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James Blacic's avatar

Thanks, point taken. I was just so burning mad when I read this that I got finger cramps trying to spread it around.

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The Immigrant's avatar

Hopefully Slovakia will make some kind of alliance with Hungary and Serbia. The next logical step is for Poland to wake the F! up. I hope this is the end for Davos.

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James Blacic's avatar

Off topic, but something very important that everyone should know: https://metatron.substack.com/cp/137568755

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Brother Ass's avatar

This issue of DNA plasmids in the vax sauce is only the latest revelation of how the damnable jabs actually can alter victims’ genome. It’s been suggested (known?) for a while that the mRNA sequences themselves can find their way into the cell genome through “reverse transcription” into DNA. Also something that supposedly wasn’t supposed to happen.

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James Blacic's avatar

Thanks for the comment. This horror tale gets worse the deeper one looks. God help us.

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D F Barr's avatar

My wife is a nurse at a cancer clinic. She is jab free. This is only anecdotal, but she is seeing cases there that are definitely not normal. Plus an obvious increase in the numbers of new patients.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Thanks. I was curious about this. I have no background in biology, but this--as described by Malone and others--seemed too stupid to be just stupid.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

Never underestimate stupidity…

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Steghorn21's avatar

Good to see another potential split getting wider between the East Euro nations and Brussels.

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TO's avatar

Echoing Mark's reply, this is unlikely. None of the East European states would want Turkey in the alliance, and Turkey's main use for them would be as an arms supplier (and they don't need an alliance to buy Turkish arms). Otherwise it's worth remembering that Eastern Europe has for the entire modern state era been fractious, fought over by empires and with little history of sustained, strong states. Of course pre-unification Germany was the same, but Germany unified in the age of nationalism, when Germans shared a common identity because of a common language. The age of nationalism is still with us, at least socially in that identity strongly follows language, and Eastern Europe is split into small national groups. Even Czechia and Slovakia, who still see each other as close friends, split as soon as they were given the chance. Add the history of grievances as Mark noted, and while an alliance is possible with sufficient incentive, you can see that the incentive has a lot to overcome. Even the EU, which sold itself as free money, freedom to travel and good governance (and domination by Western Europe, not by historical adversaries in Eastern Europe) only managed to paper over the differences in Eastern Europe. It's no surprise this part of the EU is starting to show signs of fracturing now that the EU is demanding more and offering less.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

You can't forget history. Poland's overbearing conduct toward Hungary and others is rooted in history, and it soured relations with the Visegrad Group (PL, CZ, SL, HU). Hungary's Orban has been known to wear T-shirts labeled "Greater Hungary" with the map including parts of Slovakia, Transcarpathia, Romania, and Croatia. Romania doesn't seem to get along with anyone--and least of all, perhaps, Russia (Romania invaded Russia in WW2). Czechoslovakia became Czechia and Slovakia for a reason. Bulgaria, Yugoslavia? Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia--mostly to the benefit of none of the above. Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Greece would have real problems with Turkey--understandably, since Turkey supports Albania and Bosnia.

The Visegrad group probably had the most real prospects, but Poland's decision to become the Anglosphere's attack dog to keep the rest of Europe in line probably ruined that.

It's all very sad, but predictable.

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Brother Ass's avatar

“Greece would have real problems with Turkey--understandably, since Turkey supports Albania and Bosnia.”

Don’t forget the festering sore called Cyprus.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Right. And so much over the centuries.

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Sandy Daze's avatar

Kosovo, too

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Brother Ass's avatar

Left wing and progressive (the latter is really an american term) are not synonymous. All progressives are left wing, but not all left wingers are progressive. In the slovak context i assume left wing means old fashioned economic leftism (think trade unionism, working class interests — hence the qualifier “populist.”) Those people have little to no interest in the cultural-technocratic agenda of the modern left (think climate alarmism, unfettered immigration, trans). Calling Orban “right wing” in the euro context really only means he’s a nationalist (“Hungary First”). It doesn’t imply GOPe style american “conservatism” — i.e., low-tax, corporate libertarianism.

Having said all that, the political categories of left and right are being scrambled here in the U.S. as well. Think of Trump’s “protectionist” (a.k.a.) anti-free trade policies. Such state intervention in economics was (still is) anathema to american libertarian “conservatives.” Or think of Tucker Carlson’s suggestion a few years back that he would ban self-driving trucks because it would wipe out a huge number of good paying blue collar jobs. Is this a “conservative” position? Not according to corporate-libertarian free marketeers. But for an older school of conservatives (sometimes called paleoconservatives) a free economy is good in principle but it should not be allowed to reduce human beings to a fungible commodity or an amoral economic input. Consider the fact that the left’s ideological assault on the family has been abetted every step of the way by the commercial-economic trends of the free market.

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