I have often wondered what was going through the minds of Romans from 400 to 480 AD... the time of the collapse of their country and the territories it occupied.
I have realized lately... that what was going through their mind, is what is now going through my mind and that of most Americans.
Jack Lawson
Associate Member, Sully H. deFontaine Special Forces Association Chapter 51, Las Vegas, Nevada
Author of “The Slaver’s Wheel”, “A Failure of Civility,” “And We Hide From The Devil,” “Civil Defense Manual” and “In Defense.”
“Whenever there is a jackboot stepping on a human face, there will be a well-heeled Western Liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100% literacy” – John Derbyshire
From Jack Lawson… an American in 1RLI Support Commando and attached to Rhodesian “C Squadron” SAS Africa 1977-79
Huge fan of your writing, new subscriber (just subscribed, annual), and I don't disagree with a single word you wrote. My take on your question, after nearly two decades (I'm 52 and became aware in 2006) of learning/ preparing/waiting for the collapse, can be summed up in four points:
1. We have grossly underestimated our enemy. For years, we have been presented with images of blue-haired, soy-boy, transgender Antifa and looting BLM as our adversaries. They are not, but the constant coverage of their hijinks has caused "our side" to focus on their infantile barbarism and many believed them to be the clumsy foe we had to defeat in order to achieve victory. Wrong. We are dealing with highly successful, highly motivated, and highly intelligent adversaries who have ruled the planet for generations. We don't know their names and we will never know their faces. Focus should always be local ,local, local.
2. We have completely misunderstood what "collapse" would look like. For years I was told that a stock market collapse, martial law, FEMA camps, etc., would herald the start of collapse. I now know that these are all trailing indicators that come at the absolute end of a takeover. We have been waiting for the head shot while they have been slowly bleeding us with a thousand cuts to the body. The elite have no plans to destroy the planet with nukes and hide in their bunkers. They will not give up their private jets, vast estates, and glorious mansions. Our future is The Hunger Games, not Red Dawn.
3. We have severely overestimated the resolve of many on "our side". Between 2012 and 2016, I traveled to prepper and "patriot" conventions all over the country. I'm probably being conservative when I say that 30% of the people I met had no interest whatsoever in restoring the nation to its former glory. They wanted to see shit burn in hopes of a second chance at righting the wrongs of a past riddled with bad choices. Their collapse fantasy consists of no more mortgage payments, no more car payments, no more child support payments, and a chance to see that successful couple down the street grovel at their feet for a can of chicken noodle soup. For many, collapse is about schadenfreude, not survival or rebuilding a constitutional republic. They will argue for days on the internet about 9mm vs .45, or AR vs AK but they will not fight and die for the cause we believe in.
4. There is no plan. We are experts at running around the house while it burns to the ground and screaming "the house is on fire!", we make epic memes about the fire, we share and like gaffes the fire made at a press conference, but we have failed to make any actionable plan to extinguish the fire because that's gonna hurt. I am as guilty as anyone. I have spent the last few years making sure my family is extremely well taken care of. Show me a workable plan and I am on board.
If I have overstepped the bounds here, I apologize in advance. Thank you again for you great writing.
Thank you, that needed to be said, certainly no apology ever. I have no plan either other than for self and family. Mankind generally functions unfortuanately as a herd. So either "A Leader" (Leaders) emerges willing to be a Martyr if need be, Or We wait for an "Event" that galvanizes action. One or the Other, and It Will Happen. To What End is way beyond my mortal pay grade.
That's our problem -- we're too quick to apologize for saying what needs to be said. If we just stand up and say it, things will get better. We're victims of our success, our prosperity makes us soft. Hopf said good times make weak men, and weak men make hard times. But hard times make strong men, so we need some hard times to show us the way. Seems to be how we're wired.
There are no bounds to step out of. You're right on all points, I've seen it myself. I've prepared my family, done the important things, but I remarked the other day that no matter how well we prep, how many eventualities we cover, the chaos will undoubtedly be something we never considered. The engineers of chaos are a few steps ahead of us, but there have to be more people like us out there, somewhere, waiting for a solid plan, at least, that's what I keep coming back to.
A central part of any preparation effort is learning and practicing to adapt to unforseen problems. The old saying that no plan survives first contact with the enemy is demonstrated so often that we become neurotic about trying to plan for every contingency. That's why practice is more important than preparation. Learning to adapt and improvise is the best preparation to overcome adversity.
