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		<title>By: Ozornik</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2025/08/is-warfare-becoming-more-performative/comment-page-1/#comment-3759073</link>
		<dc:creator>Ozornik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading anything after &lt;&gt; has as much value as using CNN or Fox as &quot;news&quot; source.

The author of the quoted musings, along with all of his ilk, are confusing echoes of the chatter they create inside of the chambers they barricaded themselves in, with the real world outside.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reading anything after &lt;&gt; has as much value as using CNN or Fox as &#8220;news&#8221; source.</p>
<p>The author of the quoted musings, along with all of his ilk, are confusing echoes of the chatter they create inside of the chambers they barricaded themselves in, with the real world outside.</p>
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		<title>By: T. Beholder</title>
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		<dc:creator>T. Beholder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Sykes says:

&lt;blockquote&gt;Evidently, “nu-Vatican” is a euphemism for “Israel.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Who needs euphemisms for Israel? It’s a 99% euphemism for United States itself. Most of the time.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bob Sykes says:</p>
<blockquote><p>Evidently, “nu-Vatican” is a euphemism for “Israel.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Who needs euphemisms for Israel? It’s a 99% euphemism for United States itself. Most of the time.</p>
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		<title>By: Harry Jones</title>
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		<dc:creator>Harry Jones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 19:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Demonstrated strategic strength is the most effective propaganda.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Demonstrated strategic strength is the most effective propaganda.</p>
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		<title>By: Bob Sykes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob Sykes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 13:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evidently, “nu-Vatican” is a euphemism for “Israel.”]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Evidently, “nu-Vatican” is a euphemism for “Israel.”</p>
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		<title>By: T. Beholder</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2025/08/is-warfare-becoming-more-performative/comment-page-1/#comment-3759045</link>
		<dc:creator>T. Beholder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only «becoming»?
&lt;blockquote&gt;Ukraine, Israel, and the United States all &lt;/blockquote&gt;

So «United States, United States, and the United States all…»

NT says:

&lt;blockquote&gt;A country that doesn’t rely entirely on propaganda but has actual strategic strength can do more damage with less boasting.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

The entire problem is that the power in question is not «a country». It’s a cancerous oligarchy made up mostly of nu-Vatican and embezzlers (significantly overlapping), both of whom are intrinsically and obviously averse to things required to make countries work, like accountability, clear chains of command or even borders.

To run like a country again would require one part of the oligarchy to get their act together, abandon its niche and purge the rest. While restructuring power thoroughly enough that not a single local vestigial structure remains compatible with &lt;i&gt;modus operandi&lt;/i&gt; of the previous regime.

Experimental data shows stomping out anarcho-tyranny is entirely possible, at least with absolute monarchy. But this may require someone as capable of riding tigers as Stalin. And even he failed to prevent slow backslide from beginning the day he croaked, which shows how well “reforming” the system without explicitly breaking its continuity can stick.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Only «becoming»?</p>
<blockquote><p>Ukraine, Israel, and the United States all </p></blockquote>
<p>So «United States, United States, and the United States all…»</p>
<p>NT says:</p>
<blockquote><p>A country that doesn’t rely entirely on propaganda but has actual strategic strength can do more damage with less boasting.</p></blockquote>
<p>The entire problem is that the power in question is not «a country». It’s a cancerous oligarchy made up mostly of nu-Vatican and embezzlers (significantly overlapping), both of whom are intrinsically and obviously averse to things required to make countries work, like accountability, clear chains of command or even borders.</p>
<p>To run like a country again would require one part of the oligarchy to get their act together, abandon its niche and purge the rest. While restructuring power thoroughly enough that not a single local vestigial structure remains compatible with <i>modus operandi</i> of the previous regime.</p>
<p>Experimental data shows stomping out anarcho-tyranny is entirely possible, at least with absolute monarchy. But this may require someone as capable of riding tigers as Stalin. And even he failed to prevent slow backslide from beginning the day he croaked, which shows how well “reforming” the system without explicitly breaking its continuity can stick.</p>
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		<title>By: NT</title>
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		<dc:creator>NT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A country that doesn&#039;t rely entirely on propaganda but has actual strategic strength can do more damage with less boasting.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A country that doesn&#8217;t rely entirely on propaganda but has actual strategic strength can do more damage with less boasting.</p>
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		<title>By: Freddo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Freddo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Propaganda - a word carefully missing from the article - is off all ages. Much like the Doolittle raid these &quot;three extraordinary military operations&quot; seem of limited military strategic value and primarily designed for media consumption in the West.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Propaganda &#8211; a word carefully missing from the article &#8211; is off all ages. Much like the Doolittle raid these &#8220;three extraordinary military operations&#8221; seem of limited military strategic value and primarily designed for media consumption in the West.</p>
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