The Swagger #17 – Tuesday Big Issue

Greetings from hot hot hot, humid humid humid, and still still still Pattaya where my focus has been stress-testing my own unique workout matrix. Details here, here, and here. But I warn you. Most everything having to do with health, diet, fitness, and body composition is marketed to catch the widest swath of those markets, and that's the 90% or so looking for easy, magical, low-effort, cushy, effortless, and unearned results and rewards. People will pay big money for sweet lies and next to nothing for the hard truth.

I have the audacity to market the hard-truth honestly, aiming to interest those extremely rare breed of folks, rarer than unicorns, who choose to do the hard thing because it's hard.

... Big issue today.

1. Western Hegemony Crumbling; Putin is Not Wrong. Imagine having to come to the realization that your own children are really bad. You live in denial about it for years. Nobody dare say anything. Their goodness is an unquestionable, unassailable, absolute truth. Or, the inverse. You're the kids, and you have to finally admit that your parents are just fucking evil.

2. Honey is Truly a Miracle and It Just Saved My Mom's Life; Not Hype. In January, many know I returned to USA for the first time in 4 years. I did so to see my mom "for the last time." She suffers from pyoderma gangrenosum and it was big, bad, huge, and getting worse. Over a year suffering. Dozens of docs, thousands in meds (the last one being a $3,000 per month co-pay). Then a "lowly" home-care nurse says, "oh, that needs honey." Bingo! I've assembled tons of links and research.

3. Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound are The New Miracles, But Their Expense Creates Disparity? Envy politics, of course. "Poor" people "can't afford it," so it's bad. Right. But is that the whole story? No. It's not.

1. Western Hegemony Crumbles; Putin is Not Wrong

I've posted this image I doctored many times in order to give readers a geographical, geopolitical, and population-level sense of what's really going on and underlies all the narratives, stories, taking sides, nationalism, tribalism, and just about everything.

There are fundamental reasons that what we see happening, is happening.

That's a relatively small area of the globe for over half of its population to live, work, raise families, and practice culture and traditions. I live smack-dab in the middle, Thailand, for 4 years now. I lived for 5 years in Japan in the later 1980s. I've travelled and worked extensively in the region. I was an in-theater US Navy officer stationed in the region during the latter years of the Cold War.

... Add to this: All the cultures and political systems are patriarchal and conservative. Their values, traditions, religions, customs, practices, and so on and don't change much. Populations respect their stuff. You won't see anyone tearing down monuments, shrines, temples, or anything that informs them what sort of people they are, what they share, where they came from, and how to behave themselves. China is an exception, but on balance, they've recaptured and embraced much of their ancient identity in the last few decades despite the immorality and amorality bread by and imposed by communism and collectivism. Now, essentially a fascist State that, unlike the American and other fascists of the West (note: fascism is state and big-corp partnership) they at least respect their culture and traditions while the West can't tear them down, display them in jars of piss, and shit all over them fast enough.

In many cases, these cultures are older than our Western culture. And what of that Western culture, spawned by the Greeks a few thousand years ago? Can anyone take an objective look and not conclude that it's in full-blown decay? Books can be written about that, including the hypothesized causes. For myself, I place the feminization of everything high on the list. None of these countries have that problem in the slightest. The valid female survival strategy is well understood here, and for good reason, it's contained. It's not used to run countries, or this always happens everywhere politically, as a force of nature...

The one shortcoming of that chart is that I should have indicated 'women and men voting...' Women aren't bad. It's just that, out of necessity, because of relative weakness and high vulnerability due to being the bearers of offspring, their goals and strategies must be different than those of men. They must always solve for safety first and unsafety is a no-no...a crisis, an emergency. Even the feeling of unsafety is a big no! panic!

And this is what the governing strategy of all Western nations has become over the last 100 years or so. It took a while to get going and even as late as the 1970s and 80s, there was significant pushback against "Women's Lib." ... And today? I meet more women trepidatious about it than "men," who, it seems to me, have taken up the typical virtue signalling as a get-laid strategy—when more times than not, chicks choose Alpha when they can.

... So that's the backdrop for this. It's a transcript of a video and the video itself, if you care to watch. The relevant part is up to 8:15...the rest is an ad.

The transcript describes a series of international events and crises, framing them as indicative of the decline of Western influence and Biden's total fucking up at all times. It details a scenario where Iran retaliates against Israel by launching drones, prompting a military response from the U.S., U.K., and Israel, despite earlier assurances from the U.S. that it would not engage in Middle East conflicts. Biden, with inconsistent foreign policy and stupid-ass Woke domestic decisions, have exacerbated issues like inflation and energy prices in the U.S., while also depleting the strategic oil reserves.

Then, significant geopolitical developments involving Russia and China, now coalescing into a strategic alliance against NATO, complete with economic and financial partnerships to counteract Western sanctions. These moves, along with statements from the Russian leadership about the future of Ukraine, signal a major shift in global power dynamics, to the [welcome, for me] detriment of the U.S. and its allies.

Overall, the text conveys a critical view of current U.S. leadership and its foreign policy, while highlighting the strengthening ties between Russia and China as a challenge to Western hegemony.

Why do I cheer this development? One word: justice. The West does not deserve to lead the world forward, and America deserves financial devastation for all the global death and misery it has sowed over three decades (it pains me to say). America's moral leadership ended in 1993 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and rather than the West working to bring them into the international partnership of free trade, exploiting its vast natural resources to the betterment of it's new, freer society, the USA immorally did everything in its power to keep Russia down and create problems where none existed. Russia took and holds the high moral ground from the beginning of this NATO-created and longed-for conflict and has been stalwart, careful, measured, and resolute in its moral determination. Impressive.

It is true that Ukraine, among the most corrupt and evil nations on earth and that's meticulously well-documented, needs to fall. I applaud Putin for insisting upon it and not backing down.

In the long run, morality wins all wars. This is because the moral is that which is objectively good for human beings and conversely, the immoral is what's objectively bad for them. For a long time, the roles being played by America, the West vs. Russia have been reversed from what they were during the Cold War when, we held the high moral ground and won that war.

We won that war.

It fell into our laps unexpectedly because of modernization, decentralizing technology, and economic realities...and rather than morally do the right thing as we did upon the surrender of Japan and Germany decades earlier, we took the Soviet Union's place as The Evil Empire, filling the vacuum.

... The transcript, then the video, as you prefer.

Now to the story of how simple honey on unhealing wounds saved my mom’s life, to where she’s back from deathbed to home, going on outings to restaurants and shopping centers, and regaining strength. She turned 83 just a few days ago.

And then next, how you can get these new weight loss miracle drugs at 5% of the brand-name cost. Cheap enough for poor people, who somehow manage to eat too much of the most expensive food in the world calorie for calorie (packaged junk), too often.

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