It's useful exercise to practice mentally. Like dry fire instead of going to the range for live fire training. What if my car quits while I'm driving? What if a tornado roams across my house? What if armed robbers attack the grocery store while I'm shopping? Set a goal of mental practice every day. Those who don't mentally prepare are unable to make best use of whatever resources they have available.
I wish I could offer something more, some insight, an idea, anything other than the reality I see.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Sometimes it's just up to you, and if there are enough of "You", then it might secure a free community and neighborhood. The County Govs probably won't survive intact if it goes Full Re-tard. CYA, Pray, or whatever gives you some comfort.
It has to crash and it will crash, but there is still borrowed $ to steal (embezzle) and value
to be stripped before we all realize it has crashed. The thieves also want to remain in control
of future $/finances so they may continue the quest to "rule the world". In my opinion the
system has crashed. .Gov is gone, justice system is gone, morals gone, medical integrity gone,
either it is gone or upside down. In San-Fran people walking dodge homeless and poopy
piles . Walking around in the wrong place gets you killed in NYC. The presidents idea of
progress is giving out free drug paraphernalia that is clean and "safe". Pharma is openly
killing people, and drugs, poisoned food and no health care is killing even more. Most
everything has already crashed and burned. And they are trying to kill us,more with each
passing day. Look out! Nukes incoming!
What would you have us do T.L.? Storm the Bastille? Become the domestic terrorist?
There is perhaps nothing we can do about DC and their partners in crime, bribed by Klaus
Schwab et al. We can hope to shore up our local communities by acting like humans and
caring for each other as like ourselves. You may be measuring others by your standards and REAL men. Half the country is obese, besotted with beer, sweet and salty snacks and frozen pizza.
Millions and millions are drugged and staring at their smart phones/likely most with the phones.
The only thing left are the remnant, the men and women that behave like men and women
were meant to. Would I like to lop off heads and fight to the death? Not really. I can't live
in a rage against evil. There is no where to start over, and no where to hide. A person like myself
can only hope for peace and the right to be left alone. Alone and near the woods, with the birds
and my beloved dogs and animals. I have a man, but he is in his second career, long haul
trucking. Everyone has the right to personal freedom when they strive for it. But we have
powerful enemies, the whole world does, and it is a very difficult time for all.
Control of ourselves and of our destiny belongs to the powerful. Power is currently centered in the government. The most efficient solution is to replace the government. That begins in November. Support rational candidates. The biggest lesson from the recent disasters is complacency kills. We who survived were lucky, but won't remain lucky if we remain complacent. Complacency about people who control us is always a terminal error. We have to be as vigilant about the next government as if our lives depend on it. They do.
NO. Your normalcy bias is showing. It's hard to wrangle with, I know.
I believe voting moves us backward.
First, your are qualifying the validity of a system that has been a lie for decades. There is no Blue and Red, only the pacifying marketing of giving sheep the illusion of choice.
Second, everyone in the federal system is corrupt. Feigned ignorance of the damage and exploitation they've caused should not, and will not, keep them from the Day of the Rope. Purge is the only way. Perhaps some of those lovely buildings can be saved but I doubt it. Even state-level worker bees and their handlers will likely be removed from resource consumption. At the least, banished from any civic power for life. Perhaps even their offspring (perhaps there is a genetic component that must be reckoned with?).
Third, the Opportunity Cost of hoping in an impossibility prevents you from thinking clearly and rationally. We must look ahead, prepare to weather the "Chaos" (see the Math version of this term), and be ready when a true opportunity to affect local change presents itself.
Voting harder is only showing how deeply you fear. I fear what's ahead, too. I pray for the deep, dark pain and suffering to come soon so that I can bear the majority of it and save my young family from much of it.
So, it's Walt against the world. Good luck with that. Much more effective to work with others. Elections are just a mechanism for building communities. If it's not working for you, you're not doing it right.
When you offer "voting" in this broad space, the term will be received by the majority to mean Red or Blue.
If your focus is localized affects for outcomes based on voting, it might be helpful to constrain your definition. We can then debate value and efficacy of the effort.
Feeding your own normalcy bias is fine. Doom awaits most of us but those that think a vote will change jet powered ride to the bottom we are on have self-selected. More resources for my kin and neighbors.
"You have a republic, madam, if you can keep it" - Ben Franklin
We didn't keep it. We haven't had a republic for a long, long time... maybe since 1865 according to some. Don't fret too much over the lack of, or the why, Americans haven't risen up against the tyranny. The social cohesiveness has been successfully destroyed as those who would control us engineered division amongst the various population groups who now identify with a particular 'tribe' rather than as Americans, all. Everyday more illegals arrive who don't give a shit about becoming an American and are distributed by the occupying illegitimate government all over the country.
