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Dmitry Medvedev, relishing his unplugged self, has laid down the law on the Special Military Operation (SMO). Bluntly, he affirmed there is a “one and a half” scenario: either to go all the way, or a military coup d’etat in Ukraine followed by admitting the inevitable. No tertium applies.
That’s as stark as it gets: the leadership in Moscow is making it very clear, to internal and international audiences, the new deal consists in slow cooking the Kiev racket inside a massive cauldron while polishing its status of financial black hole for the collective West. Until we reach boiling point – which will be a revolution or a putsch.
In parallel, The Lords of (Proxy) War will continue with their own strategy, which is to pillage an enfeebled, fearful, Europe, then dressing it up as a perfumed colony to be ruthlessly exploited ad nauseam by the imperial oligarchy.
Europe is now a runaway TGV – minus the requisite Hollywood production values. Assuming it does not veer off track – a dicey proposition – it may eventually arrive at a railway station called Agenda 2030, The Great Narrative, or some other NATO/Davos denomination du jour.
As it stands, what’s remarkable is how the “marginal” Russian economy hardly broke a sweat to “end the abundance” of the wealthiest region on the planet.
Moscow does not even entertain the notion of negotiating with Brussels because there’s nothing to negotiate – considering puny Eurocrats will only be hurled away from their zombified state when the dire socio-economic consequences of “the end of abundance” will finally translate into peasants with pitchforks roaming the continent.
It may be eons away, but inevitably the average Italian, German or Frenchman will connect the dots and realize it is their own “leaders” – national nullities and mostly unelected Eurocrats – who are paving their road to poverty.
You will be poor. And you will like it. Because we are all supporting freedom for Ukrainian neo-nazis. That brings the concept of “multicultural Europe” to a whole new level.
The runaway train, of course, may veer off track and plunge into an Alpine abyss. In this case something might be saved from the wreckage – and “reconstruction” might be on the cards. But reconstruct what?
Europe could always reconstruct a new Reich (collapsed with a bang in 1945); a soft Reich (erected at the end of WWII); or break with its past failures, sing “I’m Free” – and connect with Eurasia. Don’t bet on it.
Get back those Taurian lands
The SMO may be about to radically change – something that will drive the already clueless denizens of U.S. Think Tankland and their Euro vassals even more berserk.
President Putin and Defense Minister Shoigu have been giving serious hints the only way for the pain dial is up – considering the mounting evidence of terrorism inside Russian territory; the vile assassination of Darya Dugina; non-stop shelling of civilians in border regions; attacks on Crimea; the use of chemical weapons; and the shelling of Zaporizhzhya power plant raising the risk of a nuclear catastrophe.
This past Tuesday, one day before the SMO completing six months, Crimea’s permanent representative to the Kremlin, Georgy Muradov, all but spelled it out.
He stressed the necessity to “reintegrate all the Taurian lands” – Crimea, the Northern Black Sea and the Azov Sea – into a single entity as soon as “in the next few months”. He defined this process as “objective and demanded by the population of these regions.”
Muradov added, “given not only the strikes on Crimea, but also the continuous shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the dam of the Kakhovka reservoir, peaceful facilities on the territory of Russia, the DNR and LNR, there are all preconditions to qualify the actions of the Banderite regime as terrorist.”
The conclusion is inevitable: “the political issue of changing the format of the special military operation” enters the agenda. After all,
Washington and Brussels “have already prepared new anti-Crimean provocations of the NATO-Bandera alliance”.
So when we examine what the “restoration of the Taurian lands” implies, we see not only the contours of Novorossiya but most of all that there won’t be any security for Crimea – and thus Russia – in the Black Sea without Odessa becoming Russian again. And that, on top of it, will solve the Transnistria dilemma.
Add to it Kharkov – the capital and top industrial center of Greater Donbass. And of course Dnipropetrovsk. They are all SMO objectives, the whole combo to be later protected by buffer zones in Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts.
