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	<title>Comments on: It is only with an operational reserve that strategic choices can be made</title>
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		<title>By: Pseudo-Chrysostom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pseudo-Chrysostom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 18:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“How do you explain that?”

The same thing that makes pozholes invincible against internal enemies is also what makes them powerless against external enemies; the poz itself.

Functional demographics are schelling points that the invidious can use to organize dysfunctional demographics around in opposition too; coordination facilitated by mutual spite, hatreds, and insecurities.

The ability of any men to organize over anything in general can potentially mean organizing against a defective underlord class in particular; therefore, defective underlords destroy all ways, means, and traditions of social capital that are not converged by themselves, leaving an atomized mass of singletons powerless to do anything to stop them.

Which as a consequence also means powerless to do anything in general. 

It is a system that has lived and died within the span of a single lifetime; then men who instantiated it would cynically make unprincipled exceptions in order to keep the wheels on the bus rolling; but none of their replacements get the joke; they cannot get the joke, because getting the joke would devalidate the very basis of their rationalizing justifications in the first place.

“The prior tenant fled in a panic. What was he running from?”

The fear of taking steps that would demonstrate in reality the fact that the world he grew up in is over, has been over for decades, and arguably never really existed in the first place even. It is fear of taking steps that acknowledge what the world you are living in now is what it already is. It is the fear of taking those fateful steps outside the lines of Normality - even though what is Normal has become astoundingly Abnormal at an ever astoundingly accelerating rate. It is fear of victory, and acting out the familiar role of &#039;gee shucks we&#039;ll get em next time&#039;, regardless of how flagrantly egregious your counterparts are themselves flaunting &#039;propriety&#039;, regardless of even if it means death.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“How do you explain that?”</p>
<p>The same thing that makes pozholes invincible against internal enemies is also what makes them powerless against external enemies; the poz itself.</p>
<p>Functional demographics are schelling points that the invidious can use to organize dysfunctional demographics around in opposition too; coordination facilitated by mutual spite, hatreds, and insecurities.</p>
<p>The ability of any men to organize over anything in general can potentially mean organizing against a defective underlord class in particular; therefore, defective underlords destroy all ways, means, and traditions of social capital that are not converged by themselves, leaving an atomized mass of singletons powerless to do anything to stop them.</p>
<p>Which as a consequence also means powerless to do anything in general. </p>
<p>It is a system that has lived and died within the span of a single lifetime; then men who instantiated it would cynically make unprincipled exceptions in order to keep the wheels on the bus rolling; but none of their replacements get the joke; they cannot get the joke, because getting the joke would devalidate the very basis of their rationalizing justifications in the first place.</p>
<p>“The prior tenant fled in a panic. What was he running from?”</p>
<p>The fear of taking steps that would demonstrate in reality the fact that the world he grew up in is over, has been over for decades, and arguably never really existed in the first place even. It is fear of taking steps that acknowledge what the world you are living in now is what it already is. It is the fear of taking those fateful steps outside the lines of Normality &#8211; even though what is Normal has become astoundingly Abnormal at an ever astoundingly accelerating rate. It is fear of victory, and acting out the familiar role of &#8216;gee shucks we&#8217;ll get em next time&#8217;, regardless of how flagrantly egregious your counterparts are themselves flaunting &#8216;propriety&#8217;, regardless of even if it means death.</p>
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		<title>By: Bob Sykes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob Sykes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 12:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The important thing about this war is the continual tit-for-tat escalation. Unless the Western governments wake up, we will get a nuclear war in both Europe and North America.

A secondary, but important long-term thing, is the revolt of the Global South against the West. No country in the Global South supports US/EU sanctions, and in fact several American allies don&#039;t, Turkey, Hungary, Japan, and South Korea, for example. Rather many countries are openly aligning with Russia-China, and joining BRICS, SCO, EAEU, BRI/OBOR, et al.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The important thing about this war is the continual tit-for-tat escalation. Unless the Western governments wake up, we will get a nuclear war in both Europe and North America.</p>
<p>A secondary, but important long-term thing, is the revolt of the Global South against the West. No country in the Global South supports US/EU sanctions, and in fact several American allies don&#8217;t, Turkey, Hungary, Japan, and South Korea, for example. Rather many countries are openly aligning with Russia-China, and joining BRICS, SCO, EAEU, BRI/OBOR, et al.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 10:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gavin: “But, but. but — latest Western tanks will make proper provision for pregnant gunners and transgendered tank commanders. Their pink armor will put the fear of death into those backwards Russians!”

Imagine, if you will, a fully autonomous, perhaps roving, perhaps ambushing, AT mine with legs.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gavin: “But, but. but — latest Western tanks will make proper provision for pregnant gunners and transgendered tank commanders. Their pink armor will put the fear of death into those backwards Russians!”</p>
<p>Imagine, if you will, a fully autonomous, perhaps roving, perhaps ambushing, AT mine with legs.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 10:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pseudo-Chrysostom: “This of course was a grave miscalculation. Because there are no ‘adults in the room’ in the GAE anymore, they are all dead or half dead in retirement like Kissinger now; because it was also those same men who worked to the utmost to create a world where there could be no competent men who would take their place. Their ultimate achievement, to undermine their own ‘legacy’, by their own natures.”

