Into the authoritarian world redux

Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, 03 January 2026 17:56.

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The southern nations of Donald Trump’s New American Empire

Muscovy in Ukraine.  America in Venezuela (seemingly permanently).  Next: Beijing in Taiwan.  Trump has opened the door.  The pieces of the new world order are falling into place.  The authoritarian world ... the world of empires foretold by Sergei Glazyev ... is coming into view.  There is no one to defend the old order.  The dynastics of the Money Power (aka the investor class), the asset managers, the central bankers, the hedge funders beneath them will take note.  The initialled institutions of globalism ... the UN, the World Bank, the IMF, the WEF will take note.  The dateline banks and corporations will take note.  The technocrats and managers and ambitious politicians will take note.  Globalism will not be at all inconvenienced.  Why should it be?  China is the WEF’s preferred model for public-private partnership and social control, and the western corporations are Chinese corporations.  The powerful, therefore, have been given a shot in the arm.  Force, as the standard for national, political and social organisation, has been advanced, and sovereignty, freedom, and law have been pushed down.

Nationalist or liberal, we’re on our own.  Looking ahead, it’s probably up to Canada to hold the sovereign line.



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Posted by Thorn on Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:31 | #

AI, personal robots, digital currency, digital ID, and social credit scores, etc. are close at hand. The future they envision for us plebs is one where we own nothing and are expected to be happy about it….. That, and genocide by stealth for the White race.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:53 | #

Do you have a sense of the reaction from the American right, Thorn?  Supporters will claim that it’s one less corrupt authoritarian leader in the world.  Madura was certainly that.  But Trump did not order this action for moral reasons but for corporate and ideological ones.  Ideological reasons would also explain Trump’s comments about “doing something” in Mexico, under the cover of destroying the drug cartels.


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Posted by Thorn on Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:50 | #

It’s too early to gauge, GW.  But I predict that most “conservatives” will continue to be oblivious to the medium- and long-term consequences of Trump’s actions. Sadly, White Americano “conservatives” in general, are some of the densest brainwashed creatures on the planet. I attribute that to the fact that, in large part, the bulk of them are Evangelical Christians aka Christian Zionists devoid of the capability of critical thinking.


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Posted by Thorn on Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:58 | #

My next-door neighbor, a Venezuelan citizen, told me four days ago that it was about regaining control over the U.S. assets the Chavez regime seized. He said the U.S. was tracking every move Maduro was making and waiting for the perfect moment to move in and snatch him. Turns out, my neighbor was right.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:13 | #

OK, well, obviously I would argue that the geopolitical consequences will be the interesting ones, and not many ordinary folk interest themselves in that.  They will notice, of course, if it all goes bad.  Forced regime changes tend not to work out as expected, and any nation subjected to it, including Venezuela, will likely end up in a long-run terror campaign against the external power.  External powers, meanwhile tend to hubris, not even considering the possibility that things will not turn out as they expect.


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Posted by Thorn on Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:19 | #

@5

I concur with what you said there.

On a side note, I’m pretty sure Israel had a hand in influencing Trump’s decision to act against Maduro. That was the rumor circulating in the weeks before the event, and this article seems to back it up.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-expresses-hope-for-resumption-of-venezuela-ties-after-maduro-s-deposal/ar-AA1Tw3i4?uxmode=ruby&ocid=edgntpruby&pc=HCTS&cvid=6959b97292394b39a0739df5ab794aaf&ei=16


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Posted by Manc on Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:49 | #

Perhaps the Pentagon has finally convinced Trump of the threat Russian involvement in Latin America poses to US security? I understand the US military attempted to alert Trump to the danger during his first term. Better late than never, I suppose. Iran next?

https://chinaglobalsouth.com/2025/11/03/russia-venezuela-strategic-partnership-military-energy-diplomacy/


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Posted by Guessedworker on Mon, 05 Jan 2026 07:32 | #

Iran is self-evidently not in Donald Trump’s imperial programme, Manc.  But, of course, the US government’s slavish adherence to Making Israel Safe Again continues, so Iran will always be a potential hand grenade.  Meanwhile, back in the imperial palace at Mar-el-Largo ...

From this morning’s Telegraph:

Trump sets sights on Greenland
President says US needs Danish territory ‘for defence’ from China and Russia

Donald Trump has set his sights on a US takeover of Greenland after capturing Nicolas Maduro and saying he would run Venezuela.
“We do need Greenland, absolutely,” the US president told The Atlantic magazine, adding that the Danish territory was “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships”.
He said officials in his administration would decide what happened to Greenland, which Mr Trump has claimed the US must annex for its security.
“We need it for defence,” he said of Greenland.

