Daniel Balan

I'm still waiting for the day Leo will reveal to us that he is actually an alien from a far away galaxy that has came here to cure us of our backwardness. I have this thought ever since Leo became all of a sudden interested in UFO's & alien consciousness.

I think I will buy it. This is stuff that deeply interests me. I want to develop a mind that would be bulletproof to any kind of propaganda. Recently I became more atuned with the Russian & right wing nationalist propaganda and I have to admit, that stuff is vicious. Had I not been an old follower of your work, I'd have fallen immediately for it. If you are exposed long enough to it, your mind will be forever intoxicated and poisoned with everything the Kremlin wants you to think. I bet that right now that the Kremlin invests far more resources in developing & unleashing its propaganda machine onto the West than he is investing in weapons against the west. The Kremlin's goal is to conquer the minds of the western people. I was deeply saddened when I found out that your book list doesn't have any book adressing these issues. The West has propaganda too, but compared to the Russian apparatus of propaganda, the west's propaganda is child's play. You cannot withstand the level of brainwashing that the Right Wing Russian propaganda does to you if you are a mere normie. If you don't develop your mind and you don't get serious about studying this stuff your mind literally becomes Putin's sex toy.

what do you guys think of this book? I plan to buy it. Has anyone read this? What do you think of this?

@Leo Gura Why isn't this book on your book list?

What do you think guys?

Was the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine a CIA coup d'etat? I have no idea and I'd like to know what do you guys think. My personal opinion it is that it wasn't a coup but rather a genuine popular revolt. Because Ukraine has always been culturally in touch with the west and because the Ukrainians saw how prosperous western countries like Germany, Uk or France are, they choose to follow a path of European integration. But I'm also convinced that the CIA and the EU deeply sponsored pro Western propaganda in Ukraine. But it wasn't a coup d'etat in the sense that the west installed it's puppet regime there. For me it was like 70% popular revolt and 30% western backing and propaganda that swayed the Ukrainian population away from Moscows grip.

@Karmadhi You are right brother! Cheers.

Are you for real?? Article 5 has only invoked once in NATO's history and that was after 9/11. Did Sarkozi push Gadaffi to mass slaughter & torture his own people? This is hilarious. Gadaffi got what he deserved for torturing and killing his own citizens. The war on Iraq was worse because the US invented bullshit motives to control the oil reserves of Iraq. Because up to 500k people were killed because of the US. In Lybia the West hasn't done anything remotely as horrible as they did in Iraq. In Lybia the killing that insued was because of the savage nature of Lybia's political landscape, it was organic, they killed eachother, but in Iraq the 500k lives lost were all because of the US troops did that killing.

@Lyubov Regarding Lybia and Serbia interventions I'm totally behind the west here. It would have been preposterous to let the Serbs massacre the Kosovo and Bosnia muslims. The Nato bombing of Serbia is the most humane and right thing the west has done since WW2. Also Gadaffi, his regime killed and tortured his own people. Big thumbs up for the west for getting rid of his regime. That is something I call proper policing of the world. Unfortunately those 2 instances were the only times the west behaved with moral superiority.

Also it is plausible since the CIA has done over a dozen of coup d'etats since the end of WW2. So it is not entirely out of the question. But since the maidan revolution lasted like 3 or 4 months of continuous protests and street violence, since the sitting president left the country on his own volition, I doubt that the Maidan Revolution was actually a coup.

I just wanted to understand how this conflict is from the Russian POV. And what better way to understand it than delving deep into the very conspiracy that started the war. Russia started the war in 2014 precisely because they 100% believe that the Maidan Revolution was a coup d'etat. Putin told that dozens of times in his interview with Tucker Carlson. Putin genuinely believes that the current leadership at Kiev is the consequence of the 2014 coup d'etat.

