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I am experiencing the dull lethargy of war weariness. How can that be if I’m not personally involved? Or am I?
The war drags on and drags me along with it. What would be my state if we were losing? I hate to think of it.
My usual uppers are not working. No doubt it’s a transient state I must endure until it passes. I could offer a dozen reasons why this is so but they’d be just more fixes.
I see the fixed stares of the dead and the blood soaked clothes. But why bring it up here? I don’t know. Maybe it’s the seamy side of your reports.
War mimics love in all its gore and glory. That’s a saving doctrine. Better to face it than erase it.
I’m beginning to feel better getting it up and out. I know this site is not intended for therapy but a side effect of brutal knowledge is the consolations that vineyards provide.
Could be a lake mirage in the desert or the real thing. The only way I’ll ever know is to go on in, sink or swim.
Have you asked or a professional help?
Dennis James Leary,
The way you feel is a natural response. It just demonstrates, that you are a normal human being. However, you are not involved, and there is nothing you can do about it beyond writing words and praying.
You can however make yourself feel a lot better completely naturally by dancing to this – both the music and the exercise will cause your body to produce endorphins. The feeling that follows dancing is often described as euphoric. Cycling or running can achieve much the same feeling. Don’t worry if you think anyone observing, thinks you look silly. They may laugh – but you have just cheered them up too.
“Therapy? – Screamager”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDVsIvvFtcs
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.” Dostoyevsky
I also feel that war weariness, Dennis…..and I think it is because we are personally involved…..
~Rumi Quotes of Love and Life~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T3AIdsYFF0
Do not let any “professional therapist” change the poet in the Vineyard….
I can’t thank you enough for the links to Rumi. I never dreamed there was such beauty, and to think such a gift was hidden in this vineyard; and further that it occurred because of South Front’s war report.
My first emotion was shame and embarrassment that I ever dared to write words myself when such other words exist. My heart is cracking which terrifies me still more.
I’ve read Rumi long ago before the internet but never felt the impact that the accompanying music, voice, visuals and calligraphy have.
Thanks also to those writers of the above comments and link to Screamagers. You’re right about the dancing. I have received professional help but nothing like hanging out in this vineyard; something magical floats about the vines here. The quote from Dostoyevsky is too good; I had to put his Crime and Punishment down because it was too raw and dark; I felt like I was falling into a black hole. What’s with these Russian writers, even in translation? Have they risen from the dead to fight beyond their time?
Give me some time to get it together. I’m afraid I’m losing control.
OT:
New US Spy Satellite Lifts Off as Obama Criticizes N. Korean Launch
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/us/20160211/1034552041/us-spy-satellite-launch.html
Literally, the usual up the bum, zio-gay double stantards from the zpc/nwo neanderthals.
They been doing this ever since they got the power since WW2 but it is just a continuation of the British empires policy of not allowing anyone else to modernize or become technologically capable. Until recently this was all hush hush but has now come out pretty much into the open. It is even directed at allies not so openly but against everyone else pretty much under threats. If it is a new idea it is given to select cronies to develop and market while the original is sabotaged. What is amazing is, it took this long for others to figure this out and put in place compartmentalization so even if part of it is stolen and destroyed the entire project is not compromised. Even the Germans have it figured out now. Apple uses stolen French and European ideas and technology. But the European versions were never allowed to succeed but 10 years later apple is a success beyond anyone’s dreams because some guy who plays with drawings and colors was able to get just the right mix of curves and shades into things and can sell it for 5 times the cost.
mmiriww
Stolen ideas? Nonsense. Ideas are not a form of private property. They are neither rivalrous, nor scarce.
And as far as “European technology” is concerned, the experience locally is that European sourced product is commonly over priced, often unreliable, much style and flash over whatever substance there may actually be, very often short lived and not very robust. Of course, that does not stop some Euro items being desirable, but it must be borne in mind that more often than not what the customer is paying extra for is hype, a flash nameplate, a label. Very often, if one searches carefully, there are superior items available at less cost with more reliability, better quality and easier maintainability.
Now as far as the USA “not allowing anyone else to modernize or become technologically capable” is concerned, that is a fairy tale. Where have you been all these decades? First Japan eviscerates the US steel industry, then Korea does the same thing, then the US ship-building industry is eliminated as a serious international competitor to the point where they need regulations such as the foreign bottoms act (Jones Act) to stay in business at all. Meanwhile the German and Japanese car manufacturers virtually destroy the US car makers. Now Korea is joining in and soon China is to do same. Check out the rare earth metals market where China is completely and utterly dominant over the US. Then there is chip fabrication which is undertaken mostly in SE Asia, Taiwan and, of course, China. Code cutting has moved towards India. Medical transcription, same. Manufacture of intraocular lenses, Vietnam. And on and on it goes. By the way, were you aware of where it is that Apple assemblies are actually sourced and manufactured?
