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“Now I’m not sayin’ we won’t get our hair mussed. But I do say, no more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.” — General “Buck” Turgidson, USAF, in Dr. Strangelove
Like Proust, I dip a madeleine into my tea and summon up remembrance of things past. I was pretty young when I first read that Karl Marx said that history repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce. Like most things, Marx got it entirely backwards. The farce comes first, then it repeats as tragedy.
If truth is the first casualty of war, then a sense of humor is the first casualty of Critical Race Theory. Combine the two and you get complete and utter insanity. In the past week, I have noticed that in the accelerating lust for war, the Uni-Party and its media lackeys have been engaging in some rather unsubtle attempts at normalizing nuclear war. One randomly encounters articles and “experts” on talk shows suggesting that nuclear war may not be as bad as originally thought, or that the concept of “nuclear winter” may be overblown.
It’s interesting that the same people who just last week were saying that if I use a gas-powered lawnmower to cut my lawn I will personally be responsible for killing every polar bear in the world now see the environmental costs of a full-blown nuclear war as being minimal, or at least worth it if we can save the world for gay marriage, pederasty, gender fluidity, and all of those ideas that define us as a democracy. Even being a constitutional, Judeo-Christian conservative who totally supports the State of Israel means that you must be in favor of nuclear war, or else you’re a traitor and probably hate the Baby Jesus. Just ask Ted Cruz or Lindsay Graham. If either one of them were President right now, that red nuclear button would be worn out from being overpushed.
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I know that most politicians are either evil or stupid, or both evil and stupid, but can anyone really be that evil and/or stupid? Even the leaders of the former “Evil Empire” knew that a nuclear war was unwinnable, because even if you come out on top you inherit a world that is not worth winning.
I’m old enough that I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis very vividly, especially the “duck-and-cover” drills in which the magical properties of an elementary school desk circa 1962 somehow provided complete protection against the percussive force and radiation produced by the explosion directly overhead of a two-megaton hydrogen bomb. My classmates and I were bright enough to know, even at that early stage in our intellectual development, that this was pure BS and that living near a large Air Force base meant that we would be among the first to fry if the bombs started dropping.
All of this brings me back to my original point. Evil Democrats and stupid Republicans: For the love of everything that is good and holy, please heed my words. Dr. Strangelove is a satirical comedy, not a documentary or how-to video on YouTube. I know that all of you are victims of the dumbed-down American educational system and a sick society infected by the humorlessness of Leftism, feminism, and Critical Race Theory, but playing out the Strangelove Scenario is a suicide pact. Trust me.
Also, when Wile E. Coyote runs off a cliff, he really falls down immediately. He doesn’t stay suspended in the air for several seconds in order to pull out a sign saying “Oops.” In fact, Wile E. Coyote doesn’t really exist. He is a fictional character in a children’s cartoon series.
I know, it’s a lot to take in, but the grief counselors and emotional support dogs are standing by.
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When you play chess, the hopes and dreams of the individual pieces matter very little. Victory requires sacrifices.
Whose victory are we talking about? I oppose this Russian war, and support US humanitarian assistance to displaced Ukrainians. I do not support US weapons being sent to Ukraine, as they will only result in more whites being killed, as well as continued global economic turmoil.
Quintilian makes a fair point. Are we Americans supposed to risk nuclear annihilation (or expect our European kinsmen to) simply to support – what, exactly? Ukrainian independence? Ukraine’s perpetual possession of the Donbass region? Zionist Zelensky and his fellow Jewish oligarch-looters of Ukrainian ethnonational assets? The NWO? NATO’s “credibility”? None of these causes is of any importance to me, or I daresay most Americans (while in principle I support a Ukrainian ethnostate, as I do ethnostates for every other white ethnie, it’s hardly a cause worth dying for, at least for a Western-European-American like me).
The Racial Right has no political power. But if we have even a sliver of influence, we should use it to advocate against any US or NATO military involvement in this conflict. Such intervention could easily escalate to a point where nuclear weapons get used. Even if America is spared, irreparable damage could be inflicted upon our Old Continent. And for what end? If Russia neutralizes, or even ‘swallows’, Ukraine the impact upon America, the West, and white preservation will be minimal to nothing. The white cause has nothing to gain, but much to lose, from Western military escalation.
I agree. This war is awful, but letting it spread would be a terrible mistake.
I’m trying to put you in the heads of the people making nuclear policy. They really are like Dr. Strangelove and General Turgidson. No other kind of person could make nuclear policy.
Thousands dead from black warfare in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Philly, the Baltimore-DMV axis and every other hood in America. The only force on earth capable of stopping it is nuclear war probably, and our final extinction.
Ebonicwarfare. Forget Biological Warfare. Negrotron Bombs make your inner city uninhabitable.
