The quality of ukrainian leadership

31. Januar 2025

- is immense. I mean, was immense.

Immense, I tell you.

Almost bor­de­ring on unparalleled.

Also gre­at news for inde­pen­dent Ukrai­ni­an media, which US fun­ding just stop­ped. “It should be fun­ded by ukrai­ni­an sta­te budget.”

Immense, what a qua­li­ty lea­der! Such ukrai­ni­an, such brain! Only Selen­skyj could be more intel­li­gent of all the peop­le in Ukrai­nes lea­ders­hip cadre.

Also five points of what Ukrai­ne can not give up -- promp­t­ing the mode­ra­tor to ask in return “but thats total vic­to­ry” -- very expert­ly recal­led from memo­ry. Much expert. Supre­me memory.

We should all be thank­ful, every day, that NATO fol­lows the­se types of leaders.

Full capture is near!

31. Januar 2025

Gre­at news!

When Orban did his sur­pri­se trip to 

- Ukrai­ne
(- Belarus)
- Russia
- China

the EU flai­led him for that.

Now look at what Lex Fri­d­man is doing/planning to do in the near future:

- Ukrai­ne (tal­king to Selenskyj)
- Rus­sia (tal­king to Putin)
- India (tbd)
- Chi­na (tbd)

Which is gre­at, becau­se he will relay all his con­ver­sa­tio­nal fin­dings with world lea­ders, and their poli­ti­cal aides to Joe Rogan wit­hin the mon­th - ensu­ring that the Trump admi­nis­tra­ti­on will not stray from their elec­tion pro­mi­ses to end this war.

Ah - the good old full cap­tu­re of your oppon­ents narratives… 😉

So - is the Trump Admi­nis­tra­ti­on still con­vin­cing Trump, that neo­go­tia­ti­ons with Putin sad­ly fai­led, becau­se Putin wan­ted too much, and so he has to con­ti­nue this war, or.…

Cant wait for tho­se interviews. 🙂

Yes you say - but what impact can Joe Rogan have on Trumps decisi­on making? Boy have I got news for you… 😉

Main­stream media can­ce­ling Lex Fri­d­man in three, two, one, …

Have I missed something?

31. Januar 2025

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New Voice of Ukrai­ne article:
https://english.nv.ua/nation/finnish-president-ukraine-ceasefire-possible-within-six-months-50486032.html

EADai­ly is a rus­si­an publi­ca­ti­on, but it is refe­ren­cing this Ukrain­s­ka Prav­da Report:
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/01/27/7495459/

Back­ground: Alex­an­der Stubb was the stu­pi­dest of stu­pid Ukrai­ne hawks in the past two and a half years. As in -- never stray­ed from the public euro­pean line.

What chan­ged?

The wea­ther?

edit: This does reflect what Micha­el Kof­man has repor­ted in decem­ber, that cur­r­ent­ly it loo­ks like that the west has just pospo­ned the risk of ukrai­ni­an front­li­ne des­in­te­gra­ti­on by six mon­ths. But his stick was -- “if we dont do some­thing to chan­ge that”.

Buda­novs repor­ted quo­te four days ago pro­c­lai­med -- in gene­ral. Which is why nego­tia­ti­ons would be needed.

edit: Also - the The Inde­pen­dent news arti­cle in bet­ween the two others is fac­tual­ly wrong of cour­se: see: click (Look for a Putin quo­te ques­tio­ned by a rus­si­an repor­ter on that sub­ject specifically.)

edit2: Die Welt is some­what on the ball:

edit3: Das ZDF bring­ts ein­fach im Ticker der unter der Aus­lands­kor­re­spon­den­tin durchs Bild scrollt… Auch ne Mög­lich­keit… edit: Ama­zing, sie spre­chens bei 28 min in sogar an.

Following Selenskyj trade logic - Episode 354

28. Januar 2025

Selen­skyj much lear­ned from inten­si­ve three hour Trump Uni­ver­si­ty Sum­mer course.

New strong, effec­ti­ve pro­pa­gan­da message:

We gifted Atom­bombs away for war.”