The world is getting much more competitive and the traditional established suppliers of product have a choice. Either move with the times and compete or lose market to superior producers. Right now China is moving into higher and higher value and tech sectors, as is Russia. With the creation of the New Silk Road the pace of change and the severity of competition within any sector is only going to get much more intense. A famous brand name will not be enough.
The international crisis unfolding presently just about everywhere one searches is due to those who see themselves on the losing side of the market attempting to use any means available to them, including violence, to guarantee for themselves continued custom (that is, to deny customers like you and me the choice to decide whose goods and services we purchase). That is, they seek control over other people. Meanwhile there is the imminent collapse of the welfare & warfare state systems. A lot of people are going to find that very difficult to deal with. Unmet expectations can lead to desperate actions. Expect to see a lot of it.
Siotu
Why would I argue with you? The US says china stole US stealth technology.. Where did the US steal it from? Many of the concepts in implementation were by an Iranian…. But it is US tech now and they use it to blackmail the world..
And you use some industrial nonsense to say things are other wise.. What has that got to do with such things as the US sabotaging the USSR gas pipeline, stealing advanced fighter designs of the soviets and sabotaging their work and gaining a decade lead in it. Now this is the same US that had long range bombers way ahead of anyone else and even those WW2 bombers are considered cutting edge 5 years later… but that’s not what we are talking about. The loss of industry in the US is a direct result of the US desire to take a cut from the trade.. a cut form the entire world.. by standing in the middle to make the most profit without producing anything.. Kind of like a $1 product bought in china sold by Wal-Mart for $10.. So china makes $1.. minus cost of labor and materials so maybe 5 cents.. the US makes $9 minus some costs say $1.. so it makes $8.. I knew this 20 years ago.. But boy am I impressed..
The NSA has a budget of what 80bil? to listen in on terrorists?? that’s the funniest thing I heard. That does not include the other dozen agencies going through your stuff..
mmiriww
You are completely wrong. Getting the situation in regards to stealth technology so incorrect totally undermines your position.
History lesson.
Modern aviation stealth technology was originated by a Russian academician. He was not resident in Iran and did not hold Iranian nationality. The method and derivation was published in 1962 in open Soviet technical literature (Ufimtsev, Pyotr Yakovlevich; Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction; Soviet Radio; Moscow, 1962). This was available to anyone who wanted to read it, in Russian language. It has long since been translated and published in English language. The technology was reviewed by the Soviet aircraft design bureaus prior to publication and they decided it was not worth persevering with the approach as implementation led to significant degradation of aerodynamics and hence of flight performance. This has proved to be a correct estimation. This decision was well prior to the original publication. Ufimtsev was told to publish and so he did. A second reason for not persevering was the nature of Soviet radar of the time (low frequency) from which stealth aircraft are not invisible, but can be detected (with some difficulties but once understood these can be addressed). A third reason was that the calculations required to reduce the method to practice were excessive (beyond available computational resources). Some nine years after publication the Ufimtsev literature was translated into English language and read (by chance) by a Lockheed engineer. By that time sufficient computational power was available to employ the Ufimtsev approach to design an airframe. The resulting aircraft had extremely poor aerodynamic performance and was so unstable that it also needed computer control of its primary flight surfaces to remain flying. That aircraft featured faceted flat surfaces (usually set at no more than 11 degrees to each other). All edges were carefully designed and where possible edges were rendered flush (for example, landing gear doors). That eventually came to be employed as the F117A a.k.a. “Stealth Fighter”.
Since then computational ability has improved significantly (we are comparing back to 1970s state of the art). This has allowed the design of stealth aircraft without the need for faceted flat surfaces. A good early example would be the B-2 flying wing. As the advances in computational ability have allowed improved design of stealth airframes, so too they allowed better designs of radar detection systems and post processing of received radar data. This has meant that even with a stealth airframe it is still possible to be detected. My understanding is that Russia is a world leader in radar technology and the processing of radar data. Interestingly the Australians did state that their over the horizon radar tracked the B-2 bomber in flight accurately. Consider that what they have is not as advanced as Russian radar hardware and software, as it is decades older. Also note the frequencies they operate.
End of history lesson.
Ideas; what private property isn’t.
As far as ideas are concerned, they are not a version of private property in that they are non-rivalrous and non-scarce. Putting this aside, be aware that the inventor of the method, a Russian, published in open technical literature for anyone else to read and to apply. No theft in applying what he taught.