... and:

Trump threatens military operation against Colombia

Donald Trump has threatened military action against Colombia, days after US forces carried out strikes on Venezuela.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday night, the US president warned that Colombia could be next if it did not reduce the flow of illicit drugs to the US.
“Colombia is very sick, too, run by ‍a ‌sick man, who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States, ‍and he’s not going to be doing it very long,” Mr Trump said.
Asked whether the ⁠US would ‌pursue ‍a military operation against the country, Mr Trump said: “It ​sounds good to ‍me.”
He added, without evidence: “You know why? Because they kill a lot of people.”

Meanwhile at the Express:

Donald Trump says Cuba is ‘ready to fall’ after Venezuela operation
Following the Venezuelan raid, President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to neighboring South American countries

Following the Venezuelan raid, President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to neighboring South American countries
President Donald Trump declared on Sunday that Cuba was “ready to fall” after US forces captured the president of its ally nation Venezuela.
Trump told reporters on Air Force One that “Cuba is ready to fall” and that it would be difficult for Havana to “hold out” without obtaining heavily subsidized Venezuelan oil. “I don’t think we need any action. It looks like it’s going down.”

All in one flight on board Airforce One!


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Posted by Manc on Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:10 | #

Trump is evidently on a roll, although, of course, there will be push back “until the last drop of blood”.

https://www.dagens.com/news/colombian-guerrillas-threaten-us-after-maduro-capture#google_vignette


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Posted by Thorn on Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:51 | #

The attempt is to transform or update the Monroe Doctrine into what Trump calls the Donroe Doctrine.

A pole-to-pole geopolitical strategy aims for dominance from the Arctic to Anarchic control across the Western Hemisphere as the main policy goal.

Monroe vs Donroe

‘The Monroe Doctrine was about deterring European powers.
The Donroe Doctrine is about asserting U.S. power directly, especially through military action.’

 

 

 


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Posted by Thorn on Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:36 | #

Is it just me or is something fishy here? Why this particular judge? Mere coincidence?

Judge Overseeing Maduro Trial Blocked President Trump’s Deportations
By M Dowling -January 4, 20266

Alvin K. Hellerstein
Clinton-appointed US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, 92, will oversee the Nicolas Maduro trial. He is the judge who blocked Trump’s pro-Gaza [Hamas] emergency deportations.

Hellerstein, a devoted Orthodox Jew, also blocked the same administration from expelling Venezuelans under the “Alien Enemies Act”, finding that the law had been applied illegally.

https://www.independentsentinel.com/judge-overseeing-maduro-trial-blocked-president-trumps-deportations/

 


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Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:55 | #

A comment posted just now to this article at TCW, about Andrew Neill’s commentary on Trump and Venezuela:

The meaning of the Venezuelan action will not become clear in any general or formal sense until we establish an ongoing trend in such interventions per se. At the moment those interventions are only threatened. As they materialize so we will see the common denominator (which at present seems not to be visible to Andrew Neill or to the writer of the OP), and be able to confirm the administration’s real intent.

To my mind we are witnessing the birth of a new order of competing empires, replacing the fine rules-based intentions for world affairs which were established after 1945 with justification by force alone. In the light of that, Trump’s soft handling of Putin is calibrated not to bring peace for Ukrainians but to encourage a fourth Muscovite empire as a component of this new order, and to array it via new Russo-American economic cooperation as a counterweight to Beijing’s rise. This already leaves the European political class in an impossible position, requiring nationalism to survive while (a) being hopelessly attached to the ritual denouncing of it as fascism, and (b) remaining ideologically, militarily and economically attached to a model of internationalism that is having its geopolitical guts torn out by all three of the big proto-imperialists. Clearly, the political class is the first thing that has to go.

For us the question is whether Farage & Co can operate intellectually in this crucible, and not only steer this country through the coming turbulence but actively reform (ie, moralise) the force aspects of the emerging order, thus shaping it as much as possible to our natural and native interests.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:36 | #

Alexander Dugin has pronounced on the Venezuelan strike: “The capture of Maduro demonstrates that international law no longer exists — only the law of force applies.”

Nice to have some clear confirmation from someone at the ideological forefront of Russia’s great game.


