It is funny the VPN is important. I had USA and Australia on. The website Rt is block. I use an VPN using Switzerland and it works.

Yes. The West is desperately trying to shut down RT, Sputnik, TASS, and RIA Novosti. Which is actually quite ridiculous, because RT isn’t even particularly heavy on Russian propaganda, and neither are the others. The Russian sites simply don’t criticise the government very much – they actually do run negative stories about life in Russia quite frequently.

A simple objective comparison of Russian and Western news sites will show that the former are considerably less biased than the latter. It’s just that straightforward.

The way the left work is different. They differ in the way they understand hierarchy.

The best way to think about it probably comes from, of all places, Stranger Things. The Left is of the father of lies, because they start from the oldest lie of all: “you too can be like God”. They view Mankind as perfectible, which means that any means used to perfect man are permissible. As a result, the Left thinks with, essentially, a collective or hive mind. While individuals within the Left have quite diverse viewpoints, ultimately, their ideology and worldview comes from one place.

The Right, on the other hand, starts from the premise that men are inherently flawed, Fallen, and broken, and cannot be redeemed by the hands of men alone. We need something greater than ourselves – a Creator, to take away our sins and redeem us. The objective of government must therefore be to protect us from each other, not to fix us. But this is inherently a very individualistic way of thinking, because there are so many different ways of solving that particular problem of protecting ourselves from each other.

The divisions are not nearly so neat as this, obviously, but this is a useful illustration. This all comes from Dr. Thomas Sowell’s superb book, A Conflict of Visions.

We are individualistic. Those whom we fight are a monolithic collective. Inevitably, we tend to lose the battles – even as we have already won the war. But when we put our differences aside, band together, and fight for the truth – well, even as few as 12 can topple empires.

Does this or other facts matter in Climate Change debate, the answer is no.

Indeed. Facts never mattered in that discussion and never will. It’s all about using fear and authority to ensure compliance, to perfect Mankind. Which is precisely what makes the Left so damnably dangerous. Michael Crichton wrote about this in one of his last books, State of Fear, which tackled this exact issue.

Wow they are really scare of the opposite view point. It is their view point or the highway.
It is the end of Liberal Democracy (which probably really ended in 2016 by the Big Tec banning Alex Jones or the 2020 election with the banning of Trump). You can not say free or freedom without the meaning being different to who you are talking to.

Freedom now (in the left world or mainstream media) you can talk about the weather, to able to socialize safety (only if you have the vax to hangout with people who also taken the vax) and be safe from words that the left disagree on.
It does not mean free speech, free to choose what you put into your body, or freedom to socialize whoever you wish to.

The way the left work is different. They differ in the way they understand hierarchy. The (Christian) Right understands it to be God, family and then the nation in that order. You give yourself to Jesus 1st and foremost, then you listen to the authority of the Church unless they contradict Jesus. Family roles are based on the Bible and the nation is the people.

The (modern) left order is self, Authoritarianism (by the expects) and fairness. The leaders of Authoritarianism whether Global or not is to the leftist people those that they demined have the right to rule due to social credit and power. Most of the leaders the leftist loves tend to be narcissist (remember rule number one is self). The truth is not important nor is Justice but how things are seen. One only has to look in public and see the shirt of Che guevara.

Take a look to Climate change this picture is from 1932 https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/1932-Glaciers-will-melt.jpg?itok=fPvtjPp3
and this https://i.pinimg.com/originals/be/95/29/be9529dacad7d978cffad1680ec4721f.jpg
Does this or other facts matter in Climate Change debate, the answer is no.
The expects are saying the world is getting warmer and the need for big government, so since they say this then it is. You get told you have to be a expect for them to listen. The thing is that even if you are a expect they still will not listen unless the major of expects change the narrative.
The narrative is more important and so the truth and facts must be made to fit it.
If you really want them to change what they believe, you have to get power and force the expects to change.

Since (we in the right) believe in God and the truth is more important.

I gotta be honest, Didact. I really cannot tell what’s going on with the Russia/Ukraine conflict. I understand it geopolitically. I understand the nature of the dispute. What I cannot tell is what is actually going on, on the ground, in the Donbas region.

