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Dinesh D'Souza is an author and filmmaker.
He used to be a mere pundit, but then he made a little documentary and they tried to cancel him...
A graduate of Dartmouth College, he was a senior domestic policy analyst in the Reagan administration. He also served as a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
He is the author of many bestselling books, including "Illiberal Education," "What's So Great About Christianity," "America: Imagine a World Without Her," "The Roots of Obama's Rage," "Death of a Nation," and "United States of Socialism."
His documentary films "2016: Obama's America," "America," "Hillary's America," "Death of a Nation," and "Trump Card" are among the highest-grossing political documentaries of all time. He and his wife Debbie are also executive producers of the acclaimed feature film "Infidel."
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“Extensive combat experience and experience in military service developed his powerful military talent. Through the hard work of a Russian combat officer, unparalleled personal courage, discipline and talent, Kutuzov achieved success, which marked his life’s path” - these words of the historian Nikolai Korobkov from his book “Field Marshal Kutuzov” very accurately characterize the worthy student of Suvorov.
On September 16 (September 5, old style), 1745 (according to other sources, 1747), the future great commander and talented diplomat Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov was born in St. Petersburg. In the electronic collections of the Presidential Library, as part of the special collection “Patriotic War of 1812,” the field marshal is given a significant place; a lot of little-known materials are presented concerning the history of his life and military victories.
Mikhail Illarionovich's father, a military engineer, lieutenant general and senator, had a great influence on the education and upbringing of his son. Mikhail Kutuzov graduated with honors from the Noble Artillery School, in 1761 he was promoted to ensign and appointed company commander of the Astrakhan Infantry Regiment, headed by Colonel Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov.
In the fall of 1790, Kutuzov commanded a separate corps, participating in Suvorov’s assault on the Izmail fortress. In the above-mentioned book by Nikolai Korobkov we read: “Suffering heavy losses, Kutuzov asked Suvorov for support, but received the answer that a report on the capture of Izmail had already been sent to Russia, and he appointed Kutuzov himself commandant of Izmail. Kutuzov, having gathered the grenadier and rangers, led them to the bastion for the third time. His troops paved their way to the fortress with bayonets.”
The victory was complete, although “there was no stronger fortress, no more desperate defense than Ishmael. Only once in a lifetime can one launch such an assault,” said Suvorov. Subsequently, Kutuzov asked Suvorov what his appointment as commandant of Izmail at the time of the assault meant. “Nothing,” he replied. – Kutuzov knows Suvorov, and Suvorov knows Kutuzov. If Izmail had not been taken, Suvorov would have died under its walls and Kutuzov too.”
At the end of the war with the Turks, Kutuzov, promoted to lieutenant general, was summoned to St. Petersburg. From this time on, a long period of his diplomatic and military-administrative service began. Thanks to his intelligence, education, breadth of outlook and ability to win over people, Kutuzov achieved outstanding success in the diplomatic field.
Ensign Mikhail Kutuzov began his officer service in an infantry regiment commanded by Colonel Alexander Suvorov
In October 1792, Mikhail Illarionovich was appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary in Constantinople. “This mission was considered the most difficult, because complex conflicting interests of a number of European states were intertwined in Turkey,” notes the collection “Field Marshal Kutuzov.” “Kutuzov had to consolidate with the art of diplomacy what was won on the battlefields.”
He completed the assignment brilliantly. “He impressed the Turks with the pomp and splendor of the embassy, and his courtesy and courtesy gained him the favor of the Sultan, the vizier and Turkish dignitaries.” The ambassador strengthened the authority and influence of the Russian state in the East, and most importantly, supplied Suvorov with the most reliable reports to Russia. At a time when the Generalissimo was told that the Porte supposedly intended to declare war on Russia in three months, Kutuzov wrote to the capital:
“...According to my notes, I do not believe that the break with us is so close. Its fortresses, which have collapsed everywhere, have not been brought into a completely defensive state; Its fleet is not yet strong.” And the forecast came true. “Turkey never decided to declare war on Russia,” says the publication “Field Marshal Kutuzov.”
In 1795, Kutuzov was appointed commander-in-chief of all ground forces, flotillas and fortresses in Finland, at the same time governor-general of Kazan and Vyatka and director of the Imperial Land Nobility Cadet Corps.