Selens­kij: „Wir haben Atom­waf­fen für den Krieg verschenkt“

src: click (Die Presse)

Selen­skyj lear­ned tra­de basics:

Pha­se one:

I give you ato­mic wea­pons > You give me worth­less secu­ri­ty guarantees

Pha­se two:

Give us more wea­pon, so we can push rus­sia out of Don­bas, and reta­ke cri­mea. > Its working! [Mer­kel: Minsk 2 was just con­cep­tua­li­zed, so we gai­ned more time to arm up Ukrai­ne.] Stein­mei­er For­mu­la is so unfair!

Pha­se three:

28 years later: Rea­li­sa­ti­on phase:

Gua­ran­tees were worth­less > Argu­men­ta­ti­on: becau­se Rus­sia [hence­forth known in Andry Yer­mak Tweets as “the ter­ro­rist”] atta­cked us even more. (Full sca­le attack against Ukraine.)

Not our fault.

Pha­se four:

Estab­li­shing the reasoning:

Worth­less secu­ri­ty gua­ran­tees are the rea­son we are now at war.

Not our fault.

Pha­se five:

Give us secu­ri­ty gua­ran­tees, it will much help us win the war.

Easy.

Pha­se six:

Rea­li­sa­ti­on Pha­se after loo­king at self gene­ra­ted reasoning:

We gifted Atom­bombs for war.

Pha­se seven:

We gifted Atom­bombs for war!

You give us NATO now, for atom­bombs we tra­ded in 1994 (befo­re the Putin speech in 2008), becau­se it would have been a more just trade.”

Trump can make this deal faster!”

Trump kann das beschleunigen“

Rück­bli­ckend wäre es bes­ser gewe­sen, hät­te die Ukrai­ne damals die Sicher­heits­ga­ran­tien von der Nato erhal­ten. „Wenn ich also Atom­waf­fen ein­tau­schen wür­de, wür­de ich sie gegen etwas sehr Star­kes ein­tau­schen, etwas, das wirk­lich jeden Angrei­fer auf­hal­ten kann, trotz sei­ner Grö­ße, sei­nes Ter­ri­to­ri­ums, sei­ner Armee und so wei­ter - und das ist eine star­ke Armee und der Sicher­heits­block Nato“, sag­te Selenskij.

src: click (Die Presse)

The Art of the deal, am I right?

Which ger­man spea­king news paper is with me?

What other factors?

Two Idiots, a journalist, a salesman and some joker walk into a bar

28. Januar 2025

Says the idi­ot - I’ve made a graph:

Risi­ko­bild Öster­reich 2025:
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(Dif­fe­rent colo­red dots indi­ca­te, that they have not­hing in com­mon… Our sche­ma­tics rule.)

Says the sales­man: Trump by now has reco­gni­zed, that Ukrai­ne must be in a strong posi­ti­on to end this con­flict. So this con­flict will con­ti­nue in some form or another.

Says the jour­na­list: The­re is no open deba­te any­mo­re, I dont know what will happen.

Says the other idi­ot: It is hor­ri­ble, that I have to char­ter a Ukrai­ni­an or so car­go pla­ne, when I want to move aus­tri­an aid to whe­re­ver. [Back­ground: Part of the US deal to send wea­pons to Ukrai­ne inclu­des, that the US can do that with their own car­go infra­st­ruc­tu­re and the Ukrai­ne has to pay for it, so the Ukrai­ni­an pla­nes have to stay dor­mant.] Give me money. I want aus­tri­an car­go pla­ne! For aus­tri­an huma­ni­ta­ri­an aid! 

[Gut, die 500 Packun­gen Kna­ba­nos­si ver­schi­cken sich nicht von allein. Und das ist so scheis­se nicht öffent­lich­keits­wirk­sam, wenn wir immer mit ner ukrai­ni­schen Fracht­ma­schi­ne ankom­men. Ich mein, wie sieht denn das aus…]

Says the Joker: We’­ve asked 100 peop­le what they think about your graph and the results were very mixed.

Says the idi­ot: Pro­pa­gan­da is hor­ri­ble, we have to put more Pro­pa­gan­da into peop­le to safe­guard against it.

