Milos Uzelac

If you want to learn about what socialism and what it is about and how to approach the world when adopting such a stance I would argue he is a source that delludes people and grossly miseducates on the topic and grossly misrepresentats other creators, authors and figures stance on the topic. You have much better and more credible authors and creators on the topic that can put one on a much better direction than what Vaush does to his audience and fanbase.

Exposing evidence of proving someone is a legitimate fraud is not smearing and its a way for people to have a another perspective on the person they didn't have or was hidden from them to reconsider if they are truly following a guy that aligns with their stated cause and their principles or if he is a fraud deluding them and swindling them for money and donations. If people truly care about what socialism stands for and what it is about then they should have all the info about if their following of a certain person aligns with that cause and are not being misguided into following something else that only has a facade of that cause and actually stands for something else. The title of the book suggests they are following and agreeing to something else which has more to do with U.S. state, foreign policy, media and oligarchic interests than of actual international working-class politics, solidarity and struggle. Yes, I agree. They are a step up in the right direction on the spiral. However the effect of their following and content is a grossly miseducated audience who is taught incorrectly about what socialism is about and how activism of its advancement is carried out and who it suppose to primarily target. Hint its not so much towards as college youth as much towards the people they despise and demonise as an inferior rabble, the actual or future working class of the country. Sure its vitally important to sway away the youth from radicalization into hateful ideologies but it is equally important no to teach that youth to hate and despise their more unfortunate counterparts in the more underdeveloped parts of the country as Nazis, Nazbols, fascists and déplorables who have fallen prey to such ideologies as the unredeemable main foe of your cause who deserve nothing but contempt and hatred. Also to dismiss and demonise as equally dangerous as the right-wing harsh critics of the U. S. in your country who are amicable to some other foreign powers policy towards the world and working class people in their own country as agents for a foreign power and tankies since they point to the way the U.S. foreign policy has been against and undermined these countries efforts is implicitly rhetorically supporting and enabling imperialist policies of your own country by demonising and equating these critics with facists and with ulterior motives to radicalize your audience by exposing them to some unsavory truths about the mechanicsm in which the U. S. Empire sustains itself and its hegemony in the world and how the global oligarchy in the country sustain themselves, their system that perpetuates huge disparities in wealth, and their narrative power.

Again I see ad-hominems directed towards the author of the book and no actual substance dispelling and disproving any of the arguments and accusations he levied against of any of the people in the book, their history, practices and online schemes. That's the first I heard of the claim that he is a Nazbol, sounds like to me it was invented by Vaush or someone from the breadtube space since he is a contributor at RT, said things and supports the idea behind the Soviet Union and contemporary China, advocated in support for white working class Americans from the Midwest or Rustbelt, making him in the minds of these breadtubers a Nazbol. I would like to see someone defining what any of these buzzwords actually mean and how they are relevant to contemporary framing of the direction of advocating for working class-politics and are not just a label and easily invented phrase to demonise and write off opponents as evil and Nazis to a delluded fan base.

He seems generally unable to adress and criticize any of the Maupin's accusations and criticism of him with any substance, disproving them or debunking them. Instead he resorts to ad-hominems of Maupin and Empanada calling them 'mentally deranged' and 'unhealthily obsessed about him' while not addressing a single one of their criticisms and accusations of them. Basicly he is performing a smug narcisstic deflection strategy labeling and gaslighting to his audience his critics as lunatics and crazily obsessed people. The way he presents and reads this book to his audience is full of irony and cynicism without actual criticism or disproving of its contents again to solidify his cult following and for him not to lose viewers and fans. And also the Serfs pulled the quote from the book and laughed off its contents and substances cynically while again not actually responding to the criticisms and accusations of what effect does their content have on their viewers and followers. I see this as a desperate attempt to save their credibility and following of their audience after the expose of this book on the effects of their online personality cult-following and effects of their content on their fanbase and audience. In my opinion Maupin did an excellent job of exposing of the mechanism of this whole online personality following indoctrination cult and detailing the origin this whole subsection of the niche market and class on YouTube and how fraudulent they exactly our in their content and what they stand for and how they indoctrinate their audience in their online personality cult-followong. They are online profiteers looking to make money off their audience by misguiding them and indoctrinating them into false narratives about the cause they are following and others and keeping them stuck in their own echo chamber and online bubble while demonising and smearing the other side they see as rivals, competition or threat for their free ride profit-making scheme.

It's not a hatchet job if there's credible evidence that the guy is fraud who deceives his audience and his fans about who and what he is, what he stands for, his past and misguiding them and funnelling them into some idiosyncratic self-serving interpretation of what socialism and activism is and what is the main focus and goal of people who adopt such a lifestyle principle and attitude towards politics. Probably exposing someone who he thinks is fraud and who lies who he is and what he stands for and trying to swade his audience and fans who watch him to think twice who they are giving money to and giving views to so he can profit off of their naiveness and uneducatedness and indoctrinate them with false teachings of what is and isn't socialism, Marxism, leftism etc. and what a true socialist, leftist, Marxist and activist stance towards some issue should and shouldn't be and how and should and they shouldn't feel towards certain groups and demographics i.e. Trump republicans and populists. It's an indoctrination online cult centered around the ambiguous online brand of Vaush created by a guy from an affluent Beverly Hills family called Ian Kochinski who preaches what he in his mind thinks true socialism is and how one should act, think, feel and behave in accordance of his version of socialism with the side of his peddling contempt, hate, intolerance and bias towards certain groups and demographics while worshiping and praising others and himself and his self-inflated ego uncritically. A makings of an online cult-leader with a narcisstic personality disorder and traits of a sociopath towards certain people on the social ladder and of a demographic background. If you have credible evidence against a fraud with traits of a sociopathy that he deceives people in order to profit off of them and exploit their naiveness or ignorance of the person than you can levy your accusation credibly in the book if your goal is to swade that audience and fanbase from being deceived into thinking that their supporting a cause that they are actually not and that their being exploited and fooled by the person who lies to them that they are actually supporting that cause if they follow him. And he is smug as hell in responding to Maupin's accusations of what he is actually doing and contributing towards in the youth that follow him.

Hey just don't give China another 9/11 situation so they have pretenses to invade Afghanistan or even some other countries in the region causing a very risky geopolitical quagmire.

I think you've gone through most probably. Thanks for the detailed description, listing most of the scenarios. It will sure be interesting to see how this plays out.