I disagree. All that is needed to bring “da ‘hoods” under reasonable control is a mass rejection of liberalism, and an embrace of law and order conservatism: proactive and aggressive policing, especially in high crime communities; long prison sentences for violent perps; prisons which are back-breaking labor camps (eg, highway cleanup and repair work), especially for the younger (and more dangerous) cons; the return of corporal punishment (the “whipping post”) for violent crimes where no violence occurred (eg, armed robbery with no physical assault); victim financial restitution for property crimes (OK, this is good policy, but wouldn’t do much wrt the ghettos); complete personal firearms decontrol combined with stronger pro-self-defense laws (so that when facing a thug, one doesn’t have to choose between life and a lawsuit); regularized public hangings for the worst thugs (not only murderers, but habitual violent offenders: three strikes, and you should be really out).
Obviously, the optimum solution is racial separation and new territorial sovereignty for those whites who wish to live white again (many whites do not, of course, and such whites should be able to enjoy diversity to their hearts’ content; but they have no right to force this evolutionarily unnatural situation upon others). But black crime can be controlled and rendered tolerable if whites (and pro-law POCs) reacquire the will to crack down on misbehavior.
I think the violence situation has become so dire in the black ghettos that it has begun to take on a momentum of it’s own and possibly will not improve again ever especially as we continue to import central americans daily. Many american cities have unprecedented homicide rates. Many cities have black populations with homicide rates exceeding 1/1,000 annually. The american experiment has failed. If you don’t have physical security you don’t have a country. And than you have things like a 80 yo white woman being raped and murdered by a black man in her retirement home in Indianapolis during black history month and you think maybe the nukes should fall.
I’m Mr. Law and Order, and I think standing hard for L&O is a great way to inject prowhite ideas into public spaces still too propagandized to face straightforward WN arguments. It was black crime first (then, slightly later, my learning about immigration realities) which made me start questioning hegemonic liberal ideology. I’m not sure we ever will regain a handle on black crime (though this more due to wokeist brainwashing among whites than immigration per se). I’m merely arguing that we could, merely with such minimal will as we exhibited when grassroots conservatives started pushing Three Strikes laws back in the late 80s, and Giuliani in NYC started more proactive policing in the early-mid 90s.
The immediate economic consequences of this conflict favour no one, but every cloud has a silver lining. If Western Europe takes a step back into devastating warfare, how much easier it will be to cow the shattered and demoralised survivors into accepting the next wave of Afro-Islamic incomers to ‘ensure it never happens again’.
I agree with the general points of this article and strongly agree that no good will come out of escalating this conflict or by taking sides.
I also should not have to say that I don’t want to trivialize nuclear war or to speak lightly about the potential costs.
This may be a slight derail ─ but I find the old Leftist saw that Duck-and-Cover-is-futile to be particularly annoying.
Aside from possibly a school on a military base, it is mostly an apocryphal story anyway ─ much like the claim that the Kennedy Goys and Doc. McNamara saved us all from nuclear war, when in my mind the real heroes were Gen. LeMay’s Air Force, who discovered (in time to do something about it) that the Russians were installing nuclear missiles in Cuba.
But yeah, it’s better NOT to have fire drills or poison gas drills or to duck under the school desk during a bombardment than have your kid get third-degree burns and glass splinters if the building doesn’t entirely get blown down or all life on the planet gets exterminated like cosmologist Carl Sagan or pediatrician Helen Caldicott said that it surely would.
On the Beach was an entertaining movie, if nonsense, and an aging Ava Gardner still looked pretty hot in a swimsuit.
One of the first things that military drill does is to instill unfamiliar habits like hitting the deck on command. You find this in the novel and the two films of All Quiet on the Western Front, where Corporal Himmelstoss, an insipid and cowardly postman in civilian life, orders the recruits ─ sadistically or otherwise ─ to crash into the mud over and over again. And they have an arbitrary inspection in thirty minutes so this really sucks.
When under attack, you don’t always have the benefit of a heavy bunker to retreat to, and likewise everybody knows that a direct hit to your slit trench or foxhole will likely not go well.
However, just taking cover can mean the difference of life and death even when the grenade lands far too close. I have never “seen the elephant” as Stephen Crane put it, and have managed to avoid ZOG wars, but I graduated Basic Training forty years ago with a coveted Expert badge with the hand grenade ─ so I think that I am on pretty solid ground here.
The Third Reich put great emphasis on Civil Defense training. Some of these Luftschutz measures were more successful than others during the war, and it is a very interesting subject; however, there is no doubt that tens of thousands of lives were thereby saved. Civil Defense was important in World War II and would be in the case of nuclear war.
The important thing with conflict and war in general and with air defense in particular is to combat FATALISM ─ for example, people wandering around during bombardments in the open thinking about esoteric Evola and maybe asking for a ruling from Heaven.