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Posted by Thorn on Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:55 | #

Russia is not the threat to the West, the ideology of modern liberalism is.


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Posted by Thorn on Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:23 | #

Modern liberalism in action:


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Posted by Guessedworker on Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:45 | #

Thorn, we have been here beforeAgain and again.  I am currently tending towards the conclusion that the right-wingers who have bought into the whole “Biden ... Nuland ... NATO ... evil west” dogma and the people who, basically, attach “Christian Russia”, “the devil Davos” and “Cultural Marxism” to their faith-drive simply do not process the multiplicity of forces at work upon us in this world, but see them (a) in isolation, and (b) statically.  The result is that they never appreciate how the macro-climate of competing forces forms and shifts, and de-forms and re-forms and shifts again.  They just see one thing here and one thing there, and either make a crude connection between the two or place something in opposition to something else in a way that is convenient to them.  The result is that Truth slips between the cracks, and everything in their heads ends up in the wrong place or mislabelled, and the subject of their subsequent fierce and party-pris assertion.  They will not moralise their inner world and won’t - or can’t - look into the face of the Ukrainian victim.  Anything inconvenient is shoved out of the way, so the same assertions, the same Russian hate-propaganda can be ground out over and over again.  Nothing can get through to them.

This is my experience of posting on right-wing sites.  It has caused me to conclude that I simply do not know my political fellow-travellers, even those who have everything else down right and who regard themselves as nationalists.  It’s not about politics, then, or even faith.  It’s about brain function and the great and difficult task of, as I have put it before many a time, clawing with one’s bare hands a representation of the world from the rock-face of experience, for the terrifying reality is denied us all.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:40 | #

Thorn @ 10:

‘The Monroe Doctrine was about deterring European powers.
The Donroe Doctrine is about asserting U.S. power directly, especially through military action.’

I don’t think that one can rely on the supposed carry-over between Monroe’s “sphere of influence” device and Trump’s bowdlerised copy.  I don’t see that a classical relationship of dominance but not dominion between a regional power and weaker neighbours obtains in the current circumstance.  I think the term “sphere of influence” is convenient and exculpatory, and will be much employed by the administration, but it is a blind.  Trump’s America is stepping down from a position of global monopolarity, not stepping up from that of a new-born nation-state in the European tradition.  The competitive environment is not one of vying European powers but of a losing contest for global hegemony with China.  Beijing has been quietly advancing towards its own characteristically idiosyncratic and broadscale vision of dominion, which is globally economic and political rather than primarily military and regional.  Beijing is not, therefore, bound by the restrictions of a far eastern and south-eastern regionalism.  It can pursue both global and regional hegemonic goals, which the Trump administration has decided America can’t.  China therefore represents a “clear and present danger”, not least through BRICS+, to American regionalism.  The Chinese advance has to be stopped in central and south America; and mere influence will not keep the errant nations of the region in line.  Power must be deployed.

The sole alternative to mere influence for the Trump administration is, of course, empire, pushing influence southward beyond Venezuela and Columbia all the way down to Argentina and Chile.  This, I feel, is the true Donroe Doctrine.  The Russians, with their long-standing ideology of Eurasianism and their even more long-standing semi-spiritual commitment to empire, have shown the way.  Their desired format is also incorporation of an inner ring of immediate neighbours → political control of a bloc beyond them → influence over the rest of the continent, as per the Soviet model.  It is their means to heft in the global contest.  Probably, Trump intended by his peace process to exchange the east and south-east of Ukraine plus freedom for Putin in eastern Europe with freedom for him, Trump, in the Americas.  It hasn’t quite worked out because Putin has a wider agenda.  It remains to be seen if American force in Canada and Greenland, Mexico, Columbia, and Cuba and so forth will be necessary or will even prove politically possible.

As for the mother continent, one of the potential futures open to the globalists and internationalists of Brussels as a result of America’s turn to imperialism is for the EU to develop an imperial structure itself.  Certainly, the liberal/political Establishment in continental Europe, seeing the shift towards nationalism (albeit only civic at this point), might readily prefer a European empire crushing together what remains of Europe’s sovereign peoples to a return, from their perspective, to the 1930s since all nationalism is fascism to them.  They might rationalise it to themselves and others as the “middle way” between Russian power and fascism.  It could happen given the EU’s existing absence of democratic accountability.