Europe’s Super-Woke ‘Moralocracy’: Time to Take Euro Culture War Seriously A globalist world, for the few who aspire to grow wealthy in it, is understood to be a veritable cornucopia of uncountable material satisfactions At the end of last month, the EU collapsed into emotional melt-down. It occurred when Charles Michel, Council President, decided to move up a summit debate on LGBTQI and EU values — in a reaction to a letter of concern drafted by 17 Council members. Dutch PM, Rutte, used the moment ‘to go nuclear’ (as he had earlier promised), saying in advance of the summit that: “My goal is to bring Hungary to its knees on this issue.” And, at the summit itself, Rutte threatened that Hungary “must repeal” its (allegedly) “anti-gay law”, and respect fundamental human rights, “which are not negotiable — or they must leave [the Union]”. Rutte acknowledged that “I can’t push them out”. He argued however, that Orbán’s (alleged) ‘anti-gay’ law “seriously contradicts the values that Europe stands for”, and insisted that they were not up for debate. Should the EU not act now, it would stop being a union of values and would become a mere trade bloc, Rutte insisted. The debate then descended into the highly personal and emotional: “We have known each other for eight years, but this touches me,” Xavier Bettel told Orbán inside the summit room. Luxembourg’s prime minister is married to a man, and was a co-initiator of the 17-state protest letter. “I did not become gay. I am. It is not a choice … My mother hates me for it. This [the draft Hungarian law] is very bad. This is stigmatizing”, he said, according to officials. “I respect you, but this is a red line. It is about basic rights, the right to be different”. Well, there it is: the culture war, and its accompaniment – the war on ‘Populism’ flows, in full spate, as the floodgates open. As in America, it will have profound consequences, and give rise to sharp internal tensions. The start to this ‘war’ reaches back to the 1990s, when Hungary and Poland “led eastern Europe in economic shock therapy, pushing market reforms beyond what their western advisers demanded. But in cultural terms, the Polish and Hungarian Right chose a more conservative course”. In particular, rather than open his nation’s border to offset population decline, Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian Prime Minister, looked to the nuclear family as the key route to spur national growth. Since 2010, which marked the start of Orbán’s role as prime minister, the number of marriages among Hungarians has increased by 89.5%; and the fertility rate is rising. Both these states nonetheless, continue to see themselves as deeply European, even as they have steered further away from the EU valorisation of cosmopolitanism as its primordial cultural end, to be brought about through open borders, and the consequent voluntary mixing of large numbers of diverse peoples. Orbán is far from alone in his traditionalist stand. In Rome, as one example, the Vatican has taken the unusual step of making a diplomatic démarche to the Italian government concerning a draft bill. The law, known as the Zan bill (after gay activist lawmaker Alessandro Zan), was approved last year by Italy’s lower house and has since been fiercely debated in the Senate. The bill would explicitly categorize violence against LGBTQI people as a hate crime, making it akin to a racial or an antisemitic attack, whilst prescribing harsh penalties for any infringement. The leader of the League (Party), Salvini, said it would punish those “who think a mom is a mom; and a dad is a dad”. Many ordinary Italians would agree. Even liberal-élite parents though, are anxious – witness the Vatican démarche – as they see their imagined, liberal Community of Meritocracy metamorphose into some kind of a super-woke ‘Moralocracy’. And it might only be a matter of time until academic testing is abolished in the name of combatting racism. “So how the heck are you supposed to get your kid into Oxford, if she’s white? And paying a woke surgeon (or maybe insurance will cover?) to cut her breasts off when she turns sixteen – is the new ‘cool’”. Abigail Shrier writes about this in her new book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. It is driving many parents close to breakdown. And, as in America, parents don’t care for their children being taught Critical Race Theory, either. The latter stems from a school of thought amongst post-Russian Revolution Marxist intellectuals who were disturbed by the fact that communist revolution didn’t sweep Europe, just as Marx had predicted. This revisionist ‘Race Theory’ updated ‘Marx’ to being a struggle between ‘who has power in society, and who doesn’t’, instead of a class struggle. Both Marxist variants however, rely on the disruptive dualism of the oppressor versus the oppressed, that is intended to set layers of society into conflict one with another. And this is what it is doing: With a younger generation severed and at odds with their parents, whom they are being taught to see as congenital racists. Well, last week the EU declared war on such parental anxieties. It hung its hat on the ‘Race Theory’ and LGBTQI peg. J. Hopkins, whom Matt Taibbi once described as a post-Soviet version of a самиздат writer (i.e. one who is so insightful that, sooner or later, both the writer and his readers are bound to be led to prison! – intended by Taibbi as a high compliment, incidentally), has sought to convey what it is that is ‘going on’ here. Yves Smith, writing from the esteemed economic blog Naked Capitalism, expands on Hopkins’ prophecy. She writes: As I begin explaining the work of Hopkins to my (remaining) well-educated liberal friends and neighbours [in NY], it startles me again, and again, that they are serenely oblivious to what to me is so balefully obvious: the rise of censorship in the USA — censorship by liberals! …“Look”, [Hopkins wrote in 2017, the first year of Trump’s Presidency] “I know what you’re probably thinking. But it isn’t that liberals don’t actually care about fundamental liberal values, such as freedom of the press and speech – and all that. It’s just that they desperately need the Democrats to take back the House and the Senate next year, so they can get on with impeaching Trump …“The point of all this propaganda [especially concerning Russian hacking] is to delegitimize Donald Trump,” “and to prophylactically reassert the neoliberal ruling classes’ monopoly on power, ‘reality,’ and ‘truth.’ In practice, the ‘Russia stole the election for Trump narrative’ was a stone cast at two different ‘birds’: One was Trump; but the other was aimed in the direction of Putin. Why? Well, in oligarchic capitalism, the latter’s huge wealth is both the anvil and hammer, on which western narratives of political ‘reality’ are forged. They ‘beat out’ each successive ‘reality’. Not so in Russia and China. The power of political leaders there trumps the oligarchic machinations (they go to goal). It was not always so. Cosmopolitan oligarchs came within a hair’s breadth of literally stealing Russia under Yeltsin; but then Putin entered the frame – to spoil it all. The oligarchs are still extremely cross. Hopkins’s main theme however, is the War on Populism (the topic which so absorbed the Euro-élites at their Council summit). He asks: So how, and why, has unchecked global capitalism resulted in this War on Populism? “The problem is [he responds] … well, the problem … is people”. Hopkins writes, in The Last Days of the Trumpian Reich: “Not rich and powerful people like themselves [are the problem], or the people they need to continue working, consuming, and servicing the interest on their loans, but … you know, all those other people. Uneducated, un-woke, working-class people. Gun-toting, fanatically religious people. Racist, conspiracy-theorizing people. Deplorable people. Populist people”. “People they don’t need anymore. These people have been a problem recently. Not only are they a drag on the system, they have been actively interfering with it, voting for Brexit, electing Donald Trump, refusing to abandon their traditional values and outmoded ideas (e.g. national sovereignty, freedom of speech, and mammalian biology) and to get on board with global capitalist ideology – and have been otherwise a real pain in the ass.” Yves Smith again: “The [above] paragraph both illuminates, and is illuminated by, the work of Thomas Frank, who has so brilliantly shown — above all in his masterpiece, Listen: Liberal — just how, since the election of our first Neoliberal president in 1992 (which was, significantly, the year after the collapse of the USSR), the Democrats reinvented themselves as the party of the Liberal, Creative, Professional Managerial Class: The party of the credentialed meritocracy, the party, above all, of the winners. So, yes, as a matter of course, the Democrats have been taught to be openly hostile to working-class “deplorables”, as Hillary Clinton officially named them, to see them as “being a real pain in the ass,” as Hopkins writes. “And the deplorables really are a drag on the global capitalist system. (Most of them want free health care, for Pete’s sake!) A lot of them voted for the socialist Bernie Sanders, and, far, far worse, even more of them voted for the “white-supremacist white-nationalist fascist dictator Nazi-Hitler” (as Glenn Greenwald said!), i.e. Trump. They really are – bottom line here – losers with a big ‘L’. “The liberals, the bien pensants (as Thomas Frank has called them) — the ‘winners’, that is — who read The New York Times and The Washington Post and listen to NPR and watch MSNBC and CNN, who went to good colleges and got all kinds of professional credentials, are certainly well-informed enough to know that the future is all about global capitalism. And they know that, if they play by the rules, global capitalism has a place for them. Furthermore, they know (or could easily figure it out), that global capitalism does not have a place for life’s losers. But that’s just tough shit, isn’t it?” So when the Re-set – the ‘New Normal’ – was unveiled at Davos, millions of people were already living a reality in which facts no longer mattered at all, where things that never happened officially – happened. And other things that obviously happened never happened: not officially, that is – they were “far-right extremist” conspiracy theories, “fake news,” or “disinformation,” or whatever – despite the fact that people knew that they weren’t. How then would Davos propose to slide humanity into this ‘new normal’? Well, perchance Davos man wants to go in the opposite direction to epistemological purity? That is, it seeks to generate a lot of contradictory realities, not just contradictory ideologies, but actual mutually-exclusive realities, which could not possibly simultaneously exist … which would still freak people out pretty badly. This could become the mental ‘blank page’ on which the deliberately fluid realities of cosmopolitanist gender, and self-defining identities, might be written. The oligarchic Elect now seek to ‘unvalue’ all remaining national values, untether national cohesion – for its logical objective is not to author a new ideology (it doesn’t need that). But, rather, to impose a single global, mercantilist order through first, the monetisation of every possible ‘thing’, and then its ‘capitalisation’ into fresh financial ‘assets’. Of course, even the Re-set needs its ‘narrative’. But the point here on narrative – any Establishment narrative (one example from the BBC’s “Reality Check” section) – is to draw a Maginot line, a defensive ideological boundary, between ‘the truth’ as defined by the ruling classes, and with that of any other ‘truth’, that contradicts their narrative. The credentialled ‘managerial classes’ (such as run Brussels), know that their success is in large part made possible by their enthusiasm for official narratives. And their collective hope is that correct ‘narrative’ provides them with an enduring safe space. On one side of the Maginot Line then, is ‘normal’ society, gainful employment, and with career advancement and all the other considerable benefits of cooperating with the ruling classes. Beyond the Maginot Line is poverty, anxiety, social and professional stigmatization, and various other forms of suffering and discrimination. “Which side of the wall do you want to be on? Every day, in countless ways, each of us are asked, and have to answer this question. Conform, and there’s a place for you inside. Refuse, and … well, good luck out there.” So what will global oligarchy’s ‘Conquest of Absolutely Everything’ look like? A world of atomized consumers, stripped of their rights and of any allegiances to family, or clan, or nation, or religion, or even to meaningful cultural appreciation. Nevertheless, a globalist world, for the few who aspire to grow immensely wealthy in it, is still understood to be a veritable cornucopia of uncountable material satisfactions. A magic carpet they would be loath to abandon. Yet, anxieties are rising, even amongst the billionaires. The world is tacking in new uncertain directions. To throw in one’s lot now with the ‘masters of the universe’ may ultimately prove to have been but a fleeting chimaera. For ‘the many’, on the other hand, the tech and robotic Re-set, proclaimed by the Davos crowd, will be a place of glorified slavery, lived in deserts of social isolation. To the extent that some amongst ‘the many’ have seen what a tech Re-set has in store for them, they don’t like it. It smacks of totalitarianism, of tech-feudalism – and they have started to oppose it. They are then … ‘populists’. Which is to say, they become a huge problem for their masters. No wonder, the EU Council summit was so heated and distraught. https://thealtworld.com/alastair_crooke/europes-super-woke-moralocracy-time-to-take-euro-culture-war-seriously