Instead, what was needed when the alarm went off was to get that “Herbert” in real life who is probably too old for military service and make him into a Block Warden with an armband who cant goosesteps the people right into the shelter on command ─ like a Saturday Night Bath whether ya needs to or not.
https://youtu.be/mHep5WA9qqU
Much of war consists of merely waiting, but that doesn’t necessarily make it pointless. The inventor of the world’s first “Turing-complete” electronic computer, Konrad Züse and his colleagues spent a lot of time cooling their heels in German bomb shelters during the war instead of working. At least it gave them some time talking and thinking about their craft.
I am also old enough to remember seeing older Fallout Shelter signs in most built-up areas in the 1960s. Some of these shelters were more substantial than others. These were usually not bomb shelters or bunkers at all and did not resemble the iconic Berlin FlaK towers from the war; most were just basements in beefy buildings with some stockpiled supplies available for the public to shelter off the street if the sirens roared.
You can do this in a basement that has some shielding from radioactive “sky shine” and a modest supply of water and food and First Aid supplies. Plastic five gallon jugs filled with drinking water provide excellent radiation and blast shielding for your basement cellar. you can always use clean water later.
The Boy Scout motto is Be Prepared, and this is always good advice. When we heard the news that a wall of water was approaching the towns in June of 1976 from the Teton Dam break we did not know if our house near Willow Creek was on high enough ground, or when the utilities would fail. We didn’t wait for the rapture. My Dad made me drop everything immediately and start filling containers of fresh water.
The Germans in the 1930s and ’40s were concerned that their shelters have protection sealed against chemical attack and carbon monoxide gas that builds up from fires and bombardments. In wartime German periodicals from library archives, you can see advertisements for gas-tight doors, oxygen bottle stations, and hand-cranked air filtration units.
But a WWII British Morrison shelter was basically just a heavy dinner table that you could dive under, and even sleep under during a raid.
https://youtu.be/UJoDVwn5rd8
Okay, so nuclear bombs are unlike any other disaster ─ just hang it all up! Ya can’t win and the survivors will envy the dead. So drink the Kool-Aid or take the kill pill right now, like they did in On the Beach.
I have been to the Trinity atomic bomb test site In New Mexico and the ranch house a couple miles away from ground zero where the plutonium core was assembled prior to the detonation. This structure lost a few shingles on the roof and some windows when the atomic Gadget was set off in 1945, but the nearly undamaged house is well preserved for tourists today (watch out for rattlesnakes). If you were in a foxhole there or, as they say, dropped to the deck “with your @55 to the blast” in a timely fashion on July 16th, 1945, you likely would have lived to tell an exciting tale.
There are examples from Hiroshima where people survived because they were behind a plywood sign relative to the exploding bomb when the infrared pulse occurred, whereas their carbonized chum standing a few feet away maybe got their shadow scorched into the concrete.
Deaths from ionizing radiation at Hiroshima (neutrons and gamma rays) were very light (a couple hundred, tops) because that kind of radiation has a short range in the atmosphere.
Radioactive fallout was minimal too because the Hiroshima bomb was detonated in the air and not on the ground in order to maximize its blast damage. Even the hundred-foot tower at Trinity was enormously helpful in this regard as it minimized the amount of dirt getting sucked up into the fireball and becoming infused with hot fission products and then falling down as radioactive beads of molten green glass which you still find near the Ground Zero site today that you are prohibited by law from keeping as it is considered theft of government property.
In any case, the danger from radioactive fallout can be severe, but it falls off quickly. According to the Air Force Survival Manual, there is only about small percent of radioactive fallout remaining after two weeks and operations can be resumed.
The reason for this is because the highly dangerous radionuclides have very short half-lives. (Nasty Iodine-131, for example, has a half-life of only 8 days.) Other radioactive elements have longer half-lives and some are chemically poisonous as are heavy metals. These long-lived radioactive sources like Uranium or Thorium are far less dangerous from the viewpoint of radioactivity. For example, Thorium, found abundantly in the Earth’s crust ─ has a half-life of about 14 billion years, which makes that almost three times longer than the age of the Earth itself. The fact is that the most dangerous fission products dissipate rapidly.
The point is that soldiers are usually trained in Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical warfare, and this was hugely emphasized near the end of the Cold War. Preparedness and countermeasures are not a panacea any more than anything else.
It is best to avoid wars in the first place, when possible. This has been true throughout the history of civilization. Hitler notes in Mein Kampf that those who are guilty of starting a war are not the ones who fired the first shot, but those who made that war necessary and unavoidable. Excessive moralizing does not lead to any kind of improved diplomacy, enlightened spiritual understanding, nor existential security.