What you say is very appealing indeed, and I want to believe it, but it cannot be denied that they successfully rammed a masked man into the White House. How do you explain that?

The prior tenant fled in a panic. What was he running from?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pseudo-Chrysostom: “This of course was a grave miscalculation. Because there are no ‘adults in the room’ in the GAE anymore, they are all dead or half dead in retirement like Kissinger now; because it was also those same men who worked to the utmost to create a world where there could be no competent men who would take their place. Their ultimate achievement, to undermine their own ‘legacy’, by their own natures.”</p>
<p>What you say is very appealing indeed, and I want to believe it, but it cannot be denied that they successfully rammed a masked man into the White House. How do you explain that?</p>
<p>The prior tenant fled in a panic. What was he running from?</p>
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		<title>By: Pseudo-Chrysostom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pseudo-Chrysostom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 05:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Putin expected that if he showed how Serious he was about These Serious Matters, such as maintaining Russian sovereignty against the Nuland/Soros/Blinken/Ron Klain crew&#039;s ancestral hatred of Russia, that &#039;the adults in the room&#039; would come to the table and put a stop to the constant attempts at subversion and instigation and &#039;low intensity&#039; killings and massacres in the border regions.

This of course was a grave miscalculation. Because there are no &#039;adults in the room&#039; in the GAE anymore, they are all dead or half dead in retirement like Kissinger now; because it was also those same men who worked to the utmost to create a world where there could be no competent men who would take their place. Their ultimate achievement, to undermine their own &#039;legacy&#039;, by their own natures.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Putin expected that if he showed how Serious he was about These Serious Matters, such as maintaining Russian sovereignty against the Nuland/Soros/Blinken/Ron Klain crew&#8217;s ancestral hatred of Russia, that &#8216;the adults in the room&#8217; would come to the table and put a stop to the constant attempts at subversion and instigation and &#8216;low intensity&#8217; killings and massacres in the border regions.</p>
<p>This of course was a grave miscalculation. Because there are no &#8216;adults in the room&#8217; in the GAE anymore, they are all dead or half dead in retirement like Kissinger now; because it was also those same men who worked to the utmost to create a world where there could be no competent men who would take their place. Their ultimate achievement, to undermine their own &#8216;legacy&#8217;, by their own natures.</p>
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		<title>By: Pseudo-Chrysostom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pseudo-Chrysostom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 05:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia has a huge stock of old 105/115mm ammunition sitting in storage and no contemporary platforms to shoot it with, so all the old T-55s also sitting in storage are being surplussed to artillery units to serve as mobile fire support.

A simple concept but one which is impenetrable to the purposefully disingenuous.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Russia has a huge stock of old 105/115mm ammunition sitting in storage and no contemporary platforms to shoot it with, so all the old T-55s also sitting in storage are being surplussed to artillery units to serve as mobile fire support.</p>
<p>A simple concept but one which is impenetrable to the purposefully disingenuous.</p>
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		<title>By: Phil B.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Phil B.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 02:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gavin Longmuir May 14, 2023 at 9:31 pm:

“And don&#039;t forget, those tanks will go into battle fully supported by the 127th Intersectional Dildo Brigade (78 genders and still counting). The sight of that lot advancing will surely cause the Russians to surrender to the inevitable.”

Look on the bright side, though. The Russian women will be freed from the worry of being raped by their conquerors ...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gavin Longmuir May 14, 2023 at 9:31 pm:</p>
<p>“And don&#8217;t forget, those tanks will go into battle fully supported by the 127th Intersectional Dildo Brigade (78 genders and still counting). The sight of that lot advancing will surely cause the Russians to surrender to the inevitable.”</p>
<p>Look on the bright side, though. The Russian women will be freed from the worry of being raped by their conquerors &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Gavin Longmuir</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gavin Longmuir</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 01:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;&quot;How useful are tanks ...&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

But, but. but -- latest Western tanks will make proper provision for pregnant gunners and transgendered tank commanders.  Their pink armor will put the fear of death into those backwards Russians!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>&#8220;How useful are tanks &#8230;&#8221;</i></p>
<p>But, but. but &#8212; latest Western tanks will make proper provision for pregnant gunners and transgendered tank commanders.  Their pink armor will put the fear of death into those backwards Russians!</p>
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		<title>By: Jim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 23:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How useful are tanks when we’re no more than five years away from inexpensive and terrifying robot kamikaze bomb dogs?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How useful are tanks when we’re no more than five years away from inexpensive and terrifying robot kamikaze bomb dogs?</p>
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		<title>By: Phil B.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Phil B.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 23:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oops! The comments screwed up the table.

The figures for the T54/55 should be aligned with the 62,500 (the totals for those two types) on the bottom line and the other figures should read (1st Figure) = In Service, (2nd Figure) = In Reserve so 3,057 tanks in service, 11,000 in reserve with an additional 62,500 T54/55&#039;s as a secondary reserve.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oops! The comments screwed up the table.</p>
<p>The figures for the T54/55 should be aligned with the 62,500 (the totals for those two types) on the bottom line and the other figures should read (1st Figure) = In Service, (2nd Figure) = In Reserve so 3,057 tanks in service, 11,000 in reserve with an additional 62,500 T54/55&#8242;s as a secondary reserve.</p>
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