From 1806 to 1812, Russia waged war with Turkey. In 1811, Kutuzov surrounded the 70,000-strong Turkish army, pressing the Grand Vizier's troops to the Danube. Next, the commander, using his experience as a diplomat, skillfully brought the matter to the signing by the Turks of the Bucharest Peace Treaty, which was beneficial for Russia, where Turkey was not taken into account as an enemy of Russia at the critical moment of the outbreak of the war with Napoleon.
At the beginning of the 1812 campaign against the French, Kutuzov was in St. Petersburg as commander of the Narva Corps, then the St. Petersburg militia, and on August 8 (20) of the same year, Alexander I appointed him commander-in-chief of the 1st and 2nd united armies.
“When leaving for the army in 1812, to the question of one of his relatives: “Do you, uncle, really hope to defeat Napoleon?” - he replied: “Break? No! But I hope to deceive,” says the author of books on military history, Esper Zhelyabuzhsky, in his essay “The Patriotic War of 1812 and Kutuzov.”
“The strategic consequences of the Battle of Borodino were enormous,” writes military historian Nikolai Korobkov in the preface to the collection “Kutuzov in 1812.” – But since the enemy’s forces were only broken here, Kutuzov, for the sake of the interests of Russia, decided to temporarily sacrifice Moscow, to turn it into a disastrous trap for the enemy. The decision... required from the commander such confidence in his foresight, such a sense of responsibility towards his historical mission and such faith in the people that it was much more difficult to decide on this step than to give the enemy battle under the walls of the capital, as demanded by the tsar, society, headquarters and army".
“During the war, the meaning of Kutuzov’s actions remained unclear to the winner of Europe; even the Russian generals did not understand this simple and ingenious plan, in which retreat was the beginning of the path to victory,” notes the publication “Kutuzov in 1812.” In response to the peace proposal brought by Lauriston, Kutuzov could calmly answer: “You’re kidding, Mr. Marshal. Have you forgotten that until now all we have done is retreat?
The war is just beginning for us.” The same publication says: “How correct Kutuzov’s calculations were is shown by the numbers: Napoleon’s 100,000-strong army that left Moscow after Dorogobuzh numbered only 50 thousand people, and after Smolensk - barely 36 thousand. When the frosts began - the last of the factors taken into account by Kutuzov - only a small part of the “great army” survived.”
[RT] The dollar-based global financial system is not balanced as it does not meet the interests of all countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday at the plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club.
According to Putin, the dominance of the American currency has to end, which is already happening, while the US authorities are "shooting themselves in the foot."
"The Bretton Woods system — it was once created on the basis of the dollar, but all this is gradually collapsing. Currency is a derivative of the power of the country’s economy, which issues this currency," the Russian leader pointed out.
In addition, the share of the US economy in global GDP is declining, as evidenced by statistical data, Putin emphasized.
According to the president, Washington is used to printing money in order to cover its budget deficit, and will continue the policy as long as needed.
"They will print more. They printed, well, more than $9 trillion during the Covid and post-Covid period. Therefore, it costs them nothing to print something else and scatter it all over the world, thus increasing food inflation. They will do it for sure," Putin predicted.
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Biden and company are working hard on that. They're too 'smart' to understand that totally collapsing the economy will destroy the one major function holding the country together.
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I see all sorts of anecdotes about this. But there is a comprehensive study of currencies involved in international trade conducted triennially by the Bank for International Settlements (which is about the only source that actually has all the data.) They show virtually no change in USD participation in international trade 2001-22.
https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt2212x.htm
see chart A-1.
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Strippers will be hit hardest.
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[BabylonBee] LOS ANGELES — According to sources, federal agents confronted a group of Antifa rioters who were in the middle of burning down a courthouse so they could ask them if they'd seen any dangerous MAGA around.
"Hey friends, you see any of them dangerous MAGA around?" a special agent later identified as David Friedkin reportedly asked while attempting to shield his face from the blaze. "It is imperative that we find them before they do something dangerous like calmly walk inside a federal building or vote for the wrong presidential candidate."
Witnesses claim one of the Antifa rioters was kind enough to stop throwing Molotov cocktails so he could answer. "Well golly gee wiz, mister! No MAGA types here, but that sure does sound dangerous!"
"But we've been pretty busy burning down this building. Buildings don't burn themselves!" the loveable scamp added.