Whether we are talking about nuclear war or Communist mobs in the streets setting fires and raping old ladies, I object to encouraging or even cultivating a defeatist mentality. This a lesson that Whites already have a very hard time with.
But if one wants to see some good anti-War media, I would recommend the “Crocodile Tear Productions” stuff on You-Tube where experts exhume the bones of mostly-young unknown soldiers from old WWII battlefields.
https://youtu.be/hOadUNu2tl4
They carefully exhume the sites, investigate the bones and the injuries and whatever care they received from field hospitals or medics before the bodies were dumped into mass graves. They gawk at the last possessions of the soldiers, from Stahlhelms, boots, bayonets, sometimes finding Totenkopf rings, engraved wristwatches, eyeglasses and very often condoms. The identification tags of the dead are recorded and then their squandered remains are reinterred with respect into a proper military cemetery.
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Tbf, this is old sauce. Articles about “nuclear winter” not being a thing were circulating since at least the 90s. The concept was the brainchild of a Russian institute back in the 70s and, by all accounts, not even those who came up with it thought it was all that valid. They just found it morally right to disseminate it as a scare tactic, and the rest of the world apparently played along. “Threads” and all.
Hannah-Barbera cartoons were initially aimed at adults. My mom watched them all throughout college.
I think the best anti-war story is “All Quiet on the Western Front”. I never read the book, which I am sure is quite good, but I saw the TV movie starring Richard Thomas.
I believe Ronald Reagan was basically a man of peace. He didn’t start WW III over the accidental shoot down of the KAL flight by the USSR in 1983. I believe, with Pat Buchanan and Paul Craig Roberts, that he genuinely wanted to end the Cold War and he did. Too bad the Neo-Cons have started it up again.
I read the book when I was a kid. I thought it was very good. The 1930 movie version of All Quiet on the Western Front isn’t bad if you get a remastered copy that has decent sound and so forth. I think the Nazis didn’t like it because it portrayed the jingoism and defeatism as being exclusively German. Of course it was only about a Germans anyway, so hard to avoid that.
The 1979 TV version was pretty good. It was filmed with good production quality in Czechoslovakia and nearly all of the actors have British accents, which seems strange. Donald Pleasance plays the jingoistic schoolmaster and Ian Holm plays Corporal Himmelstoss. I think Richard “John Boy Walton” Thomas as Paul Baumer and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky were somewhat miscast ─ in both cases I just imagined them differently in the novel.
I guess Erich Maria Remarque has a “sequel” to All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) called The Road Back (1931). I tried to watch the 1937 film version, but must not have been too impressed as I can’t remember anything about it. There were almost no common characters between the two.
I agree that Reagan showed great restraint after the 1983 downing of KAL 007. It was quite an outrage. Congressman Larry McDonald from Georgia who was killed on the flight was a rare John Bircher Democrat.
I also think that Reagan abandoning the more ideological aspects of Mutual-Assured Destruction (MAD) earlier that same year was a good move. “High Frontiers,” later called the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), and dubbed “Star Wars” by the press, forced the Soviets to rethink the technological arms race, although I don’t think that is what “won” the Cold War.
JFK was secretly happy when the Berlin Wall went up in 1961 because he thought it would ease tripwire tensions, and he was probably right, although his substitute, a limited proxy war in Indochina, wasn’t an improvement. It is interesting but not too surprising that the Brain Drain always went one way from East Berlin to West Berlin before the wall went up. I was excited when the Wall came down and it seemed increasingly likely that this might happen as 1989 progressed.
Unfortunately I think we wasted a fine opportunity for rapprochement with Russia after the end of the Cold War. I was surprised by the end of Soviet Communism ─ I never thought it would shuffle off into the dark night without a fight ─ but that might not have been the case in other circles like the Neocons. It always seemed to me that the Reagan administration was covertly interested in redefining the impetus of the Cold War into some some of Middle Eastern-focused (what we would now call the) “War on Terror.”
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I think it is interesting that Richard Thomas never really made it big in the movies. He was excellent in “The Waltons”, pretty good in “All Quiet on the Western Front” and pretty good in a movie called “The Christmas Box” also starring the aging Maureen O’Hara. He seems to me at least as talented as Tom Cruz, so I again, I don’t see why he didn’t do more acting.
JFK discovered his mistake in Vietnam, recognized it, and gave an executive order in the summer of 63 to have all US troops withdrawn by the summer of 64. LBJ undid that order on November 25, 1963, the day of JFK’s funeral. JFK was pretty good, all in all, but having LBJ as VP (64 Civil Rights Act and 65 Immigration Act) put this country on the way to ruin. Unfortunately, I must admit that had JFK not been assassinated, he would also have signed, rather than vetoed) those two horrendous bills into law.
Nuclear wars are like motorcycle crashes; what’s far worse than dying in one is surviving one.
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