The "Greatest Generation" was the last generation who had the stones to have put a stop to the tyranny but they are history now. Those American foundational beliefs had more bricks kicked out with each succeeding generation to the point there are no bricks remaining today. The communists have been hard at work for 100 years to accomplish that. The freaks just held a "Kink & Fetish" festival in San Francisco. Can you even imagine our Father's generation allowing something like that? Thats how far we have fallen, T.L. Every perversion known to Man is now openly praised and practiced in what once was America. We are under God's judgement, T.L. There is a strong connection between what we see here today and with ancient Israel and our ending will be the same.
I hearken the 1865 watershed. Good men, long ago, gave away the keys to America. And those holding the keys, the bankers (my catch all for nihilists, sociopaths, demons and their helpers) have been grooming the sheep and stripping the Treasury for generations.
We are not special. Instead, trapped in a cycle that seems to be a century-long alarm clock. Like God's Groundhog Day movie. See Genesis 3 as a primary source.
I really don't get why so many otherwise sane people are pro Putin... is it because the bare-chested tiger ride or something? Sure, Zelenski might be a little whiny bitch; sure Ukraine government might be corrupt... still, they didn't start the war. They wanted NATO protection? They sure did - Crimea and Feb 24th show why.
You might want to ponder why the Baltics or Poland or most of former Warsaw Pact are overwhelmingly behind Ukraine - let one Ukrainian lady explain:
Lesser of the evils is Putin, perhaps. I see Russia's move not against Ukraine but against the CIA (proxy to USA, proxy to globalists).
Ukraine has only been an idea for a few decades. Their culture is not unified IMO, as shown by the number of Russian speaking residents. Not to mention how many treated Russian soldiers as freedom fighters.
Most importantly, that global affairs, is our own country, assuming you are on U.S. ground. Our house is burning down. Focus on surviving the fire and having the capacity to rebuild. That beats world affairs.
> I see Russia's move not against Ukraine but against the CIA
Yet, it's Ukrainians they are killing...
> Ukraine has only been an idea for a few decades.
Sorry, you don't know what you are talking about, she might be an independent country just for a couple of decades recently, but she used to be quite a player in eastern Europe long before Moscow was established... up until about 15th century when Muscovites started to take over her territories. She was called Kievan Rus' back then.
After that Ukrainian lands/people were under rule of Lithuania, then Polish-Lithuanian union, then parceled out between Austro-Hungary and Russia and finally between Poland and Soviet Union. (BTW, as a Pole, I'm deeply ashamed of Polish government betrayal of Ukrainian allies after war of 1920.)
I’m thankful for the history, Jack. Your statement is partially correct in that I don’t know the deep history you offered.
A cursory review of recent dissident info from, and about, the area does support my position. And touché, the Butchers Bill is being paid, sadly, by the Ukrainian people.
Of the few like-minded brothers I have regular conversations with, we all mimic with amazement the brazenness of our "betters" unmet with ANY resistance.
Given your observations are accurate objectively, and your commentary subjectively rings true, wisdom demands a non-obvious response.
For me and mine, that means patience. Painful, frustrating, often mentally cloudy patience.
Seeing the world clearly, and the likelihood of it slipping off the cliff with us trapped inside, often constrains restful sleep. Not because I don't feel prepared mentally, physically and resource-wise, but because it is going to collapse. And there is no timing it nor projecting locations it's likely to happen.
So navigating in the day-to-day, common tasks that we performed a week, a month or a decade ago, becomes a looming energy suck of "head on a swivel".
To your point TL, the plan is not an extraordinary moment when the sides are clear for even the most sleepy sheep. The plan is to take away the will to respond through the slow drip of grinding frustration.
Waiting is hard. Luck favors the prepared. No one is coming. Everything is my responsibility. Kill those that need killing, save those that need saving. (Ode to Graham Combat's Killhouse Rules).
Prepare for impact.
I have often wondered what was going through the minds of Romans from 400 to 480 AD... the time of the collapse of their country and the territories it occupied.
I have realized lately... that what was going through their mind, is what is now going through my mind and that of most Americans.
Jack Lawson
Associate Member, Sully H. deFontaine Special Forces Association Chapter 51, Las Vegas, Nevada
Author of “The Slaver’s Wheel”, “A Failure of Civility,” “And We Hide From The Devil,” “Civil Defense Manual” and “In Defense.”
