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‘At War with Russia’, Europe Peers Down the Abyss ALASTAIR CROOKE Russia is unlikely to take the bait: It has the real strategic advantage in all areas of engagement with the Ukrainian forces. There is too much ‘noise’ in the system, and it is obscuring the view. Davos has always been ‘weird’. But this year, the kookier aspects were so obvious. The  WEF  is dying on the vine. The ‘vision’ seems ever more fantastical, and the hubris – inherent in the ‘behavioural conditioning’ to make people make the ‘right choices’ – stands naked. The schism between life, as experienced in the round, and the  WEF’s  bleak prescription, has never been more stark. The gap will only widen as sharply falling living standards focus the great majority on immediacy and family survival. One may dismiss this happening as a curiosity. But that would be wrong. The Davos vessel may have struck a large  credibility  iceberg, but it has not yet sunk. Rather, the fact of Davos sinking int...

Trishton of Cornhole Clown World finally gets a proper mascot. MARK BISONE One of the few upsides to living in Clown World is its entertainment factor. I’m a big fan of the horror-comedy genre, for instance, and     will often deliver that   sweet ,   sweet   mash-up   in   spades . It’s not that I’m a fan, exactly. The   horror  stuff is too realistic for my taste, and most of the jokes are too far-fetched to land. But such fanatics clearly do exist. You’ll see them pop up on   corporate news networks   and   social media   all the time, to remind us that severe mental illness and moral degeneracy aren’t barriers to financial success. And like all fans, these people need a living, breathing symbol, some cartoonish avatar that exemplifies their left-is-right, in-is-out, up-is-down franchise. For four years running now, the job of team mascot has gone to a phenomenally gifted actor/rapper/dickhead named  Jussie Smollet...

After months of obnoxious pro-Ukraine jingoistic war propaganda, Welt suddenly admits to its centre-right audience that it's "essentially impossible for Ukraine to win" Odd how this happens directly after Olaf Scholz agreed to send essentially irreplaceable German Leopard 2s to Ukraine. eugyppius Since the war in Ukraine began in February last year, Welt has relentlessly funnelled jingoistic Anglosphere war propaganda to its centre-right German readership. They reprinted this  pro-Azov Battalion editorial  complete with National Socialist symbols; they achieved a kind of ecstatic climax during the counteroffensive last September, when they announced that  a turning point was at hand ; and they have been among those predicting that  Russia is on the verge of running out of missiles and artillery shells any moment now . Well, no more. Readers opened the paper today to find  these sobering remarks on why it’s all over . The problem, we read, is that “the United Sta...