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Posted by Thorn on Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:35 | #

@17

GW, I agree with your assessment of the current situation ... very spot-on! The current situation is fluid, subject to both subtle and radical changes. Trump’s latest move in Venezuela could either chart a successful course forward or become a major geopolitical blunder. I’m leaning toward the latter, since Maduro’s capture doesn’t really change the reality on the ground. His regime remains intact, and the demographics of the electorate are unchanged. If a new presidential election happens soon, it’s pretty clear the voters will likely choose another socialist in the mold of Hugo Chávez. In that very probable event, what has Trump really achieved besides making the U.S. appear as rogue and morally bankrupt as the Likud Party in Israel?

BTW, IMHO, most so-called “right-wingers” are basically right-leaning liberals who’ve been influenced by the same modern-liberal ideologies as the lefties. When push comes to shove, right-wing conservatives’ default position is to toe politically correct line—especially on race-realism issues. I recently got banned from a “right-wing” site for taking the verboten stance that Israel has (past tense) committed war crimes and genocide in Gaza.

At any rate, two of the many misguided beliefs held by most Americano conservatives are (1) Gentiles must see Jews as God’s chosen people and recognize modern Israel as their promised land. Straying from this goes against God, as stated in Genesis 12:3. (2) Black dysfunction is the result of racist white Democrats intentionally destroying the Black family.  This belief also intersects with or aligns to the anti-white narrative associated with so-called “anti-racism.”


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Posted by PTI on Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:42 | #

So NWO organising regionally, then centrally, OR authoritarian blocs in rivalry with each other, whether in a false 1884 frame, or legitimately?

Not convinced - reading through the various comment links - of the dangers of a new Asiatic horde. China, for one, is building resource sources and economic clients, not policy demands.

Surely, actions by Western governments which push Russia further into the arms of the West’s rivals, is not a sensible long-term policy.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:54 | #

PTI, welcome to the site, and thanks for the question.

An answer can’t come directly.  First one has to consider the difference between technocracy and the prior Judaic model, and for that, of course, one must appreciate the many structural differences between the two.  For example, one of the pair seeks an horizontal form of governance but the other vertical, one values the ownership of assets but the other the ownership of debt, one therefore has an investor class as the apex of the pyramid but the other a banking class (they are largely the same people, of course), one operates through the international agencies and predatory corporations but the other through international finance and banking parasitism, one inherited the drive to blend out the European race but the other initiated that drive, one establishes agency and social control principally through techne, the Third Sector and “the expert” but the other through the power of money and through supranationalism, one gathers at Davos but the other at Bilderberg, one sees only individual elites and has no special use for ethnicity but the other is always focussed on a certain ethnic group, one looks to the wired transhuman of the fourth industrial revolution but the other to the priest-class of Judaism’s Olam Ha-ba, and in the light of all that one decorates its intent with talk of Sustainable Development but the other of the New World Order.

They are not the same.  Technocracy only began its assent with Zbig’s 1970 Technetronic paper, published for the Rockefeller Institute, which then led to Kissinger and Nixon’s mission to China.  By the mid-1990s, with the digital revolution unstoppable, the last hurrah of the Judaic form was ringing out in the shape of neoliberalism and the PNAC.  It failed to create a “western”-dominated new world order and, according to Bill Krystol Jn, was defunct by around 2005/6.  By 2010 technocracy was the only game in town.  The dynastics of international finance re-invented themselves as investors.  Asset management duly became the seat of financial power.  The grand task for our elder brothers in faith was redefined as how to turn a technocratic and truly global engine of change towards their ancient lodestar.  They are positioning people but the method is not yet clear; not least because China is rising rapidly and beyond anyone else’s control, is technocratic itself, is focussed on global hegemony (although it pays lip service to multipolarity), and will take over the international institutions and adapt them to its interests, ie, apply technocracy - with force - to the problem of replacing the rules-based order.  So China’s role is to fuse everything together in one power structure which is not western and not Jewish.  It doesn’t have to make policy demands.  It will re-shape everything from a position of power.

All that said, the western elites can survive that and function tolerably well.  American power can survive it if it relinquishes its prior moral and geopolitical stance and joins in the war for empire, and this brings us to the present with Trump carving out an empire from the Americas.  Russia’s war in Ukraine is similar in its defensive posture, seeking to survive Chinese hegemony by re-building the Soviet empire and holding fast to its “unbreakable alliance” with Beijing.  We will eventually see a Hindu nationalist India regionalise power (again, defensively), and probably also Turkey.  Forms of dominion are a commonplace in Asiatic societies, indeed everywhere in the world except where Europeans live and dream.  I don’t think we are at all prepared intellectually or politically for any of this.


