Monthly Archives: October 2025

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Javier Milei is the only leader in the entire world who’s striking blows for freedom and individual rights. Argentinians just handed him a big mandate to keep on chainsawing. From Joel Bowman at joelbowman.substack.com:

A nation awakens from its collectivist hallucination…

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“An hallucination continues for as long as it is not contested.”

~ Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé (1935)

Joel Bowman with today’s Note From the End of the World: Buenos Aires, Argentina…

Limited government… balanced budgets… free markets…

Zero-deficits… plummeting inflation… lower taxes…

Laissez-Faire… individual rights… live and let live…

Turns out these “loco” concepts… and plenty more besides… actually resonate with decent, honest, real world people.

Who’d have thunk?

As patient readers are no doubt aware, the great libertarian experiment continues apace down here at the End of the World.

Having witnessed almost two years of Javier Milei’s “Chainsaw First” economic policies, during which the self-described anarcho-capitalist slashed the putrefied state from halo to culo, Argentine voters handed his La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party a thumping mandate in the midterm elections this past weekend. (Catch up on the Peronist post-mortem in Monday’s Note.)

But wait! How ever could this be?

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Ukrainians will keep on dying; European taxpayers will keep on paying; Zelensky and crew will keep on stealing. From Ian Proud at strategic-culture.org:

The truth is that Russia has the money to fight on for as long as it takes and Ukraine does not, Ian Proud writes.

In yet another shift from European leaders, the strategy now towards the war is ‘keeping Ukraine in the fight’. However, the outcome – Russian occupation of all of Donetsk – appears inevitable, whether that’s now or in the future. So if the Eurocrats can’t strong arm Belgium in allowing the illegal expropriation of Russian assets, then it will be ordinary European tax payers who have to pay for Zelensky’s fight.

Having been rebuffed by Donald Trump in his latest effort to obtain tomahawk missiles, Zelensky quickly turned up in London on 24 October, where the red carpet was rolled out by Keir Starmer and a handful of like-minded leaders, including NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and the Prime Ministers of the Netherlands and Denmark. Since that time, I have repeatedly heard a new line from European leaders; that the west should do everything ‘to keep Ukraine in the fight’.

It isn’t made clear why Ukraine would want to continue to fight. It is still losing small amounts of land each day.

The truth is that, under Zelensky’s leadership, Ukraine has to fight on, backed by European leaders, out of a refusal to accept the terms of a peace deal with Russia that would involve Ukraine giving up its remaining towns in Donetsk.

Yet, one certainty in all of this is that Donetsk oblast is lost to Ukraine, either sooner, in the currently unlikely event that a peace deal is struck now, or later if Russia maintains the war for as long as it takes to claim it. President Putin has set himself a goal to take all of Donetsk and as of now, the greatest likelihood appears that he will eventually succeed.

If Ukraine and Russia’s positions do not shift, and there is no evidence that they will, then that consigns Ukraine to staying in the fight for at least one more year or until the Russian armed forced occupy all of Donetsk, whichever is sooner.

The lie at the heart of ‘keeping Ukraine in the fight’ is a belief – or rather a pretence – in Kyiv that the Ukrainian Armed forces can prevent the complete occupation of Donetsk.

And Zelensky has clearly persuaded the ever gullible Keir Starmer and others of this. During his London meeting, Zelensky spoke about Putin not wanting peace, but the truth is that he does not want peace. Because peace for Ukraine means political suicide for Zelensky.

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If only Gates would also cancel the vaccine apocalypse. From J.B. Shurk at americanthinker.com:

World Economic Forum fanboy Bill Gates broke the hearts of “climate change” communists all over the world by releasing a seventeen-page memorandum in which he concludes that “global warming” isn’t quite the threat to humanity that he and his fellow climate cultists have long alleged.  He calls for a “strategic pivot” away from endless fear-mongering over the weather.  

That’s pretty strange, given that “Big Government” Gates has long mocked reasonable people who refuse to jump on the global cooling…er, global warming…er, climate change…I mean, extreme weather bandwagon.  A decade ago, he told the world that neither representative democracy nor private-sector investments would save us from fossil fuel Armageddon.  The answer, he argued, was for communist China and Obama’s socialist United States to band together and fight the weather with bigger Big Government.  Ol’ Billy-boy was convinced that only more government regulations, more government programs, more government agencies, more government bureaucrats, and — of course! — more government spending could save the planet.

Jeffrey Epstein’s former travel companion still claims that “climate change” is “serious.”  He just wants to call off the apocalypse…for now.  He’s had a chance to think it over and has come to the conclusion that scientific innovation will likely address any problems in the future without requiring government stormtroopers to break into poor people’s homes in search of illegal electric appliances.  That’s quite a change of heart for a guy who used to argue that humans could avoid extinction only if non-billionaires lived in cubicle apartments, ate insects and synthetic “meats,” got a bajillion mRNA injections, avoided having children, shunned industry, rationed electricity, and adopted Stone Age lifestyles.

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Seeing will be believing. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:

It seems the Kremlin wants to show the world just how bad the situation is for Ukrainian forces along the frontlines in the east of the country, at a moment Russian infantry troops have already penetrated parts of the city of Pokrovsk.

On Wednesday in live televised remarks President Putin said that Russia is ready to let journalists into Ukraine’s encirclement zone. Speaking from the Central Military Clinical Hospital in Moscow alongside Defense Minister Andrey Belousov, Putin declared that “In two places – in Kupyansk and Krasnoarmiysk [the Kremlin’s name for Pokrovsk] – the enemy has been blocked, in encirclement.” He said of Western journalists, “let them see with their own eyes what’s going on.”

