Traumatized veterans, many of whom are ultra-nationalists, might also try to lead another Ukrainian insurgency in Poland aimed at severing the southeastern part of the country.
I'm seriously considering limiting comments to paid subscribers to prevent trolls, who've become increasingly sophisticated in their passive-aggressive insults, from toxifying the conversation.
I don't have the time, nor always the energy, to closely monitor my comments even after reimposing my policy of instantly banning trolls and explaining afterwards (which is back in effect).
The only way that I'll definitely keep the comments open all summer at least is if there are at minimum five more paid subscribers to recompense me for the abuse that I occasionally receive.
I sincerely enjoy responding to comments here, but it's so draining nowadays since I'm going on long walks midday in the Moscow heat only to return to this nonsense on a semi-regular basis.
I can't keep it up if everything remains the same so something has to go, and I'm not cutting out my midday walks nor reducing my workflow, but likely restricting comments for paid subscribers.
Disaffected, armed Ukrainian veterans could become a danger to all of Europe after the war ends. Frustrated by their defeat against Russia, they will seek and find a reason for their loss. They will take revenge, as EU support never fully satisfied Ukraine's insatiable hunger for weapons and money.
The American crime wave and fentanyl OD surge started in April 2020 when the first PPP checks were issued. $250 billion in fraud under Trump is what led to the crime wave which Biden successfully cleaned up by 2023.
Whether you're counting overdoses, or overdose deaths, there was no "fentanyl overdose surge," but there was an an uptick during peak pandemic (people stuck at home).
There was no overall "pandemic crime wave." Different crimes moved in different directions during different phases of COVID-19, and the effects varied sharply by city and region.
Homicides and shootings increased summer 2020 through early 2021. Most concentrated in low income neighborhoods of large cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, LA, DC, NYC.
No, the causation is clear and it all started with upwards $250 billion in PPP and sibling program fraud in April 2020. So one anomaly was property crime decreased with the initial lockdowns which should have meant thugs didn’t have dollars to purchase street guns…but they acquired the dollars via PPP fraud.
I think you might be invested in the false narrative that the crime wave and fentanyl ODs were related to illegal immigration when in reality they were related to American criminal organizations getting a large infusion of capital in 2020. So illegal immigration was at record lows when the surges happened.
Also the negative trends started before the George Floyd protests and Montana and South Dakota had the biggest murder surges according to your data…did they have big George Floyd protests? 😉
$250 billion dollars in a few months is a lot of money and it makes perfect sense it would wreak havoc in the American economy. Just check out your links…because they strengthen my argument.
Andrew didn’t come right out with the “N” word, but the OUN, Bandera and the Azov Brigade are definitely neo-Nazi. There is an enormous amount of unaccounted-for weapons kicking around in Ukraine. I can see why the Poles are concerned…
“For background, the first Ukrainian insurgency was “Khmelnitsky’s Uprising” in the mid-17th century, and then there was the “koliszczyzna” a century later. Both resulted in the large-scale massacre, arguably a genocide, of Poles (and Jews too). Then there was the Polish-Ukrainian War right after World War I, the 1930s Ukrainian insurgency, the separate one that paralleled the Nazi invasion, the World War II-era Volhynia Genocide, and finally the post-war Ukrainian insurgency that prompted “Operation Vistula”.
Ukrainian ultra-nationalists, which count many veterans among them, believe that southeastern Poland is occupied Ukrainian land. The current leader of the “Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists” (OUN) that was responsible for the Volhynia Genocide implicitly threatened Poland on this basis as was explained here in fall 2024. The summer prior, Zelensky’s top advisor Mikhail Podolyak ominously predicted a post-conflict competition with Poland, and it’s possible that traumatized veterans could play a role therein.