Nice! Thanks for the online resources supplied I will definitely watch both and check them out.

They are reportedly already sending spies to gather intelligence data, but I don't know they might rather try to send private mercenary groups to try to deal with them because according to intelligence reports there is only 500 of these fighters in Afghanistan currently but there is probably more of them in other countries and more of the scattered Uighur minority youth for example might be recruited by the ETIM for the cause. The problem might be if the other fundamentalist Islamic movements and the Taliban facilitate and provide military aid for the ETIM to launch terrorist attacks and operations into Xinjiang or even attempt some at next year's Beijing Winter Olympics. I see military invasion justification highly unlikely at this point, if a major terrorist attack isn't carried out by them on Chinese soil, but rather they might also employ private contractors like the U. S. or specials ops units of the Chinese military to deal with these terrorist groups if they launch attacks from Northern Afghanistan into Xinjiang or other places in China. Though some consider them a legitimate separatist and national independence organization which would use terrorist techniques to achieve it's goal of an independent East Turkestan.

During the Cold War, the United States deployed nuclear weapons on Taiwan as part of the United States Taiwan Defense Command. In 1972, United States president Richard Nixon ordered nuclear weapons to be removed from Taiwan and this was implemented by 1974. Nuclear weapons are known to have been stored at Tainan Air Force Base. The development of nuclear weapons by Taiwan has been a contentious issue, as it had been triggered by the People's Republic of China first nuclear test in 1964. The United States, hoping to avoid escalating tensions in the Taiwan Strait, has continually opposed arming Taiwan with nuclear weapons after 1979. Accordingly, Taiwan adheres to the principles of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has stated that it does not intend to produce nuclear weapons, on an official basis. Past nuclear research by Taiwan makes it a "threshold" nuclear state. During the 1970s, Taiwan had an active program to produce plutonium using heavy water reactors. However, after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found evidence of Taiwan's efforts to produce weapons-grade plutonium, Taiwan agreed in September 1976 under U.S. pressure to dismantle its nuclear weapons program. A study by the Mitre Corporation in 1977, included Taiwan in a list of "insecure" nuclear threshold states—states with the technical capability to develop nuclear weapons and the security motivations to seriously contemplate such an option. The other states were Israel, South Africa, South Korea, and Yugoslavia. U.S. intelligence also believed that Taiwan had designed devices suitable for nuclear testing. In 1980 the Taiwanese contracted for 4,000 tons of uranium metal from South Africa although it is not known how much of this order was ever delivered. The secret nuclear weapon program was revealed after the 1987 Lieyu massacre, when Colonel Chang Hsien-yi Deputy Director of Nuclear Research at INER, who was secretly working for the CIA, defected to the U.S. in December 1987 and produced a cache of incriminating documents. General Hau Pei-tsun claimed that scientists in Taiwan had already produced a controlled nuclear reaction. Under pressure from the U.S., the program was halted. A study into the secret program concluded that at the time of Chang's defection, Taiwan was one or two years away from being able to complete a deliverable weapon. Chang claims that Madame Chiang Kai Shek and military officials loyal to her had expedited the development of nuclear weapons and even set up a parallel chain of command to further their agenda. In 1987 the warhead design had a diameter of 60-70cm with casing and a weight of 900kg meaning that further miniaturization would have been needed to optimize the weapon for delivery. The Sky Horse ballistic missile system was developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s before a combination of pressure from American President Ronald Reagan and internal competition from anti-ballistic missile development programs ended the program in 1982. Faced with an inability to field their desired delivery system planners turned to alternatives. The secondary delivery vehicle was the AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo, then in development. Weapons designers at CSIST (now NCSIST) were instructed to design the nuclear weapon to fit within the dimensions of the F-CK-1’s centerline drop tank (~50cm diameter). Modifications to the aircraft would have been required for it to obtain the desired 1,000km range (especially without the centerline drop tank available). The F-CK-1 would not have been able to fulfill the nuclear strike mission until mid-1989 at the very earliest. Early designs called for an unpowered gravity bomb. Since the end of the nuclear weapons program the “Nuclear Card” has played an important part in Taiwan's relationship with both the United States and China. During the 1995–1996 Taiwan Strait crisis, then President of Taiwan, Lee Teng-hui, proposed to reactivate the program, but toned down the rhetoric a few days later, saying that although Taiwan was nuclear latent, it "will definitely not" produce nuclear weapons. There is no evidence that Taiwan possesses any nuclear weapons or any programs to produce them, although it does have the advanced technological ability necessary to develop nuclear weapons as well as the high-tech ability to enrich uranium or process plutonium. Taiwan's nuclear power plants use imported enriched uranium and are subject to IAEA inspections. Taiwan theoretically has the potential to develop nuclear weapons from domestic monazite reserves, and this potential was explored by the military in 1951-1952. However, the monazite's thorium content was deemed too low to justify recovering, and the military turned to friendly foreign sources instead. The Republic of China ratified the Geneva Protocol on August 7, 1929, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1970, and Taiwan considers itself bound by both. Following UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 (1971) the United Nations recognizes the People's Republic of China and does not recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state with the legal ability to join international treaties. Because of its controversial political status, Taiwan has not been allowed to join either the Biological Weapons Convention or the Chemical Weapons Convention, but it has stated that it will abide by both treaties nevertheless. In addition, Taiwan has stated that it will continue to abide by the NPT, notwithstanding Resolution 2758. Taiwan was one of the original members of the NPT in 1968. After the People’s Republic of China replaced Taiwan at the United Nations in 1971, in effect Taiwan ceased to be active as a participating party to the official NPT activities. However, it signed a trilateral agreement with the United States and the IAEA in 1971 stating that it would continue to abide by the terms of the NPT as a ratification party. While not a member of the IAEA, Taiwan does continue to subscribe to the IAEA safeguards under two agreements, INFCIRC/133 and INFCIRC/158. - In other words if they start again to develop it now and break these treaties where they are signatories then it might lead to severe international crisis and a casus belli for PRC.

That would make a reverse Cuban missile crisis situation in the world, which China could answer simply by arming some country they have foothold in, they could actually try to pull this off in Europe like arming my country Serbia for example but even this to me seems highly unlikely. There is strong possibility and no guarantee that if such thing would be attempted that the plane carrying it or the sub wouldn't be shot down or sinked by SAM missile launched from one's of China's man-made reef islands or runways or a sub with special torpedo system which would in turn cause an unprecedented international crisis not seen since the Cold War where urgently there would be a compromise needed and a backing down of arms pursuits, similar what happened with Cuba and America and Turkey and the USSR, would be required in order to avoid the risk of greatest war crime and genocide since the nuking of Japan in WWII. Or it might just go as in the case of North Korea, South Korea and China but I as well see that as too much of prefect conditions and opportune moments scenario that has no guarantees to be carried out as a successful operation. That's my take of why I see this as a bad idea and of a risky gambling move in terms of the international consequences not to mention as someone has already in the comments, that this would set a really bad trend in terms of a revival or demand for nuclear proliferation worldwide by other countries which would create a much less safer, risk and fear filled and unstable global environment with everyone dreading mutually assured destruction from them and their neighbours.

Dude, six months, praise be to you for the carried out and committed dopamine detox of your brain chemistry. Yeah, porn, pornographic, and erotic material addiction as a form of venting off anger, restlessness, anxiety, or sexual frustration ruined, in my opinion, and experience, my concentration, and mental resilience capabilities of postponing gratification and I think made me weaker mentally, physically and morally as a person overall towards other people, in terms of patience, empathy and degree of caring for other people and people close to me. Say what anyone will on this forum about stoping resistance, awareness, and self-loving the porn addiction was and its aftereffects are still are for me like neurotoxin or numbing agent for my soul and psyche. It feels like numbing and clouding of my bodily and mental awareness and also that the semen discharge is sapping more energy and strength out of me than I would have if I didn't discharge so often or regularly That's why I am in this current situation that I am now facing strongly considering committing myself to some form of disciplinary solution like No-Fap, though I think I would really struggle to drop dry masturbation all together when I am usually horny and restless at night time. Though I think even that would be possible in the first phase of dropping porn altogether and then after a couple of weeks moving to the next phase of committing myself to abstain myself and overcome the desire to masturbate at night altogether even when I am restless and can't fall asleep and have sexual thoughts. Can I ask you what resources, what website info and techniques did you use and implement to pull this off and stick to it for a whopping six months, I remember when I first tried no fap about two years ago or so that I only could last for about one month and a half before I relapsed. So if you have any useful and universal advice on how to endure and mitigate the sexual and instant gratification desires of it when feeling weak or under pressure for a longer period of time I would greatly appreciate it and would probably have to start a NoFap journal on this forum again.

Why does she call herself Crysty? Is it a nickname for Crystal? I've read what you wrote on her appearance but does she look to you like she is of a particular ethnic descent like for example Indonesian or native of some other country for example. How does she know how to talk to you in English and knows English, if that's the case? Also, you mentioned her using some popular culture Japanese phrases, does she watch anime with you so that she knows where they are from and in what meaning and context are they used. Also, can I ask you here or via DM about your ancestry, if you know it of course and if it's not too much of an intruding question for you personally? The reason I want to know this is that maybe your ancestors if they were travelers had encounters with some native people or people of different ethnic descent that may have something to do with why she choose you specifically to tag along with her if she is from different ethnic descent than you. Sorry in advance if some of these questions appear odd or offensive in some respect, that was not my intent, it was just that these questions coursed through my mind when I read about your explanation of the background behind this thread and I saw, as far as I have read the thread, that nobody posed you these specific questions. Hope you and her are doing well in your self-discovery and personal development and spiritual advancement progress and breakthroughs as of late