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Posted by Thorn on Sat, 10 Jan 2026 11:11 | #

Putin ideologue warns Russians ‘eternity will arrive’ amid nuclear war fears

Vladimir Putin’s top ideologue has warned Russians to brace for the end of the world, in remarks widely seen as an oblique reference to the looming threat of nuclear conflict.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-ideologue-warns-russians-eternity-will-arrive-amid-nuclear-war-fears/ar-AA1TW9h4?uxmode=ruby&ocid=edgntpruby&pc=HCTS&cvid=74a3af096e694f91e1b7acf834581501&ei=24

 


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Posted by Guessedworker on Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:11 | #

The presidential idiot is back to claiming that Putin wants “a deal”, not five minutes after the Russian dictator invented a Ukrainian drone attack on his dasha in Valdai to scupper peace proposals worked out with Europe and Ukraine, and lied about it in a president-to-president phone call!  All of which was demonstrated to the idiot by his own security people.  Now Zelensky is the obstructor again, supposedly.

“I think he’s ready to make a deal,” Trump said of the Russian president. “I think Ukraine is less ready to make a deal.”
Asked why U.S.-led negotiations had not yet resolved Europe’s largest land conflict since World War Two, Trump responded: “Zelenskiy.”
...
Asked why he believed Zelenskiy was holding back on negotiations, Trump did not elaborate, saying only: “I just think he’s, you know, having a hard time getting there.”

Getting where?  There was a near-finalised peace proposal.  What happened to that?  What other “deal” have the two Jews running the American end of this charade been discussing with the Russians?


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Posted by Thorn on Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:19 | #

@22
This is one of the main factors—if not the main factor—preventing any resolution to the conflict:
(From the article you linked to.)
“Zelenskiy has publicly ruled out any territorial concessions to Moscow, saying Kyiv has no right under the country’s constitution to give up any land.”

Also, there’s this delusional lunacy:

“In December, Reuters reported that U.S. intelligence reports continued to warn that Putin had not abandoned his aims of capturing all of Ukraine and reclaiming parts of Europe that belonged to the former Soviet empire. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard disputed that report at the time.”

Tulsi Gabbard appears to be the sole voice of reason here.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:55 | #

Gabbard is widely regarded as a Moscow asset.  I don’t know and do not care.  But it is very, very obvious that as Putin knows the Trump administration will never put pressure on him he is only encouraged to continue his war against Ukraine’s civilian population.  The whole peace thing has been a charade from the beginning.  The stratagem is to give Ukraine - the victim - to Moscow as a bargaining chip in the struggle to contain China.  Probably the offer extends to as many of the former-Soviet bloc members as Putin can get back.  It cannot be over-stated how dangerous and irresponsible that is.

For the record, absolutely no one wants to live under the fat arse of Muscovy.  No one wants to be “Russified”.  No one wants Russian World.  No one wants Dugin’s “law of force”.  No one wants any of it.  Peoples want to live sovereign and free, and to destine however they may by their own hand.  The idiot Trump had the opportunity to throw America’s weight behind freedom - and when it comes to Israel he does it, as we saw with his initial statements on Iran.


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Posted by Thorn on Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:15 | #

Peoples want to live sovereign and free, and to destine however they may by their own hand.

True, but the reality was-is the anti-Russian Ukrainians sure chose a very bad time to overthrow Yanukovych, a Russian-friendly regime. It didn’t take much to predict what Russia’s response would be to such an event—especially with Putin in power. The Russian reaction that followed the 2014 Maidan revolution was practically guaranteed.

Gabbard is widely regarded as a Moscow asset.

Widely regarded primarily by “progressives” (aka neo-communists) such as Hillary Clinton, Debbie Wasserman Shultz, et al…..


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Posted by Thorn on Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:50 | #

Breaking News: Russia Will Nuke Germany & the UK if Ukraine War Continues, Warns Top Putin Advisor

(The interview starts @ the 48:00 minute mark.)

https://tuckercarlson.com/jan-14-live-show

Unfortunately, Germany and the U.K. are being governed by postmodernist dipshipts.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:13 | #

Any words, Thorn, about the moral quality of a governing cohort that considers threatening first-use nuclear attack an appropriate means to test the American commitment to NATO?