“Whenever there is a jackboot stepping on a human face, there will be a well-heeled Western Liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100% literacy” – John Derbyshire
From Jack Lawson… an American in 1RLI Support Commando and attached to Rhodesian “C Squadron” SAS Africa 1977-79
Didn't work for the Romans. We should try to do better. We have an edge, with substack and rifles.
Just in case it doesn't work for us, everybody should read Jack's Civil Defense Manual.
I do have 2 of those books/priceless. (Civility and the 2 volume manual)...
Plan to look at the other 2. We love that guy, just like we love T.L.
T.L.,
Huge fan of your writing, new subscriber (just subscribed, annual), and I don't disagree with a single word you wrote. My take on your question, after nearly two decades (I'm 52 and became aware in 2006) of learning/ preparing/waiting for the collapse, can be summed up in four points:
1. We have grossly underestimated our enemy. For years, we have been presented with images of blue-haired, soy-boy, transgender Antifa and looting BLM as our adversaries. They are not, but the constant coverage of their hijinks has caused "our side" to focus on their infantile barbarism and many believed them to be the clumsy foe we had to defeat in order to achieve victory. Wrong. We are dealing with highly successful, highly motivated, and highly intelligent adversaries who have ruled the planet for generations. We don't know their names and we will never know their faces. Focus should always be local ,local, local.
2. We have completely misunderstood what "collapse" would look like. For years I was told that a stock market collapse, martial law, FEMA camps, etc., would herald the start of collapse. I now know that these are all trailing indicators that come at the absolute end of a takeover. We have been waiting for the head shot while they have been slowly bleeding us with a thousand cuts to the body. The elite have no plans to destroy the planet with nukes and hide in their bunkers. They will not give up their private jets, vast estates, and glorious mansions. Our future is The Hunger Games, not Red Dawn.
3. We have severely overestimated the resolve of many on "our side". Between 2012 and 2016, I traveled to prepper and "patriot" conventions all over the country. I'm probably being conservative when I say that 30% of the people I met had no interest whatsoever in restoring the nation to its former glory. They wanted to see shit burn in hopes of a second chance at righting the wrongs of a past riddled with bad choices. Their collapse fantasy consists of no more mortgage payments, no more car payments, no more child support payments, and a chance to see that successful couple down the street grovel at their feet for a can of chicken noodle soup. For many, collapse is about schadenfreude, not survival or rebuilding a constitutional republic. They will argue for days on the internet about 9mm vs .45, or AR vs AK but they will not fight and die for the cause we believe in.
4. There is no plan. We are experts at running around the house while it burns to the ground and screaming "the house is on fire!", we make epic memes about the fire, we share and like gaffes the fire made at a press conference, but we have failed to make any actionable plan to extinguish the fire because that's gonna hurt. I am as guilty as anyone. I have spent the last few years making sure my family is extremely well taken care of. Show me a workable plan and I am on board.
If I have overstepped the bounds here, I apologize in advance. Thank you again for you great writing.
Thank you, that needed to be said, certainly no apology ever. I have no plan either other than for self and family. Mankind generally functions unfortuanately as a herd. So either "A Leader" (Leaders) emerges willing to be a Martyr if need be, Or We wait for an "Event" that galvanizes action. One or the Other, and It Will Happen. To What End is way beyond my mortal pay grade.
Well said. Thank you and my best to you.
That's our problem -- we're too quick to apologize for saying what needs to be said. If we just stand up and say it, things will get better. We're victims of our success, our prosperity makes us soft. Hopf said good times make weak men, and weak men make hard times. But hard times make strong men, so we need some hard times to show us the way. Seems to be how we're wired.
There are no bounds to step out of. You're right on all points, I've seen it myself. I've prepared my family, done the important things, but I remarked the other day that no matter how well we prep, how many eventualities we cover, the chaos will undoubtedly be something we never considered. The engineers of chaos are a few steps ahead of us, but there have to be more people like us out there, somewhere, waiting for a solid plan, at least, that's what I keep coming back to.
A central part of any preparation effort is learning and practicing to adapt to unforseen problems. The old saying that no plan survives first contact with the enemy is demonstrated so often that we become neurotic about trying to plan for every contingency. That's why practice is more important than preparation. Learning to adapt and improvise is the best preparation to overcome adversity.