This is the effect of our coal-powered power plants in the Balkan region and look at the discussion the Reddit thread it's even more pertinent and informative on the collective attitude and beliefs of why this won't be soon fixed in the future Some hilarious dark humor and cynical posts btw https://www.reddit.com/r/AskBalkans/comments/oeyj5e/bosnians_and_serbs_wtf_is_this_is_anybody_there/ From: https://www.env-health.org/press-release-eu-action-on-western-balkans-chronic-coal-pollution-is-a-unique-opportunity-to-improve-health-and-productivity/ "Based on the methodology by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Commission, the Chronic Coal Pollution report shows that every year air pollution from Western Balkan coal power plants is responsible for an estimated 3,900 premature deaths, 8,500 cases of bronchitis in children and other chronic illnesses. The health issues these plants cause adds up to lost productivity and health costs of up to EUR 11,535 million. The old, inefficient, and substandard coal power plants in the Western Balkans emit an incredible amount of air pollution every year, impacting the health of people across the continent. In 2016 alone, 16 of them spewed out as much sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution as the entire fleet of the EU’s 250 coal power plants. Just one power plant, Ugljevik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, emitted more SO2 than all German coal power plants put together. And levels for particulate matter and nitrogen oxides are equally alarming. The European Union bears the majority of the health impacts, with 2,013 premature deaths in 2016, asthmatic children suffering from symptoms for a combined total of over 36,400 days, an estimated 1,418 hospital admissions, and over 600,000 lost working days. European Union countries also bear the majority of health costs, up to EUR 5,899 million, while the burden on the Western Balkan countries is estimated to be up to EUR 3,648 million every year (other countries: EUR 1,988 million). ‘Air pollution knows no borders and is still an invisible killer in Europe. A significant amount of pollution from the Western Balkans travels into the EU. Pollution from the Western Balkans adds to the already poor air quality in the EU countries, making it harder especially for the adjacent EU neighbors to meet air quality standards. It is high time that EU policy-makers step up efforts to clean up the air and decarbonize the power sector in the Southeastern European region,’ commented Vlatka Matkovic Puljic, Senior Health and Energy Officer at HEAL, and lead author of the report. The Energy Community Treaty, the international treaty working since 2006 to integrate the energy markets of the EU and those of its neighbors, set a deadline for Western Balkan countries to comply with EU pollution control legislation by 2018. Regrettably, however, meaningful action towards healthier energy systems, investments, and retrofits in energy production across the Western Balkans has largely been delayed. ‘Western Balkan coal is a burden on people’s health, the climate, and the wider economy. It is therefore in the interest of people across Europe – in the EU and the Western Balkan countries – to enforce Energy Community Treaty rules and to swiftly phase out this polluting, health-harming, and outdated technology. Climate action, pollution control, and air quality must also be prioritized in the EU accession process. As the EU moves to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, Western Balkan countries must also phase out coal, not just because it is a chronic air pollutant but also one of the biggest climate change culprits,’ said Igor Kalaba, Energy Policy Coordinator for Southeast Europe at CAN Europe. Furthermore, policymakers in the region remain determined to finance and build new coal plants, mainly with support from Chinese banks. Most of these plants would not adhere to the EU’s latest pollution control standards. ''What can I say a new type of hybrid warfare, not biological as the Chinese unleashed on the world but ecological unleashed on the adjacent EU member nations and other EU countries and against Europe and the Western Balkan Region with the help of Chinese money. I am just cynically and desperately joking I know this is a ticket for a collective slow and steady premature death for all the people living in the region including myself." ‘Fossil fuels are health, financial, and environmental liability. Rather than investing in yet more outdated coal power plants, Western Balkan leaders need to adopt a forward-looking approach and strengthen their efforts to reduce energy wastage and increase the share of sustainable forms of renewable energy. This would bring the EU accession countries in line with the EU’s decarbonization goals, improve public health, and avoid the risk of stranded assets,’ commented Ioana Ceuta, Energy Coordinator at CEE Bankwatch."

I think both countries' current situation is the result of foreign military interference and neo-colonial projects overall. There are of course some large differences in terms of the historical genesis and background of both countries up until this point. But I both see their current tensions and problems as a result of imposed colonial projects or nation-building projects by imperial foreign powers aiming to establish a foothold in the region. Just as there were tensions with Arabs and Kurds in Iraq, with Saddam Hussein carrying out genocides against the Kurds so there were as well tensions between the Serbian minority and the Kosovar Albanian majority where the Serbian government and army and police carried out ethnic cleansing campaigns against the Kosovar Albanians as a form of retaliation caused by instability and terrorist attacks carried out by Kosovar Albanian separatist and nationalist organizations such as the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) in their bid for the independence of the territory, possible national unification with Albania and to end Serbian government discrimination against them, but in both cases, foreign powers intervened and created, in my opinion, an untenable and unattainable state of equilibrium and stability in the long run and have merely frozen the conflict in place in both regions of the world with these colonial projects both in the creation of the state of Kosovo and trying to create market and democratic society in Iraq overnight with an insulated elitist secular government. That's my two cents on the parallels between both the country's situation politically.

