re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Sohrab Ahmari, Gladden Pappin, and Adrian Vermeule (along with a larger cohort of conservative Catholic thinkers), advocate a conservatism that is comfortable with big government

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Their vision is called Francoist Spain. It’s an awful form of government that will brutalize it’s people every, single time.

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So what kind of politics should conservatives today, as inheritors of a failed movement, adopt? For starters, they should stop thinking of themselves as conservatives (much less as Republicans) and start thinking of themselves as radicals, restorationists, and counterrevolutionaries

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Ah yes the failed conservative movement. The great trick these “radicals” need to pull off is convincing enough people that America is a failed state.

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Details: The Skhemy journalists reported that a cargo ferry has made a number of crossings since the beginning of October transferring military personnel and equipment over Dnipro from the village of Kozatske [on the right bank - ed.] to Nova Kakhovka [on the left bank - ed.].

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That's about 35 miles upriver from the city of Kherson, where the hydro plant is. So if this is factual, it looks like the Russians are pulling out of the wedge between the Inhulets and Dnipro Rivers. Maybe they learned their lesson from Kharkiv.

Many of these radicals are calling Reagan a failed conservative and his policies failed conservatism.

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The new aid package, which most likely would be part of an omnibus spending bill, could be within the range of roughly $50 billion, congressional aides and a source close to the Ukraine government said.

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I would double that to $100B but leave most of it as discretionary so we don't have to spend it if it is not needed. I don't want to leave to chance that the MTG's in the House could hold back aid because of their hate for libs.

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Looks like a retreat on the down low. Could the Ukrainian forces have reached an agreement with the Russian forces trapped in Kherson, thus the request for silence on reporting by the Ukrainians so that Russian leaders in Moscow don't catch wind?

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I think the Russians finally figured out that those troops were in an untenable position and are trying to get out while they can. That crossing is literally the only place they can evacuate between the dam and Kherson. Meanwhile, from the reports I see (which aren't many), Ukraine is still pushing hard from Dudchany along the right bank in order to disrupt this retreat.

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Before doing this I’d want to know how much we have sent so far,

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Less than $100,000,000,000 and the Treasury Department is currently in control or possession of about $300,000,000,000 worth of frozen and seized Russia assets and funds.

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Their vision is called Francoist Spain. It’s an awful form of government that will brutalize it’s people every, single time.

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It's also incredibly funny to get Spanish fascists to admit their project lasted less than two decades before Franco was instituting liberal reforms. If one were to go to Spain now, there is no public symbol of him at all, for good reason. You can't kill every single one of your opposition and the people you do kill will leave behind their own long memory.

The long and short of it is that violent suppression of your imagined enemies has never worked. That's definitely the world that some of those Catholic public figures would like, but thankfully they are only left with dreaming about it on Twitter.

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Didn’t we authorize 40 B? Not 100 B?

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I don’t know the exact amount that has been authorized or spent. That is why I just say it’s less than 100 billion USD.

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Oh, this is a long road to go down, and completely off-track, but today's article in The Federalist can be a start.

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Right. It is off topic.
However, the Federalist article mentioned Trump once ... as "uncharted waters."

To me, Trump's policies seemed much more adopted to personal freedoms, and achievement than to any autocracy. That's why I asked the question re: Trump.