To make matters even worse, “The Ukrainian Ambassador To Poland Admitted That His Co-Ethnics Don’t Want To Assimilate” just last fall, and then he shocked Poles last month by refusing to describe Volhynia Genocide co-organizers Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich as criminals. Interspersed between these provocations, Ukrainian media happily predicted the formation of an ethnic Ukrainian lobby in the Sejm, and it can’t be ruled out that this bloc might one day support “reunification” with Ukraine.”
Indeed, they're definitely Neo-Nazi, but I've discovered in my experience over the years that many people have nowadays become numb to that word after it was abused for defaming people and causes that aren't Neo-Nazi in the slightest so I tend to eschew it to avoid turning off those types of people who might come across my work.
For example, even I -- a proud "Non-Russian Pro-Russian" who's been living in Moscow for nearly 13 years, supports the SMO, and even published original multipolar analyses daily for 1,278 consecutive days since the start till 24 August 2025 before falling ill from overexhaustion and thus had to take a few days off -- cringe whenever I come across articles or social media posts that repeat the phrase "Neo-Nazi junta" over and over and over again and never tire of reminding readers that Zelensky and his government are NAZIS, NAZIS, NAZIS!!!
At this point, everyone in the world already formed their opinion on whether this is the case and those who disagree aren't going to be convinced by someone repeating over and over and over again NAZI, NAZI, NAZI! I understand the importance of casually referencing it from time to time, but at this point, I personally consider these "activists" to be akin to bleating sheep and can't stand their low-IQ tactic of conveying this point when they should rely on more sophisticated means by now.
“During Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Canada last Friday, House Speaker Anthony Rota introduced Hunka as a Canadian-Ukrainian war hero, prompting a standing ovation from parliamentarians.
But the tribute triggered a wave of criticism from Jewish organizations, advocacy groups and leaders across the world, because Hunka fought with the First Ukrainian Division — also known as the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division, which served under command of the Nazis in Adolf Hitler’s World War II fight against Russia’s Red Army.
“In view of the scandalous events in the Canadian Parliament, which involved honoring, in the presence of President Zelenskyy, a member of the criminal Nazi SS Galizien formation, I have taken steps towards the possible extradition of this man to Poland,” Czarnek said on X, formerly Twitter.
In a letter to Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, a body that researches and investigates past crimes against the Polish nation, Czarnek asked it to “urgently examine” whether Hunka is wanted for crimes against Polish people of Jewish origin, adding that “signs of such crimes are grounds to apply to Canada for his extradition.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told media the situation was “extremely upsetting” and “deeply embarrassing” for Canada. Rota has since apologized and said he took “full responsibility” for the incident…”
Yeah, I wrote about it here, but I still stand by what I said: repeating ad nauseum one very single occasion, not just exceptional ones like this one, NAZI, NAZI, NAZI gets old and turns off a lot of people:
Maybe the people of Poland have finally woken up to the idea that their leaders might have joined the wrong side in this little local difficulty? A Polish diplomat once said to me, 'Sure we have had problems with the Russians for three hundred years but we have had problems with the Germans for a thousand years.' Who acted as local agent for the US in stirring up the nationalists in Ukraine?
Southeast Poland had 100's of thousands of Ukrainians who driven out by Poles. Had the Ukrainians used their heads and been part of Russia this would never have happened. Both my parents had relatives killed in this time period.
I'm seriously considering limiting comments to paid subscribers to prevent trolls, who've become increasingly sophisticated in their passive-aggressive insults, from toxifying the conversation.
I don't have the time, nor always the energy, to closely monitor my comments even after reimposing my policy of instantly banning trolls and explaining afterwards (which is back in effect).
The only way that I'll definitely keep the comments open all summer at least is if there are at minimum five more paid subscribers to recompense me for the abuse that I occasionally receive.
I sincerely enjoy responding to comments here, but it's so draining nowadays since I'm going on long walks midday in the Moscow heat only to return to this nonsense on a semi-regular basis.
