It is no secret that the 404 War is going extremely badly for the collective West. The news from the battlefield in Avdeevka is obsolete within minutes – I’ve been tracking it all week long, and by the time we get a report that some location has fallen to DA RUSHIAN ORKY STORMBOYZ ‘N’ GITZES, WOT IZ SHOOTIN’ WIF DA PROPAH DAKKA!!!, it turns out they are already attacking somewhere else.
One can only assume this is a direct result of the constant conflict between the Rushian war gods, Gork and Mork – one being brutal but kunnin’, and the other being kunnin’ but brutal. (Apparently, you can tell the difference by the fact that Gork will smash you in the face with a club, while Mork will thump you on the head while your back is turned.)
(Look, just because I LIKE WH40K analogies, doesn’t mean I fully understand them.)
Anyway, the point is, the Russians are crushing Avdeevka, and whatever Ukie forces remain in that benighted town, like a nut in the jaws of a cracker. And they have both the Ukies and their Western backers in a serious panic.
That is why we now have reports emerging from Capitol Hill that those DASTARDLY RUSHIANS!!! have created nuclear weapons INNNNN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!! that, when detonated, will wipe out all of Western civilisation.
Hmm… haven’t we seen this particular movie before?
Yep. The whole kerfuffle is straight out of a Bond film. One of the better ones, if we are honest.
It is in moments like this that we realise how ridiculously stupid Clown World actually is. They cannot even understand that Russia has had the ability to shoot down satellites in low-Earth orbit for nearly 20 years – ever since George W. Bush unilaterally cancelled the ABM Treaty, thereby giving the Russians every possible excuse to explore their already considerable lead in missile defence and anti-satellite systems, which they held for many years.
See, here is the not-so-secret reality of the Soviet Union, back in the late 1970s and early 1980s:
They actually had a serious technological lead in multiple fields of warfare, and held it all the way through, and beyond, the collapse of the Evil Empire.
This is not an exaggeration. For instance, the P-700 Granit anti-ship missile had rudimentary networked targeting capabilities, which Western anti-ship missiles could not replicate – and still cannot, by and large. Their original Alfa-class nuclear attack submarines sported a lead-bismuth liquid-metal reactor, which – while being very high-maintenance – had the benefit of giving the boat the ability to outrun the fastest American torpedoes of the time. Their MiG-25 high-speed interceptor had unrivalled speed, range, and altitude for its time, except for the SR-71 Blackbird.
The list of their technical achievements goes on, and on, and bloody ON. The Soviet military-technological complex was astonishing in its power, depth, capability, and sophistication.
What broke it, then?
Well, maintaining such a powerful military required roughly half of the Soviet Union’s ENTIRE GDP at the time. By the time the USSR collapsed, its total GDP was barely US$2.5T – less than HALF what the US, alone, could produce in a year.
They could not feed their own people. The USSR had to import food for decades – it was never self-sufficient in terms of grain, for most of its existence, despite having some of the most fertile and extensive farmlands in the world in its possession.
So, when the US, under President St. Reagan Magnus of the Right, came up with what so many have derided as “Star Wars”, aka the Strategic Defence Initiative, and did so at the then-mindboggling cost of tens of billions – I can never figure out the true exact cost of all of that – over a decade, the Soviets at first laughed too.
And then they started reading up on it – and promptly spat their vodka all over their tables.
As Peter Schweizer pointed out some years ago in his superb biography of St. Reagan Magnus, called Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism, the Soviet General Staff started burning the midnight oil in the Kremlin, and they quickly came to understand that, IF the SDI worked out as planned, it would not be able to stop a Soviet first strike against the US.
But… it could stop a Soviet retaliatory strike, AFTER an American first strike, which would destroy the entire USSR.
They then crunched some more numbers, and nearly threw up their borshch when they realised they could not spend anywhere near enough money to match the US’s immense defence spending. They just could not afford it.
THIS realisation, more than almost anything else, is what forced then-General Secretary of the Communist Party, one Mikhail Gorbachyov – a man almost universally DETESTED in Russia today, and often referred to as a traitor and a coward, with rather good reason – to confront the urgent need for reform and rapprochement with the West.
Eventually, the internal contradictions and failures of the USSR – which were immense – led to the direct failure and collapse of that entire system. And good bloody riddance to it.
Of course, we now know and understand that Communism objectively does less damage to a society than liberalism does. After all, Russia was a Communist country for decades, but you don’t see butt-buggerers, kiddie-fiddlers, and tranny Baphoment impersonators being celebrated there anymore – in fact, they face prison and ostracism if they try any of that shit over there.
One might say they are on to something there…
Coming back to the Goldeneye-inspired silliness that is now, apparently, the American version of foreign policy, does anyone remember a certain Xenia Onnatop, played ever so campily by Famke Janssen?
Yeah… she was hilariously awesome:
Now, I’m not saying this week’s lovely lady of the week is in any way inspired by Ms Onnatop, but there is a similarity…
This here is Ines Trocchia, age 29, from Naples, Italy. And, as we must always point out – we are QUITE fond of the Eyeties and their beloved La Dolce VIta around here, with VERY good reason. Ms Trocchia is certainly an outstanding example of that good life. She is a really-for-real model, doing… whatever it is models do, which apparently has something to do with flying on private jets and not eating.
Happy Friday, you lot. Enjoy the weekend.
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Just wow. Certainly one to remember for the end of the year, if you still do the rankings based on reader comments or anything.
I mean I’d rate her looks about a 9.7 myself, the only thing is I like them a bit less scrawny so their ribs don’t stick out so much, and her face is not-quite perfect from all angles but very close by my standards.