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"Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea: the ex-wife analogy"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...the man who ruined your company."

Lots of East Indians, Kenyans, Lesothans, etc. are convinced that their parents and grandparents chased out the British on their own. Defeated them in some way. Steve's sentiment is just as delusional.

3/6/14, 4:59 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"“Before I went into the Ivy League everyone had a preconceived notion of the Princeton offense, a bunch of white guys passing the ball around and chucking up a lot of 3s,” said forward Justin Sears, a sophomore who leads Yale with 16.3 points a game. “The game is changing.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/sports/ncaabasketball/harvard-and-yale-step-it-up-reshaping-ivy-league-basketball.html?hpw&rref=sports

3/6/14, 5:11 PM

Anonymous AnotherDad said...

The Crimea is Russian.

Putin seized the opportunity provided by yet more feckless pompous meddling by our "global cosmopolitan" masters ... to grab it back for Russia. Good for him.

And honestly, no big loss for Ukraine if its goal is to be a "nation".

3/6/14, 5:51 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The ex-wife analogy is BRILLIANT.

3/6/14, 5:52 PM

Blogger Modern Abraham said...

I think chances are fair that sometime after 2016, Sam Power gets boob implants, then she and Obama elope after divorcing their respective spouses.

What I mean is that of all Obama's underlings, perhaps she is closest to him in terms of core idealism. The question is, is Obama wisely just going through the motions here (making noises early on even though he couldn't give a fig about Ukraine so that Putin stops well short of any true red-line), or does he really want to move the hands of the Doomsday Clock 1 minute closer to midnight for the sake of World War G?

I have no doubt Samantha Power is a tru-believin' nutjob, and so the analogy is more like eldercare from grown children. Liberal trans-Atlantic elites are sincerely convinced of their own boundless goodness, but would you give over total control of your life to an adult child even if you knew they loved you and had only the purest intentions?

"Dad, I think you should give me the car keys and let me drive you from now on."
"But I'm only 57!"

"Dad, I think we need to start watching what you eat. Let me buy all your groceries from now on."
"But the doctor says my cholesterol is fine!"


Even if you were convinced the EU was entirely harmless and well-meaning, would you as a national leader let it tighten the ring around your country till its room for independent national existence consisted of deciding which contestants to send to the Eurovision Song contest? Putin is the elderly adult. The EU is the grown child.

SWPL's have spent decades now documenting the alienation and sickness at the heart of suburban nuclear family life. Yet they have no problem believing masses of entirely alien peoples can live entirely happy, frictionless existences together.

3/6/14, 5:53 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Heydrich : Hitler : Holocaust ::
Khruschev : Stalin : Ukrainian Genocide. It just now struck me that maybe Khruschev's Crimean gesture was a subconscious attempt to alleviate some of his responsibility (maybe even guilt) for his role in the Ukraine's tragedy. This helps explain the obvious irrationality of the act that at least nominally ceded control of one of Russia's major military resources to a non-Russian Soviet "Republic".

3/6/14, 5:53 PM

Anonymous AnotherDad said...

BTW, Steve's analogy is on point.

And i learned--the hard way, bitterly--that you don't do what the Grandma did. (In my case, helping my brother+wife buy a house ... which effectively now has half gone to the feckless, entitled parasite that is his now ex-wife--one of those people who's never done an honest day's work in her life, but has lived well suckling from all the "programs" and "grants" titties of the public fisc--rather than wholly for my brother's and following that my niece's financial security.)

I'll make sure i don't make the same mistake with my kids spouses.

Moral of the story:
It doesn't take Nikta Krushchev to screw this stuff up. Don't assume any marriage is going to last.

3/6/14, 6:07 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

It's kind of like how Paul McCartney felt during the years when Yoko Ono got all the royalties for "Yesterday."

3/6/14, 6:15 PM

Anonymous Kibernetika said...

It comes down to this:

Why does the USA media so despise Russia?

Why is there no "democracy" until the first American bombs fall? :(

And I'm an American, believe it or not. What the hell are we doing?

3/6/14, 6:39 PM

Anonymous Vladimir Vladimirovi4 Maiakovskii said...

A Cloud In Trousers - part I
You think malaria makes me delirious?

It happened.
In Odessa it happened.

"I'll come at four," Maria promised.

Eight.
Nine.
Ten.

Then the evening
turned its back on the windows
and plunged into grim night,
scowling
Decemberish.

At my decrepit back
the candelabras guffawed and whinnied.

