight the majority with claims of transphobia. We don’t have to go far, recently, the online celebrity, Mr. Beast defended one of his collaborators in this way. Not to mention all the kids that are being sissified with puberty blockers. This is the end, my friends.

Racial and Ethnic Minorities

While Murica is naturally diverse, a country of immigrants and has migration of Latin Americans mostly, who pick cotton or something, in Europe things are a little different. While, immigration to Western Europe until the nineties was motivated by filling the void in workforce created by WWII, since then the “refugees welcome” mass immigration was largely ideology. Its purpose was to gaslight the right, the nationalists. Creating this diversity would put the native lower classes on the defensive. If they get defensive, the repressive apparatus of the state will be unleashed on them. Hate speech laws, behave peasants!

Middle class people, while economically right-wing have completely resigned on doing anything about mass immigration. The Conservatives in UK, or Christian Democrats in Germany all welcome immigrants. Not welcoming refugees will earn you the label “racist”, and this acts like cryptonite on the feckless center right. But mass immigration literally destroys communities. Western cities periodically erupt in riots. Usually some low life, like George Floyd, gets killed by the cops and this is seen as a license for other low lives to ransack the city. But the native population is not far behind, anti-minority violence is on the rise too.

The latter, that is the natives fighting back is being mercilessly suppressed by the authorities, this is called two-tier policing, this is building resentment, and creates an enemy out of the cops. Two-tier policing was introduced by woke activists, who thought police is institutionally racist against blacks. One only wonders what else is two-tier? BLM rioters were calling for the police to be defunded. Ironically, the absence of policing leads to shops being looted, and businesses closing shop in immigrant infested areas. The immigrants ironically are the losers here.

The woke policies with ethnic minorities also push for more diversity in the work place at the expense of particularly white men, although white women or Asians are also excluded. It is funny that the East Asians are discriminated against only because they happen to be economically and academically successful rather than being viewed as historic oppressors of darker races. In entertainment, for instance in historical dramas, blacks are cast in main roles, and if you complain, you will be called a bigot.

Will woke lead to broke?

I have been in the past more optimistic about the market dynamics when it comes to woke ideology but I have since become more skeptical. We are dealing here with ideologues, leftist ideologues, and the latter generally do not give a fuck about profitability. If they did, the Eastern Block would not go bankrupt in the eighties. These guys think they have a higher purpose, they think they are better than you, and they believe they are on a mission to spread the message. It makes them feel better about themselves.

But this is going to end badly, Western countries will be aging, with a disaffected male populace, infested by hostile immigrants. Drag queens are going to be the major form of entertainment. It is going to be fun.

I Became a Bitcoin Maxi

And this is my final verdict on cryptocurrency…

My plans to own a portfolio of cryptocurrencies have changed abruptly after a moment of mental clarity. Pretty much following my post on analyzing cryptocurrencies, I came to dislike all the altcoins. I am not trading these and I just need the king to hodl. And that’s BTC!

BTC does not have a known founder and the software is pretty much not subject to any drastic changes. There are adresses believed to be belonging to Satoshi Nakamoto but he has never moved his Bitcoin unlike say Vitalik Buterin did with Ethereum.

Also BTC has a limited supply. It is a finite resource. I personally don’t think any of the other coins present an alternative. Maybe Monero with its encrypted transactions could find uses but Bitcoin is king. And there is no place for another.

So I converted anything that I had into BTC, and will not buy anything else from now on.

Pattern of History

What are you curious about?

I am curious about human history at least from the beginning of the Holocene. The various technological revolutions like Agriculture, Metallurgy, and Coinage. I am trying to find a discourse to speak about them, and identify secondary revolutions.

For instance, Agriculture led to the growth of material culture, and the birth of first cities. And while Agriculture meant corralling of herd animals, Metallurgy ment corralling of the people. The master and slave relationship was born, without which the birth of the first civilizations wouldn’t be possible. Coinage, developed in the 5th century BC made Industrial Revolution and capitalism possible many centuries later.

Karl Jaspers described the last revolution as the Axial Age. Not only coinage was developed but this was a philosophical and religious revolution, first histories were written. This form of speculation also contributed to the scientific and industrial revolutions centuries later.

And following the pattern we are up for another technological revolution about a thousand years from now, which will bear fruits again in several hundred years after that. This is a question to the futurists, Ray Kurzweil thinks technological singularity is near, so it cannot be what I think. Provided, Kurzweil is wrong and there will be a dark age and regression on the way, which would also follow the pattern.

The eventual outcome is humanity becoming a type I civilization on the Kardashev scale. This means that it will use the entire energy of planet earth. Fossil fuels might be finite and dirty but energy is actually abundant. It is a question of how we harness it, store it and use it.