Only then the “tasks” – as Shoigu calls them – of the SMO would be declared fulfilled. The timeline could be eight to ten months – after a lull under General Winter.
As the turbo-charged SMO rolls on, it’s a given the Empire of Chaos, Lies and Plunder will continue to prop up and weaponize the Kiev racket till Kingdom Come – and that will apply especially after the Return of Odessa. What’s unclear is who and what gang will be left in Kiev posing as the ruling party and doing specials for Vogue while duly fulfilling the mass of imperial diktats.
It’s also a given the CIA/MI6 combo will be refining non-stop the contours of a massive guerrilla war against Russia in multiple fronts – crammed with terror attacks and all sorts of provocations.
Yet in the Bigger Picture it’s the inevitable Russian military victory in Donbass and then “all the Taurian lands” that will hit the collective West like a lethal asteroid. The geopolitical humiliation will be unbearable; not to mention the geoeconomic humiliation for vassalized Europe.
As Eurasian integration will become an even stronger vector, Russian diplomacy will be solidifying the new normal. Never forget that Moscow had no trouble normalizing relations, for instance, with China, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Israel. All these actors, in different ways, directly contributed to the fall of the USSR. Now – with one exception – they are all focused on The Dawn of the Eurasian Century.
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with ref to singing “I’m Free” ….
(ie. Russia’s reaction to political/economic detachment from the US Empire)
Who – I’m Free
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I’m free, I’m free
**And freedom tastes of reality**
I’m free, I’m free
And I’m waiting for you to follow me
If I told you what it takes
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You’d laugh and say nothing’s that simple
But you’ve been told many times before
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And no one had the guts to leave the temple!
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The Military Summary channel is predicting a Russian airborne operation to cut off Odessa from the rest of Ukraine and facilitate its capture. Such a move, if succssful, would enormously complicate the Ukraine’s defense, since the Russians could force the Ukrainians to defend on two fronts, rather than sending everything to the east.
Ukraine’s Russian ‘Liberators’ Are Seeing That We Live Better Than They Do
Aug. 23, 2022, 1:00 a.m. ET
By Yegor Firsov – Mr. Firsov is a medic in the Ukrainian military in eastern Ukraine. He was a member of the Ukrainian Parliament from 2014 to 2016.
In early April I walked into Andriivka, a village about 40 miles from Kyiv, with my battalion in the Ukrainian territorial defense forces. We were among the first Ukrainian troops to enter the village after a Russian occupation that had lasted about a month. Shell casings and boxes of ammunition were scattered everywhere, and the houses were in various states of ruin. In one of the yards we passed there was an abandoned burned-out tank sitting on the grass.
The Russians killed civilians in Andriivka, and they ransacked and looted houses. The locals told us something else the Russians had done: One day they took mopeds and bicycles out of some of the yards and rode around on them in the street like children, filming one another with their phones and laughing with delight, as if they’d gotten some long-awaited birthday present.
A few days earlier we were in Bucha, a suburb northwest of Kyiv that was subjected to an infamously brutal occupation. The people there told us that when the first Russian convoy entered the town, the troops asked if they were in Kyiv; they could not believe that such idyllic parks and cottages could exist outside a capital. Then they looted the local houses thoroughly. They took money, cheap electronics, alcohol, clothes and watches. But, the locals said, they seemed perplexed by the robotic vacuum cleaners, and they always left those.
One resident, who told me that she was taken hostage by the Russian soldiers in her house, said they could not get over the fact that she had two bathrooms and kept insisting that she must have more people living with her.
This war is Vladimir Putin’s fatal mistake. Not because of economic sanctions and not because of the massive losses of troops and tanks but because Mr. Putin’s soldiers are from some of the poorest and most rural regions of Russia. Before this war, these men were encouraged to believe that Ukrainians lived in poverty and were culturally, economically and politically inferior.
