Totally agree on PET being incompetent idiots, but when has the American Empire ever demanded that the comprador intelligence agencies be good at their jobs? They mostly just have to be loyal and willing to shed blood upon command, which both the Danish and Baltic services have shown themselves as.

Your last sentence doesn't really make sense. A lot of high profile pedophiles in the US got themselves an isreali passport / citizenship because Israel just flatly does not extradite their citizens, which means that you can always just seek "refuge" there if you get in trouble with the authorities in Europe/America.

Don't think they were ever exterminated, but doesn't "leave town or suffer vigilante violence" count as a pogrom, given that the local authorities knew about the things that were happening and either participated or didn't care to stop them?

Yeah strangely enough none of my grandparents who had decently sized pensions ever decided that retirement was too boring and that working was actually the thing they liked. Somehow they all found other ways to keep themselves occupied either gardening, helping with grandchildren, traveling the world or just reading a whole lot.

Obama being sandwiched between Bush II and Trump is really the most graded-on-a-curve you can ever fucking get. He did shit-fuck for people and every single democrat-voter will forever hold him as the second coming of jesus.

Navalny seems like a pretty good litmus test for whether a critique of Russia/Putin is from an idealist or not. When my lib coworkers were talking about him, I just began reading some of his quotes about the Chechen wars and asked if they believed he had changed his insane right wing attitudes about Putin being too soft. Works pretty well against a liberal who thinks Putin is a Hitler-like figure, though I doubt it made much difference, since people here have unquestionable trust in the Danish state media.

Europe has no more millitary aid to send. Russia has spent the better part of 2 years blowing up european millitary equipment in Ukraine, so I don't think there is anything left to give the Israelis. Also the fact of the matter is, most of Europe has seen massive demonstrations in favor of a ceasefire, and I genuinely don't know if any government in Europe would survive giving the Israelis more bombs.

Supposedly Mao's book on guerilla warfare has been intensely studied in the millitary academies of the US since at least the Afghanistan invasions. The fact that the officer corps doesn't seem to internalize litterally any part of it is another problem.

This was what I was thinking of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_oath_controversy_of_the_110th_United_States_Congress

Apparently the Jefferson Qu'ran thing came later and he was sworn in using a "regular" Qu'ran.