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And a long rant

Considering today’s ICBM bullshit news, here’s some old Fallout content about actual escalation and actual missiles.

At Fallout we don’t write pandering stories. We don’t write hysterical stories about UKRAINE MUST WIN BECAUSE IT MUST WIN BECAUSE IT MUST - something I personally blame to a huge degree for Western complacency, fueled by feel-good determined Applebaum MacBook gritted teeth grifting. We don’t write hysterical stories about Putin winning. We write sad stories about artillery, drones and demographics. Also about war crimes and war criminals like this cunt

who I called a lying, war criminal, Russian imperialist, piece of shit, while The Guardian was lauding his dissident heroism - and before it turned out he was might have done the murder murder like his brothers-in-arms.

We also called out the Putin is dying stories with this piece:

You already knew I predicted Prigozhin would die, writing about this BEFORE he tried his mutiny.

And while everybody knew Russia had lost the war with all those Winter War kill ratios, we published this:

Notice the John “Lego Ghetto War Crime Jedi Art of War” Spencer quote about how Putin has lost the war. John Spencer hasn’t won a war in his career, unlike Putin, so I’m not sure how expert John is on winning wars.

I’m not going to check what Dr Martin or Philips O Brien have written today about the bullshit ICBM story. I can write what they generate but it requires whacking my head into my laptop a dozen times and then drinking a sixpack.

In podcasts, articles and in our book, we said Ukraine winning would need blood, sweat and tears, the sweat being from European Union factories and the tears from a German chancellor about spending 1% of GDP for a year to stop Russia before it parked on the Oder, or about 1/100th of the money that will need to be spent over the next decade to stop the ADF winning an election, but the EU opted just for the blood part, that being Ukrainian in the form of the genocided Donbass and two generations of Ukrainian papas who won’t get to spend the second halves of their lives with their children and grand-children.

The only positive outcome of this war is a dismembered Ukraine comes out with an identity absolutely firmly separated from Russia and don’t come at me about Ukraine always being separate, because the mass disbelief in 2022 in Ukraine about ‘our brothers killing us’ proves something different. The Holodomor even didn’t manage to separate those identities, but Putin might have finally killed the brothers and sisters bullshit which no amount of hindsight retro-conning whose existence will erase. But Ukraine might come out of a post-armistice, post-Zelensky (as in assassinated) civil war firmly ruled by Azov, hating ‘everybody’, especially those especial cosmopolitan German slave masters and their Polish slave dogs. And Azov quietly dealing with Russia because you know what fascists do, they make deals with other fascists.

Hey but what the fuck do I know.

I’m not even Slavic with my name, am I? (visit to the street my grandma grew up in Lviv).

Hell what the fuck do I really really know unlike those smart analysts.

Ja nie wiem, jakoś rozumiem tego ziomala.

Storm Shadow goes brrrr… ballistic missiles for the win…

Waiting for Israel to start nuking its neighbors in order to keep Bibi out of jail because that’s the world we live in

1000 days

Despite my gloom, Ukraine will survive because Ukrainians

Not because they have a special unique spirit, but because a nation that has survived a genocide like the Holodomor, of which there are quite a few (Jews, Poles, Cambodians, Armenians, Irish, Herero, Roma…) will survive. Too many people and too determined. And Putin has probably laid to rest the Russian-Ukrainian bullshito bratwa. However talking about special indomitable spirit shouldn’t make you blind to the blood, sweat and lots of tears in the future, it makes you weak to the real troubles of the future. There’s no magick national spirit that will save you, just hard work.

Elon Musk is bringing this to life

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Phil has a new book out now!

Also on Amazon.

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