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Zerg rush vs. geopolitical judo

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Let’s return to the Ukraine war.

The things are proceeding slowly, but conforming to my predictions; the Russians are slowly grinding down the Ukrainian fortifications in Eastern Ukraine, and apparently they are treating this as part of their military training; they are rotating troops with the apparent goal of providing as much of their military with combat experience, while limiting strain to individual units. The goal of this is to have as much of their military as possible in the state of greatest possible battle readiness in case of a much bigger war.

Also, we need to look at this from a strategic viewpoint. The declared strategic goal of NATO is to weaken and cripple Russia, both economically and militarily. Ukraine is only a weapon, a sacrificial country whose purpose is to die on the sacred altar of harming Russia. From Russian perspective, the strategic goal is to apply geopolitical Judo – don’t directly oppose force with force, use the enemy’s actions against them (and I don’t mean the Ukrainians), trip them out of balance, avoid being caught into something that will prove to be a death spiral as a function of time, always see the big picture and try to get long-term outcomes that are favourable. Seeing Russia as a bear is popular in the west, but it’s very deceptive, because that picture would make sense during the reign of that lumbering drunkard Yeltsin. The Russians are trying to navigate a complicated line between traps and pitfalls, avoiding a nuclear confrontation if at all possible, avoiding huge military losses if at all possible, avoiding situations where their enemies have the upper hand, and keeping their economy in a good condition. Winning the war in Ukraine exists only in the context of those priorities, meaning that they don’t care about finishing it quickly. They want to finish it in a way that will minimize their losses and maximize the difficulties and financial pressures to their enemies; “quickly” doesn’t even enter the equation, because it’s not some super-expensive war across seven oceans and seven mountains; it’s their own back yard, with supply lines so short, it might as well be a standard military exercise. Yes, people die, but the Americans and the British made sure they would die in any case, so it might as well be on Russian terms.

If American type of warfare is a “Zerg rush”, Russian type of warfare is geopolitical science. It’s actually weird how it conforms almost perfectly to a mathematically ideal model of minimal expenditure of resources. If Americans intended to bleed Russia, they achieved the opposite, because the Russians can keep this up indefinitely, while their enemies created a black hole for resources that is sucking in their collective economies.

Land of a Thousand Fables

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In one of the extension packs of the Witcher 3 game, the “Blood and wine”, the authors managed to make an excellent and accurate illustration of an actual “astral” process; they called it the “magical entropy”. Spoilers ahead, because I’ll have to provide a description.

Basically, a court mage created an illusory fairy-tale reality where the two princesses could play with the fairy-tale characters when they were children. However, the girls grew up, everybody forgot about the place for decades but it continued existing, and decomposing, to the point where the characters became crazy, malevolent and dangerous. The three little piggies became the three huge aggressive pigs, the big bad wolf killed the red riding hood and the hunter and threw them into the well, and now drinks with the pirates, the pixies are attacking everyone indiscriminately, the girl with the matches is a drug dealer, the Longlocks hanged herself by her own hair because the Prince Charming never came to her rescue because he broke his neck falling down the broken stairs of her tower, and so on.

This behavior of “magical structures” is in fact real and well known in the literature; Alexandra David-Neel, for instance, described behavioral degradation of a tulpa she created, where it became more and more nasty and malevolent with time. This happens as the energy invested in the entity by its creator is depleted, and it loses ability to access higher spiritual states, because this requires more energy. Basically, it loses the highest things it could originally access first, and then progressively degrades to the point of being able to access only the lowest demonic states, after which it completely loses coherence. You can call it astral entropy, tulpa degradation, or structural decomposition; doesn’t really matter, because none of the terms describe the phenomenon completely, and completely new terminology should be devised. What matters is that astral structures have a very distinct and recognizeable pattern of degradation, and they are by design net energy negative, meaning they would require a constant influx of energy in order to maintain a stable state, and if they are not externally powered, they degrade along the arrow of time. The way you need to design astral structures if you don’t want them to degrade is to provide them with either a power reserve, in form of a spiritual “crystal”, which is basically very condense and coherent form of localized spiritual energy, which then acts as some sort of a “soul” that drives the astral structure you designed, or you need to provide it with a link to God, that will keep it permanently powered, but this won’t work if the structure is in any way incompatible with God’s will and nature, but there are ways around this (for instance, when God delegates a duty to grant or deny access to another spiritual being, and this being makes a mistake due to negligence or outright stupidity). There is a third way, that is the darkest black magic by definition, and it consists of tricking souls into forming some sort of a symbiotic relationship with the entity, where they are tricked into powering it, and deluded into believing that they will somehow benefit from the process.

