In this, the Soviet propagandists were great fools ignorant of foreign cultures. In Western Europe and North America, the sickle is a symbol of mass death.
They took down the flag as a sign of surrender to keep the Taliban from looting it and humiliating the US even more.
So I wonder how well my country, the US, will fare against Iran. Below is a clue.
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Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh (Persian: محمد حسین فهمیده;[1] 6 May 1967 – 30 October 1980) was an Iranian child soldier and an icon of the Iran–Iraq War. During the First Battle of Khorramshahr in 1980, he served with the Basij and fought invading Iraqi forces in and around the city of Khorramshahr. Fahmideh is credited with having halted the advance of an Iraqi tank column after he jumped underneath an Iraqi tank and detonated a full grenade belt, killing himself in the process. He is celebrated as a war hero in Iran.
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It will be a cold day in hell when Americans recruit, deploy, and celebrate the suicide combat deaths of child soldiers.
Iran lost about 2% of their population during their 10-year war with Iraq. That's a similar percent to what the US lost during its civil war. To this day, there are hundreds of monuments to that war in the US, even though the war ended over 160 years ago. And even today, the war inspires strong feelings.
They have a cemetery in Tehran with a "blood" fountain to honor their dead from the war with Iraq.
Sacrifice and martyrdom are powerful themes in Islam and especially Shia Islam, the main religion of Iran.
During WW2, Germany lost about 10% of its population and Japan about 5% of its population. That is what is required for unconditional surrender. Iran has 90 million people today. Are US leader willing to kill 5 or 9 million Iranians to compel their unconditional surrender? I think not.
Also, if the US does kill 5 million Iranians, doesn't that make them just as bad as the Iranian hardliners who want to wipe Israel off the map?
My advice to American leaders is to declare victory and stop bombing Iran. Otherwise, Iran will drag out this war to make us look like even bigger idiots than we have been already.
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At a March 2026 Christian worship service at the Pentagon — the first since the U.S. and Israel began military operations in Iran — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked Pentagon officials to pray for “overwhelming violence” against enemies in Iran and elsewhere, invoking the “mighty and powerful name of Jesus Christ”
Hegseth recited a prayer he says was given by a chaplain to troops ahead of the U.S. raid on Venezuela and the kidnapping of then-President Nicolás Maduro in January. The prayer, drawn from passages in Psalm 18:37–42 and other biblical texts, includes verses such as:
“I pursued my enemies and overtook them. I did not turn back till they were consumed. I thrust them through so that they were not able to rise. They fell under my feet… And those who hated me, I destroyed. They cried for help, but there was none to save” .
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I like Psalm 18:37 too, but that's John Wick stuff, not strategy.
Maybe Hegseth is unfamiliar with the "blessed are the peacemakers" and "turn the other cheek" - some of the most powerful words Jesus ever spoke.
Jesus was not a warrior and never killed anyone. Aside from that freakout at the temple with the blasphemous moneychangers, he never did violence of any sort.
And what kind of warrior turns himself over to his enemies to be tortured and humiliated? I don't believe Jesus rose from the dead. I do believe there was a real man named Jesus who said and did most of things described in the New Testament. Like Socrates, Jesus wanted to make statement with his death.
His most interesting revelation is that the KGB spent very little time, money, and manpower on James Bond stuff. Instead, it worked on the slow, easy, and inexpensive process of destroying a country through things like propaganda and education. The KGB wanted influence the young people who would grow up to be politicians, bureaucrats, etc. If it could do that, they would defeat that country without fighting.
Often, actions that are politically feasible won't help, and actions that would help are too unpopular to be politically feasible.
So in order to get anywhere, politicians have practice strategic hypocrisy: promise a popular policy and then implement the unpopular one. It's like putting pet medicine in a piece of cheese to get a dog to swallow it.
As a public service, below are some of my suggestions on how to sell necessary but unpopular policies.
Measure: repeal the minimum wage
Slogan: Maximizing Employment Act
Measure: school vouchers
Slogan: Helping Our Teachers Act
Measure: abolish the income tax
Slogan: Fairness for Working Families Act
The magic words are: children, families, working, freedom, teachers, defense, security, fair, smart, care
There is black on white homicide almost every day in the US, but unless it's particularly heinous (such as the Metcalf stabbing with many witnesses or the Zarutska stabbing caught on video), it rarely makes the national news. What does often make the national news are police killings of black Americans and white on black homicides.
20 black-on-white homicides found in June, 2026 — 22 total, including updates, by Kenn Gividen - The Unz Review
Most journalists in the US are liberal and use their jobs to push the agenda of the Democratic Party. Among other things, this involves stoking black resentment against whites whenever possible. The Democratic Party styles itself as the protector of minorities, so they do their best to frighten them with stories of oppression in order to get their votes. Their propaganda works.
The man who wrote the article below ended up getting fired, but it makes for entertaining reading. The gist is to stay away from American blacks unless you know them personally.
YouTube is now filled with videos from police cameras showing the reality of crime in the US. Here is a simple traffic stop that escalated into a high-speed chase and a fatal car crash, all because the driver and occupants refused to follow simple and lawful commands.
The bottom line is that black Americans commit more crime. That's why they have more interactions with the police and why more of them end up in prison. Denying this reality does no good.
White Americans are taught early on that racism is bad, and the vast majority believe that it is. It's easier to find white Americans who believe the earth is flat than truly believe blacks are an inferior race.
This poster makes whiteness look like a great thing, which is not what the creators intended. It was displayed in the Smithsonian, America's foremost museum.
