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Brilliant and very funny and no you’re not an asshole. I Love your rhetorical device of speaking in the third person referring to yourself as Bagholder and using the royal WE. You’re a very good writer.

Are you religious, you didn’t write out the word Jesus but you could have under cover of it being a common first name for Hispanics. I’m an atheist and I can be a bit of an asshole when it comes to mocking religious people or at least their pieties.

As for your political read it comports with my own thinking and with much of what I have read. The American hegemon is up to it’s usual tricks with it’s usual bullshit certainty: The political Gnosticism of imperial liberalism.

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Yes, the Royal We! ... not particularly religious, will be covering that in depth in my upcoming Fermi paradox post..... I didn't write out Jesus, because I wanted people to read the quote as "nobody fucks with the US" even though the actual quote is "nobody fucks with the Jesus" .... Always looking for more good content to read, post any links you think are relevant.

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So I just posted a piece from “the upheaval”. I think it is the most powerful substack of all and while I noticed you have 57 subscriptions and as such you are probably not in the market for another one, I highly, highly recommend the writings of N S Lyons, he or she is a Titan bestriding the earth: really.

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The core decision-making inner circle of Ukrainian President Zelensky is actually based on his circle of friends when he was an actor.

1. The Chief of Staff of the Presidential Palace, Andre Yemark, is a comedy producer;

2. The head of the Presidential Administration, Andre Bodin, is a lawyer in the entertainment industry;

3. The president's chief policy adviser, Sergey Sheffey, is a comedy writer;

4. Ivan Bakanov, deputy chairman of the Ukrainian Supreme Intelligence Service, is the boss of a comedy film company;

5. Senior adviser to the Ukrainian National Defense Committee, Sergei Sivoko, is also a comedian and is Zelensky's partner in acting.

If you just look at their resume, you can't tell whether it is a film and television company or a country's decision-making body.

Why has Ukraine completely ignored the geopolitical relations of major powers over the years? It seems that homeland security and national development have nothing to do with these politicians-because it really doesn't matter, they are basically not Ukrainians.

Because Ukraine recognizes dual nationality, 80% of senior government officials are American, and 90% of the wealth and people of the rich are in London or Switzerland.

During the 2008 Olympics, the pro-American Georgian President Saakashvili, who was ordered to attack by Putin, was defeated and overthrown and transformed himself into the governor of Odessa Oblast, Ukraine.

The female health minister of Ukraine is the most typical example. She was born in the United States. Before 2013, she was an American general doctor. She went to Ukraine in 2013, naturalized in Ukraine in 2015, and was promoted to Deputy Minister of Health in 2016. In 2019, Zelensky defied all opposition and was appointed health minister.

The three ministers appointed by Ukraine's parliament in November 2014 are all foreigners:

The Secretary of the Treasury is American;

The Minister of Health is Georgian;

The Minister of Economy is Lithuanian;

The former president of Georgia was the governor of Odessa;

The last president, Petro Poroshenko, was said to be a CIA informant.

As for the grassroots troops, many frontline commanders are American and have joined Ukraine in recent years.

In terms of quantitative statistics, the indicators are like this:

① 80% of senior officials hold U.S. citizenship (dual citizenship is legal).

② 90% of the wealth of the rich are in Europe and the United States.

③ Zelensky is neither Russian nor Polish, but Jewish, and he also has a mansion and huge assets in the United States.

Is there any hope for ordinary people in such a country?

When the war comes, will anyone think about this land from the point of view of the country and nation?

So what is the ultimate goal of so many people with American and Western European nationalities infiltrating Ukraine?

The Ukrainian government is a high-sounding government in the name of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people. In fact, it is nothing more than a shadowy cabinet. Living in such a country is helpless and tragic, and it is really hard for more than 40 million Ukrainian people!

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https://www.vox.com/22967223/ukraine-russia-war-putin-propaganda-reallity

I know, Vox, right?

But you are wrong, M. Ray. The PutinHitler is the enemy, not the Western Civilization that is nascent in Ukraine.

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Mar 13, 2022·edited Mar 13, 2022

the enemy of who? the CIA? the funders of these corrupt comedy government actors?

NATO and its constant push to ignore agreements with Russia?

it takes 2 to tango and to say there isn't plenty of blame to go around is naïve and it wont bring and end to the war. can we, the west take a moral high ground when we have killed over 5 million people globally in the last 20 years of wars we have got ourselves in?

although America deny ownership of them, these 23 biolabs didn't build and finance themselves, if Russia had done this in Mexico do you think they might have gone to war?

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The enemy of Western Civilization, as are all National Socialists (Fascists) who go international (Putin).

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I'm going to have to confirm some of those statements, if all that is true - it really makes you wonder how much of this scripted....

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https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/no-the-revolution-isnt-over?r=j0s6f&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct

This is the most monumental substack piece I have ever read, enormous and learned

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That is quite the read, lotta wisdom in there...

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That person swings a big stick

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https://www.vox.com/22967223/ukraine-russia-war-putin-propaganda-reallity

Wow, even Vox gets things right every once in a while!

The West will have to rid the world of the latest Hitler (Putin) sooner or later.

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I'm not so sure about that, your link speaks to how controlled the narrative is within the Russian borders - the problem is the narrative is just as controlled here, except of course it is on the other end of the spectrum - leaving everyone wondering what the truth is. When there is no actual truth, there is only power.

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Thank you for replying, M. Bagholder.

Yes, my link was to support my contention (an easy one to make, imo) that the "narrative control" in Russia is orders-of-magnitude worse than in the West, which is certainly saying something considering how the Deep Western State (for lack of a better term, but highlighting the absurd contradiction of the existence of a deep Western State).

Western governing malfeasance (including, of course, the capture of the so-called fourth estate) is a terrible Western problem. Still, it is dwarfed by Putin's mafia (another word for Fascism) control.

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Here is some more timely support of my position.

"In the last weeks, Russia took an already exacting speech environment to new extremes. A law was passed that would impose 15-year prison sentences for anyone spreading “fake news” about the Ukraine invasion; access was cut to Facebook and Twitter; stations like Echo Moskvi and TV Rain as well as BBC Russia, Radio Liberty, the New Times, Deutsche Welle, Doxa, and Latvia-based Meduza were effectively shut down; Wikipedia was threatened with a block over its invasion page; and national authorities have appeared to step in to prevent coverage of soldiers killed in the war, requiring local outlets to use terms like “special operation” instead. The latter development is connected to the state media regulator, Roskomnadzor, issuing a remarkably desperate dictum requiring news outlets to “use information and data received by them only from official Russian sources.”"

That's Matt Taibbi in today's substack column.

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Mar 13, 2022Liked by Bagholder

Excellent read. Does make you wonder if the story is a comedy or a tragedy. Your post also reminded of an old movie called "The Mouse that Roared". I think I'll have to watch that again soon.

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If you read Ray's comment above, I'm inclined to think comedy.

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