From the talk American Sadsim by Chris Hedges: ''The historian Johann Huizinga writing about the twilight of the Middle Ages argued: that as things fall apart sadism is embraced to cope with the hostility of an indifferent universe”. No longer bound by a common purpose a ruptured society retreats into hedonism and the cult of the self, it celebrates as corporations on Wall Street and popular reality television shows celebrate the classic traits of psychopaths – superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, a need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying and deception and an inability to feel remorse or guilt. Get what you can, as fast as you can, before someone else gets it. This is a state of nature, a war of all against all, as Thomas Hobbes saw as a consequence of social disintegration, a world in which life becomes solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.'' Why is a malaise of a dying civilization expressed through sadism rather than a kind of righteous anger? And here we must turn to Fredrick Nietzsche. Nietzsche warned that those who are humiliated and disempowered are poisoned by resentment because they have been stripped of agency, they lack the power to harm those who they believe harm them. In short, there is no cathartic release. Resentment is bred from damaged self-esteem, it festers and corrodes the soul, and here Nietzsche writes about Christianity as a slave religion, must express their resentment obliquely and surreptitiously hence the coded racism, Islamophobia, and the supposed yearning for a return to the traditional family and ‘’Christian values’’. Resentment is produced by feelings of inferiority, failure, and worthlessness and this resentment fuelled by self-loathing expresses itself through sadism. What Nietzsche calls ‘’wrecking the will’’ of those who are weaker or more vulnerable. Nietzsche understood that this ‘’wrecking the will’’ of others imparts a perverted, sadistic pleasure. He writes in the ‘On the Genealogy of Morals’ that: ‘to see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more. Without cruelty, there is no festival and in punishment, there is so much that is festive”. ''There is short of nothing mitigating or redirect this resentment. Its pure expression is nihilism and sadism. Trump embodied this dark ethic, revenge is his sole philosophy of life, those gripped by resentment are no longer able to create, they can only destroy, they gleefully ignite their own funeral pyre.'' ''The sadism eradicates at least momentarily the sadist feelings of worthlessness, vulnerability, and susceptibility to pain and death, it imparts feelings of omnipotence, it is pleasurable is part of the scourge of sadism in service to the inanimate machine that has become global. ''Sadism runs like an electric current through male sexual desire, pornography is about the fantasy of men who are omnipotent, who have the power to torture and physically abuse girls and women, who in porn beg to be degraded. Sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history, Andrea Dworkin writes, the private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history. Women of course are not immune from acts of sadism. But Dworkin is right to highlight sadism as inherent in male expression of total and unaccountable power and this is why sadism is the chief characteristic of imperialism.'' ''Jean Amari defines sadism as a radical negation of the other, the simultaneous denial of both the social principle and the reality principle. In the sadist world torture, destruction and death are triumphant and such a world clearly has no hope of survival, on the contrary, he desires to transcend the world by achieving total sovereignty by negating fellow human beings which he sees as representing a peculiar kind of hell. Amaris’s point is important a sadistic society is about collective self-destruction, it is an apotheosis of a society deformed by overwhelming feelings of loss, alienation, and stasis. The only way left to affirm yourself in a failed society is to destroy.'' ''Johann Huizinga in his book Waning of the Middle Ages noted that the dissolution of medieval society provoked what he called the violent tenor of life. Today this violent tenor of life drives people to commit, sadism imparts rush and pleasure often with heavy sexual overtones which lures us to what Sigmund Freud called the death instinct – the instinct to destroy all forms of life, including our own. When enveloped by a death-saturated world, death ironically is embraced as the cure.'' Joseph Conrad in his short story The Outpost of Progress: ''Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities, and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief of the safety of their surroundings, the courage, the composure, the confidence, the emotions and principles, every great and every insignificant thought belongs not to the individual but to the crowd, to the crowd that believes blindly in the irresistible force of its institutions and its morals and of the power of its police and its opinion. '' ''Sadism is carried out in the name of moral good, to protect western civilization ‘’Christian values’’, ‘’democracy’’, ‘’the master race’’, ‘’Liberte, egalite, fraternity’’, ‘’the worker's paradise’’, ‘’the new man’’ or ‘’scientific rationalism’’. Sadism will mend the flaws in the human species, the jargon varies, but the dark sentiment is the same. Honour, justice, compassion, freedom are ideas that have no converts, Conrad writes, there are only people without knowing, understanding, and feeling, who shout them out, imagining they believe them, without believing in anything else but profit, personal advantage, and their own satisfaction. For man is a cruel animal, he went on, his cruelty must be organized, society is essentially criminal or it wouldn’t exist, it is selfishness that saves everything, absolutely everything, everything that we abhor and everything that we love.'' Wanted to originally post this here for people who are suffering from these sorts of feelings and desires to help them with understanding them better and to trace their sources of them but I by mistake posted it on Journals Thread. Hope this does not violate the guidelines for this sub-form and is helpful to people who are suffering from these feelings and desires, including me, to better understand them and overcome them.

From the talk American Sadsim by Chris Hedges: ''The historian Johann Huizinga writing about the twilight of the Middle Ages argued: that as things fall apart sadism is embraced to cope with the hostility of an indifferent universe”. No longer bound by a common purpose a ruptured society retreats into hedonism and the cult of the self, it celebrates as corporations on Wall Street and popular reality television shows celebrate the classic traits of psychopaths – superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, a need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying and deception and an inability to feel remorse or guilt. Get what you can, as fast as you can, before someone else gets it. This is a state of nature, a war of all against all, as Thomas Hobbes saw as a consequence of social disintegration, a world in which life becomes solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.'' Why is a malaise of a dying civilization expressed through sadism rather than a kind of righteous anger? And here we must turn to Fredrick Nietzsche. Nietzsche warned that those who are humiliated and disempowered are poisoned by resentment because they have been stripped of agency, they lack the power to harm those who they believe harm them. In short, there is no cathartic release. Resentment is bred from damaged self-esteem, it festers and corrodes the soul, and here Nietzsche writes about Christianity as a slave religion, must express their resentment obliquely and surreptitiously hence the coded racism, Islamophobia, and the supposed yearning for a return to the traditional family and ‘’Christian values’’. Resentment is produced by feelings of inferiority, failure, and worthlessness and this resentment fuelled by self-loathing expresses itself through sadism. What Nietzsche calls ‘’wrecking the will’’ of those who are weaker or more vulnerable. Nietzsche understood that this ‘’wrecking the will’’ of others imparts a perverted, sadistic pleasure. He writes in the ‘On the Genealogy of Morals’ that: ‘to see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more. Without cruelty, there is no festival and in punishment, there is so much that is festive”. ''There is short of nothing mitigating or redirect this resentment. Its pure expression is nihilism and sadism. Trump embodied this dark ethic, revenge is his sole philosophy of life, those gripped by resentment are no longer able to create, they can only destroy, they gleefully ignite their own funeral pyre.'' ''The sadism eradicates at least momentarily the sadist feelings of worthlessness, vulnerability, and susceptibility to pain and death, it imparts feelings of omnipotence, it is pleasurable is part of the scourge of sadism in service to the inanimate machine that has become global. ''Sadism runs like an electric current through male sexual desire, pornography is about the fantasy of men who are omnipotent, who have the power to torture and physically abuse girls and women, who in porn beg to be degraded. Sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history, Andrea Dworkin writes, the private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history. Women of course are not immune from acts of sadism. But Dworkin is right to highlight sadism as inherent in male expression of total and unaccountable power and this is why sadism is the chief characteristic of imperialism.'' ''Jean Amari defines sadism as a radical negation of the other, the simultaneous denial of both the social principle and the reality principle. In the sadist world torture, destruction and death are triumphant and such a world clearly has no hope of survival, on the contrary, he desires to transcend the world by achieving total sovereignty by negating fellow human beings which he sees as representing a peculiar kind of hell. Amaris’s point is important a sadistic society is about collective self-destruction, it is an apotheosis of a society deformed by overwhelming feelings of loss, alienation, and stasis. The only way left to affirm yourself in a failed society is to destroy.'' ''Johann Huizinga in his book Waning of the Middle Ages noted that the dissolution of medieval society provoked what he called the violent tenor of life. Today this violent tenor of life drives people to commit, sadism imparts rush and pleasure often with heavy sexual overtones which lures us to what Sigmund Freud called the death instinct – the instinct to destroy all forms of life, including our own. When enveloped by a death-saturated world, death ironically is embraced as the cure.'' Joseph Conrad in his short story The Outpost of Progress: ''Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities, and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief of the safety of their surroundings, the courage, the composure, the confidence, the emotions and principles, every great and every insignificant thought belongs not to the individual but to the crowd, to the crowd that believes blindly in the irresistible force of its institutions and its morals and of the power of its police and its opinion. '' ''Sadism is carried out in the name of moral good, to protect western civilization ‘’Christian values’’, ‘’democracy’’, ‘’the master race’’, ‘’Liberte, egalite, fraternity’’, ‘’the worker's paradise’’, ‘’the new man’’ or ‘’scientific rationalism’’. Sadism will mend the flaws in the human species, the jargon varies, but the dark sentiment is the same. Honour, justice, compassion, freedom are ideas that have no converts, Conrad writes, there are only people without knowing, understanding, and feeling, who shout them out, imagining they believe them, without believing in anything else but profit, personal advantage, and their own satisfaction. For man is a cruel animal, he went on, his cruelty must be organized, society is essentially criminal or it wouldn’t exist, it is selfishness that saves everything, absolutely everything, everything that we abhor and everything that we love.''

