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Narratives exist because reality is far more complex.
The wealth he sits on, not a man's character, may determine his fate.
In Venezuela it was oil, in Serbia it's lithium.
Feed the beast, or get out of the way.
Looks like lithium played a part in the fall of Serbia's Vučić. Remember, 'We'll coup whoever we want'.
Could also be the EU angry that he failed to deliver.
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🇷🇸 A lot of people have been wondering what's going on in Serbia, so I thought I could shed some light on Serbian culture, history, and politics.
Serbia is one of the South Slavic nations, and genetically its people are approximately half Balkan Hunter-Gatherer and half Slavic. Through the ages, they have mixed with Neolithic Farmers and Slavs, been ruled by the Romans, medieval kingdoms, Ottomans, Austrians, socialism, and over the last 35 years, seen their state dismantled by Western powers.
Serbs are Christian, but not in a legalistic Western way. The Orthodox liturgy is mystical and melodic. The trinity of the Heavenly Father, Christ the King, and the Holy Mother is represented by the Serbian three-finger salute, and every family inherits a patron saint. The great feasts are strictly observed, it is usual to see priests among the community, and national heroes are never forgotten, with Serbia probably having more murals and statues than any other nation. Buses in Serbia might feature an effigy of General Mladić next to the driver, and you will more than likely listen to folk songs about the love of one special woman or the love of one's village. Serbia is living and organic.
As you can see, Serbia is deeply conservative, to a degree that a young Westerner might be unable to recognise. While that rootedness has enormous advantages, a combination of clannish loyalties, the remnants of socialist governance, and economic limitations has caused Serbia to drift into corruption. Favours for favours turned into cash for public sector jobs and building contracts, creating a one-party state that lined its pockets, exports its young talent to Austria and Germany, quietly gave up on Kosovo, and maintains the system by brainwashing Boomers via state TV channels.
The Novi Sad rail disaster was the straw that broke the corrupt camel's back. I was there on the day it happened, due to leave by train the following day. It could've been me killed by the rot of public sector contracts being mishandled, with safety treated as an afterthought. Serbs had previously protested Vučić's party for attempting to give away Serbia's lithium, and real estate to Jared Kushner. As his final act, Vučić's Israeli campaign manager, Israel Einav, brought a team of loud-mouthed and repulsive Zionist influencers to post short videos about "saving Serbia". I take the view that continued SNS rule meant certain death by the slow strangulation of corruption and brain drain. As well as the Republic of Serbia, Serbs live in the United States, Australia, Austria, Germany, and Bosnia, and among them are some of the brightest and most ambitious minds, like Nikola Tesla.
The Student List movement is primarily about restoring the rule of law – a term Western liberals like to use for abstract legalism, mass immigration, and German autocracy, but for Serbs, it means the dignity of a solid job and the hope of a better future after historic turmoil. There are a number of policies regarding law, the economy, family, and education, but what stands out is that most of the elected candidates are professors with genuine expertise in a wide range of fields. Educators tend to be on the liberal side of politics, but these are Serbs we're talking about. One senior figure, Radomir Saičić, has a PhD in natural sciences, fought in the Yugoslav war, called for traditionally close relations with Russia and the unity of Serbs in Republika Srpska, also referring to Kosovo as a "temporarily occupied territory".
Ursula von der Leyen, a handful of gays, and young women declared victory for social progressivism on their socials, but as far as I can tell, this will be a nation-building project. Any EU referendum is years off and will very likely be voted down if the new government makes any progress at all, because in truth, Serbs are not progressive. They are sceptical of empires, human rights mean the right to smoke indoors, and they aren't desperate to fill their homeland with wage-crushing third-worlders.
I don't want to dwell on geopolitics, but Serbs fought for their sovereignty between 1914 and 1918 and lost more than half of their men to German bombardment, Bulgarian liquidations, and forced retreats into winter mountains. The 19th-century idea of uniting the South Slavs against Austrian hegemony failed once more thanks to Croatia's partial alignment with Hitlerism, and the Croatian-born Tito created a situation that would later prove advantageous to Germany and the United States in dismantling Yugoslavia and economically dominating Serbs. The NATO bombing of 1999 deliberately targeted industry at the same time Serbian children were shown German-dubbed shows on state TV channels. Today, South Slavs owe their mortgages to Austro-Hungarian banks, have Deutsche Telekom phone contracts, buy their cosmetics at German "DM" drug stores, and drive German cars. There is little room to create wealth, and 30,000 young Serbs feel forced to leave every year. It's as if the Austrian Empire was never defeated.
I remain hopeful that a resurgent Serbia will be not only an integral part of Western civilisation but an example to learn from.
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Useful reminder to those complaining about refugees in Europe: if you want less refugees, your main enemy is the US Military Industrial Complex.
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Europe is preparing for the final war, and its governments are telling citizens to get ready for major disruption.
🇬🇧 UK: 3 days of water, food, torch, radio and cash
🇪🇺 EU: 72 hours of supplies for every citizen
🇩🇪 Germany: 10 days. Public bunkers for less than 1% of the people. Every 18-year-old man now gets a military questionnaire.
🇫🇷 France: a 20-page survival guide
🇸🇪 Sweden: "If Crisis or War Comes" booklets sent to 5 million homes
Meanwhile, the wealthy are buying $50,000 places in nuclear-hardened shelters and turning Cold War missile silos into luxury bunkers.
They locked you down in 2020.
Now they tell you to stock up for war.
So ask yourself: when it comes, who goes to the front line, and who goes underground?
The people they ignored for years are the ones they will ask to fight.
