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@DravenNoctis Defining moments of Putin in the last 25 years Every year since 1999 (I made the video) You watch and judge yourself what a leader and man he is

@nxt888 Correction: “waive” -> “*wave”

Agree. I have to say that the “progressive”/ woke Western youth are similar. They don’t waive a 🇺🇸. Instead, they waive a 🏳️‍⚧️or something (it used to be feminist, BLM, or 🏳️‍🌈). These people cannot find a job that allows them to afford an apartment and pay back their $100k student loan. They waive whatever “progressive” flag they are given because it is free.

The lower-class American who believes it most fiercely is not foolish. He is the most successful product of the most successful ideological project in history. He has been given, in place of healthcare, the pride of empire. In place of job security, the comfort of superiority. In place of a political system that responds to his interests, the feeling that at least his country is the "most powerful," the "most important," the "main character." He drives an hour to a job that doesn't pay him enough, without benefits, without security, through infrastructure that is visibly crumbling, past towns that have been economically hollowed out by the same trade policy his government calls an achievement, And he waves the flag at the game on Friday night and means it. Not because he's stupid. Because the flag is the only thing he has been given that doesn't cost him anything to have. The identity is free. Everything else costs money he doesn't have. The ruling class that gave him the flag instead of a living wage understood the transaction completely. He was not told about it.

Araghchi absolutely RIPS at the BRICS Foreign Ministers' meeting in New Delhi. A lesson to all BRICS and BRICS+ partners. Actually, a mini-manifesto: "To virtually everyone in this room, our resistance against US bullying is not an unfamiliar battle. So many of us encounter slight variations of the same repugnant coercion. It is high time for us to jointly step up and work towards making clear that those practices belong in the dustbin of history. Today, our nations are closer to one another than ever before, and we cannot ignore the common and dangerous challenge we all face. History has shown that empires in decline will stop at nothing to arrest their inevitable fates. A wounded animal will desperately claw and roar on its way down."

@nmavrantzas @nxt888 Thanks!

@shell_zipi @nxt888 Waive =/= wave In the case of flags, it's the second (wave the flag).

Here is the part that makes it a masterpiece rather than just a manipulation: Both groups believe, genuinely, that the other group is the problem. The working-class nationalist looks at the progressive graduate and sees someone who hates his country, looks down on his culture, has been brainwashed by universities he paid for with his taxes, and wants to dismantle everything he was raised to believe in. The progressive graduate looks at the working-class nationalist and sees someone who votes against his own interests, is complicit in oppression, has been radicalized by algorithms, and stands in the way of a more just society. Both readings contain partial truth. Both miss the structural truth entirely. Because the structural truth is that both of them are being economically gutted by the same class. That the same lobbying apparatus that blocked the working man's union also created the debt that trapped the graduate. That the same financial system that hollowed out his town also made her rent unaffordable. That truth requires them to see each other as allies. And an alliance between those two groups is the only thing that has ever genuinely threatened the people at the top. Which is why so much energy, money, and media is spent making sure that alliance never forms. The flags are not just compensation. The flags are the walls of the maze.

习的表情看起来像是：在超市里撞见了一个从来没见过的老大爷，对方非要坚持说咱俩过去是同事好友。

“I was told to train my Indian replacement.” “My whole team’s jobs were sent to India.” “Google outsourced my work to the Philippines.” @StevenEdginton speaks to American tech workers replaced by foreign labour due to the H1-B visa, and offshoring jobs to India.

@LynnQ00056381 “作为俄罗斯人， 我们有着不同的使命。 我们的使命 延伸到地平线之外。 我们的使命 是精神的使命。 我们的使命联系着我们 和终极的 —— 造物主” ———弗拉基米尔 · 普京

俄罗斯的哲学和民族性都在她的文学里。我读俄罗斯文学感悟到俄罗斯人的特点是，他们内心有宿命感宗教感和历史使命感，这让他们有一种精神高于物质的超越感。普京表达的意思正是这个：希腊或西方传统追求荣耀和不朽，而俄罗斯人存在的意义，不只是个人幸福或现实利益，而是一种更宏大更精神性的历史使命