When it comes to technology, once you know what you seek to do, the implementation is a matter of resource- budget and time. You already have the approach/theory and the means. Given sufficient resource, the implementation ideas of a clever individual, even if unknown to the rest of the planet’s technically literate, are going to be independently arrived at anyway. Failing that, an alternative approach will be found to achieve the same ends. It is inevitable and merely a matter of time. Again, ideas are neither rivalrous, nor scarce. They are not properly recognised as private property.
Whatever approach one takes to the analysis of this situation, there is no supporting fact or evidence of reality that allows the conclusion of theft.
Back to stealth again.
When you state in relation to stealth that it is “US tech now and they use it to blackmail the world” you are resorting to unsupported hyperbole. Stealth technology is not restricted to the USA. Nor is it impervious to defeat.
There is nothing that supports the assertions throughout your last submission here whatsoever. It is all quite baseless and in violation of established fact. Sorry to be so blunt about it.
And finally, your original assertion.
You seem to have forgotten that your original assertion was that the USA was “not allowing anyone else to modernize or become technologically capable”. It has already been demonstrated how incorrect this is by way of a few simple examples in my last post. Your statement remains demonstrably wrong.
Siotu
The other side of gayness.. cant touch this…
American A-10s bombed city of Aleppo on Wednesday, shifted blame onto Russia – Russian military
The A-10 although now less effective, given advances in tank defensive armour, when using its main GAU-8 cannon against tanks, is an example of technical excellence in design for close ground support. The notion that the replacement F-35 could function in close-ground support (or anything for that matter) is quite ridiculous and might be partially responsible for this:
https://www.rt.com/usa/332106-james-martin-pentagon-faint/
I note also that none of these miltary types have the faintest notion of first aid response.
Pierre Sprey on the F-35 – Youtube links
Pierre Sprey designed the A-10 and co-designed the F-16.
I don’t have any first hand military experience but Pierre Sprey’s matter-of-fact no-nonsense talk is easy to follow and fun to listen to.
Hi Lumi
I found his comments to be interesting. He is clear and concise. Some have panned what he states, but none (so far) appear to respond directly to the issues he raises.
Thank you for providing the link.
Siotu
SO
The a-10 is a much hyped pig. Back in the 80s, this pig proved so poorly equipped at normal navigation, the production run had to be restarted to cover crashes. It has zero survivability in contested airspace, be it from air or ground defenses. It’s “miracle gun” is just a run of the mill high velocity du machine cannon.
An irony about this aircraft is it is essentially a copy (for tactical purposes) of a WW2 Soviet ground attack aircraft (the famous Il-2), that was initially intended as an aircraft that would wrest control of the airspace over a battle field from the Soviets, but proved to be too vulnerable to risk close support work against victims who had modern air defense, or even not so modern AD.
Vok Tak
Where did you get your opinions about the A-10?
Siotu
mmiriww
yes, nowadays I rarely bother to get angry, but this reaally pissed me off….one would think that I shouldn’t be surprised, and I know that they do even shittier things but this hit a nerve for me….
https://www.rt.com/news/332109-russian-jets-isis-warlords/
This was a special op to take out assets.. That’s why the hospitals were taken out. Some high ranking mercs were injured in the fighting and they were at the hospitals getting treatment but knowing the SAA were close by would have taken them prisoner, only one thing to do and that was to liquidate the assets before they could talk.. The thing with such blatant situation where everything is propaganda and nothing to do with reality or on the ground situation means when they heard some hospitals were hit, they jumped to blame the Russians again as they have been doing for the last 5 years for everything. The entire thing looks well planned except the taking heads were never told about it.
Notice how close it was to the Russian base and not using F16’s which might have been mistaken for Turkish and shot down.. tens of thousands of man pads in the country so using A10’s were risky even with drones in the area monitoring things. A10’s are not easy to shoot down but the Russians and Syrians would not mistake them for Turkish.. The risk alone says this was a special op and an important op.. Remember, the truth for bombing the MSF hospital was because of a high ranking Taliban operative receiving treatment there.. Although rules of war states you have to give treatment to prisoners and cant shoot wounded helpless prisoners if they give up etc.. Also many times the US has bombed their own mercs. It is logical they wanted to eliminate risky assets.. Why bother other wise.. Russia says over 40,000 high value targets in Syria and they took out less than 10,000.. US with 25000 sorties took out???? Still plenty to bomb if they want without taking risks. We can use other countries and the reasons for US bombing in situations..
