Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • VIRTUE OF VIOLENCE

    http://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2011/03/violence-is-golden/THE VIRTUE OF VIOLENCE

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-07 16:21:00 UTC

  • MUTUALLY REINFORCING CULTURAL DESTRUCTION –“The European Union must recognize t

    MUTUALLY REINFORCING CULTURAL DESTRUCTION

    –“The European Union must recognize that its bureaucratic dilatoriness and subordination of the strategic element to domestic politics in negotiating Ukraine’s relationship to Europe contributed to turning a negotiation into a crisis. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities.”– Kissinger

    Like i’ve been saying for more than a decade now: the solution to repairing the west is the contraction of the American empire thereby forcing Europe to return to the consideration of strategic priorities.

    The current postwar arrangement forces the US to function as an empire without domestic priorities, and Europe to function with only domestic priorities. This has led to the absolute DESTRUCTION of both cultures as neither can defend itself from the imbalance of its priorities.

    There would be no problem here if Germany, as is normal and necessary, was acting as the defender of Europe.

    Russia and Germany are natural allies. And the states are making them unnatural enemies.

    America is not the defender of Europe. It is the CONQUEROR of Europe.

    Time for Germany to grow up.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-07 05:37:00 UTC

  • “WAKEUP” TO EUROPE THAT THEIR FANTASY IS JUST THAT: FANTASY –“The European syst

    http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/05/opinion/russia-ukraine-austria/RUSSIA’S “WAKEUP” TO EUROPE THAT THEIR FANTASY IS JUST THAT: FANTASY

    –“The European system of today is based on the principle of state sovereignty, combined with the robust international cooperation of the European Union, and legitimated by a historically new attention to human rights.

    The European Union is based on the premise of learning from history. National Socialism and Stalinism are seen as experiences from which Europeans have learned and extremes to which European politics must be restrained.

    This system, like the interwar system, is vulnerable to challenge. Russia has now proposed an alternative, in which Russian culture is historically unique and demanding of protection, European fascism and Stalinism are a trove of constructive ideas, and human rights are nothing more than a facade for western imperialism.”–

    Well, I’m on board with human rights as a facade for ANGLO imperialism. Europeans have little to do it with it. And Empires grow at the expense of their core peoples. And since I care a lot more about my PEOPLE than I do about their empire, I want to collapse that Anglo empire.

    Human right are also an EXCUSE for europeans not to protect themselves, rather than rely upon the anglo empire.

    So lets just pull back the empire.

    I’m not against breaking the european mythos and restoring Germany to its position as the core state of Europe. I’m against the perpetuation of Russia’s post-soviet endemic corruption, and the suffering that people live under here in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever other than corrupt politicians.

    I’ve made no secret that I’m not a believer in equality. People’s should seek their own levels, and perform at their best. But not encouraging assistance in ‘helping’ people from less advanced cultures is very different from INTERFERING in their natural evolutionary development, and very different from PREVENTING IT with corruption.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-06 05:43:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE’S ECONOMY IS A MESS IMHO: Ukrainians have the Highest IQ per dollar and

    http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/03/ukraine-and-russiaWHY UKRAINE’S ECONOMY IS A MESS

    IMHO: Ukrainians have the Highest IQ per dollar and best work ethic outside of the USA. An incredible piece of real estate and natural gas reserves. They are just broken from generations of peasantry, generations of communism, and a generation of economic uncertainty. Victims of a predatory post-soviet government. But they still soldier onward. (I love them),

    WHY DO THEY SUFFER?

    –“Dodgy economic policy, distaste for reform and endemic corruption have brought the country to its knees.”–

    –“Corruption and poor governance…”–

    –“The Ukrainian shadow economy is one of the biggest in the world—at around 50% of GDP, according to IMF research. Businesses operating underground tend not to pay taxes, further depriving the government of funds. And last week Ukraine’s new prime minister estimated that $37 billion had gone missing during Viktor Yanukovych’s rule.”–

    –“Protecting the currency drained the central bank’s reserves, which tumbled from a high of $40 billion in 2011 to about $12 billion today. Last month the central bank admitted defeat and let the currency go. Currency depreciation, while necessary, will be an economic headache for Ukraine in the short term. About half of its public debt is in foreign currencies: as the hrvynia loses value, Ukraine’s debt burden rises.”—

    –“The state gas company, Naftogaz, only charges consumers a quarter of the cost of importing the gas. Cheap gas discourages investment: Ukraine is one of the most energy-intensive economies in the world and domestic production has slumped by two-thirds since the 1970s.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-06 05:06:00 UTC

  • ARROGANCE TO INCOMPETENCE: “AN AMATEUR ON PAR WITH JIMMY CARTER” —“Having been

    ARROGANCE TO INCOMPETENCE: “AN AMATEUR ON PAR WITH JIMMY CARTER”

    —“Having been president for more than five years, we can now render some reasonable and informed judgments about Mr. Obama, including this one: he is an amateur on par with Jimmy Carter. And to see the crude and brutish Putin run circles around Obama—on negotiations over nuclear weapons, on granting asylum to Edward Snowden, on convincing Obama to undercut our allies in Poland and the Czech Republic, on establishing ties with Egypt, on strengthening the murderous Syrian regime, and now invading Crimea and threatening the rest of Ukraine—is painful for any American to witness. As House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers put it, “Putin is playing chess and I think we are playing marbles, and I don’t think it’s even close.” —