Now the invaders have seen the reality: The Ukrainians live better than they do.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/opinion/international-world/russia-ukraine-putin.html
for all who mocked putin for going too slow, now you know why. why hurry when your foes are slowly strangling themselves with idiotic sanctions. eventually the ukrainian military with break ranks with the natzo leadership determined to grind them all to hamburger and turn on them with a vengeance. how long will it take? who cares, when the price of gas is 10x what it was when the russians were playing nice.
i’m not going to rag on p.c.r. today , because i see a ray of hope for him in his latest piece, entitled “god should have given cats dominion over earth”, imho some of his best work. if he had allowed comments, i would have said god did give dominion to cats, it’s just been a while since they were respected. i learned more from my beloved cats, than from any religious leader on the planet.
i want to thank you, for thanking me for my last comment to you. in that comment i referred to you as both a morphadyke and a hermaphrodite and in hindsight i realized that may be considered rude in this day and age. i should have asked you your preference, as i don’t want to offend the lgbtqfbicia community.
Relations with Israel are not normalized…that is a joke.
Tectonics. “Abundance of W. E” some of it, to Ukraine economical refugees (all in all a net benefit operation). The acute shift of public “abundance” into private upper class portfolios in the same W. E./US (the cooking the books about arms provisions (the what, where and howto is false as Croesus) to the Ukraine (these arms in part will end up in the streets of Brussels and Berlin and again for the better as a nice topping of the cake for the Finance Kabal and the middle class workbees that eat out of their hands). .
That is what keeps Zelenski alive as a political puppet. If untenable, another fatso will keep up the narrative (Boris Johnson is on the market). …Or Russia somehow imposes a change of balance (regardless of symmetrical (Ukraine) or in any other combination of power projections (Russia – China).
Interesting times, give or take fifty more years and know the shape and ownership of some sort of globalism. The tools are so much better then only twenty years ago, that such as desist and retract are off the table for any player. We will have our globalism, just be patient!
Putin’s embarrassing propaganda disaster causing Russian viewers to switch OFF – down 31%
Wed, Aug 24, 2022
A new survey has found that Russia’s TV audience is plummeting. This comes as Moscow continues to churn out a barrage of pro-war propaganda as part of its war effort against Ukraine. A survey published by independent polling centre Rosmir found that only 65 percent of respondents watch Russian state-run TV stations.
At the start of the war, 86 percent of people tuned into state-run channels.
There is some evidence that support for the war is waning alongside the declining popularity of state TV channels.
Opinion polls now show that only 55 percent of Russians are in favour of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
At the start of the war, this figure was up at 66 percent.
A number of popular TV personalities and bosses, such as talk show host Ivan Urgant and TV2 editor-in-chief Viktor Muchnik, have left Russia as a result of opposition to the war.
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https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1659584/Putin-news-Russia-TV-propaganda-ukraine-war-approval-rating-kremlin-daria-dugina-bomb
There are serious — I mean real serious — hopes that the humiliation will work in favor of the people in Europe. The humiliation might dislodge the Parasite Regime that’s been running things for their own private good since 1945.
We are looking at what a Japanese co-worker of mine called a “MacArthur Situation”. MacArthur’s time as unofficial shogun in Tokyo had the usual elites flat one their backs, and let regular folks have a shot at the top for once.
The US and UK, for two, have a large silent(ed) population that would love, precisely, to see their ruling faction HUMILIATED. This is a big chance to run them out without triggering a war or starting new unlikely political parties. What’s surprising on this front is that old-time free market conservatives now speak of nationalizing media for the sake of throttling the diversity disease. You’d never have seen this even 15 years ago.
Putin is not a white knight for anyone but his own people. It’s his actions that create opportunities for frustrated people far beyond his borders that make him important. The “special military operation” could very well have historic resonance.
I for one look forward to the total humiliation of every Western regime. Especially the one I’m forced to pay for.
Why are the Ukies so pissed at the Pope for saying Daria Dugina was an innocent victim dragged into the war?
What’s the opinion of the Roman Catholic to a bunch of Kiev based guys who didn’t blow her up anyway?
Pope simply confirmed that the Ukies did the Moscow Job. Her culpability for the war is irrelevant.