They get the bunkers. You get the front line.
I prefer Italian economic historian Carlo Maria Cipolla and his piercing theory 'The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity' (1976):
1. everyone underestimates the number of stupid in circulation
2. stupidity is independent of social class, education, IQ or gender
3. a stupid person causes loss to others, while gaining nothing himself
4. non-stupid people underestimate the cost of engaging with the stupid
5. a stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit who transfers wealth while the stupid destroy it.
This paper answers why confident idiots run the world.
Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy.
It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.”
they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception.
And the results are wild.
participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile.
they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence.
the paper revealed a brutal paradox:
the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain.
if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing.
this creates a dangerous systemic loop.
the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions.
meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse.
top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else.
they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add.
we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence.
the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't.
the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.
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Serbia is absolutely a frontline battleground for NATO and EU - and there is definitely an effort to pull Serbia AWAY from Russia, and integrate it into the Western structure. That is the point. Vucic has always been a Russian ally, and has also maintained a very pragmatic balance between East and West alignment. There has been a clever rumor/disinfo campaign likely run via US/British intelligence that Vucic was “secretly being Serbia into NATO” clearly designed to divide & sow doubt. But Vucic has kept Serbia out of NATO. Ditto with similar accusations of being a ‘secret EU agent’. However, Serbia applied for EU membership back in 2009 - long before Vucic came to power. They remain in the accession process. Nothing new there. The same rumor mill/operatives will also say, ‘Vucic is secretly giving away Kosovo’ implying he’s a traitor to the nation - while downplaying the fact that it is a NATO occupied enclave which makes things extremely difficult when it comes to managing provocations from the Kosovo side.
There is no doubt multiple actors are involved with overlapping gray areas on this complex Venn diagram - including an Israeli presence in Serbia. One thing I have learned about Balkan & Eastern European politics is that nothing is straightforward, it’s always crawling with spooks, the West are constantly throwing salt on old partisan wounds, and you can always expect at least 3 or more colliding political forces at any major political flashpoint. And objective analysis is nearly impossible to find at ground zero. That is definitely the case here.
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Before anyone rushes to dismiss the woman in this photo as another crazy conspiracy theorist, you might want to know who she actually is.
Her name is Alexandra “Sasha” Latypova, and she spent more than two decades working in pharmaceutical research and development. She holds an MBA from Dartmouth College and co-founded iCardiac Technologies, a company that developed technology used to evaluate cardiac safety during clinical drug trials. Her work involved major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, and collaboration with researchers at the FDA. In other words, she's not some random woman on Facebook who watched three YouTube videos and decided she was an expert. 🙄
Since leaving the industry, Latypova has become an outspoken critic of pharmaceutical companies, regulatory agencies, and vaccination. She publishes her own investigations through Due Diligence and Art, where she examines clinical trial data, government contracts, and pharmaceutical practices. Her position has become increasingly uncompromising, as you can see from her statement above.
I'm well aware that having an impressive résumé doesn't automatically make every claim someone makes correct. But when a woman with that kind of professional background publicly accuses the industry she once worked in of deliberately harming people, I'm certainly interested in hearing what she has to say.
I happen to share her distrust of vaccines, and I've arrived at my own conclusions through years of questioning and research. You're free to disagree with both of us. But dismissing someone's entire professional experience simply because you don't like what she's saying isn't critical thinking. It's intellectual laziness.
For anyone interested in reading her work rather than relying on someone else's opinion of it, you can find her at sashalatypova.substack.com.
#SashaLatypova #PharmaceuticalIndustry #MedicalFreedom #InformedConsent #QuestionEverything #VaccineSafety #CriticalThinking #FollowTheEvidence
#covid #VaccinesKill #adversereaction #vaccineinjury
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Try your best to help the innocent who were lied to.
At this point in 2026 if they refuse to listen or do any research then just laugh at them.
Have a nice day.
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Europe’s leaders seem to be out of touch and out of their depth. Politicians may be physically safe but the streets are not.
What is the advantage to the Great Resetters of a physical confrontation? It could speed up the transition; it could remove incumbents who have served their purpose; it could alter the forces on the ground, for example, replace defunded police with military. (Link in reply)
There is a part of the culture of the 1970s that has been absent for many decades — until recent months. The impact of nuclear war information campaigns loomed large in the world of a teenager, as the folk memory of World War Two gave way as the 1970s progressed, to the Cold War.
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How and why the nuclear demon vanished.
If mutually-assured destruction kept peace then, why not now?
MAD's fading wasn't the end of superpower rivalry but its re-emergence.
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Too many people would have to know. They would never stay silent.
That’s the common objection to a coordinated conspiracy.
But that’s not how it goes; it’s the other direction: you publish a narrative, a story of many parts. Each may intuit his role without being told.
The main object of propaganda is not the man on the Clapham omnibus or the woman who sees him from the window of her C-suite office. The job of the all-embracing BBC, NBC, CBS, ABC world view is to keep the bureaucrats on message.
Cultural programming works on officialdom and state functionaries, just as it does on you in your sitting room before the tell-lie-vision or watching movies (Holly wood being a central part of pagan ritual).
Famously the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate was published in 1959 and the film adaptation was premiered in October 1962, about a year before president John F Kennedy was killed.
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Contrary to urban legend the film was not banned for 25 years. It played in theatres in 1964 and was broadcast on CBS television in 1965. Frank Sinatra, who played the hero, had used his connections with JFK to push supposedly reluctant studios to make the film in the first place. Sinatra acquired the distribution rights in 1972.