This was offered as pushback against recent reports from Western media and NATO officials who have by and large downplayed or denied recent Russian gains. Also, the Ukrainian government has flatly rejected that the two cities are encircled, saying it’s not true.

For example, below is US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker saying this week that Russia looks “very weak” currently. “At every single turn, the Russians are not showing from a position of strength – they actually look very weak right now,” he claimed.

But Putin has made a rare overture, saying the Russian side is ready to stop fighting in this area near Pokrovsk for as long as media representatives are there.

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Iran is aligned with Russia as never before, and that has grave implications for the Middle East and the world. From Eldar Mamedow at responsiblestatecraft.org:

The US-led move to reimpose UN sanctions on Tehran has drawn Moscow’s ire, and with it a bifurcation of international law

“A raider attack on the U.N. Security Council.” This was the explosive accusation leveled by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov this week. His target was the U.N. Secretariat and Western powers, whom he blamed for what Russia sees as an illegitimate attempt to restore the nuclear-related international sanctions on Iran.

Beyond the fiery rhetoric, Ryabkov’s statement contained a message: Russia, he said, now considers all pre-2015 U.N. sanctions on Iran, snapped back by the European signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal (JCPOA) — the United Kingdom, France, Germany — “annulled.” Moscow will deepen its military-technical cooperation with Tehran accordingly, according to Ryabkov.

This is more than a diplomatic spat; it is the formal announcement of a split in international legal reality. The world’s major powers are now operating under two irreconcilable interpretations of international law. On one side, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany assert that the sanctions snapback mechanism of the JCPOA was legitimately triggered for Iran’s alleged violations. On the other, Iran, Russia, and China reject this as an illegitimate procedural act.

This schism was not inevitable, and its origin reveals a profound incongruence. The Western powers that most frequently appeal to the sanctity of the “rules-based international order” and international law have, in this instance, taken an action whose effects fundamentally undermine it. By pushing through a legal maneuver that a significant part of the Security Council considers illegitimate, they have ushered the world into a new and more dangerous state. The predictable, if imperfect, framework of universally recognized Security Council decisions is being replaced by a system where legal facts are determined by political interests espoused by competing power blocs.

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They’ve been scoffing for years at Putin’s claims about advanced Russian weapons. The scoffing stops when Russia demonstrates the weapons, and the so-called experts realize that the U.S. doesn’t have anything comparable. The latest Putin announcement will be more of the same. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:

Russia has been busy this month testing cutting-edge nuclear warhead delivery weapons, at a moment peace talks with Washington centered on finding truce in Ukraine have broken down. To review, less than week ago we detailed: Putin Oversees Major Russian Nuclear Drill, Launches ICBMs. And then just days ago: ‘Not Playing Games’: Trump Responds To Putin Testing ‘Invincible’ Nuclear Cruise Missile.

On Wednesday Russian President Vladimir Putin declared yet another major breakthrough test of a nuclear-capable weapon, this time a state-of-the-art underwater drone named the ‘Poseidon’.

The trial took place the day before at an undisclosed location, with Putin subsequently describing, “When it comes to speed and depth, there is nothing comparable to this unmanned vehicle anywhere the world, and it is unlikely to appear anytime soon.”

He further claimed there are currently “no methods of intercepting” the Poseidon. It is also apparently nuclear-propelled, at least some of the time. 

“For the first time, we succeeded not only in launching it from a submarine using its booster engine, but also in starting its nuclear power unit, which provided energy to the vehicle for a certain period of time. This is a tremendous success,” Putin described.

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Censorship is not a new form of journalism. It’s older than journalism; there’s always been asshole rulers who wanted to shut people up. From Ben Bartee at armageddonprose.substack.com:

Notorious nemesis of civil liberties one and all, Barack Obama, is apparently — and unsurprisingly — on the same page as our current Attorney General Pam Bondi, at least in the narrow sense that he also endorses a heavy state hand in the “regulation” of information.

Related: AG Pam Bondi Vows Federal Crackdown on ‘Hate Speech’

“Part of what we’re going to have to do is to start experimenting with new forms of journalism and how we use social media in ways that reaffirm facts and separate facts from opinion. We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts. That, I think, is one of the big tasks of social media. By the way, it will require some government, I believe, some government, um, regulatory constraints around some of these business models in a way that’s consistent with the First Amendment but that also says, look, uh, there is a difference between, uh, these platforms letting all voices be heard versus a business model that elevates the most hateful voices or the most polarizing voices or the most, uh, dangerous, in the sense of inciting violence, voices.”

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It’s always remarkable to watch enemies of free speech slip, without fail, perfunctory nods to the First Amendment into the middle of their anti-First Amendment tirades, as if that meaningless caveat negates the entire rest of the speech.

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After the collectivists eat the rich, where does their next meal come from? From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:

and why we should give billionaires more money

lots of people have lots to say about who has money and who doesn’t, who should have it, and who shouldn’t.

the old joke about americans and irish is coming unpicked:

“the american looks at the manor on the hill andf says ‘one day, that could be me!’ the irishman looks at the manor on the hill and says ‘one day i’m gonna get that bastard!’”

increasingly, the young today see wealth as ill-gotten. the joke is funny to their grandparents, but not to them.

they want to get that bastard too.

the delusions have become acute to the point of being surreal.

what does one even say to nonsense like this?

well, this is a good start. (source)

1. Joseph Stalin (USSR) Lived like a czar in walled dachas with private cooks, servants, and a luxury train. He didn’t need to “own” wealth — he owned the state, and thus everyone’s labor, homes, and property.

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h/t Western Rifle Shooters Association