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I will turn to the Early Days of HIV/AIDS series once again tomorrow and hopefully have the next entry up in the evening. I appreciate your patience.

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

I’m intrigued by these right wing pockets in Europe that don’t fit the normie conservative mold. Southwest med in France, Saxony, etc. Still wary of Meloni as she is handcuffed by the coalition w Salvini and Berlusconi. Hungary def the model. What would be the best global nationalist community building apparatus? Maybe we can hijack the sister city org and give it teeth..

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To move rightward remain where you are, nothing more is necessary.

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Ridiculous piece on a woke progressive Ukrainian army. I won't even get into the LGBT/diversity shit, Just going to point out that these western progressives love to brush over the fact that at the outbreak of the war, Zelensky banned males from leaving the country and mass conscripted them into this war. Western Lib journos who spent the last +10 years endlessly crying about misogyny, sexism, male privilege etc, did not even bat an eye when delivering that bit of news matter-of-factly in Feb.

When the cold hard reality of war came back and men were called upon to unquestionably take on their historic role as the willing, expendable, protectors of their nation, Western Libs just accepted, with zero sympathy.

The only real objection I heard of this in western media, was that the the wives might need these to help raise the kids, so no inherent value of the male's life other than how useful he is in supporting his woman.

Not complaining about the historic gender role of male fighter/protector for nation, just pointing out how deplorable western lib propaganda is, that outside of performative bs, they will still need old school tough males on the ground doing the dirty work.

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Long winter coming to Europe

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

In the first instance, Leicester's riots offer an opportunity for more 'dialogue' and multicultural 'outreach'. There is no way that the social workers and consultants will pass up a chance like that. One can only pity the UK taxpayers.

Anglostan is set to function as a North Atlantic parody of Fiji. It is time for the King to put his people skills to use. But will the people of Leicester accept the authority/interference of an alien prince, especially one as pale as CR3?

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Sorry but the first paragraph triggers me. Europe consists of sovereign nations who had -- and have! -- the ability to tell the USA to fuck off. Germany did that under Schroeder and spared us joining the disastrous Iraq war. It's not the evil GAE forcing our poor politicians to do their bidding, they decided to. Yes, the US first and foremost cares about their own geopolitical goals (they should) and yes, they see their "alliances" mostly as means to an end (that's to be expected) but Biden can't dictate EU foreign policy, our so called leaders do. What we are seeing here from Brexit over Covid to now Ukraine is a crisis in European leadership. These people that my countrymen (god bless these retards) voted into power are naive, ignorant, uneducated and wholly unprepared to be the elite that they claim to be.

When the US can shield Saudi Arabia from any consequences of their actions and thus is directly responsible for not only murder and dismemberment of a journalist but also for spreading the cancer that is Wahhabism over the world the EU can do the same with Russia. Simply because of the economic realities. Yemeni children getting bombed? That's the price of freedom. People in Transnistria and The People's Republic of Donetsk (LMAO) what to be free? Not my department.

Anyways. This Substack is the best in terms of journalism I've been reading in years and one of the few this I pay for on the internet. Thanks a lot.

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Oct 1, 2022·edited Oct 1, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Watch out for riots between Sikhs and Hindus in Canada. There are lots of Sikh nationalists in Canada who arrived between the 1970s and 2000s. Instead of assimilating to Canadian culture, their kids and even grandkids remain extremely nationalistic(though not to Canada).

Trudeau after winning in 2015 has further ramped up immigration from India. However, most of these newcomers are Hindus leading to tensions with Sikhs. A few weeks ago there was a rally in Toronto, where about 100,000 Sikhs showed up in support of Sikh nationalism. Most of these were young people, born in Canada(Can you imagine even 100 people showing up in Toronto in support of Canadian nationalism lol). There have been reports of minor clashes between Sikhs and Hindus with some temple vandalizations in the Greater Toronto Area. I wouldn't be surprised if full scale riots broke out between the two groups.

This is the fate of the West. To be a battleground for competing ethnic groups while the aging and deracinated host population pretends that all is well.