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Posted by Thorn on Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:03 | #

Morality, schmorality. If push comes to shove, it’s a given Russia will launch a first-strike nuclear attack and Russia IS being pushed to the point where they will, in all certainty, shove back with nukes. All indications are, Russia is very close to reaching that point.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:47 | #

What indications?  Who is “pushing” Russia and how, exactly?  Have you been listening to MacGregor again?

It is perfectly clear that Moscow probes NATO’s unity, will and readiness more or less constantly, from time to time employing hysterical threats.  The threats tend to get more lurid (and cunning) with time, because the objective is to see if and how Trump’s weak handling of Putin extends into a weakening of American allegiance to NATO.

Putin does not want a war with NATO because he will die in consequence of it.  What he wants is to get to the Suwalki Gap in the north, and across to Transnistria in the south, and therefore the question is: would NATO’s defence pact still function, or could he find himself just fighting the Europeans, and of the latter which Europeans?


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Posted by Thorn on Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:41 | #

What indications?  Who is “pushing” Russia and how, exactly?  Have you been listening to MacGregor again?

Heh! .. I stopped listening to MacGregor many moons ago, but thanks for asking.

NATO is pressuring Russia, but more specifically, the USA and UK are the main players. They are leading in providing Ukraine with technical expertise, military equipment, and funding.

It seems Russia is well aware that many NATO countries want the war to drag on until it is “bled dry” and Putin’s regime is overthrown. BTW, I’m sure you, GW, know that the UK plans to supply Ukraine with ‘Knightfall’ ballistic missiles capable of striking deep into Russia, including reaching Moscow. I’d describe that as one of the more recent examples of “pushing” Russia.

IMHO, if the war drags on for more than a year or two and seems endless, Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling will fade, only to be replaced by something far worse.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:39 | #

Thorn, you have to factor in traditional Moscovite cunning, then it becomes clear what all this adds up to.  Which isn’t much.  Take, for example, the well-worn trope about NATO expansion.  NATO cannot expand by its own will, as I have explained many times.  It can only respond to the will of Russia’s neighbours not to be sat upon by said fat arse.  Here’s a Newsweek report from last June titled “Russia Won’t End Ukraine War Until NATO Scales Back Eastern Flank: Moscow”.  It is reporting a Tass interview with the Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov.  It’s the usual rubbish:

Ryabkov said that NATO’s eastward expansion was central to the causes of the war.

“Given the nature and genesis of the Ukrainian crisis, provoked by the previous U.S. authorities and the West as a whole, this conflict naturally acts, well, if you like, as a test, a trial, which checks the seriousness of Washington’s intentions to straighten out our relations,” he said.

Ryabkov said that this is consistent with Moscow’s historical position of demanding that NATO does not expand further east, as well as “not deploy strike weapons near Russian border.”

“In any case, reducing NATO’s Eastern European contingent would likely boost the security of the whole continent,” he concluded.

Now, before we move on, consider Putin’s current demand that, for peace, Ukraine must (a) cede all the four oblasts from Luhansk to Kherson, and (b) neutralise its military capability.  Apply the same framework to NATO which, to straighten out relations, must (a) withdraw from the western territories of the former Soviet Union, leaving them defenseless, and (b) hold no strike weapons in, we must presume, the next band of neighbouring countries (Moscow, of course, has filled Kaliningrad with nuclear weapons).  These are expansionist demands, not defensive demands.

Now, Ryabkov and all the oligarchs and mafia elites and the gangsters in state security and the armed forces know all this.  They know perfectly well that NATO is a defensive alliance.  Everyone knows that NATO is a defensive alliance.  Forget all the florid rubbish from the propagandists.  NATO is what its agreements say it is.  Just so, Ukraine is a peaceful nation which presents no threat to Moscow.  Neither does Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, or the Baltic States.  Russia is not threatened from the south or the west.  It is threatened from the east, where it takes no action of any kind despite the provocations.  Therefore we can definitely say that Moscow’s military and diplomatic action in the west, where there is no threat, is actually aggression.  The position of the foreign ministry is aggression.  The peace negotiations are aggression.  There is only aggression.

Were it otherwise ... were the Muscovites moral actors without expansionist ambitions ... Lukashenko would have been living in a Moscow flat for the last eight years and Belarussians would be free.  Moscow would be taking the route of holding off China by trading with the west and growing its economy for its own people.  But the Muscovites are not moral actors.  Russia is a mafia state which needs war and conquest.


