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17 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
It is not anti-Putin as anti-Russia as a traditional society. It is also why elements of the Right will admit in private that Russia, like the Visegrad 4, has an admirable refusal to salute whatever this week's flag is .....
Traditional Russia, generally, and Putin esp, is a hated target for liberalism - as it was in Tsarist times. Russian welcomes this hatred & will use it. See this magnifcent piece by @20committee from 2014 which noted & predicted all this

20committee.com/2014/04/07/put…
The strangest part of 2021 is western liberals who were never too sure about confronting the USSR are now certain that Putin's Russia is a mortal threat. The liberal tendency to the hyperbolic comes from religious outrage - that the Russians refuse to kneel before 'progress'
Whereas for the conservative, s/he understands the Russians will never be a normal country (spans 11 time zones), are a #DragonBear partner of China & armer of Iran etal, but, at the same time, the Russian desire to keep their society from Western perversions is as old as Muscovy

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18 Jun
This will help many of the very online canon lawyers here trying to understand why Catholicism (born 33AD) is at odds with your Left/Right (born 1789)
Where church A (or synagogue or mosque) says that Politician X is not welcome in A for publicly repudiating A's most fundamental doctrines - this is A protecting itself from public scandal & sin. X continues to hold the office they hold, albeit X's soul may be in grave jeopardy.
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If ever you doubted that the WSJ, Bloomberg, etal, are mostly wrap-arounds for the press releases of private equity & REITs, then doubt no more.
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Am simply astounded by media coverage of The Australian Club. Its membership appeal is not insignificant, ie club lunch is the food you could get reliably a century ago, eg roast beef etc, none of this poncy nouveau cuisine. Imagine membership worries women mean sushi, vegans etc Image
Napoleon said his Army marched on its stomach. In a less combative way, men eat in ways different from women. I suspect that the appeal of a specifically male club is less the chance to run into some guy who mattered 20-30 years ago & more lunch is roast beef & Yorkshire pudding
The dumbest part (of many dumb parts) of that SMH article above is one major reason men join a club is that they want to get away from the society outside it. They do not want esp the food & mores of 2021 which they can get outside it. Same way no man wants to drive a Prius.
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History Nerds: am trying to watch the David Starkey series, "Monarchy", but in ep1 he basically pays off the Romans leaving Britain & then makes out the Anglo-Saxons (displacing the actual Britons) were basically metropolitan Whigs with aesthetic pretensions. Does it get better?
I do not think I have more eagerly awaited the Normans now than I have with David Starkey boosting the Anglo-Saxons....the revenge of the Franks is the revenge of Rome! Not a word about the Celts on any fringe.
It annoys me the Starkey rejects the Roman (correct) use of Britain - this weird anti-Roman/Norman sense - and then goes for "English" even when what he is describing is not at all English but Celts/Gaels etc.
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There is nothing better for clearing your feed of 'woke vets' than discussing why ~20 years of 'eating soup with a knife' etc has not worked and was never going to work. If you will the ends, you will the means - or, if not, you should not waste lives & resources trying
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I may write a longer thread here. Basically unless you are willing to colonise (including by use of immense violence) a territory in Afghanistan's position, for a number of decades, and create a client culture as well as class, it is all pretty hopeless. It always was.
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Growing up, in our local parish, was Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly KBE CB DSO, battalion commander in WW2 & Commonwealth Brigade commander in Korea. He was a daily Massgoer & Volunteer at Sydney's Mathew Talbot Hostel, looking after the homeless. He was always known as "Tom"
Edward Kenna was awarded the Victoria Cross for his extraordinary heroism in World War II. Post-war, he returned to Hamilton in Victoria where he worked for the local council and played football.

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Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham won VC & Bar in WW2 & returned to a successful farming life in New Zealand. His name was in the local phone book and, so I was told, local children would drop by to meet the Uphams for afternoon tea & to ask him about the War for their school project Image
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