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

"Consider the following propaganda that aims to convince the reader that liberalism makes for an inherently superior armed force:"

Might be a general development among Western "military experts". Carlo Masala, one of the most prominent pro-Ukrainian experts frequently cited in German media, made several tweets about the need for wokeness and diversity in the military last summer:

https://twitter.com/CarloMasala1/status/1514196212794236930

https://twitter.com/CarloMasala1/status/1543296795807256579

https://twitter.com/CarloMasala1/status/1553692054152175617

https://twitter.com/CarloMasala1/status/1529476056431869952

You're of course right that this clown O'Brien is a lying shit about WW2. As a German I can't say I overly like Russia's cult of the Great Patriotic War, it contains quite a few half-truths and omissions, and something like Russia's Armed Forces Cathedral (Temple of War would be more accurate) creeps me out tbh. But one has to respect the Soviet experience of death and suffering on a giant scale. The American WW2 cult is worse, much more unmoored from what actually happened in WW2 and highly ideological, little more than a justification for US global domination under the guise of "antifascism". It's no accident that attempts to minimize the Soviet role in WW2 seem to have been gathering force in recent years.

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The piece is great but I have to correct you on one thing. Lombardy as a whole region, was never a left-wing bastion. Sesto San Giovanni, which is a town nearby Milan, was. Lombardy has been consistently right wing for quite a while, ironically with Milan itself shifting to the left recently.

If we want to talk about historically left wing regions in Italy, then we should be talking about Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Umbria and Marche. However Marche and Umbria have been moving to the right in the past decade and are now converted. Tuscany itself, the reddest of the red regions, is seeing a variety of cities going right wing, though others still hold.

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The Soviets did not overwhelm the Germans with human wave attacks, they certainly did use a lot of Rifle Divisions...the Soviets did largely by deception and excellent Operational Security repeatedly mass Superior forces at the decisive points. So yes a correlation of forces 6:1 at certain points, not they had more breasts than the Germans bullets, that’s a nice story, not true. The real Russians didn’t vastly outnumber the Germans, they ordered their forces well.

The German generals started getting out foxed from Stalingrad counteroffensive forward.

if one wants a fair reading on the Soviets David Glantz, COL, USA, RETIRED and noted historian.

If one wants a good read on the Russian military now Lester Grau the Russian way of war - Grau, Bartles. Plenty of brain below, you might be surprised who essentially relies on brawn.

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/portals/7/hot%20spots/documents/russia/2017-07-the-russian-way-of-war-grau-bartles.pdf

The real Russian army is a highly technical and digitally integrated competent force that is an artillery army with a lot of tanks, but also air defense, drones, electronic warfare abilities that outstripped ours years ago. Lots and lots of artillery. Artillery takes ground, then armor and mechanized infantry occupy it.

A BTG of 1100 has only 200 infantry.

USA is an infantry army with an Air Force that will have a lot of growing pains dealing with a first world army with premier air defense.

A BTG of 1100 outguns our BCT of 4400 in artillery.

Now we the line units know this, have for years, we were ignored.

Sadly for all the folly I think war between the USA 🇺🇸 and Russia 🇷🇺 is coming. Its going to be difficult to catch up with all our kit in Ukraine, maybe we can buy it back from the Uko Mafia .

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Sadly for all the folly I think war between the USA 🇺🇸 and Russia 🇷🇺 is coming.

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Enoch Powell call your office please...

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

That Atlantic article on the Ukraine / Russia conflict fails to mention that in WWII the US military was anything but a safe-haven for gays and lesbians. And the British, while tolerating Alan Turing's brilliant contributions to decrypting enemy communications, nonetheless later prosecuted him for homosexual acts in 1952. Amazingly, allied forces still won the war.

That enlightening article makes we want to celebrate this unstoppable Western victory. I look forward to seeing Ukrainian tanks and mobile artillery units, camouflaged with rainbows and unicorns and fully open to new information, liberate Moscow in the next couple of weeks.

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That Atlantic article made me sick to my stomach.

I recommend this read from a few months ago, that is very much related to Nic's hypothesis. Usually do not trust thinktanks, but: https://peacediplomacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Woke-Imperium.pdf

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I do love how formerly Communist Lombardy regions are now right wing bastions.

By simply being yesterday’s Communists they are today’s Extreme Right Wing.

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