You would not recognise me now:
a bulging bulk of sinews,
groaning,
and writhing,
What can such a clod desire?
Though a clod, many things!

The self does not care
whether one is cast of bronze
or the heart has an iron lining.
At night the self only desires
to steep its clangour in softness,
in woman.

And thus,
enormous,
I stood hunched by the window,
and my brow melted the glass.
What will it be: love or no-love?
And what kind of love:
big or minute?
How could a body like this have a big love?
It should be teeny-weeny,
humble, little love;
a love that shies at the hooting of cars,
that adores the bells of horse-trams.

Again and again
nuzzling against the rain,
my face pressed against its pitted face,
I wait,
splashed by the city's thundering surf.

Then midnight, amok with a knife,
caught up,
cut him down
out with him!

The stroke of twelve fell
like a head from a block.

On the windowpanes, grey raindrops
howled together,
piling on a grimace
as though the gargoyles
of Notre Dame were howling.

Damn you!
Isn't that enough?
Screams will soon claw my mouth apart.

Then I heard,
softly,
a nerve leap
like a sick man from his bed.
Then,
barely moving,
at first,
it soon scampered about,
agitated,
distinct.
Now, with a couple more,
it darted about in a desperate dance.

The plaster on the ground floor crashed.

Nerves,
big nerves,
tiny nerves,
many nerves!
galloped madly
till soon
their legs gave way.

But night oozed and oozed through the room
and the eye, weighed down, could not slither out of
the slime.

The doors suddenly banged ta-ra-bang,
as though the hotel's teeth
chattered.

You swept in abruptly
like "take it or leave it!"
Mauling your suede gloves,
you declared:
"D' you know,
I'm getting married."

All right, marry then.
So what,
I can take it.
As you see, I'm calm!
Like the pulse
of a corpse.

Do you remember
how you used to talk?
"Jack London,
money,
love,
passion."
But I saw one thing only:
you, a Gioconda,
had to be stolen!

And you were stolen.

3/6/14, 6:53 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

reacting to stories in the NYT.

Man, that's as beta as it gets.

I previously donated money to Steve; now I'm close to no longer reading this blog.

3/6/14, 8:12 PM

Anonymous 5371 said...

I wonder if the misrulers of Kiev have yet got the message that flirting with the EU and NATO can diminish your substance? Perhaps they need more than one lesson.

3/6/14, 8:45 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

@ Vladimir Vladimirovi4 Maiakovskii

So weird. Why would you post this terrible translation? Why here? Why anywhere, actually? Sure, Mayakovsky is pretty much impossible to translate properly but surely no translation is better than a very bad one?

3/6/14, 9:41 PM

Anonymous Harry Baldwin said...

I previously donated money to Steve; now I'm close to no longer reading this blog.

Let us know what you finally decide. I'm sure we're all desperately interested.

3/6/14, 9:56 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

On the ruins of our superpower
There is a major paradox of history:
Sevastopol - the city of Russian glory -
Is... outside Russian territory.

3/6/14, 10:34 PM

Anonymous Big Bill said...

"I previously donated money to Steve; now I'm close to no longer reading this blog."

Interesting. It has just the opposite effect on me. I stopped reading David Horowitz' website in 2002 when he switched his focus from America to invading Afghanistan in the very beginning of the GWOT.

That was some five or six wars ago.

3/7/14, 6:11 AM

Anonymous Peter the Shark said...

Why the complicated analogy? It's very simple - Russia conquered Crimea in the 19th century, it was then colonized by Russians, it is part of Russia. That's it.

Here's an analogy for the way Russians see Crimea - the same way Americans see California. That's about it.

A bigger problem for the future is that a lot of Russians feel the same way about Odessa - and like Crimea Odessa was never traditionally part of historical Ukraine - it was Ottoman territory conquered by the Russians, the city was founded and built by Russians, and Odessa has played a central role in Russian popular culture for centuries. Unlike Crimea, though, Odessa is now home to a significant Ukrainian population.

3/7/14, 7:46 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Why does the USA media so despise Russia?"

The oligarchs who own the US media tell them to.

3/7/14, 9:12 AM

Anonymous Badden said...

This gets difficult with the Zevon addendum. The waitress is with the Russians, and you're the Russians. Is the waitress anyone? Someone who is also with the Russians and therefore no point of conflict? Does the whole waitress clause in the song just cancel out applied to this context then?

Is the waitress Dugin?

3/7/14, 2:14 PM

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