Fabulous article, Pepe. Thanks!
I think the slower Russia moves the more of their little money the TSA, Terrorist States of America, will spend on it and the quicker they, the TSA, will go down the hole.
I don’t read PCR’s musings (anyone who wants to make ex cathedra‘ top down statements has no respect for their audience), but that title is evidence of Yanklish Ignorance.
Cats were worshipped as gods a thousand years before the Yahweh blood&foreskin cult was even a scattering of hill tribes trying to make up a foundation myth.
The cult of bꜣstjt (Bastet) was culturally important as from the Second Dynasty (~2900BCE) onwards; Sekhmet‘s cult post-dates that of Bastet, but it remains that Ra has two felines among his offspring, and one grand-son (Maahes – a lion god) – with Bastet older and more imortant than Sekhmet and Maahes because the Ancient Gyppos were utterly smitten with our ‘domestic’ feline chums.
By stark contrast, the Ancient Gyppos didn’t have any gods based on domestic dogs – Anubis was jackal-headed, and Wepwawet was a wolf . Their cults are (roughly) a millennium younger than that of Bastet.
The Ancient Greeks also had a cat-god – Ailuros (hence ‘ailurophile’ – ‘one who smells of fish-waste and whose clothes are covered in cat-hair’). Ailuros was basically a copy of Bastet.
It’s pretty clear that we didn’t domesticate cats, but almost exactly the reverse. So much so that domestic felines use all sorts of “perception management” Jedi-mindfuck shit on us naked apes – they make ‘composite’ sounds designed for humans to hear: the miaow-cry and the trill-purr, which aren’t very meaningful among adult cats, but adult cats deploy them tactically on humans because they trigger the same responses as a crying human baby. Manipulative fuckers.
So anyhow… it’s not up so some hill-tribe’s foreskin-obsessed storm deity to ‘[give] cats dominion over the earth’. They had that two thousand years before the proto-SmallHats invented their genital mutilation-based race-cult.
Likewise, the ‘Golden Rule’ that people pretend was invented by the Kike-Jesus cult predates the made-up Exodus nonsense by almost a millennium: sḫtj nfr mdw (Sekhti-nefer-medu) – usually rendered as “the Parable of the Eloquent Peasant“, which dates from about 1850 BCE… the illiterate Old Nonsense retards didn’t start making shit up until (roughly) the 7th century BCE.
So while the proto-Small Hats were having masturbatory fever dreams about genociding the Hittites, Hivites, Jebusites, Perrizites and Amalekites (and some other -ites … I’m doing this from memory), they were actually living under the thrall of a major regional power that carved Bastet’s name on edifices in ways that are still visible, FOUR THOUSAND YEARS LATER.
The rendition of Bastet at the temple at Karnak is “only” ~3300 years old – so ~2000 years older than the earliest written records of the Heebs – but it’s as crisp as if it was carved yesterday: motherfuckers who built it were rich like Rick James, bitch!.
it’s amazing how much information you have picked up on wikipedia, keep up the good work!
Is the polling data only available in the Express. Why doesn’t a more reputably paper discuss it?
The west doesn’t want to admit it – but when you go quickly and just flatten everything… Not only do you kill civilians – but you also destroy civilian infrastructure. That is how the west wages war.
‘It doesn’t make sense’ Finger pointing leads to Putin’s FSB after Dugina car bombing
THE CAR BOMB which killed Darya Dugina may have been planted by Vladimir Putin’s own security services, according to a Russia expert.
Sat, Aug 27, 2022
Darya Dugina was killed last week by a car bomb while driving home from an elite event in a Moscow suburb. Russian investigators were quick to blame Ukrainian agents, however, Professor Peter Duncan told Express.co.uk that it is much more likely that Russian security services, such as the FSB, carried out the attack to help Putin’s crackdown inside Russia.