Why is any of this relevant? Well, it is in fact most relevant, because that’s where we are. This world is the “Land of a Thousand Fables”, and it’s powered in several ways: by our own energy captured through deception, by stolen spiritual crystals, and partially, probably, by the will of God, because Satan obtained permission to run his experiment unopposed, for a time. The reason magical entropy, as described in the game, crossed my mind, is because it is an excellent explanation of the phenomenon we are faced with. The structure we are locked within is going to hell because it lost power, which means it is progressively losing access to higher spiritual states, and acting exactly like you would expect from a tulpa that is depleted of energy.

The very specific aspect of this process, that is taking place as we speak, is America losing its “mystique” and attractiveness, like a wicked witch that magically presented herself as a beautiful and good lady, and the magical makeup is starting to show holes, revealing evil and rot underneath.

Inclusivity

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I watched an ad for the Google Pixel 6 phone yesterday:

I initially wanted to see the specs of the phone, but it turns out the ad was very revealing, in a political sense, the way reading the early writings of Marx is revealing – you just see all the robbery, poverty and starvation in the future. In case of this ad, you see the desired future as written by the present-day America: everybody is shallow, stupid, perverted, lame and obsessed with completely irrelevant garbage, and almost nobody is white. Also, everybody is content and smiling, for some reason.

That’s called “inclusivity”, which is another one of the newspeak misnomers; it actually means removing all the successful people from positions of power and calling it “social justice”; if everybody is black and brown, they say, the world will be a paradise.

No, fuckwits, because there already is a “planet” where everybody is black, it’s called Africa and it’s a shithole. The new America and Europe where everybody is black wouldn’t look like a Google ad, it would look like this:

That’s the “dreamworld” where everybody is black, the only thing that’s out of place are the electricity poles, because you won’t get any of that in a black people’s world. That’s white people stuff. Also, the phones, running water, in-door plumbing, radio, TV, Internet, satellite navigation, and so on. You shit in the bush, wash your arse in a creek, and you get parasites. Also, you drink water from that creek in which everybody washes their arse, and into which the elephants shit. Also, it’s ruled by gangs wielding machetes. AK-47s are all fine but they are made by the white people, too, so no ammo for those in Wakanda.

Besides, since when is “inclusive” a good word? How is it a desirable quality? Would you want a sexual partner that is “inclusive”, in a sense that anyone can fuck them? Would you want to send your kids to a school that is “inclusive”, in a sense that anyone can get in? Do you want a job that is “inclusive”, in a sense that anyone can do it? I didn’t fucking think so. Inclusive isn’t good, unless you’re a retard, a whore and a loser. Exclusive is good. Exclusive is a thing to strive for. You want a job that’s so demanding that only a few can do it, and you want to be one of the few. You want a woman who will have only one man, she wants the best and you want to be that best one. You don’t want a car anyone can have, you want a really good, exclusive one. You want to send your kid to a school that has so stringent criteria that only the best can have a hope of passing the qualifying exams.

Inclusive, that’s where you don’t want to be, if you have any self respect. Aim for the stars, because mountains are not high enough.

The ever tightening grip

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I watched this video last night:

Basically, with Windows 10 it was “recommended” that you turn on the UEFI encryption keys and the “trusted platform” stuff. In Windows 11, it was a precondition for installation. Now they are planning to build something into the CPU itself, so that you can’t run an OS that hasn’t been approved by Microsoft, basically. What the author of the video didn’t say, and what I find glaringly obvious, is that this isn’t about Microsoft, it’s about America. They want to make sure that “their technology” can’t be used by anyone on their sanctioned entity list, because, if you pay attention, you will see that Microsoft, Apple, Google and similar extensions of NSA routinely sanction countries that refuse to bend over to America, by the principle of “if you refuse to be our slaves we’ll take our toys away”. Let’s say that Macs and iPhones outright refuse to work in any truly sovereign country. You take a thumb drive with Linux, install it, set it up and take a slight hit in comfort and productivity because the open source stuff isn’t written by people whose pay check depends on all the details being polished. However, you will still get the job done, and in some aspects the Linux way of doing things is actually better. I was actually quite productive on Linux when I had it on all my personal systems; the only exception is photography, because nothing on Linux is even in the same decade as Lightroom. But would I manage; oh yes. And if Windows/Mac didn’t really exist as an alternative, I would venture a guess that excellent Russian and Chinese commercial software would start appearing for Linux in short order. So, things would not only work, but also improve with time.

