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Freebie Fridays

Every Friday and Saturday I give away free copies of some of my eBooks on amazon.
https://amazon.com/author/quizmaster
Just set the sort to sort by price, ascending and my free books of the week will appear first.
I also have lots of free content on mindworks/altervista.org but that is all about law and my earlier essays as well as free law search engines.

Enjoy!

eric.engle@yahoo.com

Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Skunk Ape. Debate where sightings occur.

Bigfoot Country. Capital of Free Speech.

Go ahead and laugh. We’ll still be here.

Somewhere out there…

火炎焱燚

茕茕孑立

 
沆瀣一气

“we must all hang together,

or,  most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

-Franklin

Zeihan

Remember when the world thought it needed “Lebensraum” or the “population explosion” would doom us all to Malthusian famines? But all that turned out to be bullshit. Human societies are remarkably adaptive and the reality is demographics are not in fact key drivers of wars UNLESS YOU THINK THEY ARE. It’s not that the nazis were forced into wars, that was just a convenient myth. So be careful when making myths about the inevitable doom of America’s enemies or the “inevitable” demographically driven American victory.Perhaps unwittingly, Zeihan is reprising eugenics / lebensraum / population explosion determinism, but from the other side of the equation. I expect it will similarly go bust.

 

Zeihan is well intended, and more right than wrong, but his demographic determinism is wrong. 

Donbas

Russia is definitely getting attrited. Ukraine is too, but not as quickly.

Russia wanted to do two encirclements in Donbas, a very big one which was unable to even launch, at least not so far, and a smaller one, which still hasn’t encircled its objective. The Russian tactic there may be to try to draw large Ukrainian forces into the forward partial encirclement and THEN launch the much larger encirclement.
IF they have the forces for that: which, spoiler, they likely do not!! Which is shocking but likely true.The inability of Russia to even effectuate the much smaller encirclement around Severodonetsk is kinda shocking. The only way to explain it as other than a flailing and failing army is that they are trying to lure forces in to the feint smaller encirclement before launching a much larger encirclement. Which is possible! But less than likely given Russians failings at Kyiv and Kharkiv.The best indirect evidence of the slow motion collapse of the Russian army is their tactic namely:
Take badly trained conscripts into Ukrainian positions, where they will draw Ukrainian fire, likely get slaughtered, and identify the Ukrainians locations
Which are then subjected to MASSIVE bombardments, mostly by artillery
And after a week or so of “softening up” the professional contract soldiers attack to finish off whatever Ukrainian remnants remain.These are not the tactics used by an army capable of mobile warfare.

Japanese Red Army

http://mindworks.altervista.org/consim/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/jra.mp4

The more cooperation China gives to the U.S.A. about Russia,

the more cooperation China will get from the U.S.A.