Rightoid Backlash is Not Happening

So, Britain and France had elections and the result is neoliberal and leftist governments. Even though, Le Pen got quite a lot of seats, it is not enough and the party will be ostracized. And the same thing is going to happen with Babiš in Czechia…

I have always voted for the right because leftoids appeal to emotion and their policies make people dependent on the state. But the right is not sexy apparently. In France apparently the women have mobilized to vote against the “misogynist” right.

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The National Rally’s position on abortion is ambiguous. One of its leaders, the young and charismatic Jordan Bardella, ensured that the party wouldn’t challenge women’s rights, but some of the party’s members have compared abortion to genocide or taken part in anti-abortion protests.

Feminist activists knew that denouncing the performative feminism of the far-right wouldn’t be enough though. Coming out of the European elections on June 9 with 31.5 per cent of the vote, the National Rally welcomed Macron’s decision to dissolve the parliament and entered the new election campaign with confidence. That’s why a couple of hours after the dissolution, while left-wing leaders worked on building a union, an opposition campaign led by feminists started on social media – specifically on Instagram.

LMAO, 🤣 these rightoids have no clue. They are not in tune with their own party base, and they pander to feminists that want to kill their kids out of fear of losing the female vote. 🤣 Modern women wanna have a lot of sex with multiple men, and kill their kids. And you dare say, “wait WTF?” you chauvinistic pig, you misogynist. Abortion is a pro-female, don’t you have any objections you incel!

Incel rebellion my ass, the ladies have us by the balls, and they will keep the globalists in power. Honestly all these leftist parties are tamed except maybe some of remnants of the old schools hard left but they are equally repulsive. Theirs is a failed ideology, capitalism has won over them, and the only road to freedom is being independent of the state or corporations as much as possible, only this is a true freedom. When you do not beg the state to eat, you are not a wagie, you have achieved freedom, and everyone can suck your dick.

Contemporary left has failed to achieve fucking communism. Maybe because communist parties in Eastern Europe and Asia have approached the issue the wrong way, maybe the CCP in China might still build a commie utopia but is this what you want? I don’t! On the other hand Klaus Schwab wants us to be cucked by corporations, he wants us to be their slaves. We are heading towards feudalism 2.0 where the state will give different fiefs to favored entities. Small fry like me cannot survive in this, I will be swallowed by the whales, eventually. My descendants or heirs definitely will.

In this way, leftoids and neoliberals are equally toxic. They cannot be trusted. But equally, the rightoids appear feckless. I really hope Kamala does not defeat Trump but Trump ain’t shit either. Eventually, I hope Murica runs out of money and like the USSR leaves Europe alone. This is a process independent of Kamala or the Donald. This will force the Eurocucks to do some sovereign politics, and be more realistic.

I guess I am getting too hopeful, I guess the only option is to enjoy the decline.

Faggoty governments want to rob your ass…

Cuckold Series

The best articles on IR about cuckolds…

The YouTuber Destiny said his then wife, whatever her name is cucking him but she will always return to him because he is a cool guy. Beta male cucks always come up with copium justifying their woman’s infidelity.

Not long after, Destiny got a divorce, how sad, he was not the cool guy after all…

Another cool guy, Alexey Navalny was made a cuckold while in prison. Women will cuck you my friend…

The best option is to be a bull. 🐂 Getting to smash all the hoes of your beta male followers. Some will say that being a cuck is actually a good thing if you are a beta male, cucks think this usually. Destiny thought this.

But cuckolding is no laughing matter beyond guys willingly accepting their cuckold status. Paternity fraud is a costly fraud, and should be associated with consequences for he female. The problem with modern feminism is that it promotes women abolishing responsibility.

First Past the Post

I am personally a fan of direct democracy, the current system is an eighteenth century anachronism. Today we have technologies like blockchain. Obviously, there are things to hammer out like filing of motions, and the rules around it. Government digital infrastructure that would allow every citizen to vote. Security of the system would also have to be maintained.

The British system has this beautiful thing that you at least know your MP. Whether that means anything is open to debate. Here in Czechia you just need 5% of the vote to get a seat. This is how I got elected.

How to Analyze Cryptocurrencies?

Here is an interesting method…

I found it at the Bitcoin University channel, and somehow this video has altered my desire to acquire certain cryptocurrencies.

So this new Kaspa has this thing called the ghost protocol (Kaspa the friendly ghost 👻) that basically solves the trilema of cryptocurrencies. Guys, I am not very keen on the technicalities of the software but I am very interested in monetary theory, what is money, what is sound money? And the trilema is basically this:

I somehow do not get why these should cause a dilemma. Scalability is basically about the ability to divide the “coin” into smaller units, for instance Bitcoin is divided into 100 million satoshis. Bitcoin would have to get really expensive for its scaleability to be threatened. They say that Kaspa means silver in Aramaic. The authors of Kaspa are trying to sell it by saying that this is silver to Bitcoin that is gold. Bitcoin is not gold, BTC is a fucking software, and silver is shit. 💩

1 oz price, feel the difference?