Chris Hedges American Sadism.docx

Thanks for your questions and remarks as well. Tried my best to explain how I myself see the detailed comparisons between the two countries' situations and positions in the world and geopolitically.

It is reported that the Shah of Iran after he was exiled after the Islamic revolution in 1979, reportedly looted one billion dollars from the country.

Both countries are very rich in natural resources, Iraq in oil, Kosovo in mineral resources such as lignite totaling 12.5 billion tonnes, which it claims are the second largest in Europe and fifth largest in the world. Also: The Trepča Mines (Albanian: Miniera e Trepçës, Serbian: Рудник Трепча / Rudnik Trepča) is a large industrial complex in Kosovo, located 9 km (5.6 mi) northeast of Mitrovica. The mine is located on the southern slopes of the Kopaonik mountain, between the peaks of Crni Vrh (1,364 m (4,475 ft)) and Majdan 1,268 m (4,160 ft), and it is Europe's largest lead-zinc and silver ore mine. Kosovo was historically a mining district for the former Yugoslavia. The industrial complex Trepça in Mitrovica "was the largest mining operation in the former Yugoslavia". During the time of Yugoslavia, Kosovo possessed 50% of all of Yugoslavia's nickel reserves, 36% of lignite, 48% of lead and zinc reserves, 47% of the magnesium reserves, and 32.4% of kaolinite reserves. During this time, mining was Kosovo's growth engine; however, the sector faced a decline from the 1990s. Kosovo's main mineral resources are: lead, zinc, silver, nickel, cobalt, chrome, lignite, copper, bauxite, magnesium, iron, and several industrial minerals such as: kaolin, bentonite, quartz, halloysite, diatomite, garnet, asbestos, and leucites. Mineral resources in Kosovo are estimated to be worth 13.5 billion euros, based on a survey by the Directorate for Mines and Minerals and the World Bank, from which 6.5 billion euros are attributed to the Mine in Sibofc alone, 3 billion to Trepča, 2 billion to Ferronikel and another 2 billion to other resources across Kosovo. Although the former director for mines and minerals, Hengstmann, claimed of this value, the expert for mines, Adil Januzi claimed that Kosovo's natural resources are of even higher value since Kosovo possesses the only lignite of over 13 billion tonnes. The industrial complex Trepča alone possesses more than 60 mineral species that have been identified thus far. Both are Muslim majority countries. Though Iraq has a lot of religious sectarianisms such as the Sunni and Shia split and ethnic such as with the Kurds and Iraqis, while the Kosovars are only Sunni and only ethnic splits are the Serb minority which lives in the north which only takes up 4% of the population. A number of Sunni fundamentalists and salafist Albanians, which yes do exist in the region and are particularly from Northern Macedonia, gathered recruits and went to the Middle East to join ISIS in the 'lesser jihad' in significant numbers from 2014 to 2018 and even tried to carry out terrorist suicide bomb attacks on American military bases in the region. I have reports from this time period to back this up. Also, the OP wrote in his response to me in this thread that regular Iraqis considered themselves ancient people and the descendants of the ancient Mesopotamians and Babylonians, well so do the Albanians! They identify their ethnic descendants as the ancient paleo-Balkan tribes who settled the Balkan territories in the 4th century BC in the times even before when it was made up of Roman provinces and before the Slav migration and settlements in the 6th century such as the Dardanians, the Illyrians, and the Thracians. Papazoglu 1978, p. 131 ''the Dardanians ... living in the frontiers of the Illyrian and the Thracian worlds retained their individuality and, alone among the peoples of that region, succeeded in maintaining themselves as an ethnic unity even when they were militarily and politically subjected by the Roman arms [...] and when, towards the end of the ancient world, the Balkans were involved in far-reaching ethnic perturbations, the Dardanians, of all the Central Balkan tribes, played the greatest part in the genesis of the new peoples who took the place of the old''. The same as I mentioned above and as the OP stated about Iraqis and I would add Afghans. All of these peoples considered themselves ancient and primordial groups that have settled on these lands for millennia and connect their ancestry back to some pre-BC tribes or civilizations. Their nationalism/patriotism both revolves around that they settled this land from ancient times and that no foreign power has a right to occupy them or tell them how to organize and live on their land, except for the Kosovo Albanians who use the American and international presence as a shield to protect themselves from would-be Serb pretensions on the territory. Very similar geopolitics I would argue. Both countries have a foreign military presence on their soil that as a cost of maintenance and sustainability of itself exploits the countries rich natural resources deposits with their own multinational companies or shareholders in some domestic companies to enrich the shareholders from those countries which companies that benefit from the foreign military presence and occupation, and that also in the case of America and some other NATO member countries happen to be politicians that pushed for the invasion and officers and generals that carried it out. Yes, the population of Kosovo has a smaller population than the population of Iraq of 38 million. However, both countries are majority Muslim, where 95-98% of the population of Iraq is Muslim and 94% of the population of Kosovo is Muslim. Both have small ethnic minority groups in their country, the Iraqis are majority Arab making up 75 to 80% of the country's total population while the Kurds and Turkmen make up the rest. In Kosovo, the Kosovar Albanians make up 94% of the total population while Servs make up 4%. Both countries have a fairly young population with an average age of 20-34 according to some demographics statistics.

