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See an excerpt from a long article here (applied in a very narrow way in one country):

During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services — predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency — produced a manual detailing methods of sabotage intended for the European Allied resistance in German-occupied areas to disrupt the German war machine. But this wasn’t about blowing up bridges.1 The Simple Sabotage Field Manual established disruption tactics to impede productivity and create inefficiencies in enemy organizations. These tactics were considered subversive acts of warfare.

Ironically, from rigid adherence to procedure to endless deliberation in committees, many of these tactics have become normalized and even embraced in modern workplaces. How did we come to unwittingly replicate this wartime sabotage directed at our enemies to proliferating it against ourselves?

I think clarity can be found in our relationship with time and risk. In times of peace and stability, we perceive we have more time to fill, our relationship with risk drops, and we make people do more things to ensure less risk. Then if war, conflict, or emergency hits, we abandon those same sabotage and bureaucratic tactics because “things really matter” and a lazy game becomes speed chess, on the clock.

What if we behaved as if time was always the most powerful weapons platform we have and every minute mattered, every day? What if we respected people’s time, lessened the toil, and asked, “Would I do this in war?” What if we treated our daily work as the “practice field” for war, rather than only scrambling to overcome all the malaise when it becomes “game critical”?

Or read a far punchier bullet list, if somewhat inaccurate, as applied to the EU.

Funniest of all, they know this — and the self-deifyingly “all-capable” pols are powerless to stop themselves!

Tears of laughter…

Via the Quotulatiousness blog:

An important lesson from history is that people living in relatively stable and functional societies seldom understand how rapidly things can deteriorate and plunge into catastrophe, violence, and mass murder.

A real-life individual named Savva Morozov (1862–1905) was one of the wealthiest men in pre-revolutionary Russia.

He was a textile magnate, a patron of the arts, and a genuine philanthropist. His Moscow mansion was said to be the most expensive in the city. He and his wife, Zinaida, hosted famous writers, composers, and scientists. Morozov also worked to improve conditions for workers in his factories. He gave pregnant women paid leave. He funded scholarships for students. He built a hospital and a theater for his workers. He pushed for constitutional reform: freedom of the press, freedom of association, workers’ rights to organize and strike, and public oversight of the state budget.

Morozov also bankrolled the Bolsheviks.

Reports from this period suggest he gave hundreds of thousands of rubles to the revolutionary cause. He personally financed an underground newspaper of the banned social-democratic party that would eventually become the Russian Communist Party.

Morozov’s goal was almost certainly not to ignite a civil war or hand power to a dictatorship. He likely saw the radicals as useful pressure on the tsar, a way to force real reforms from a regime that would not move on its own.

When revolution came in January 1905, the violence shocked him.

He had set forces in motion that he could not control.

He suffered a nervous breakdown and fell into depression. His doctors and family sent him to the French Riviera to recover. He checked into a hotel in Cannes. There, he apparently shot himself, though rumors persisted for years that he had been murdered and the suicide had been staged.

His wife Zinaida returned to Russia and continued living off the enormous fortune her husband had left behind. Then came 1917. The Bolsheviks seized everything. She survived by selling off the few pieces of jewelry she had managed to keep.

The lavish country estate she and her husband owned later became the personal residence of Vladimir Lenin, leader of the communist revolution. Today it is a museum called Lenin’s Gorki, filled with the possessions and mementos of the first leader of the Soviet Union.

In his book End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration, Peter Turchin points out that in most cases of societal collapse and state breakdown, “the overwhelming majority of precrisis elites … were clueless about the catastrophe that was about to engulf them. They shook the foundations of the state and then were surprised when the state crumbled.”

Rob Henderson, “Dark Shadows Fall, One Upon The Other”, Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2026-03-22.

So far, we have virtually lost ground on every front, in every direction imaginable since…

This was published by fact-free Israelis for the recent “independence” day:

Um, news flash: the State looks nothing like this, and hasn’t for a long time (not to mention internal displacements and constant rocket threats whenever Arabs replenish munitions. All we hear about is praise for the dumb Iron Dome system. This is not even regarded as a problem to be solved. The rhetoric is the rotting-old טפטופים, שקט יענה בשקט, תגובה הולמת, הכרעה זו מילה גסה, לא יעבור לסדר היום, סבב, הכלה, עורף חזק.) This big-fat-lying map is used by all major camps.

The idea that the Land of Israel simply belongs to the Jewish people is dead and buried, except in lip service. The expulsion of Gush Katif was never reversed.[*] The Levy Report was quashed by Netanyahu. If they continue having their way, everything the war criminals dispossessed the Jews of will stay Judenrein.

True, in February 2026, Israel’s security cabinet approved measures mandating the registration of land in Area C of the West Bank as “state property”, but that’s just horse-trading politics, slow-walked, still not actual sovereignty, and easily reversible. Ideas are what matter. The Oslo idea didn’t shift at all. The media never differentiates between Arabs and Jews, because we’re all supposedly “Israelis”. The underlying trend has been against Jewish settlement (including by KKL!), not for it, and אי אמר מלכא עקרנא טורא עקר ולא הדר ביה.

As always in a democracy, public losses are real, public gains are provisional, and your vote doesn’t count unless you’re an Old Money elite with ideas to match.

World opinion matters more than ever to the faithless, Bitachon-less regime, despite ballooning Jew-hatred worldwide. Revanchism/Irredentism hasn’t been heard of in popular mouthpieces in many years, except as a “קוריוז”. The supposed “conquests” of the last few years (e.g., Lebanon, Mount Hermon) are a bitter farce. The traitorous regime is merely annexing land it fervently believes and emphatically proclaims through official channels it has zero claim to, just until it can find enemies sufficiently devious that they can fool themselves into giving it “back” forever. All the fake expansions are just military occupations as buffer zones, with no real settlement.

Quoting NPR:

… Dec. 8 [2024], Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood on the top of Mount Hermon in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, wearing a body armor vest, and called the takeover of the buffer zone a “temporary defensive position” until “another suitable arrangement is found.” He did not offer a withdrawal date. The United Nations has called on Israel to withdraw.

NPR then references a billion-shekel plan to develop and expand settlements in the quote-unquote occupied Golan Heights. But that’s a red herring. It means expanding the settlements within the existing area under Israeli control, not expanding territorial boundaries.

Even as a military occupation (politically unviable by design), the IDF continually pulls out to allow Azans and Lebanese to retake, to booby-trap, etc. And then the intrepid IDF “conquers” the same exact area again, with lots of Dati-Leumi casualties, oopsie daisy.

“They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.”

Pace Kedushas Tzion’s front-page cover of last month:

And the rest of the country is being taken over, too כל דאלים גבר. Bedouins, infiltrators, the PLO, mafias, whoever. Hilltop Jews, meanwhile, are being mercilessly persecuted and driven out of their rightful homes by the army they sacrifice their lives to without respite. Outside of Feiglin, nobody even complains.

Yes, some Jews have expanded sovereignty on their private initiative here and there, but what is to stop the regime from destroying it all for a song? The expulsion from Gush Katif and North Shomron, with full approval of the establishment, didn’t even have a fake “partner” on the other side. If you think lessons were learned and memories stick, yikes! Even the gains on the Temple Mount are just temporary directives by a certain politician currently in office (B. Gevir), which the current prime minister explicitly rejects.

A map of all Hashem is trying to give us is great; how about a map of all the Erev Rav keeps throwing away?

Hope? Sure, of course. All the prophecies will be completely fulfilled. One day. And the Arizal reportedly said our redemption will happen on Hei Iyar, too. One day! But let’s not delude ourselves.