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https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1661025/vladimir-putin-darya-dugina-killing-hallmarks-fsb-bombing-russia-ukraine
You mean like Bitchute or Odysee or Fox News? [lol] Speaking of which:
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A Reuters Special Report
New breed of video sites thrive on misinformation and hate
BitChute and Odysee serve up conspiracies, racism and graphic violence to millions of viewers. Taking advantage of Big Tech disinformation crackdowns and the rise of Trump, the sites reflect a new media universe – one where COVID-19 is fake, Russia fights Nazis in Ukraine, and mass shootings are ‘false flag’ operations.
By ANDREW R.C. MARSHALL and JOSEPH TANFANI
Filed Aug. 22, 2022, 10 a.m. GMT
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https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-media-misinformation/
Thanks, looking at p.c.r.’s cats brought me to tears, as they resemble my dearly departed feline friend of the last fourteen years, who showed up on my doorstep as a stray.
I swear they’re magical creatures–another stray, a tuxedo cat of mine, missing a hind leg, would get up on a neighbor’s roof and we couldn’t figure out how. Of course, it didn’t want to waste it’s powers getting down, so up a ladder I’d go.
I would think Russia’s TV audience count on the subject plummeting would be normal. At the beginning there would have been great excitement. Now, months later, going successfully but slow progress, it is old news, not news, no great excitement, much smaller TV audience. So what?
Well done Pepe!
We rescued a very young stray cat some time back, she was starving near the gate of our property, we brought her home, but our ferrets would have none of it, they jumped to her throat at first sight. We tried to keep her away from the ferrets in rooms they didn’t usually visit but they would search for her all over the place and find her, making her stay with us a harrowing experience. She is living the good life now in a friend’s house. BTW, I also liked PCR’s posting about his cats and blaming them for any spelling errors. My ferrets sometimes climb to my desk and cause trouble as well so I understand PCR’s predicament.
China, Pakistan, Israel – yes, obvious; Saudi – yes, the shenanigans of the OPEC to bleed the USSR’s foreign exchange, yes; but Iran? and Qatar? I never knew they contributed directly to the fall of the USSR. Will someone please tell me how, I am asking in earnest.
“Ukraine’s Russian ‘Liberators’ Are Seeing That We Live Better Than They Do”
Yea right. lol.
Ukraine per capita GDP $8,600, right below Jamaica, 112th out of 190 countries. Russia per captia GDP $25,800, 57th out of 190 countries.
https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-per-capita/
A country that gives a $1,000,000/year board seat to a crack head is in “shithole” standing. What a surprise.
This article from the NYT is a rare lack of intelligence. Now in Russia we watch a lot of videos from Ukraine. There are terribly broken roads almost everywhere. Old Soviet buildings dominate. There is no sane industry. And this is all in an area where the climate is great. I have 40% of my relatives living in Ukraine. They are clearly not inspired by all these games of Banderistan.
Escobar is your typical Putin bot – utterly disconnected from reality.
A lot of Ukraine’s behavior and the illogical western Support for it makes no sense. Unless you factor in a couple of thing like the head of state in Ukraine being Jewish and Bojo spending more time in Ukraine than England.
Sure – the viewership of RT is way down – because it was taken off the air by America’s elites. If it was still on the air, I would damned sure be still watching it. I was a faithful viewer. I could always count on Peter Lavelle’s “Crosstalk” show to cover the true political landscape of America vs. some cartoon crap from MSNBC. I also loved the offbeat Max Keiser Show – Max had too much enthusiasm for Bitcoin (in my opinion) but he sure told the truth about our banking criminals like Jamie Dimon.
Having had Russian grandparents, I still can appreciate the virtues of hard work, honesty and intelligence that they had exhibited. If I were young enough today, I would surely emigrate to Russia – they have a future on this Earth – America has only a future of Zionist thievery and Black thuggery to look forward to. It will be a mess – broke and besieged by wild brutes.
Reading your comment made me realize how easy it is for people to agree on non-essential, lateral issues (like Russia, the SMO, etc) and how almost impossible it is come to a peaceful and tolerant acceptance of each other’s opposite views on quintessential issues like the feline-canine divide.