Historically, silver coinage appeared to make gold scaleable. Every gold coin was worth some amount of silver coins, and silver coins could be divided into copper coins. Every land had a different standard of minting coins, and international exchange rates must have been a nightmare. Gold is a proper precious metal, along with platinum, palladium. Although, I am not sure the other two do not oxidize…

Pure silver also does not tarnish in normal temperatures. But silver is more abundant in nature than any of the other metals mentioned above. I am taking Litecoin from the list of cryptocurrencies I want to acquire. Billing your coin as silver to Bitcoin doesn’t work here.

Another issue is decentralization. Currency should be neutral as possible, it should not be tied to a single entity. Cryptocurrency should not be issued by a bank, crypto exists to circumvent banks. I am wary of coins linked to exchanges like Binance. Kaspa is apparently developed by a team of Israelis and the founder posts pro-Israel tweets.

I personally have nothing against people harboring biases based on ethnicity, this is quite a strong thing. But in this respect, Kaspa has nothing on Bitcoin. We don’t even know, who Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of Bitcoin is. Nobody has ever seen Satoshi, he doesn’t tweet. It is presumed he owns like million BTC but has never moved his coins. What’s he gonna do with all that Bitcoin remains to be seen. I don’t care if he sells it all, and the price drops, I will pump my financial reserve into it. Trust me, much bigger fish will scoop up that Bitcoin even faster.

Also, there seems to be space for one or very few cryptocurrencies at the top. I think BTC will remain the undisputed ruler but there are other interesting projects that have qualities people find appealing like anonymity of payments like in Monero. If you want a coin that will likely preserve its value, go for Bitcoin, it has a limited supply of 21 million. For instance Pepe coin has the supply of 420 billion (420 😆) coins, and people are wondering whether its price will ever reach $1.

There are some indicators one should follow. The market capitalization and number of transactions in a given cryptocurrency. Either of these indicate a future success of the cryptocurrency but they are an indicator of current adoption. Adoption is very important, basically, there isn’t a space for the myriad of cryptocurrencies there currently are. However, I do leave room for a particularly good cryptocurrency bursting on the scene and becoming really popular but BTC kinda kicks ass and is used everywhere.

Was Communist Rule Worse Than Free Market Capitalism?

As you probably know, I am a right-winger and believe in private property, low taxes, and laissez faire that I call in Czech “let the people make money”…

But something has been bugging me of late. Capitalism, or whatever this is that we have here kinda sucks. Commie rule in the Eastern Bloc also sucked and that’s why it failed, and this current shit will also fail.

Various spergs would say that the Communist parties failed to build Communism, and the Western liberal democratic governments do not practice pure capitalism. If you knew about the institutional control over small businessmen like myself here in Czechia, you would demand reform. But some institutional controls are definitely necessary, worker’s rights for instance. In a pure ANCAP capitalism the workers would be made to work 12 hours for few satoshis. Trust me bro, that’s how it goes…

The biggest problem of commie rule was they did not provide the populace with consoomer shit. I remember how my grandma told me after she visited relatives in Austria how they have 10 types of yoghurt on the shelves in shops. This is reminiscent of the Russian meme about 13 types of sausage. Capitalism provides, we now have yoghurt to choose from but motherfucker it is lower quality than in Austria. Welcome to capitalism motherfucker, where the Czech untermenschen are made to eat slop by international corporations.

The issue is, the commies did not allow the people jeans, rock and roll, and pornography. And that’s why they failed. They should have let at least one of those things to be available to the people, and they would be in power still. They should have also allowed the people to do business and get rich. Chinese commies don’t give a fuck about the inequality it creates if it lifts people out of poverty in mass numbers.

The example of China shows that people do not yearn much for political freedoms that in liberal democracies amount to no more than the chance to vote for several parties instead of one. Ultimately, you do not have freedom of speech out here. You can lose your job if you have a loose mouth. You can even stand trial if you overstep the line, and good people get on your case.

This brings me to the fact that the capitalist, liberal marketeer philosophy is geared at making everything private. In my opinion, private property is a key to financial freedom, and the more people have real estate, stocks, bonds, crypto, savings and shit, the better. But should everything be private? Say for instance essential utilities like water and electricity, and healthcare, should that be private?

You want these things to be affordable for the people, and private companies tend to be oriented towards making profits for their shareholders. Governments privatize utilities with claims that business competition will make utilities more affordable to the consumer but it is usually the case that the business is out there to make money and not provide cheap energy and resources to people and businesses. Businesses are not even efficient at building infrastructure. They always go for the cheapest option. This is why gas powered power plants are built everywhere instead of coal, let alone nuclear. But then a little inconvenience like the Russo-Ukrainian war comes.