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Posted by Thorn on Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:50 | #

GW, I believe your understanding of the problem is on target, and I’m almost in full agreement with you.

“They know perfectly well that NATO is a defensive alliance.  Everyone knows that NATO is a defensive alliance.  Forget all the florid rubbish from the propagandists.  NATO is what its agreements say it is.”

On the flip side, Russian propaganda is SO effective that most Russians believe NATO’s aim is to overthrow the government in Moscow and break Russia into six to eight smaller countries. Furthermore, they believe the 2014 overthrow of Yanukovych was a key move in NATO’s plan. Hence, figuring out how to resolve the Ukraine war without giving up much of eastern Ukraine to Russia, while ensuring the rest of Ukraine stays neutral, seems almost impossible—especially since the Russian mindset is unlikely to shift for at least a generation. Older generations tend to be the most susceptible to Russian propaganda, and real change in Russia may not come until these generations have passed.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:02 | #

Well, it can be very difficult to get a handle on the truth of Russia in its broadest sense.  The following doesn’t look as far ahead as you, but highlights a quite grave concern.  It is entirely possible that the civic Russia which emerges from this war will not be like the one which entered it, and we may find that the social and political consequences of war will be much deeper and longer-lasting for Russians than we in the west expect.

From an article in Kiev Post titled Why Putin Isn’t Interested in Ending the War, and looking at how the Kremlin is not just managing its disassociated and violence-prone returnees but harnessing them:

The Kremlin is not simply trying to “integrate” veterans; it is trying to recode the elite.

Putin has increasingly framed war participants as the “real” national elite – more legitimate than technocrats, liberals, or even traditional siloviki (a powerful group of past and current personnel from Russia’s security services). This is not just rhetoric; it is institutionalized through pipelines such as the “Time of Heroes” program and veteran promotion initiatives.

The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) has argued that the rising prominence of war veterans will widen Russia’s elite coalition pushing for long-term confrontation with the West, creating a constituency that benefits from permanent mobilization and antagonism. Jamestown described “Time of Heroes” as a tool to turn select war participants into loyal elites and to make military service look like a route to a prestigious civilian career – precisely to pre-empt post-war frustration.

Financial Times reporting on the program highlighted how it is marketed with battlefield credibility, and how some prominent participants were accused by Ukrainian authorities of war crimes, raising questions about the kind of “elite” being constructed and what norms it brings into governance.

This scenario carries a built-in contradiction: The Kremlin wants veterans close (as a controlled political class and a legitimizing symbol), but it fears veterans as uncontrolled (as armed networks, angry men, criminal entrepreneurs, or political rivals).

Ending the war forces that contradiction into the open. Continuing the war delays it, and allows the state to keep channeling violence outward while selecting and grooming “acceptable” veterans inward.

What this means for Europe and Ukraine

A Russia shaped by this scenario is not just a wounded state; it is a state that has institutionalized wartime identity and expanded the social base of coercion.

For Europe and Ukraine, the key risks are not abstract.

First, cross-border criminality and violence tend to grow when large numbers of men return from high-intensity war with limited civilian prospects and extensive informal ties. In Russia’s case, those ties may connect veterans, private military remnants, prison-recruit networks, and local patronage systems – fertile ground for smuggling, weapons circulation, violent enforcement services, and corruption-based business models.

Second, the export of coercion becomes easier when the state has produced a pool of men whose skills and status are tied to force. This does not require an official policy of exporting veterans; it can emerge through semi-formal structures, private “security” markets, and deniable networks – especially in grey zones near Europe’s eastern frontier.

Third, political radicalization and militarized legitimacy can spill outward. A Kremlin that publicly crowns war participants as “the real elite” is not incentivized to cool the temperature after the war; it is incentivized to sustain a worldview in which violence is honorable, compromise is betrayal, and the West is an existential enemy. That posture can harden Russia’s long-term hostility and sustain hybrid pressure even when active fighting pauses.

Finally, for Ukraine specifically, the challenge is that post-war Russia may become more – not less – dangerous in social terms, precisely because a large stratum of men will have been forged in a war of aggression and then reinserted into domestic structures of power, security, and ideology. The post-war environment may therefore combine internal volatility with continued external threat.


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Posted by Thorn on Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:35 | #

NATIONAL SUICIDE!!!!!!!

(Props to the brave young journalists for digging into this.)