It’s not easy to figure out, at all. The Russians are maintaining an unusually effective information blockade. I use the “Intel Slava Z” Telegram channel, and The Saker’s blog, to try to get a better picture of what is going on. I tend to cross-check what The Saker writes, against what RT and Sputnik News say, and then compare that with live videos from Intel Slava Z, to put together some sort of more-or-less-useful picture.

But it’s an annoying and painful process.

Russia’s supporters (you included) say the operation/war is going well for Russia and Putin, and that Putin is achieving or will achieve his objectives.

I am not nearly as sanguine as, say, Andrei Martyanov, or others at Unz.com. Russia’s ability to wage war for prolonged periods is quite limited. They just don’t have the economic resources to fight this kind of high-speed war for more than a month. Their economy is already being absolutely hammered by sanctions, and it’s going to get worse over the coming days and weeks. I believe that, if this campaign goes on for longer than about 2 weeks, Russia will have to start pulling back and abandoning Ukraine. They will have achieved a crushing physical victory – but they will have taken an absolute moral beating.

Ukraine’s supporters (and apparently, much of the Right in the US) see this as neo-Soviet aggression.

Yes. And I think those people are ignorant asshats who have never bothered to look at what the Neo-Tsar has actually said, repeatedly, on the record. Nor have they bothered to look at the logistics, demographics, economics, and politics required to recreate the Soviet Empire. It is not even remotely feasible and will not happen.

I live in the continental US. I personally don’t care about the Russia/Ukraine conflict.

I get that sentiment. I really do. Hereabouts, there is no immediate impact from this war. But the USA, therefore NATO, is led by incompetent, arrogant, foolish children who have zero restraint, self-awareness, or moral decency. And that means that they will happily drag the entire Western world into an armed confrontation with a country that they have bullied, sanctioned, harassed, belittled, ignored, and attacked for the past 15 years, which now has absolutely nothing to lose.

How the USA responds now, will determine whether Russia, and then the US, go to their “non-nuclear nuclear options”: cutting off gas supplies to Europe, and then incorporating Finland and other Baltics into NATO. If that happens, God help us all.

Another thing: Ukraine’s supporters (and most of the American Right) say Putin bungled it, Ukraine’s military forces are successfully repelling this military invasion, and Putin will leave the country with his tail between his legs. I haven’t seen any Baghdad Bob moments. Everyone says they’re “winning”. But I cannot tell what the truth is.

Let me ask you this: does a winning side release prisoners, arm them along with the general populace, and blow up bridges and civilian infrastructure? That is what the Ukies are doing right now. The reality of the situation is that Kiev is surrounded, Kharkov is the subject of mopping-up operations, the encirclement of Ukie forces in the east is nearly complete, and Russian forces are pushing up from Kherson in the south. The Chechens are pushing west, and forces massing at Brest could invade near Lvov.

Ukraine is caught between the jaws of a gin-trap. Its professional armed forces have been almost completely incapacitated. The main resistance – and it is serious – comes from the paramilitary brigades of the “national guard” at this point, which consists heavily of neo-Nazis and ultranationalists.

This was never going to be an easy war, and nobody at Russian GHQ believed it would be – contrary to media reports. Nor, however, is it a total disaster. There are wheels within wheels here, which will take time to unpack. But, judging by what I am seeing on the Intel Slava Z channel and elsewhere, the Russians are advancing rather quickly, although they ARE soaking up casualties.

Russia’s supporters (you included) say the operation/war is going well for Russia and Putin, and that Putin is achieving or will achieve his objectives. You say this is an attempt to liberate and naturalize Russian-speaking people living in Donbas. One of Putin’s objectives is to unite cultural/linguistic Russians, and to protect and defend the Russian people.

Ukraine’s supporters (and apparently, much of the Right in the US) see this as neo-Soviet aggression. It’s an attempt to reunite and rebuild the old USSR, to shatter NATO, and to saber-rattle against the US. Why, they think Putin will bang his shoe on the table at the UN and scream “we will bury you”. They think “today, Ukraine, tomorrow, Alaska. Tomorrow, the Lower 48. Putin’s Going To Take Over The World.”

I live in the continental US. I personally don’t care about the Russia/Ukraine conflict. I personally care more about what Justin Castreau is doing right f***ing next door to his own countrymen and women, because Brandon is tacitly approving it.