How is that even a possibility, given the fact that the Ba'th Party hierarchy, as far I know, has been obliterated and purged from the countries administration system in the aftermath of the invasion and occupation of Iraq and that ISIS has been fairly wiped out from large parts of the Middle East up until this point and is fairly crippled and enjoys, I assume, fringe support in some desolate areas of Iraq. Do they enjoy any support from a major part of the public and population in Iraq or have they been pushed to the margins and enjoy only some fringe extremist support in some of the more desolated areas. Why is it incompatible and why are Iraq and Afghanistan the exceptions? I mean I would argue that the neighbourhood countries that we have here on the Balkans like 'Kosovo' and Albania are not as well that much advanced on the spiral, yet they comply with every single thing that the U. S. and the 'rules based international order' wants from them. They celebrate and simp for the Americans as liberators and their protectors from the danger of Serbian violent mini imperialism, foreign subjugation and occupation, ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide directed towards them yet they celebrate and revere the foreign occupiers on their land as their saviours and beg for them to keep their military bases and large compounds there in Kosovo as measure to deteer possible future Sebian agression and pretensions in the region. In other words, they live in a world where the foreign occupation and colonisation of their land by imperial forces and international coalitions is permissible as long as it keeps them safe from an imagined external aggressor and threat that will if given the chance do them what it did to them during the ethnic cleansings and state violence of the 90's. 90% of Kosovar Albanians identify themselves as Muslims and they are, I would argue, not much more advanced then average Iraqis or Afghans on the spiral in terms of their affiliations, loyalties and groupings based on religion and their ethnic identity as a single ancient people no matter their faith yet they cooperate and celebrate the presence of international and U. S. forces on their soil, even as U. S. companies, with some of the U. S. generals that participated in the NATO intervention in Kosovo in the 99's sitting on the boards of those companies and owning shares in them, exploit without oversight and regulation from the Kosovar state administration the countries rich mineral resources and deposits. Again why does it only intervene and invade countries in countries which governments are not alligned with interest or pose a threat to their interests that can't match the U. S. militarily and defend themselves from a bombing campaign or a ground invasion while countries like North Korea, who are also on the lists of threats to the 'international rules based order', are given a free pass on the possibility of a direct intervention because they have nukes or Iran because they are almost impossible to invade militarily without causing huge casualties and damages to the U. S. militarily and in terms of resources spent and sustainability of the operation. Hence the model today is to turn to economic sanctions as way of economic warfare against those countries. And I heard that, according to some estimates, that because of the U.S. economic sanctions on Iraq after the Gulf War in the 1990's and the direct bombing and ground forces invasion of Iraq since 2003, that one in five Iraqis have someone in their family who was killed because of the consequences and aftermath of these events. Why are those two nations incompatible, while Albanian Kosovars are, who are at roughly the same stage of development and of group affiliation and identity and also have a foreign occupying forces on their land? Similar thing was happening in Kosovo up until the recent elections and now there is a government in power there that, yes on the one hand relies on the U. S. in order to lobby and advocate internationally for Kosovos independence and recognition as a separate country by other nations worldwide and yet on the other hand plays with the idea from time to time that in the distant future Albanian Kosovars might reunite and join together in a union with their people's in Albania to form one larger Albanian country based on ethnic lines and borders on Albanian large scattered demographics across different countries in the Western Balkans, since they mostly, first and foremostly, identify as Albanian ethnically and then only in second place as Muslim by religion. So stage blue values in vision and in practice and yet the U. S. and the EU has given a greenlight to this government that plays with this idea, even only in the future. Who knows? What about letting the Iraqi people decide on the future of their countries trajectory without foreign interference? What do you mean by modernizing? You mean shedding their religious, ethnic and cultural identities and their preferences to a government corresponding with the values of those as such or something else? A country can be modernized politically, economically, technologically and scientifically without shedding a part of their religious identity and traditional values and models of governance as per the example of the Emirates and Saudi Arabia or even Lebanon for that matter which is more diverse in terms of religions and ethnicity and I would argue corresponds more with the conditions and situation of Iraq than those two first mentioned examples.

We live in age oversaturated with images and signifiers that should in theory correspond and inform our meaning of the the actual physical world and events taking place in it but as the French postmodern philosopher Jean Baudrillard points out these are in actuality just signifiers and images that get their own reality and meaning for us just from other images and signfiers that we viewed and got meaning from that are only meaningfully connected to and exist only as signfiers for the latter. He explained the maintenance of existence in our collective minds of this 'hyperreality' existing only within the media space of images and signfiers only connected to other images and signifiers that we viewed, consumed and got our meaning from previously as being a with he termed 'simulacra' a simulation existing and gaining its meaning from only another presented simulation of the actual physical reality itself. I hope I didn't overcomplicate this and that I have explained so it can be fairly easily understood as concept to explain some of the mechanisms and effects of our hypermediated global media culture.

Video Example of Indoctrinated Elementary School Graders in a sports club singing in unison songs about Kosovo, medieval folklore heroes and rulers of the Middle Ages and in the late eighteenth century in relation to Kosovo with the aim to cultivate the myth of the Kosovo covenant as well as primordial, revanchist and irredentist beliefs and worldviews about the inseparable 'spiritual' tie of Kosovo as part of the territory of Serbia in the perennial and religious sense and of its religious significance for the Serb ethnical and orthodox religious identity stemming from the medieval period and of the Kosovo War in 1999's, the Independence proclamation of Kosovo in 2008 and of the future status of Kosovo in relationship to Serbia The original Twitter poster of the video writes in the post title: ''The children are our greatest treasure! As long as there are kids like these, there will be a Serbia!'' Hmm, how does that sound 1920's and 1930's eras much? They sing the following in unison: ''Speak up Serbian kin, Serbian kin for the sake of and until freedom comes. Because of the glory of the dynasties of the Nemanjich, Oblilich, and Petrovich and because of the glory of..." All of these dynasties, folk heroes, and figures by the way that were mentioned in the song have something to do with the medieval period when the territory of Kosovo was considered to be the founding place and the center of those dynasties medieval state and orthodox church. Here is a more egregious example of stage blue totalitarianism sustained by nationalist and populist rhetoric. The address of the president of the state on June 22th in the national assembly of Serbia (count the seconds of the clapping and try to estimate is it longer or shorter than the claps received by Stalin in the 1930's chairing of the central committee of the communist party of the USSR or is it as long as Xi Jinping receives claps when addressing the People's National Congress of the Communist Party of China). There are no current translations of this video currently. I will repost it again here when the English subtitles come out and translate some parts of it and indicate the time in the video when the incessant clapping extravaganza starts and also translate some of the more egregious parts in the speech: The Video Title: The Historic F*** it Speech of president Vuchic in the National Assembly. The clapping starts at 0:37 Ends at 2:37 3:10 Afterwards Vuchic and the current ruling government's plan for Kosovo revelation: Vuchic: ''I want to repeat myself that a compromise solution is the only solution. But when you ask me what's the compromise solution, I don't know." 3:33 The host of the comedic show underlies the thought of our president: "The only solution is the compromise solution, and what is a compromise...well I don't f***ing know..." Well, at least he knows how to conduct himself in diplomatic negotiations and in dialogue with the Kosovo PM Kurti about the compromise solution in regards to the Kosovo question. 4:43 Vuchic: ''The only talking point by Kosovo PM Kurti was when will you recognize the independence of Kosovo? And I said to him after PM of Kosovo Kurti asked and repeated the same question to me five times: when, when, and when? I said to him with an absolute calm tone: ''Well, never.'' 5:16 Clapping continues. 13:30 A new national record in the assembly in clapping was set at the end of the assembly meeting: Vuchic: "Long live our people in Kosovo and Metohia. Long live Serbia! 13:35 the clapping starts and the standing ovation. The host of the show is hilarious in his antics and in imitating the people's representatives' spinelessness, servileness, and obedience in the clapping while they know they receive benefits, advancement opportunities within the hierarchy, and party points for doing so. What do you think? What a brilliant political culture and atmosphere fostered by the president and his ruling party to inform the public consciousness, don't you think? Here is the Stalin clapping test from a Communist party meeting in 1937 in Moscow during the Great Purge that I am sure the people's representatives of the national assembly Serbia today took pointers from and practiced before this nothing address and announcement of the president in front of the national assembly. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn says in the Gulag Archipelago that the clapping lasted for about ten minutes until people's palms got numb and swollen from the pain. The national assembly representatives capped at around 3 to 5 minutes. Not bad it's almost half of the time! I recommend you play both videos of clapping for Vuchic and for Stalin at the same time for a better comparison and similarity experience in order to get a better comprehension of what I have been writing about above.