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There is also talk that large investment funds like BlackRock will finance infrastructure projects and then will extract rent from the peasants. This neofeudal arrangement is absolutely brutal to those that are not on the receiving end of rent. The worst is when you are wagie, you are dependent on your wage, you are basically a slave. Imagine, your employer pays you in fiat that your government prints with abandon, and it loses its value to inflation. I mean, they should pay you with stocks of the company, or something solid like gold bars, or Bitcoin. That’s what I convert my fiat income into.

If like me, you live in Eastern Europe, you know how depressed the wages here are. My coworkers sometimes don’t eat at the end of the month before pay day, or eat some disgusting slop. Globalization means that your industry now competes with produces in places that have depressed wages, cheaper slaves. Companies don’t give a fuck about workers, they care about profits. On the other hand, in a world of modern communications and planes, and intercontinental freight ships, nobody owes you a job. You either move to greener pastures, or try to eke out the best out of your existence wherever you are.

Look this is Niall Ferguson seeing parallels between the late USSR and the West today…

Here is some strange observation, Commie nations tended to have better birth rates… or at least slightly better.

North Korean Birth Rate

Similarly, the Baltic birthrates have dropped with the fall of communism. Combine this with

Latvian Birth Rates

South Korean work culture is absolutely brutal, in North Korea they have gulags for political dissidents. Somehow though, the North Koreans still manage to breed…

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Competition is kinda good but when it becomes a Squid Game it isn’t.

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Also, in a capitalist system, unless you have a high paying managerial position, you cannot afford real estate in big cities, and even if you make good money, you still have to become a mortgage slave. I am not even talking about a particular country, it sucks all over. It sucks in the US, it sucks in the UK, it sucks in Czechia, it sucks in China. Increasingly, only wealthy investment funds can scoop up all the real estate, and you slaves will be paying rent to them.

The commie government in Czechoslovakia built commie blocks for the people, and 27% still live in commie blocks today. The commies built nuclear power plants that keep the lights on and built dams on the rivers that provide water for the cities. For some reason, the post-commie government hasn’t built much. They can’t even build a highway to Austria. Actually, the flats in the commie blocks ain’t cheap now.

To sum up, commie rule kinda sucked but the turn to capitalism didn’t bring a better world. I think it ultimately comes to division of roles for the government and the business. But the question what should be the prerogative of government and is what could be left to private enterprise? And should every place be the same?

Why Don’t People That Support Ukraine Support Palestine?

Why motherfuckers why?

You know this Lindsey bitch is probably sponsored by Zionist lobby groups but you average motherfuckers with an Ukraine flag in your profile photo, why don’t you feel the same for the Palestinians? The Palestinians arguably have it far worse at the hand of the Israelis than the Ukrainians. The Israelis are literally conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Palestinian Territories.

I have only seen one guy that had both the Ukrainian and the Palestinian flag in his bio on Twitter. He was some left wing activist that is like a priori anti-war and agression. The rest of you are simply racist against Arabs, and Muslims. It is that simple. The Ukrops are white, Christian, allow gay pride, wanna join the EU and NATO, and that’s why they are poor innocent victims of Russian aggression, whereas the Palestinians are dirty Arab Islamists that are also terrorists. And that’s why their plight does not matter. Be fucking honest!

Also, the Jews being mostly immigrants from Europe, who suffered so much in gas chambers are seen somehow as part of US. Lindsey motherfucker gets paid for it but arguably, Israel was created by the British, it is a settler nation like Rhodesia. And I guess through the power of being financed by rich Jews Israel is seen as worth defending. It is European colonialists’ only friend in the Middle East. Ukraine is also a Western ideological creation that is seen as worth defending.

Did you motherfuckers also oppose the Iraq war, the bombing of Libya, the bombing of Yugoslavia? I get Lindsey was all for it but Lindsey gets paid for it. What’s your excuse? You don’t like military agression? Or you just hate Russia? Why do you think Russia does not have the right to invade Ukraine and annex its territories but Israel has the right to annex East Jerusalem or Golan Heights? Double standards much? Our son of bitch logic?

I for instance don’t support Israel or Palestine, I am not a good person. Israel is a settler state that wants lebensraum, and is not worthy of respect. I am kind of sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians purely out of pity but I cannot find it in me to fervently support them. I only support Russia, if Russia says there needs to be a Palestinian state, there needs to be a Palestinian state…

I say ditto to Russia in everything because fuck the EU. We Slavs should be using the riches of Siberia. I am no peacenik, the latter is a naive position for incorrigible idealists. There is an unforgiving struggle between superpowers and if you let your ass dream idealistically, others will take advantage of you.