I wish you hadn’t made inflammatory statements like:
— ” i would have said god did give dominion to cats”
or
— ” i learned more from my beloved cats, than from any religious leader on the planet.”
I don’t wish to start a volley of aggressive exchanges with you but I feel compelled to point out that all that those parasitic animals called cats (the only pets demonstrably possessed of a zionist mentality) have going for them is a powerful lobby of duped humans whose strings they pull.
A truly loving God would have the sadly morally deficient humanity run by that noblest of all animals, highly intelligent, honest, loyal, and altruistic, the dog!
Cats and dogs will both eat you when you’re dead. Some dogs will kill you, and many eat cat feces. God delegated worldly dominion to humans, but it’s temporary.
exactly right and destruction of infrastructure is all part of the plan. disaster capitalism, as naomi klein called it in her 2007 book “the shock doctrine”. dick cheney’s halliburton was about to go bankrupt, when they started the illegal invasion of iraq, they received billions in no-bid contracts, saving the company and assuring the cheney family fortune. the same story with donald rumsfeld (may he rot in hell) and gilead sciences, his company that he still held stock in was saved by the phony hyped up bird flu scare that caused the military to buy millions of doses of tamiflu for no reason. once again, this saved the company and made rumsfeld a fortune, as well as allowing gilead to later financially rape the world during the covid hype, by peddling their harmful snake oil, remdesivir.
i want to thank you for your testimony my brother and i too have been twice blessed by magical cats showing up on my door step. the first was my beloved luna, so named for her single white dot on chest on an otherwise jet black cat, she was with me for 23 years, even though she only had one kidney. the second was a pure black tomcat that walked out of my woods into my open front door, announcing himself home with a great string of happy meows. i swear on my parents grave that this cat was the reincarnation of my beloved taoist doctor, a pure black male that was my best friend for 21 years, who had passed on about a year and a half before. i named him meeyuty, losing him a second time was even harder than the first. this was a feral cat that had lived in the woods, that was terrified of all other human beings but loved me with all his heart and soul. he left me with a gift of knowing we find each other again and that love is eternal.
Be serious!
The Worldmeter data was from way back in 2017. I’d wager that Russian per capita GDP is probably down to $15k or worse now while Ukraine made big gains from 2017 to 2021.
Additionally, if you take out the Russian oligarchs the per capita GDP is probably another $5k lower.
Nice try though.
The survey was for people INSIDE Russia. Russian apologists and fanboyz like yourself outside Russia don’t count one way or the other.
@RobinG #29
“Cats and dogs will both eat you when you’re dead. Some dogs will kill you, and many eat cat feces. God delegated worldly dominion to humans, but it’s temporary. ”
C’mon now, at least we’re off all that inane tripe about how much better everything would be if women ruled the world. The last few decades of Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel, Madeleine Albright, Victoria Nudelman, the entire governments of Scandinavia and half the defense ministers of dying Europe have put the kaybosh on that one. So now we default to cats and dogs. Personally I’d prefer to be ruled by a giant turtle that just retracts into his shell and falls asleep.
“Ukraine’s Russian ‘Liberators’ Are Seeing That We Live Better Than They Do”
So Russian households have three times the income of Ukrainian households but Ukrainians have a higher standard of living? Posting NY Times propaganda, propaganda that is easily proven false is weak. Try harder.
Ukraine annual household income in 2020 $2145.
https://www.ceicdata.com/datapage/charts/ipc_ukraine_annual-household-income-per-capita/?type=area&from=2009-12-01&to=2020-12-01&lang=en
Russia annual household income in 2020 $6031.
https://www.ceicdata.com/datapage/charts/ipc_russia_annual-household-income-per-capita/?type=area&from=2010-12-01&to=2021-12-01&lang=en
Pepe your delusions are sad.
Medvedrunk doesn’t “lay down the law”, that isn’t the way it works.
When one attacks another the other has a say in the matter — they get to hit back.
