You aren't too pessimistic. You are a slav. I suspect 10 000 years of warfare has built into slav culture an eternal acceptance of the inevitable which reads like pessimism to western eyes and ears. It isn't pessimism though, it is a kind of acceptance of inevitable that is unique to the slavs and doesn't exist in the west and cannot be translated to english where neither the wrods nor concept exist. As endearing as it can be if you get to know any slavs its also seriously aggravating because it allows your people to talk them selves into perpetual circles while the people having the conversation end up in the same place with the same people. A while back I described how the human mind is structured into systems and subsystems and provided one crude way to look at categorization of those systems. One of the features of the model was to describe two different circuits in our heads, one that handles positive thought and one that handles negative thought. I call them the winner circuit and the loser circuit. I proposed the idea that you can turn on the winner circuit and the loser circuit almost at will and that the process is largely something along the lines of the winner circuit must be ACTIVELY excercised (turned on) in order for it to become dominant over the negative circuit. The negative circuit, on the other hand, seems to be dominant by default in the human mind and (as per conversation with people here) the thought is that the loser circuit has an evolutionary reason for its existence. The reason is that the loser circuit protects members of the tribe from expending energy on fruitless endeavours because the universal statistics of all human endeavour are "THE ODDS ALWAYS FAVOUR THE HOUSE" ... literally. Most businesses and attempts at everything are failures. In other words, a tribe wants to always have a few members that can turn on the winner circuit because even though you will lose 80% of them over the next little while, the one time it works it will be a bonanza of gargantuan proportions. Anyway, I can read roughly where you come from because your loser circuit is permanently engaged because of the 10 000 years of warfare that your people have gone through. All slav cultures have it, you can kinda tell where people come from regionally based on the script that they tell. While you are 100% correct in all of your assessments, you assessments are at a level of resolution that isn't terribly actionable in my estimation. It's fine to make all of the observations you made, and every single eastern european tells us a version of the same script when asked, but we need to start combining all of our peoples perspectives and create a unified set of analysis that is multidimensional and can be understood at multiple resolutions. The question isn't am I wrong or are you wrong. The question is, given your level of analytical resolution, to WHAT DEGREE are you accurate in your assessment. The question is, given my level of analytical resolution, to WHAT DEGREE am I accurate in my assessment. When you start to frame things like that, we: * Start to engage the winner circuit in both of our heads. * Start to build an analysis of the situation that has dimension and hierarchy which automatically gives us ... First, we can start to zoom out and describe the situation broadly, so for example we can make observations like: There are 700 million white people on the planet, we literally conquered at least 1/3rd of it if you count up all of our countries, our lands are empty and our homes lack children. If you look at our enemies, India and China are full and they have no more room for people, Africa is empty and has tons of room for more blacks but it is a hellhole of exotic diseases that cannot be easily tamed. Over a long enough period of time, the world is OUR WORLD, all that we have to do is populate it with our children. Doing the math from this vantage point is trivial. We can zoom in to my level of resolution and say everything I said. We can zoom in to your level of resolution and make all of those observations, as valid as the others at that level of resolution. And so on. The point that I am making here is that you are not at the forum that you think you are at. There has been an awakening over the last two years. An ENORMOUS amount of our people have bee awoken. There are so many of us now that are unified in our observations, our values, our politics and our goals that we are becoming a SERIOUS problem for our enemies. The beauty of it? Most of them don't know we even exist (although the intelligence agencies can see the uptick in chatter and a small number of higher ups know). The strategic analysis is that while we are growing we are hitting quite a few problems. First, all of our infrastructure is owned by our enemies, including our communication lines. Second, even if we manage to grow into our own structures, our enemies control two things we can never overcome: banks and the military. Currently, the whole thing comes down to is that violence is not an option because once you engage at that layer you are inevitably going to engage in violence against your own people which ultimately is a losing strategy, as all slav history tells us. So we have the most difficult challenge ahead of us and that is to win the hearts and minds of all of our people. You cannot expect to lead people without their hearts and minds. And, while that isn't the only dimension of strategic consideration, it is (BY FAR) the most important over the long term. So, you are right. There are going to be losses and wins along the way. We had huge lossess during the Chyna virus, but we also won a huge amount of territory because our enemies overplayed their hand by such a large and grotesque margin that it ended up waking a whole bunch of our people up. However, the real win for you today is the following: you walk amongst people that know. There are people around that will happily take your analytical dataset and incorporate it into a greater whole. You won't always know when you bump into them. We only need to seize the future that our ancient European gods have provided for us.