Scientific method, work hard, plan for the future, steak and potatoes, be polite - that all sounds pretty good to me. It probably sounds good to many people who aren't white.
What the hell were the people who made this thinking?
It turns out the poster was based on the work of Ibram X. Kendi, who refers to himself as an antiracist. In practice, this means constantly complaining about white people. According to him, it is not enough to merely not be racist. To be truly virtuous, you must be antiracist.
There are a number of trends that overlap with low fertility in the industrialized world.
In China, Japan, and South Korea, children are pushed very hard in school, often to the point that they have very little time to socialize. This contributes to increased suicide and makes it harder for young people to form relationships.
In China, it is a common practice to hook kids up to IV drips so they can spend more time doing homework.
In Europe and North America, declining church attendance means young people are less likely to form relationships with peers who share their values. This increases loneliness and means fewer marriages and friendships.
Also in Europe and North America, fewer people are getting married to people they meet at work. Work used to be one of the main places people found their spouses. The other two places were school and church.
Any civilization that doesn't reproduce enough is a just few generations from extinction. Family formation is the key to the long-term survival of groups.
In India, Africa, and the Islamic world, arranged marriages are common, and so the fertility rate remains high. Matchmakers are also prevalent in Asia and the Islamic world.
Of the 30 countries with the highest fertility, 28 are in Africa and the other two are Yemen and Afghanistan. What do these countries have in common? Well, they are poor, are very religious (Christianity or Islam), and the women there often get married young. Chad, which has the world's highest birthrate, is about evenly split between Christians and Muslims.
In North America, the white groups with the highest fertility are the Amish and the Mormons (LDS). They are both patriarchal and highly religious.
Feminism, birth control, pornography, prostitution, and abortion are much more common in the industrialized world. They are linked by the idea of sexual permissiveness.
So what conclusions can we draw and what solutions can be implemented? I see it this way:
1. Most people, but especially women, should stop going to school after the 8th grade.
2. Enough cheap housing needs to be built. This point bears repeating.
3. Traditional and patriarchal views should be tolerated rather than suppressed.
4. More teachers should be men. They are better at instilling discipline and learning.
5. Abortion should be limited to cases of rape, incest, and life of the mother. Currently, about 85% of abortions are for other reasons.
Since I'm an American, I'm mostly thinking about what my country needs to do to get back on the right path. In 1960, the median age at first marriage was 23 for men and 20 for women. The fertility rate in the same year was 3.65, which is about the same as Guinea-Bissau today.
The US has slight population growth only because of very high rates of immigration, which is not sustainable. America's cultures and institutions won't survive if the racial and ethnic composition changes too much from what it was in 1960. The current composition is acceptable, but a larger white majority would be better.
America has a long history of trying to integrate various groups with the white majority, and the results have been mixed at best. The main groups have been the people of the various native tribes, blacks, and Mexicans. History shows America does best when it has a large white majority, such as during the Roaring Twenties and the postwar Baby Boom era.
Jared Taylor gave a good speech on the ongoing failure of multiculturalism in America since 1607. It was banned in Paris.
America's freedom and success come from individualism. America is an individualistic country because whites on average are more individualistic than other races. It's hard to herd cats, but amazing things happen when you do. Note the race of the people in the following video:
1969 was the peak of space travel and aerospace technology. Back then, the country was 88% white and 11% black. The median age at first marriage the same year was 20 for women and 22 for men. The fertility rate was 2.43.
Many moons ago, I wrote that the only things the US government needs to handle are nuclear deterrence and maintaining a stable currency. Perhaps some elaboration would be helpful. I don't expect any of the following to happen, but any of them would be a great improvement. So below in no particular order are changes I'd like to see
-end the income tax
It discourages work and enables wasteful government spending.
-cut about 90% of military spending and close overseas military bases
We have two big oceans to the east and west and friendly neighbors to the north and south.
-end the war on drugs
It's a gigantic, wasteful, hypocritical failure.
-end the Federal Reserve
It was created in 1913 to stabilize the economy and failed to stop the Great Depression in 1929.
-end foreign aid
The main result of American foreign aid besides enriching Israel has been a large and probably unsustainable increase in Africa's population.
-end Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
They will bankrupt the country unless drastically reformed.
-return to the gold and/or silver standard
It's the only cure for inflation.
-secure the southern border
Build a wall and guard it with soldiers. Illegal immigration is an invasion.
-deport illegals
They don't belong here.
-end birthright citizenship
You're only an American if at least one of your parents is American.
-end any government agency that did not exist before 1900
This would disband most of the alphabet soup: EPA, FBI, CIA, NSA, NASA, TSA, DHS, etc.
-government land should be sold off
Loggers, ranchers, and others can manage it more effectively.
-end compulsory schooling
Let parents decide how to educate their kids.
-end the minimum wage
minimum wage = minimum jobs
-cancel all tariffs
Tariffs protect inefficient businesses and force consumers to pay more.
-build oil refineries and nuclear power plants
Nothing else will provide enough energy.
-trade and have normal diplomatic relations with all countries
Sanctions don't work.
-Withdraw from NATO.
Let Europe defend itself.
-stop funding the UN
We've already done our share by hosting the place.
-allow total freedom of association
If people want to discriminate, let them. Self-segregation is already the norm.
-build cheap housing
It will go a long way in encouraging a sufficient birth rate.
As countries and states become less white, they become poorer and more violent. Places that are majority white should stay that way to maintain their quality of life.