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-05 19:49:00 UTC

  • ARE MORAL PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA AFTER ALL Second anchor quits rather than report P

    http://digg.com/video/video-rt-anchor-quits-on-airTHERE ARE MORAL PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA AFTER ALL

    Second anchor quits rather than report Putin’s propaganda.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-05 17:56:00 UTC

  • WITHOUT FORCE IS LIKE MUSIC WITHOUT INSTRUMENTS” Morris on Ukraine

    http://www.dickmorris.com/the-lessons-of-ukraine-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/?utm_source=dmreports&utm_medium=dmreports&utm_campaign=dmreports”DIPLOMACY WITHOUT FORCE IS LIKE MUSIC WITHOUT INSTRUMENTS”

    Morris on Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-05 16:44:00 UTC

  • “DEEP STATE” STRATEGY TOWARD RUSSIA (by charles hugh smith) (see curt’s commenta

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_HistoryAMERICAN “DEEP STATE” STRATEGY TOWARD RUSSIA

    (by charles hugh smith) (see curt’s commentary for libertarians at bottom)

    –“

    1) Frustrate Moscow’s ambitions to dominate Eurasia. The operative strategic analyses employed are MacKinder’s World-Island Theory as subsequently and heavily modified by modern hydro-carbon fuel economics: The Geographical Pivot of History.

    2) Continue to improve the EU’s Central European position with respect to its hydrocarbon fuel supplies. The Neocons were already deeply worried about the growth of NATO dependence on Gazprom and the eastern pipelines in the mid-1980s. This has been on their radar for decades.

    The overall objective is to destroy Putin’s capacity to set marginal natural gas prices in Europe. If pipelines under the Baltic and Black Seas are feasible so are pipelines under the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to France, and from the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean to Greece and southeastern Europe. Add some LPG terminals and European shale gas operations and this is achieved.

    There may be a third goal in trying to set an example for domestic Russian opponents, which exist in great numbers. I think it’s more likely the Russian Federation’s Deep State will find another leader first.

    “—

    CURT’S COMMENTARY FOR LIBERTARIANS

    We should never fool ourselves into thinking that the neocon’s are stupid. I write aristocratic libertarian philosophy, but with a distinctly mercantile bias. Conservative aristocrats do not have this mercantile bias but a MORAL bias in favor of security. Conservatives see risk abatement the way we see opportunity. It is genetic. It will never change. We are all different breeds of ants. Conservatives are the warriors.

    The aristocratic, paternal, moral, secure vision, is not a stupid one. It’s an alternative allocation of capital. We want it for our consumption. The progressives want tit for lower class consumption and upper class status. And the conservatives want it as ‘stores’.

    Conservatives think geopolitically. This is but one example of the long running imperial theme of the anglo conservatives.

    if it isn’t clear, I don’t really mind if they do this kind of thing. I only mind that I get the choice to do something I prefer. After all, unlike conservatives, libertarians are info-vores and novelty hunters. And I want to be able to chase my ant-intuitions just like I am happy to let them chase theirs.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-04 15:12:00 UTC

  • CHARLES HUGH SMITH ON THE NET EFFECT: RUSSIA’S LOSS OF MARKET (Smith is one of t

    CHARLES HUGH SMITH ON THE NET EFFECT: RUSSIA’S LOSS OF MARKET

    (Smith is one of the few analysts I look up to. He finds the demographic and economic reasons for everything.)

    “The net effect will be the same as that of china’s strategic abuse of rare-earth metals, (and russias 2009 abuse of gas markets): rare earth metals are not rare or from china now, and the rest of the world has developed alternatives to Russian oil and gas.”

    The world does not operate by empires any longer. It operates by economic cooperation and coordination.

    I want a strong Russia. I’d love a new Russian empire. But only if it suppresses corruption as a means of ENTICING membership, rather than using VIOLENCE and DECEPTION as a means of forcing it.

    (I’m telling you. Putin was f_king STUPID as hell. )

    The only reason Russia is not as poor as Ukraine is oil and gas. An the producer just killed it’s market. Set us back 50 freaking years. What a moron. For nothing. FOr nothing at all. All he had to be was HONEST and say “hey, we got a lot here, and we’re not losing it” so please tolerate our strategic interests not being taken by NATO.”

    Apologize profusely. But just say the truth. It would have been FINE. He’d have INCREASED his world political capital rather than ruining all he’s worked for.

    At least he restored 10% of the value of the Ukrainian currency.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-04 14:58:00 UTC

  • UKRAINA!!!!! Unarmed Ukrainian soldiers trying to cross Russian check point. Bea

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0iuOgVLgcY&feature=youtu.beSLAVA UKRAINA!!!!!

    Unarmed Ukrainian soldiers trying to cross Russian check point. Beautiful propaganda. Beautiful. Ghandi would love it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-04 10:48:00 UTC