On the day of his “Obama’s” arrival Putin allows himself to say something very unusual. He talks about Kerry’s testimony before the Senate and says, “He’s lying. He knows he’s lying. This is really sad.” Whoa. I have never, in 52 years of watching Soviet and Russian leaders, leaders of many statures, heard one call the secretary of state of the United States a liar. But he did, and he chose a day when Obama was there.
Putin comes across as a very frustrated leader to me. Frustrated with repeated instances of American mendacity. So far as I understand, the Russians and [Foreign Minister Sergei] Lavrov tabled a peace proposal [addressing the Syrian crisis] in Vienna about six weeks ago, and the Americans have ever since been continuing on with the drumbeat, “We can’t do it until Assad goes.” The rest of the world seems to look rather favorably upon the Russian proposal, and the Americans have been smoked out of the woods with the comparison of Syria and Libya: “What do you want to do, knock Assad over and have total chaos?” [The Russian proposal is the basis for the peace talks that were opened in Geneva on Monday and suspended Wednesday.]
The other day one of these nitwits reporting for the Times—forgive me, one loses all patience—I think it was [State Department correspondent Michael] Gordon, is writing about the possibility of a peace settlement and in his third paragraph says, “The elements of Mr. Kerry’s plan…” Stop right there, Gordon. “The elements of Mr. Kerry’s plan?”
Rather subtly over the weeks, the Americans have come to pretend, “Actually, it’s our idea to have a ceasefire, constitutional revision and national elections.” I don’t think Lavrov and Putin are in this for the ego trip of it, but it must simply gall them to hear the Americans say this kind of thing. I honestly think we must come across as a pack of clowns to these people. Whatever one thinks of Putin, he’s a serious statesman.
How do you view Putin, in broad terms? What is he trying to do with Russia by way of its relations with the rest of the world?
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/07/intelligent_people_know_that_the_empire_is_on_the_downhill_a_veteran_cia_agent_spills_the_goods_on_the_deep_state_and_our_foreign_policy_nightmares/
That was really a great article you posted. I think McGovern may have nailed a lot of it.
“How do you view Putin, in broad terms? What is he trying to do with Russia by way of its relations with the rest of the world?”
President Putin appears to be trying to build a stable international system run by rational law, not by threat or coercion or violence. He wants trade, cultural exchange, development of technology and improved wealth. He wants to show that Russia is a trustworthy trading partner, peaceful, consistent and honest.
He would be well aware of the horrors of history and the disadvantageous reputation of Russia due to various terrible crimes committed by the communist government of former USSR (led by tyrants like Stalin, his associates, followers etc). He is sticking to logic, law, a consistent rational and civilised approach to solving international crises. He neither apologises, nor complains, nor makes excuses. He states his position and acts. His actions demonstrate his objectives. He seeks to have Russia recognised by the principles espoused by its leadership group and by how their actions comply with stated principle. He remains a Russian nationalist and wishes for other nations to understand this fact. It means he will do his best to act in the best interests of the Russian nation.
I’d reckon that’s what Putin is up to.
Siotu
The Natoists, often with the help of people like Soros, and even with it’s own military aparatus, deliberately helped to cause conflict in Syria, a country which was known to be of strategic significance to Russia.
If you kick a dog repeatedly, you shouldn’t be surprised if it bites you.
Zionist American Oligarch mouthpiece, “NY Times,” confirms the military gains of the Russian and Syrian Alliance
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/world/middleeast/russian-intervention-in-syrian-war-has-sharply-reduced-us-options.html?ref=todayspaper
So in Syria you see the hospitals are being bombed and the US has blamed the Russians. The warplanes have been identified as A-10’s, but there is a problem, it is an American aircraft type.
It seems a repeat of the Medicins Sans Frontiers hospital in Afghanistan that was destroyed. Apparently there were a few injured combattants of sufficiently high rank who knew too much.
The Syrian Arab Army was approaching and there was no time to evacuate them, so a special operation to “take out assets” was required (cannot have the public be informed about the nastiness of the torture, the gratuitous killing of men, women and children and the “business dealings” ). The string-pullers can bank on this “withdrawal”.
This was a very high risk operation by the US pilots, with Russian and Syrian drones flying in the area and being so close to the Latakia Russian airbase. It means these were very important pests (VIPs). So much for the Geneva convention, it never addressed the issue of killing one’s own combattants.
It seems hospital admissions will soon have to be made at gun-point by the patient or someone who cares about them. What a perfect argument for the gun lobby to promote. It will solve your long waits for treatment. No more refusals to give you pain relief. There will always be a private room for you.
Feel and be treated like a real VIP!