"Thank you, citizen," the agent allegedly said before running across the street to assault a bystander who was wearing a red hat.
Federal authorities are asking all American citizens to be on the lookout for dangerous MAGA extremists. If you suspect someone of being a MAGA, please contact the authorities immediately, or at least throw Molotov cocktails at them.
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Its funny because its true.
There was a counter protest by 'extreme right wingers' that a group of people wearing swastikhakis attempts to infiltrate; they get chased off and some get identified as agents.
[American Thinker] So, eight conservatives have successfully ousted Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House and much of the conservative punditry is angry!
What does that tell us?
It tells us that all those RINOs who voted to retain McCarthy are not conservatives. That any member of Congress can and does vote to perpetuate the brutally irresponsible spending of the uniparty that runs the swamp which should be a wake-up call for all Americans.
Congress can't stop spending and the Fed can't stop printing money to do it. Modern monetary theory is a joke; printing money backed by nothing is a dangerous way to operate. It’s a pathway to catastrophic economic failure. We are nearly there. What is so shocking is that several of our most prestigious conservative columnists and commentators agree with the RINOs; There's Mark Levin, Victor Davis Hanson, and John Hinderaker, for example. Each of them are fiscal conservatives who grasp the nature of the disaster that is the Biden administration. And yet they are mad at Matt Gaetz! He is the sanest and bravest member of this Congress.
Is it because they all are Fox News pundits? We all know that the Murdochs are Trump-deranged. Every Fox host — Laura Ingraham and Brian Kilmeade, for example — is anti-Gaetz.
What’s up? Have they been warned against supporting McCarthy’s ouster? Seems plausible. Despite their citizenships of convenience, the Murdochs are not Americans; they could not care less about the survival of this nation. They are globalists, part of the WEF — proponents of a one world government that they control. The Republicans who are on board with the WEF surely would love Kevin McCarthy and fear Matt Gaetz like they do President Trump.
What if everything is about perpetuating the war in Ukraine?
We all know now that Joe Biden is the most corrupt president in U.S. history. He has taken millions of dollars from China, Ukraine, Romania; those are just the nations we know about. The man and his family are a terrible blight on this country. He was installed, not elected. He is the puppet of the globalist left. He says and does what he is ordered to say and do by his globalist masters. That should be obvious to everyone.
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McCarthy committed to doing a bunch of things that he didn’t do and that he had no intention of doing. He was held accountable which never happens in Congress. If Matt Gaetz is a villain for that, then we need more villains. He did it at about the right time. Biden’s polling numbers on immigration must truly be horrendous.
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Seeing the squatter Pelosi take the walk of shame the first day of the coup was worth the price of admission alone.
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Yes, villains like Gaetz playing the Simon Legree part while MSM is Tess clutching her pearls.
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Pelosi was extremely upset today , and exposed the homosexual boyfriend of senator Lindsay Graham
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[RT] "All the world’s a stage," proclaimed the hero of a Shakespearean comedy. If we follow this metaphor, presidential elections in America are always a multi-act drama, often turning into a melodrama with elements of tragicomedy and even farce. Major and minor characters perform on the political stage, sudden plot twists are punctuated by various special effects, and culminate in a colorful extravaganza in November of each leap year.
The audience watching the play from inside the theater can only follow the actors’ performances, trying to keep up with the rapid unfolding of the plot’s intricacies, and wonder how the show will end. But unlike the conclusion of a Shakespearean comedy, much depends on the outcome of the US election. So, even if the opening of the show doesn’t herald a stunning display of stagecraft, the world’s attention will be focused on the American political scene in one way or another.
Two categories clearly stand out among audiences of this theater. The first can be conventionally described as political romantics. This group does not demand a reading from the actor, but a complete death in earnest. The romantics always talk about the "historic choice," about the critical "bifurcation point" in the development of the US, and about the "fateful" significance of this electoral cycle both for America and for the rest of humanity.
Another category are the conventional skeptics. They assume that, for all its splendor and even pomp, the process will make little difference to the lives of Americans, let alone to all the other inhabitants of our planet. Mark Twain, who clearly belonged to the skeptical camp, is credited with perhaps the most emphatic credo of the latter: "If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it."