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We Followed the World’s Deadliest Illegal Mass Migration Route. Here Is What We Found.
The Tucker Carlson Show

Just two of many key statements:
“This is national suicide and the general population doesn’t realize it” Repeat: This is national suicide and the general population doesn’t realize it”
“You don’t want white majority countries in Europe because they are dangerous.” (That aligns with Gen, Wesley Clark’s statement: “Let’s not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That’s a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.”

Watch:

https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-anthony-rubin


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Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:00 | #

Lauren Southern, also Jewish, did some lesser but similar work for Ezra Levant’s Rebel News a few years back.  It’s noticeable that Jews - obviously sincere people - should step into the breach in this way.  It’s not misdirection.  There’s an Islam dimension, of course; and possibly the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel activities of the left are causing activism to shift rightward.  I’m not complaining.  But, of course, we don’t want voices telling us that Islam must be made safe and be integrated.


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Posted by Thorn on Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:07 | #

Jewish motivations aside, the most important takeaway I got from the interview is that the governing bodies in Western Europe are actually funding the deliberate race-replacement/national suicide. Furthermore, most European natives seem to be purposely turning a blind eye to it. Same goes for white-Americanos here in the U.S.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:56 | #

It was eye-opening to see the NGO effect actually on the ground.  That was new and interesting.  But it wasn’t news per se that the UN and other NGOs are actively involved as facilitators.  Iain Davies’s chart details the lower reaches of the globalist structure (the top is obviously missing the investor class, for reasons we all understand).

Davies PPP chart


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Posted by Thorn on Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:45 | #

GW,
That diagram you posted illustrates a model of globalist control. While the concept itself may not be an issue, the problem lies in its implementation, which is leading to the eventual extinction of people of European descent. Furthermore, the individuals’ mindset promoting the globalist model range from those indifferent to the survival of the white race to those who actively wish for its extinction. Supporters of white identity and-or white preservation are excluded.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:35 | #

Exactly, Thorn; and you are right that it may be possible that an international structure sans internationalism could promote nativism and tribalism on a moral and universalist and basis, akin to the 2005 UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.  I don’t entirely rule it out.  But the problem with it lies not just in the ideology of internationalism but in the nature of elitism, that of financial Power, that of the Judaic paradigm, etc.  An entire change of the ideational macrocosm would be needed to make it seem even thinkable.

As a general rule, at all times one gets the worst of what is in the macrocosm.  The base motives eventually hatch out, predation becomes the norm, all that vivifies is discarded, and destruction and dissolution set in.  Man finds himself on a descent to hell.  That’s where we of the European race are now.  It is hard to introduce life-affirming influences while the descent is still in progress.  We have some way to fall yet.


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Posted by Thorn on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:17 | #

Brussels Latest Plan: Stopping Illegal Immigration by Making it Legal

On Wednesday, December 10th, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Brussels’ latest project to drive immigration to the continent. The Commissioner did not hide the program’s intentions, saying that to prevent illegal immigration, “we must open more safe routes to Europe.”

The project would set up a ‘talent pool’ of non-European workers seeking employment in Europe and match them with European employers looking for applicants with specific skillsets. The goal is to streamline non-EU workers into the continent’s economy and speed up an immigration process already putting pressure on all governments of the old continent.

The proposal was originally presented in 2023 and is part of the Commission’s Skills and Mobility Package. The European Parliament has not yet adopted a final position or passed the regulation in plenary. However, the Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) voted to adopt its report and open interinstitutional negotiations on December 6th.

The next step is a plenary vote on the negotiated text, expected around March 9, 2026. Despite Parliament not yet having had its say, von der Leyen said in her speech that the EU is opening an office in India to start the partnership and gather locals to be sent to the EU for work.

Five countries have already joined the initiative, but the Commission president hopes more countries will follow suit. Von der Leyen also highlighted that this plan could be used as a blueprint for partnerships with other countries as well, not just India. She argued this system will make the European economy stronger and more competitive but did not share why this would be the case.

Another argument for the initiative was that it would take business away from people smugglers bringing illegal immigrants into Europe. But stopping illegal immigration by making it legal is just a play with statistics—the effects will be the same.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/brussels-latest-plan-stopping-illegal-immigration-by-making-it-legal/

Thorn note: To make matters worse, Brussels’ scheme won’t do anything to curb illegal immigration, and everyone knows it, including Ursula von der Leyen.



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