And the Ukrainian answer has been to kill a lot of Russians (and foolish Donetsk/Luhansk cannon fodder), destroy a lot of military equipment, and show the world that, in spite of the fervid fantasies of Russian fan boys the Raping Russians haven’t improved any in morals or military skill since they played their stupid role in World War Jew point 2.
Russians cannot win this stupid war they started — you need to face that before you entirely lose touch with reality.
apologies for my earlier snarky response to your comment, it was uncalled for and i should have replied in a more polite manner. with that said, some say sekhmet pre-dates dynastic egypt (as does her alter ego hathor, more properly hethert or hetheru). sekhmet is also known as she who comes from a land before time and both she and hethert were probably wereacculturated from earlier cults. as you correctly state the first mention of bast is in the second dynasty. originally bast was depicted identically to sekhmet, a woman with a lions head. both bast and sekhmet are eyes of ra, protector of the pharoh and the defender of ma’at and as such are goddesses of war. bast was worshipped primarily in the lower delta region and sekhmet in the south. current views hold that after southern egypt defeated the north, bast was seen in a diminished role, explaining her “devolution” into a house cat. i do not agree with this view at all and rather than her being demoted, it reflected the growing love egyptians had for their beloved housemates. originally only priests and royalty could have cats but eventually commen people could care for these little deities in their home.
bast and sekhmet were worshipped all over egypt but different nomes (districts) in egypt, worshipped different neteru (gods and goddesses) in different combinations. you mention maahes as being the only son of sekhmet, but bast is also his mother in some nomes (and dynasties) and in fact, bast has four sons maahes, nefertem, heru-hekenu and khonsu-heru, all sons and arrows of bast. some are sons (although not arrows) of sekhmet in other nomes and dynasties. the egyptian trinity is usually depicted as ausar (osiris), ast (isis) and heru(horus) but in other nomes it was sekhmet, ptah-seker and nefertem, in others it was bast (the ba of ast) ausar, heru. in fact the ultimate syncretic combination was sekhmet-bast-ra, consort to ptah-seker-ausar, who guards the gates of the egyptian paradise.
I had to remind someone who was trying to humanize their pet the other day – which they did not like… I told them feral cats and dogs will become predators and scavengers very quickly. The argument was over the silliness of “pet food” and feeding them cooked human food. They don’t realize their pet is a carnivore and can still process dead and decaying flesh.
Indeed I have seen reports of Ukrainians who relocated to Jamaica and noted their standard of living was higher in Jamaica than Ukraine. That was eye opening for me.
The Military Industrial Complex absolutely is about business. That’s also why they tend to attack poor and weak countries rather than fight a peer. They are about making money.
Where the numbers don’t match what people see with their own eyes (what are you going to believe, statistics or your lying eyes?), then you’ve got to go with the eyes.
The story I posted referred to first hand reports of soldiers from Russia. They are clearly jealous of the relative living standards. That is why they have been observed stealing everything that they can.
The vast majority of Russians are dirt poor. And now they are even poorer than dirt! [lol]
We know people living in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg, and none of them is poor, nor do most people seem poor. Russians outside the top cities are certainly noticeably more poor. Certainly an obvious overstatement to say that “the vast majority of Russians” are poor.
In any event, what percentage of US residents say that they can afford to cover even a $500 emergency with cash rather than credit card or other borrowing? Are people in the US not generally broke, deeply indebted, unable to sustain their standard of living without unsustainable borrowing?
Do you think that the majority of households in the USA even have a positive net worth?
Where is the homeless problem worse, the USA or Russia? I don’t know and neither do you. But let’s check. It seems likely that the US will not fare well by this comparison either. Here’s a start:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_population
Don’t waste your effort on the mincing Jewish pimp
Cats are charming creatures and endlessly fascinating. Thanks, roonaldo.
How do you know birds don’t rule the world? Much more highly evolved than humans. They organize themselves well, leave us alone in our parallel fantasy world, but that’s their choice and seems to work well.