It's useful exercise to practice mentally. Like dry fire instead of going to the range for live fire training. What if my car quits while I'm driving? What if a tornado roams across my house? What if armed robbers attack the grocery store while I'm shopping? Set a goal of mental practice every day. Those who don't mentally prepare are unable to make best use of whatever resources they have available.
I like this guy's thought process!
Email me at JCLParaCommando@gmail.com, David
I wish I could offer something more, some insight, an idea, anything other than the reality I see.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Sometimes it's just up to you, and if there are enough of "You", then it might secure a free community and neighborhood. The County Govs probably won't survive intact if it goes Full Re-tard. CYA, Pray, or whatever gives you some comfort.
It has to crash and it will crash, but there is still borrowed $ to steal (embezzle) and value
to be stripped before we all realize it has crashed. The thieves also want to remain in control
of future $/finances so they may continue the quest to "rule the world". In my opinion the
system has crashed. .Gov is gone, justice system is gone, morals gone, medical integrity gone,
either it is gone or upside down. In San-Fran people walking dodge homeless and poopy
piles . Walking around in the wrong place gets you killed in NYC. The presidents idea of
progress is giving out free drug paraphernalia that is clean and "safe". Pharma is openly
killing people, and drugs, poisoned food and no health care is killing even more. Most
everything has already crashed and burned. And they are trying to kill us,more with each
passing day. Look out! Nukes incoming!
What would you have us do T.L.? Storm the Bastille? Become the domestic terrorist?
There is perhaps nothing we can do about DC and their partners in crime, bribed by Klaus
Schwab et al. We can hope to shore up our local communities by acting like humans and
caring for each other as like ourselves. You may be measuring others by your standards and REAL men. Half the country is obese, besotted with beer, sweet and salty snacks and frozen pizza.
Millions and millions are drugged and staring at their smart phones/likely most with the phones.
The only thing left are the remnant, the men and women that behave like men and women
were meant to. Would I like to lop off heads and fight to the death? Not really. I can't live
in a rage against evil. There is no where to start over, and no where to hide. A person like myself
can only hope for peace and the right to be left alone. Alone and near the woods, with the birds
and my beloved dogs and animals. I have a man, but he is in his second career, long haul
trucking. Everyone has the right to personal freedom when they strive for it. But we have
powerful enemies, the whole world does, and it is a very difficult time for all.
Control of ourselves and of our destiny belongs to the powerful. Power is currently centered in the government. The most efficient solution is to replace the government. That begins in November. Support rational candidates. The biggest lesson from the recent disasters is complacency kills. We who survived were lucky, but won't remain lucky if we remain complacent. Complacency about people who control us is always a terminal error. We have to be as vigilant about the next government as if our lives depend on it. They do.
"Support rational candidates"
NO. Your normalcy bias is showing. It's hard to wrangle with, I know.
I believe voting moves us backward.
First, your are qualifying the validity of a system that has been a lie for decades. There is no Blue and Red, only the pacifying marketing of giving sheep the illusion of choice.
Second, everyone in the federal system is corrupt. Feigned ignorance of the damage and exploitation they've caused should not, and will not, keep them from the Day of the Rope. Purge is the only way. Perhaps some of those lovely buildings can be saved but I doubt it. Even state-level worker bees and their handlers will likely be removed from resource consumption. At the least, banished from any civic power for life. Perhaps even their offspring (perhaps there is a genetic component that must be reckoned with?).
Third, the Opportunity Cost of hoping in an impossibility prevents you from thinking clearly and rationally. We must look ahead, prepare to weather the "Chaos" (see the Math version of this term), and be ready when a true opportunity to affect local change presents itself.
Voting harder is only showing how deeply you fear. I fear what's ahead, too. I pray for the deep, dark pain and suffering to come soon so that I can bear the majority of it and save my young family from much of it.
We will rebuild. My kin will be part of that.
So, it's Walt against the world. Good luck with that. Much more effective to work with others. Elections are just a mechanism for building communities. If it's not working for you, you're not doing it right.
Snarky. Good.
When you offer "voting" in this broad space, the term will be received by the majority to mean Red or Blue.
If your focus is localized affects for outcomes based on voting, it might be helpful to constrain your definition. We can then debate value and efficacy of the effort.
Feeding your own normalcy bias is fine. Doom awaits most of us but those that think a vote will change jet powered ride to the bottom we are on have self-selected. More resources for my kin and neighbors.
