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May 25, 2022·edited May 25, 2022Liked by epimetheus

Meh. I'm having a hard time summoning the outrage. Ukraine is a badly divided country. So, East goes to Russia, West to Poland - okay, whatever. Maybe this would even bring some stability to what's currently Ukraine. [Edited for grammar.]

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As I noted in yesterday's Substack: Poland's PM Morawiecki is blaming Norway for helping Europe with energy. Why not blame Germany for their Energiewende and the recent closing of nuclear plants? We know why: Because Poland imports all its Russian gas from Germany!

Someone should tell the Poles that.

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May 25, 2022·edited May 25, 2022Liked by epimetheus

Since there isn't much of value left - the fascists having stripped the country clean - the abandoned area will have to have a protectorate. As you ascertain, this will be costly. Since there is nothing left of value to civilization I would suggest offering free land to homesteaders and allow the area to fill back in with people. Free tenant peasant style. People who learn to take care of themselves without inputs. I'd recommend bypassing all the normal large industry and corporate farms since if there is nothing of value to this warmongering fascist civilization, there will not be cause to over run the area yet again.

Norway, on the other hand, gas a lot to offer the fascists, wouldn't surprise me they cook something up to strip it next. But who am I to suggest anything since I have no credentials.

Hahaha!

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May 25, 2022Liked by epimetheus

I know the Poles and Ukrainians look and sound alike.; but, are they alike? Is Poland as corrupt as Ukraine, for example?

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A division of Ukraine (whatever language it is coached in) would probably quiet things down until the criminals ruling Russia (check out Putin's associates from his time in Leningrad and GDR) need a new excuse and distraction from running Russia into the ground (again) rather than restrain themselves and maybe actually do something about the still quite decrepit state of Russia's infrastructure, both social and physical.

And if the poles and the ukrainians are in favour of such a solution, and the russians in eastern Ukraine are too (why wouldn't they be?) seeing as they would then belong to Russia proper, there's not much to complain about. Norway and Sweden could part peacefully after all, and even the irish and the brits (excepting the odd whackjob on either side) have managed to stop murdering eachother's civilians. Even Cyprus has quited down.

As for this being a US approved chink in the French-German axis, well good! It's no wonder the central/western states of the EU wants the eastern ones to be as ridden with the problems of MENA and African migration too - doesn't look good for the Multikulti-elites when you in France have a continous race war between real frenchmen and arab/african migrants while all is quiet on the eastern front, simply due to no negroes, no arabs, and most important no moslems. Can't have that, doesn't look good and you can bet your sweet Fanny Adams that turkish, saudi, and similar islamic states are lobbying good and hard for the EU to crack the eastern half of Europe open for moslem colonisation.

You can imagine the pressure that is being applied to french, italian and german party officials from "community leaders" among the migrant populations. Not to mention the poles, romanians and so on having elected their leaders by margins western presidents can't even dream about.

In all, Poland and the rest are a big bone sticking in the craw of the EU buzzards.

Now imagine my favourite counterfactual scenario: Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic states, and Poland leave the EU and form their own league.

What would the axis of power that is EU do then?

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