Says the Joker: Peop­le dont think that they them­sel­ves can be influ­en­ced by pro­pa­gan­da, I asked 100 peop­le, and the results were the same they were his­to­ri­cal­ly -- so much to do here on the pro­pa­gan­da front [Its not that we’d teach peop­le socio­lo­gy or pol­ling 101.]

Says the idot, we at the aus­tri­an mili­ta­ry are valu­able con­tri­bu­ters to the enligh­ten­ment, we show many recruits every year two power­point presentations.

[Btw., I’ve scree­n­ed the ones used by the ger­man Bun­des­wehr - they have no details, no source links, no argu­men­ta­ti­ve struc­tu­re and are are part­ly counterfactual:

But if you want to be pri­med against rus­si­an dis­in­for­ma­ti­on, I guess you watch that? “Many peop­le ask me Vla­di­mir Putin. How bout them apples?”]

Says the joker: *not­hing*

Says the sales­man: Rus­sia could be Hitler.

Then a third of the audi­ence claps.

Der Stan­dard hat das mit­ver­folgt und war wie­der enorm beeindruckt:

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000254668/vom-zaehen-versuch-oesterreicher-auf-die-kriegsmoeglichkeit-vorzubereiten

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Wesent­li­cher Hin­ter­grund. Der Joker (Poli­to­lo­ge Peter Filz­mai­er) war nur bei der Ver­an­stal­tung um sie vom caché her auf­zu­wer­ten. Er hat in der Run­de nichts bei­getra­gen (“Den Scheck nehm ich trotz­dem ger­ne.”). Die “wir haben 100 Leu­te zu ihren Fin­dings (Aus­tri­an Risk Report 2025) befragt” inputs waren kom­plett nutz­los. Bei den meis­ten ist ein­fach her­aus­ge­kom­men, dass die Bevöl­ke­rung das nicht so ganz versteht.

Was dir jeder Demo­skop bei den The­men­ge­bie­ten fünf Jah­re im vor­aus schrift­lich ver­brieft hät­te geben kön­nen. Null Risi­ko, dass bei den Umfra­gen was Ande­res als nur Schwach­sinn raus­kommt. Jetzt war aber der Joker die bekann­tes­te Per­son im Panel --

also was bleibt bei der Pres­se hän­gen? Die Bevöl­ke­rung zu infor­mie­ren is so schwer.

Soll das Digi­tal­mi­nis­te­ri­um ne neue Cyber Cyber Bro­schü­re raus­brin­gen? Man weiß es nicht… Soll die Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der deut­schen Bun­des­wehr end­lich ordent­li­ches Lehr­per­so­nal bekom­men? Das wür­de nur die Aus­bilung von 2000 Han­seln betref­fen. Soll der Stan­dard das euro­päi­sche “was ist rus­si­sche Des­in­for­ma­ti­on” Nar­ra­tiv (mit sei­nen fünf Spins und gene­rel­len Unzu­läng­lich­kei­ten) aus­wen­dig ler­nen und täg­lich in die Bevöl­ke­rung dre­schen? Das machen sie so und so seit drei Jahren.

Pla­kat­kam­pa­gne des Innen­mi­nis­te­ri­ums? Was machen wir?

Sitzt der Joker im Publi­kum und denkt sich -- ein­tau­send Euro Gage für zwei Umfra­gen, zwei­tau­send Euro Gage für zwei Umfra­gen, drei­tau­send Euro Gage für zwei Umfra­gen, sieb­zehn­tau­send Euro Gage für zwei Umfra­gen und eine Diskussionsrunde…

Den­ken sich die Orga­ni­sa­to­ren - das hat gewirkt, jetzt bekom­men wir alle für unse­re Anlie­gen mehr Bud­get. Hurra.

Der Graph aus dem das Snip­pet oben stammt ist trotz­dem so halb inter­es­sant. Den kann man sich anse­hen (Video).

Oh du mein Öster­reich. Tan­ner davor. Pumuck­l­show danach. Demo­skop, der auf der Büh­ne in Gedan­ken ein­fach nur sei­ne Gage zählt. Und ein Stan­dard der davon sehr beein­druckt ist. Wie kommst du aus die­ser Substandard-Existenz jemals heraus…

Ich habs! Das Bun­des­heer zeigt sei­nen Rekru­ten drei Power­point Präsentationen.