However, if the Americans succeed in putting this “trusted platform” shit in the CPU, it means that you won’t be able to run Linux or BSD on any American-designed hardware anywhere in the free world (because that’s what the “sanctioned entities list” really is). It’s not unexpected, and I actually think they are kind of late with this, but if anyone thinks Microsoft could lobby to put this stuff in Intel and AMD CPU designs without not only approval, but direct order from the NSA (and probably other deep-state structures as well), I have real estate on the Moon to sell you.

So, what does this mean in practice? Is it worrisome enough to warrant an immediate transition to non-American-designed computer architecture and non-American OS? Yes, if you’re a sovereign state. For individuals, it’s a more complicated matter. It’s worrisome enough for me to warrant building and maintaining redundant systems I can use in case this becomes a problem.

Top Gun Maverick review

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I watched the new Top Gun movie recently and I actually liked it, but I couldn’t help myself noticing a few things that probably make sense to Americans, and to nobody else.

The hypersonic Mach 10 prototype in the beginning of the movie would have been Russian. The Americans can’t pull that off.

The mission is to bomb some sort of “rogue state’s” underground nuclear facility that’s protected by SAM’s and 5-gen fighters. What kind of a country has 5-gen fighters and still doesn’t have nukes? The 5-gen fighters in the movie are the SU-57 with a dark color scheme, probably to appear more villainous, but the target description looks more like Iran. The target is an underground facility inside something that looks like a deep crater in the mountains, which makes no sense whatsoever, because how would that thing even get built there? Also, why would anyone build it in terrain so difficult to defend properly, and then leave the “air vent” at the bottom of the damn crater where it’s actually the least likely to vent anything? This looks like something of a Bond villain’s lair, if anything, but I guess the Americans think it’s perfectly plausible that “villains” do crazy things like that. After all, they are “rogue” and “crazy” and intend to destroy the world because, well, evil.

The mission is almost an ideal case for either a cruise missile attack through the canyon, using TERCOM/DSMAC guidance, or an overhead attack from either high altitude or using a hypersonic deorbiting vehicle. To use fighter jets in such a scenario is utterly insane, for several reasons. First, the probability of success is extremely low, because it exceeds realistic capability of both pilots and airplanes. Second, the political implications of planes shot down and pilots getting captured and paraded on TV are unpleasant. Third, the tomahawks give you an almost endless number of second chances, unlike the fighter-bomber assault, which either works in the first attempt or not at all. Also, the tomahawks were indeed used to attack a nearby airfield, which implies that they went through the target air defenses without difficulty, which is not realistic, but if it worked on the airfield, why not through the canyon and into the crater? After all, the Tomahawks don’t really need to be fast, since they are not attempting to get out of there alive after striking the target.

The assault is launched from an aircraft carrier, and it somehow doesn’t get noticed in advance, there are no enemy ships with anti-aircraft missiles intercepting the assault, there are no radar stations on the coast to detect either the airplanes or the Tomahawks, and yet the country has lethal air defenses elsewhere, and 5-gen fighters. How in the hell would that be a realistic scenario? Even Iran would send a hundred patrol boats with MANPADs to harass the intruder. Anyone capable would have the shore bristling with mobile radars and rocket launches the moment American fleet was noticed anywhere near the nautical border. The canyon and crater defenses would be the last line of defense, not the first thing the Americans would encounter. In fact, the aircraft carrier would have to live in constant fear of being struck by hypersonic missiles from either the shore or the enemy ships, in a several hundred kilometer range. Also, it would have to live in fear of enemy hunter-seeker submarines. After all, we’re talking about a foe that has SU-57 fighters. The moment the enemy figures out where the attack came from, that aircraft carrier is in acute danger of becoming a radioactive coral reef.

The defending SU-57 fighter jets are called “bandits” by the Americans. How is someone defending his country from a foreign invader a “bandit”? But that’s how the Americans see the world. A country doing things on its own territory that America did during the WW2 is “rogue”, its defenders are “bandits”, and the Americans attacking a foreign country by a sneak Pearl Harbor-like attack, they are the “good guys”.

Other than that, the movie was great. 🙂