@Apparition of Jack obviously no one is gonna sanction the west, but why isn't the west sanctioning itself? The west should give a lot of humanitarian aid to iraq for all the mayhem caused there. The west should help the Iraqi people to build roads and bridges for free as a way to say we were wrong and we want to repair our mistake.

Capitalism ain't no scale. Capitalism is the way humans have done business since we walked on all four limbs. But there is capitalism without rules and capitalism with rules and regulations.

@Apparition of Jack we expect Russia to behave barbarically, since they have done so all their history, but the US? We expected much more from the US, what they have done in the middle east, especially in Iraq is preposterous and asinine. The Iraq war is the biggest and most heinous stain on the West's reputation.

Amen to that!

So then whe should use both systems according to our goals and needs. But my question was mainly about the big sectors like steal and coal, electricity, energy etc, should the state nationalize those or shout the private sector deal with these facets of the economy?

I watched this unbiased and very informative video. But the problem is that there is no definitive answer. What is better? The nationalised state planned economy of the former Ussr, today's China or the economy of the west? I'm asking this question because after the collapse of the Soviet empire and its satellite states, the economy was totally ruined when the state privatised everything. 90's Russia and Eastern Europe was much much worse than in the 80's. The economy totally collapsed when those countries moved to a market economy. Every industry such as steel and coal and all the factories have collapsed totally once they were privatized.

This is not true. Canada and Mexico have entirely different political perspectives and the US has never tried to install puppet governments in neither of them. The US would be more justified to invade Mexico for how much drugs and how many migrants enter illegally to the US than Russia is justified for invading Ukraine with their "Perceived threat" myth. Regarding the evil that the US has done, sure It is a bad look for the west that the US hasn't been punished severely for the huge mess they've done in Iraq. What they've done in Iraq is preposterous and has no excuse.

@Karmadhi well for starters when the US invaded Iraq, it didn't invent 1000 years of false history where claiming that Iraq is not a true state, that it is an invented state, that the US invented and created the statehood of Iraq and that the Iraqi identity is bullshit and that in fact Iraqi identity is a direct result of a NKVD coup d'etat that wanted to separate it to its original identity which has always been American.

Honestly I don't think that is the case. I bet that the audience that reads the blog regularly must be lower than a 1000 people.

Are you for real, do you think someone malicious hacked your blog, or this is just a jab at the stupidity of JP's daughter?

@Apparition of Jack Thank you for the kind words! 🖤 I really appreciate it. In some ways it is bad, I mean the life is very physically demanding and the one thing I don't like about this lifestyle is that every year is the same, always working the fields just to get some food, there isn't anything novel. But on the other side I don't have to pay any rent, I love the nature and the rural landscapes, I have a lot of fresh air and serenity and silence and the best part for me is that the population density is really really low! I hate people and I can't stand crowds. I am a loner and here I can enjoy myself to the fullest extent without others bothering me with their shit. Also I'm not imprisoned here, I could move to western Europe or to other big cities within my country at any time, in fact the car I have I bought it with money earned in Germany, so yeah city life is cool too, but I decided that for my peace of mind, for my serenity, living in a remote rural area is for me like living in a dream. The silence is so loud, so addictive. The forests will keep singing forever.

Give me your thoughts

@Husseinisdoingfine Thanks a lot for the love. I love you too brother!

I live in a remote area in the country side. There is one timber factory in a city that is like 30 km away but is already full with workers, doesn't employ anymore and other work opportunities are very scarce and very few. I'd love to work with a contract but all those jobs are largely occupied. So I work at whoever needs some help in construction, agriculture, taking care of cows etc. And at home I have animals myself and I have potatoes, so I have food. The money I earn is to pay electricity and internet and to repair my car so I can commute. Note: I'm just explaining this to you guys because you were curious. I don't want you guys to feel sorry for me or to view me as some sort of a poor man that needs compasion or a hug, how I live is how most of the peasants in Eastern Europe or Russia live, it is very normal and nobody is feeling sorry for himself, that is how life is supposed to be in a rural area. We live off the land.