After the war. Real Anthony Fauci movie.

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I wrote recently about the fact that Ukrainian soldiers have been trained abroad. It will have an impact well beyond this war.

Wars change societies in significant and often beneficial ways. American society was transformed by World War II. A generation of men was hardened by first the Great Depression and then the war. They had been snatched out of their small hometowns and they had seen the world. Returning to civilian life they became the leaders in the country's most successful generation. They knew how to make decisions and get things done.

Ukrainian soldiers are having the chance to use the English that they learned in school. They have the opportunity to see how Western Europe lives. They're being forced to examine the meaning of their lives. Young women are living in foreign countries, learning other languages, and reacting to the situations in which they find themselves.

Ukraine is being quickly integrated into Europe. The historical distrust between Ukrainians and Poles has evaporated. Poland is proving a great friend in Ukraine's hour of need. They have a strong interest in repelling our longtime common enemy, Russia. The similarity between the Russian and Polish languages is giving Ukrainians an opportunity to learn a third language with relative ease.

Ukrainians are learning to appreciate what is good about their own country. When they observe the anxiety that the influx of Middle Eastern and African immigrants has brought to their host countries, they appreciate the safety and tranquility of their native land, in which everybody is pretty much the same. Our most visible underclass, the Gypsies, are relatively few in number and not given to violent crime. Ukrainians observe their children being poorly educated as they are immersed in woke propaganda. They will not gripe so much about socialized medicine in Ukraine after seeing how poorly it works even in rich countries. 

This war is unique in terms of the numbers within the different categories of people involved. Huge numbers of refugees headed West – three or four million. There are millions of internally displaced people, fleeing the East to avoid the Russians.

Tens of thousands of civilians have died at the hands of the Russians. However, the number of military casualties is minuscule compared to Ukraine's experience during the  Holodomor and the Great Patriotic War. Though the count of those killed in action is a closely held secret, the best guesses place it at about 10,000. Compare that with 10 million military and civilian dead in the ‘30s and ‘40s.

In the World War II everybody knew Gold Star Mothers – those who had lost sons in the war. I know a great many people in Kyiv who have been displaced and gone overseas. I know young men who have gone abroad to avoid the draft. But nobody has told me that they have lost family members serving in the military. The 20 and 30-year-old people I know in Kyiv don't even feel pressured to join the military. So far as I can tell, the army has all the manpower it needs.

In every society there is a class difference between those who serve and those who don't. It is the kids from the countryside, the kids that did not go to university, kids for whom the military is a reasonable career choice. The same is true in Ukraine. The people I know are mostly university educated.  It is entirely reasonable that they do not wind up in the military.

The Jews have left Russia in droves to avoid military service and also simply to avoid economic hardship. Israel welcomes them. Jews have left Ukraine, in smaller numbers but for the same reasons. The Gypsy population is neither well educated nor socialized. My guess is that they avoid military service in both countries, and it is overlooked because they would not make good soldiers anyhow. 

The Russian Empire was an agglomeration of peoples. Unlike America, the aspiration was not to make a melting pot in which they all became alike, but to sustain their separate identities. The czars exploited their differences so they would not threaten the centers of power.

Cossacks were an example. The czars chose Cossack units for their martial ability and the fact they were foreign and feared. Probably also for their ability to terrorize the Jews, a perpetually troublesome group. In this war the czar has used semi-civilized Buryats, Chechens, and Dagestani tribesmen to inflict terror on Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, Irpin and Izyum.  The Russian occupiers of Crimea, like their Soviet ancestors, are being especially cruel to the indigenous Tatars. They force them into military service, confiscate their businesses and otherwise make life difficult. The Tatars were always independent. They favor Ukraine simply for leaving them alone.

The Russian nomenklatura and military brass quite callously send soldiers from the hinterland to die in Ukraine. It is not only ethnics. The Wagner group of mercenaries scours Russia’s prisons for people willing to risk their lives fighting us. Although by the same sort of inexact arithmetic Russia has lost 65,000 soldiers in Ukraine, six times Ukraine’s losses, they were not generally the kind of people who matter to Putin. That’s why his mobilization of 300,000 new soldiers is so dangerous to him. This sweep will take in real ethnic Russians, his power base.

After the war Ukraine will be invited into everything European: NATO, the European Union, the banking system and so on. That is both good and bad news. Those institutions are already suffering internal dissension that is likely to dissolve them. We can hope that once the smoke of war clears, Ukraine will see through the clear light of day that its community of interest does not extend for the most part west of the Visegrad countries. Moreover, that the resistance of these countries – Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Baltics to mandates from the unelected EU nomenklatura is well-founded. They are better off without the woke agenda of no borders, endless diversity and gender fluidity.

Here’s a very insightful article from a Russian dissident that touches on these themes.

They made a movie out of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s book “The Real Anthony Fauci.”  In an effort to get a groundswell of publicity, they are making it free to view for ten days only. I took them up on the offer, intending to simply make a copy. However, glancing at it from time to time as it was recording I got sucked in. It features two of my pen pals, Celia Farber and Stephanie Seneff, who come off looking very good. Aside from them, it is a who’s who of Team Reality: Peter McCullough, Sherri Tenpenny, Pierre Kory, Mark Crispin Miller, Mary Holland, Vera Sharav, Naomi Wolf, Tess Lawrie, Whitney Webb, Joseph Mercola, Michael Yeadon, Harvey Risch, Robert Malone, and Paul Marik. There are clips from the deceased Kary Mullis and Luc Montaigner.  They also have wonderful footage of people on the dark side: Bill Gates, Fauci himself, the FDA and CDC.  You have to ask yourself why it takes no cinematic tricks to make them look like the evil liars they are. And given that, how in the world can so many people believe them?

The investigation of the AIDS crisis is the most interesting part of the movie. Just about every move they made with Covid was simply a repeat of lessons learned in the 1980s. If the evil people learned, why couldn’t we? Maybe we are. Here is ultraliberal Vox magazine lamenting the fact that so much legislation is being introduced to give people freedom of choice when it comes to childhood vaccines.

That’s the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the good-looking woman is taking Eddie to the doctor to find out how come his nose is stuffed up all the time. With Zoriana in kindergarten, that leaves me and grandmother with Marianna. It gives me time to edit. No excuses today of errors slip through.

Graham