These two categories are certainly present in Russia. Our romantics always hope that a change of team in the White House will open up new opportunities in relations between our two countries. Today, they assume that there can be no one worse for Russia than the incumbent US president. They remind us that, since Richard Nixon, it has always been easier for Moscow to deal with pragmatic Republicans than with ideological Democrats. They also pay tribute to Donald Trump, generously quoting his recent reassuring statements about Russia.
Skeptics, for their part, stress that American foreign policy has always been bipartisan and that there is a strong negative consensus against Russia in the American political establishment. They also often bring up Trump, but only as a clear illustration of the fact that even a US president who is generally favorable to Moscow is inevitably powerless in the face of the all-powerful ’deep state’.
Probably both romantics and skeptics have their own truth. But if the skeptics are right in general, the romantics may be sometimes correct. Indeed, there is now a broad and enduring anti-Russian consensus in the US — broader and more enduring than even a similar anti-China consensus. The White House and Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department, the leading media and influential think tanks generally have, if not unified, then very close positions on Moscow, and these positions are unlikely to change even in the medium term.
Nevertheless, any new team in Washington has to distinguish itself from the old one and prove its undeniable superiority over its predecessors. This means new nuances in foreign policy. For example, the Republicans will not abandon military support for Kiev, but they will have to take into account that foreign aid programs have never been popular with voters, especially conservative ones. Why not? Ds dropped Afghanistan, Rs can drop Ukraine.
It is therefore reasonable to expect that the Republicans will seek to tighten control over how US military and other aid to Ukraine is spent. We can also expect them to push for a "fairer" distribution of the burden of military support for Ukraine between Washington and its European allies.
Moreover, US approaches to Russia should be seen in the broader context of US foreign policy. For example, Democrats have traditionally been much more concerned than their Republican opponents about promoting liberal values around the world. This fixation wins Joe Biden points in predominantly liberal Europe, but creates problems with such important "illiberal" or "not quite liberal" US partners like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, or even India.
A Republican victory would be enthusiastically welcomed in these countries, but would pose a serious challenge to fragile transatlantic unity. These differences, though not radical, need to be taken into account by all international actors, including Russia.
As always, the Republican elephant in opposition today demands change, while the Democratic donkey in power wants things to hold firm. A victory for Biden in next November’s election would mean another four years of the status quo, unless the aging president is forced to leave office before January 2029. A victory for any Republican candidate would trigger a process of revision of policy, creating both new opportunities and new challenges for America and the rest of the world.
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Maybe the other countries don’t understand the idea of the Uni-party.
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^They understand perfectly well that it doesn't apply to foreign policy - changing the man in the White House is a common excuse for changing a particular foreign policy
[BEE] WASHINGTON, D.C. — Newly sworn-in California Senator Laphonza Butler expressed excitement about her new job, citing the short commute to work from her home state of Maryland.
"It's a real time-saver," Butler said. "As a senator for California, it's so convenient to not have to be a resident of the state. I never would have thought that would be allowed, but here I am! Now I can somehow represent the state of California while being a Maryland native. My travel expenses are almost nothing!"
California Governor Gavin Newsom has been criticized for appointing a resident of Maryland to fill the vacant seat left behind by the late Dianne Feinstein. "My criteria was very simple," Newsom said when asked about the appointment. "I wanted someone who was a woman. I wanted someone who was black. The fact that she's a gay communist is a major bonus. The fact that she's going to the United States Senate to represent the people of California while not being from California is completely irrelevant."
Butler remained upbeat despite the criticism. "I'm really hoping to make a difference," she said. "It's my goal to be a representative that the people of the great state of Maryland — er, sorry, I keep doing that — I mean the people of California can really be proud of."
At publishing time, Governor Newsom had once again assured Senator Butler that the residency issue would not be any kind of problem, since no California senator has actually represented the interests of California residents in decades.
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...FWIW, interesting article the other day that suggested her residency may not be a problem now due to the Constitution's wording and California law - but if she runs for election to the seat and she hasn't established a robust residency in CA, it's illegal as hell.
I suspect that this is the way it's going to work out - by naming her, Governor Hairgel didn't have to piss off any of the people actually running for SEN Feinstein's seat. She'll decline to run (having racked up a full Senate pension, by the by)in '24, and then it's back to 'normal' CA politics.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BabylonBee] LOS ANGELES — According to sources, federal agents confronted a group of Antifa rioters who were in the middle of burning down a courthouse so they could ask them if they'd seen any dangerous MAGA around.