I can't keep it up if everything remains the same so something has to go, and I'm not cutting out my midday walks nor reducing my workflow, but likely restricting comments for paid subscribers.
Disaffected, armed Ukrainian veterans could become a danger to all of Europe after the war ends. Frustrated by their defeat against Russia, they will seek and find a reason for their loss. They will take revenge, as EU support never fully satisfied Ukraine's insatiable hunger for weapons and money.
It could create a perfect moment for VDL to tighten her grip and accelerate federalization efforts in the name of "safety".
I am afraid that crime wave is already spreading from Kiev to Los Angeles.
The American crime wave and fentanyl OD surge started in April 2020 when the first PPP checks were issued. $250 billion in fraud under Trump is what led to the crime wave which Biden successfully cleaned up by 2023.
Whether you're counting overdoses, or overdose deaths, there was no "fentanyl overdose surge," but there was an an uptick during peak pandemic (people stuck at home).
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm
There was no overall "pandemic crime wave." Different crimes moved in different directions during different phases of COVID-19, and the effects varied sharply by city and region.
Homicides and shootings increased summer 2020 through early 2021. Most concentrated in low income neighborhoods of large cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, LA, DC, NYC.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/10/27/what-we-know-about-the-increase-in-u-s-murders-in-2020/
Aggravated assaults increased nationally in 2020 and 2021, though less dramatically than homicide.
Motor vehicle theft rose substantially during the pandemic trending back towards "baseline" over several years.
Go to DOJ/FBI websites for charts, tables and raw datasets.
Don't feed the troll.
$250 billion in fraud is innocuous!! 😝
Feral is still angry that I was right about Taibbi and he was fooled by him…whatever happened to Walter Kirn? 😝
No, the causation is clear and it all started with upwards $250 billion in PPP and sibling program fraud in April 2020. So one anomaly was property crime decreased with the initial lockdowns which should have meant thugs didn’t have dollars to purchase street guns…but they acquired the dollars via PPP fraud.
I think you might be invested in the false narrative that the crime wave and fentanyl ODs were related to illegal immigration when in reality they were related to American criminal organizations getting a large infusion of capital in 2020. So illegal immigration was at record lows when the surges happened.
Also the negative trends started before the George Floyd protests and Montana and South Dakota had the biggest murder surges according to your data…did they have big George Floyd protests? 😉
I think you might be invested in weaving your own narratives of varying plausibility into some unifying theory - simplistically.
$250 billion dollars in a few months is a lot of money and it makes perfect sense it would wreak havoc in the American economy. Just check out your links…because they strengthen my argument.
Andrew didn’t come right out with the “N” word, but the OUN, Bandera and the Azov Brigade are definitely neo-Nazi. There is an enormous amount of unaccounted-for weapons kicking around in Ukraine. I can see why the Poles are concerned…
“For background, the first Ukrainian insurgency was “Khmelnitsky’s Uprising” in the mid-17th century, and then there was the “koliszczyzna” a century later. Both resulted in the large-scale massacre, arguably a genocide, of Poles (and Jews too). Then there was the Polish-Ukrainian War right after World War I, the 1930s Ukrainian insurgency, the separate one that paralleled the Nazi invasion, the World War II-era Volhynia Genocide, and finally the post-war Ukrainian insurgency that prompted “Operation Vistula”.
Ukrainian ultra-nationalists, which count many veterans among them, believe that southeastern Poland is occupied Ukrainian land. The current leader of the “Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists” (OUN) that was responsible for the Volhynia Genocide implicitly threatened Poland on this basis as was explained here in fall 2024. The summer prior, Zelensky’s top advisor Mikhail Podolyak ominously predicted a post-conflict competition with Poland, and it’s possible that traumatized veterans could play a role therein.