@shell_zipi @JamesLucasIT 我读俄罗斯文学感悟到俄罗斯人的特点是，他们内心有宿命感，宗教感和历史使命感，这让他们有一种精神高于物质的的超越感。普京表达的意思正是这个：希腊或西方传统追求荣耀和不朽，而俄罗斯人存在的意义，不只是个人幸福或现实利益，而是一种更宏大、更精神性的历史使命

“What drove the men who built Western civilization was not happiness. It was something older, deeper, and harder to name. The Greeks called it kleos: the glory that survives death.” “As a Russian person, we have a different mission. It is something that stretches Beyond the horizon. It is something spiritual. It is something to do with the Maker." -- Vladimir Putin

Napoleon studied Caesar. Caesar wept before a statue of Alexander. Alexander wanted to be Achilles. The greatest men the West ever produced were all trying to become the same Greek warrior... Alexander the Great kept a copy of the Iliad under his pillow. His tutor Aristotle had personally annotated an edition for him. According to Plutarch, when Alexander arrived at the ruins of Troy in 334 BC, he sacrificed at the tomb of Achilles and ran naked around it. He told the priests offering to show him Paris's harp that he had no interest in seeing the harp of a coward. "I would far rather see the lyre of Achilles," he said, "which he used to sing the glories of brave men." Three centuries later, in 69 BC, Julius Caesar was serving as quaestor in Spain when he stood in front of a statue of Alexander in the temple of Hercules at Cadiz. He was thirty-two: the same age at which Alexander had died, having already conquered most of the known world. Caesar wept. When his friends asked why, he answered, according to Plutarch: "Do you not think it is matter for sorrow that while Alexander, at my age, was already king of so many peoples, I have as yet achieved no brilliant success?" Eighteen centuries after that, Napoleon Bonaparte sat for his coronation portrait wearing a golden laurel wreath, modelled on the wreath of Julius Caesar. He carried with him on campaign the works of Plutarch and Caesar's own commentaries. Each of these men was reaching back, through the centuries, to the figure who came first. And that figure was a half-mortal Greek warrior who, when offered the choice between a long, quiet life and a short, glorious one, chose glory. The Greek name Akhilleus is most plausibly derived from akhos, meaning grief, and laos, meaning people. The grief of the people. The greatest hero of the Western imagination is not named for victory or for strength. He is named for sorrow... But that is the bargain: to choose greatness in the Achilles tradition is to choose a particular kind of suffering. Alexander died at thirty-two. Caesar was murdered by his closest friends. Napoleon ended his life on an island in the South Atlantic, looking at the sea. Each of them got what Achilles got: a name that has outlasted empires, and a life that was paid for in full. What drove the men who built Western civilization was not happiness. It was something older, deeper, and harder to name. The Greeks called it kleos: the glory that survives death. Achilles got there first. Three thousand years later, men are still trying to follow him... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: James-lucas.com/welcome If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

The US isn’t just distancing itself from Zelensky. It’s using his own people to do it. Yulia Mendel, his former press secretary just sat down with Tucker Carlson. The platform, the timing, the source. None of this is accidental. That’s not a break. That’s a controlled demolition.

普京小时候是个淘气孩子。不好好学习，每天打架混混。是这位老师到普京家，和普京复员军人普通工人的父亲和清洁工母亲说，你们孩子是个聪明孩子，我们一起让他好好学习，以后会有出息。

今天，普京到酒店看望前来莫斯科参加胜利节庆典的他的中学老师。 然后普京亲自开车带他老师一起去餐馆吃饭。

Euphemism Translator: Look at this medicalized male we are declaring “the prettiest girl in the world.” A boy put on cross-sex hormones in adolescence chemically suppressing his own puberty, sterilizing his body, and locking in lifelong medical dependency which were now hold up as the feminine ideal. We celebrate this through magazine covers, red carpets, and captions to recruit more children to this pathway, letting them know the social rewards that await. More sterilized boys, more confused girls, more adolescent mental health collapse rebranded as identity. The category casualty is the point. If a medicalized boy can be called “girl,” then “girl” means nothing and once the category dissolves, no female space, sport, prison, locker room, marriage, or family survives it.

“Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid.” – Ernest Hemingway 1945 marks the final victory over Nazi Germany and the defeat of fascism. The footage shows the epic destruction of the Nazi headquarters in Nuremberg 80 years ago.

@ggreenwald Iran is becoming the 4th global superpower after the US, China, and Russia, despite (or because of ) the sanctions and aggressions of the US and its master Israel.