"You have a republic, madam, if you can keep it" - Ben Franklin
We didn't keep it. We haven't had a republic for a long, long time... maybe since 1865 according to some. Don't fret too much over the lack of, or the why, Americans haven't risen up against the tyranny. The social cohesiveness has been successfully destroyed as those who would control us engineered division amongst the various population groups who now identify with a particular 'tribe' rather than as Americans, all. Everyday more illegals arrive who don't give a shit about becoming an American and are distributed by the occupying illegitimate government all over the country.
The "Greatest Generation" was the last generation who had the stones to have put a stop to the tyranny but they are history now. Those American foundational beliefs had more bricks kicked out with each succeeding generation to the point there are no bricks remaining today. The communists have been hard at work for 100 years to accomplish that. The freaks just held a "Kink & Fetish" festival in San Francisco. Can you even imagine our Father's generation allowing something like that? Thats how far we have fallen, T.L. Every perversion known to Man is now openly praised and practiced in what once was America. We are under God's judgement, T.L. There is a strong connection between what we see here today and with ancient Israel and our ending will be the same.
I hearken the 1865 watershed. Good men, long ago, gave away the keys to America. And those holding the keys, the bankers (my catch all for nihilists, sociopaths, demons and their helpers) have been grooming the sheep and stripping the Treasury for generations.
We are not special. Instead, trapped in a cycle that seems to be a century-long alarm clock. Like God's Groundhog Day movie. See Genesis 3 as a primary source.
I am reading the "Devil" book as of last evening. $3.00 on the
infamous AMZ.
I really don't get why so many otherwise sane people are pro Putin... is it because the bare-chested tiger ride or something? Sure, Zelenski might be a little whiny bitch; sure Ukraine government might be corrupt... still, they didn't start the war. They wanted NATO protection? They sure did - Crimea and Feb 24th show why.
You might want to ponder why the Baltics or Poland or most of former Warsaw Pact are overwhelmingly behind Ukraine - let one Ukrainian lady explain:
https://nitter.hu/pic/orig/media%2FFZLbPv-WQAAAsLk.jpg
Jack.
Lesser of the evils is Putin, perhaps. I see Russia's move not against Ukraine but against the CIA (proxy to USA, proxy to globalists).
Ukraine has only been an idea for a few decades. Their culture is not unified IMO, as shown by the number of Russian speaking residents. Not to mention how many treated Russian soldiers as freedom fighters.
Most importantly, that global affairs, is our own country, assuming you are on U.S. ground. Our house is burning down. Focus on surviving the fire and having the capacity to rebuild. That beats world affairs.
> I see Russia's move not against Ukraine but against the CIA
Yet, it's Ukrainians they are killing...
> Ukraine has only been an idea for a few decades.
Sorry, you don't know what you are talking about, she might be an independent country just for a couple of decades recently, but she used to be quite a player in eastern Europe long before Moscow was established... up until about 15th century when Muscovites started to take over her territories. She was called Kievan Rus' back then.
After that Ukrainian lands/people were under rule of Lithuania, then Polish-Lithuanian union, then parceled out between Austro-Hungary and Russia and finally between Poland and Soviet Union. (BTW, as a Pole, I'm deeply ashamed of Polish government betrayal of Ukrainian allies after war of 1920.)
I’m thankful for the history, Jack. Your statement is partially correct in that I don’t know the deep history you offered.
A cursory review of recent dissident info from, and about, the area does support my position. And touché, the Butchers Bill is being paid, sadly, by the Ukrainian people.
I just subscribed for this post alone.
Of the few like-minded brothers I have regular conversations with, we all mimic with amazement the brazenness of our "betters" unmet with ANY resistance.
Given your observations are accurate objectively, and your commentary subjectively rings true, wisdom demands a non-obvious response.
For me and mine, that means patience. Painful, frustrating, often mentally cloudy patience.
Seeing the world clearly, and the likelihood of it slipping off the cliff with us trapped inside, often constrains restful sleep. Not because I don't feel prepared mentally, physically and resource-wise, but because it is going to collapse. And there is no timing it nor projecting locations it's likely to happen.
So navigating in the day-to-day, common tasks that we performed a week, a month or a decade ago, becomes a looming energy suck of "head on a swivel".
To your point TL, the plan is not an extraordinary moment when the sides are clear for even the most sleepy sheep. The plan is to take away the will to respond through the slow drip of grinding frustration.
Waiting is hard. Luck favors the prepared. No one is coming. Everything is my responsibility. Kill those that need killing, save those that need saving. (Ode to Graham Combat's Killhouse Rules).