To make matters even worse, “The Ukrainian Ambassador To Poland Admitted That His Co-Ethnics Don’t Want To Assimilate” just last fall, and then he shocked Poles last month by refusing to describe Volhynia Genocide co-organizers Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich as criminals. Interspersed between these provocations, Ukrainian media happily predicted the formation of an ethnic Ukrainian lobby in the Sejm, and it can’t be ruled out that this bloc might one day support “reunification” with Ukraine.”
😲😡
Indeed, they're definitely Neo-Nazi, but I've discovered in my experience over the years that many people have nowadays become numb to that word after it was abused for defaming people and causes that aren't Neo-Nazi in the slightest so I tend to eschew it to avoid turning off those types of people who might come across my work.
For example, even I -- a proud "Non-Russian Pro-Russian" who's been living in Moscow for nearly 13 years, supports the SMO, and even published original multipolar analyses daily for 1,278 consecutive days since the start till 24 August 2025 before falling ill from overexhaustion and thus had to take a few days off -- cringe whenever I come across articles or social media posts that repeat the phrase "Neo-Nazi junta" over and over and over again and never tire of reminding readers that Zelensky and his government are NAZIS, NAZIS, NAZIS!!!
At this point, everyone in the world already formed their opinion on whether this is the case and those who disagree aren't going to be convinced by someone repeating over and over and over again NAZI, NAZI, NAZI! I understand the importance of casually referencing it from time to time, but at this point, I personally consider these "activists" to be akin to bleating sheep and can't stand their low-IQ tactic of conveying this point when they should rely on more sophisticated means by now.
You might have heard of this incident in Canada;
“During Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Canada last Friday, House Speaker Anthony Rota introduced Hunka as a Canadian-Ukrainian war hero, prompting a standing ovation from parliamentarians.
But the tribute triggered a wave of criticism from Jewish organizations, advocacy groups and leaders across the world, because Hunka fought with the First Ukrainian Division — also known as the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division, which served under command of the Nazis in Adolf Hitler’s World War II fight against Russia’s Red Army.
“In view of the scandalous events in the Canadian Parliament, which involved honoring, in the presence of President Zelenskyy, a member of the criminal Nazi SS Galizien formation, I have taken steps towards the possible extradition of this man to Poland,” Czarnek said on X, formerly Twitter.
In a letter to Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, a body that researches and investigates past crimes against the Polish nation, Czarnek asked it to “urgently examine” whether Hunka is wanted for crimes against Polish people of Jewish origin, adding that “signs of such crimes are grounds to apply to Canada for his extradition.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told media the situation was “extremely upsetting” and “deeply embarrassing” for Canada. Rota has since apologized and said he took “full responsibility” for the incident…”
https://www.politico.eu/article/yaroslav-hunka-poland-extradite-ukrainian-ss-veteran-canada/
Yeah, I wrote about it here, but I still stand by what I said: repeating ad nauseum one very single occasion, not just exceptional ones like this one, NAZI, NAZI, NAZI gets old and turns off a lot of people:
https://korybko.substack.com/p/jews-poles-and-russians-have-united
Hmm, g-, f-, z- now n- words, gonna run outa letters soon like that lgbtxyz thing...
Maybe… they should ask… Russia for help.
Maybe the people of Poland have finally woken up to the idea that their leaders might have joined the wrong side in this little local difficulty? A Polish diplomat once said to me, 'Sure we have had problems with the Russians for three hundred years but we have had problems with the Germans for a thousand years.' Who acted as local agent for the US in stirring up the nationalists in Ukraine?
The Eurocrats are convinced they can bully their way into Russia with US backing and asset strip it. The Eurocrats are wrong…and delusional.
Southeast Poland had 100's of thousands of Ukrainians who driven out by Poles. Had the Ukrainians used their heads and been part of Russia this would never have happened. Both my parents had relatives killed in this time period.
Thanks for your great work Andrew!
We've restacked and shared this link on 'The Stacks'
https://askeptic.substack.com/p/the-stacks
Hé hé hé, Poles better should have think twice before throwing shit on the fan.