Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago is the man who, way back in 2015, said the following:
The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked … What we’re doing is encouraging the Ukrainians to play tough with the Russians. We’re encouraging the Ukrainians to think that they ultimately will become part of the West … And of course the Ukrainians are playing along with this, and the Ukrainians are almost completely unwilling to compromise with the Russians and instead want to pursue a hardline policy. Well as I said to you before, if they do that their country is going to get wrecked.
Quite a prophetic remark, you might say. Indeed, predicting that Ukraine would “get wrecked” seven years in advance would seem to suggest that Mearsheimer has a good understanding – that he’s worth listening to. (Note: Mearsheimer did not think Russia would launch a full-scale invasion, so he wasn’t 100% right.)
With the Ukraine crisis still dominating the headlines, Mearsheimer must be the golden boy of his department, right? Actually, no. A group of students recently circulated a letter denouncing him for “propagating Putinism” and claiming his actions are “extremely detrimental for our country”.
The students take issue with several statements from Mearsheimer’s 2015 lecture (which is the source of the quotation above). For example, they characterise his use of the word “coup” to describe the toppling of Viktor Yanukovych as “ideological rather than academic”. (They prefer the more heroic-sounding “revolution”.)
The students end their missive by demanding “public disclosure” of all Russian funding received by Professor Mearsheimer, as well as a “statement from the university community at large that it does not condone anti-Ukraine ideology on campus”. They also claim that, if left unaddressed, the problem could “tarnish the reputation of our beloved University”.
I haven’t been able to find any articles suggesting that the university took action in response to the letter. So the students’ campaign appears to have failed. Good.
And it’s of course absurd to suggest that Mearsheimer holds an “anti-Ukraine ideology”. Indeed, much of his 2015 lecture (which the students probably just skimmed through while searching for ‘incriminating’ statements) is concerned with how to prevent Ukraine from “getting wrecked”.
As I noted in a previous post, Mearsheimer’s proposal comprised three elements: ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine; funding an economic rescue plan, together with Russia and the IMF; and insisting that Ukraine respect minority rights, especially minority language rights.
It seems plausible that if we’d followed this proposal, we wouldn’t be in the situation we are today, with Russian troops advancing on Kiev, and the West powerless to intervene for fear of sparking World War III. From what I see, Mearsheimer is a far better friend to Ukraine than the people who dismissed his warnings.
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Really? I’m sure I’ve read this before. A glitch in the Matrix? Better chech the windows and doors aren’t bricked up!
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Corona-Ausschuss S. 67 – Klasse Gespräch mit Dr. med. Sam White, UK – Mutiger Mann!
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Yet more bad science and which is regurgitated as a big threat via the MSM – now there’s a shock. It appears (IMHO) that Prof Van Tam’s attendance at the 2019 ‘seminar’ on how to propagandise pandemics was very fruitful.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…sadly, most the public have been fooled unpteen times now.
Dave Cullen covered the ‘event’ I’ve been referring to about 9 months ago in his video on BitChute (and odysee): https://www.bitchute.com/video/Hmxo720ccw4V/
Unfortunately, the original source video which someone found (from Chatham House’s YT page) and re-hosted was mysteriously removed (and their account deleted) by YouTube. Dave’s video coveres the essentialls (the seminar was about 1 hour long).
Very distrubing what they were discussing about doing and that they all seemed to be laughing and joking about it all. Pro VT makes an appearance in the audience (his Belgian counterpart is giving the seminar).
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This still puts too much effort into arguing against something which ought to be rejected outright: Between 2021/03/29 and 2021/05/23, there were 143,315 so called cases, ie positive tests results, in total. 40,000 of these, 27.9%, were included in this analysis, or, put the other way round, the majority of cases, 72.08%, were not analysed for some reason.
The authors assume that the hospitalizations frequency among these 34,656 alpha cases is representative of all alpha cases and that the hospitalization frequency of 8682 delta cases must be representative of all delta cases. Nobody bothered to check this based on the existing data. Nobody bothered to rerun this experiment (actually impossible) to determine if the numbers would at come out roughly the same at least once again.
The outcome apparently wasn’t quite what had been hoped for as there was no difference in hospitalization frequencies. Hence, the authors of this text weighed them with all kinds of essentially baseless assumptions about the effects of age, ethnicity and vaccination status (but not comorbidities) and – hey presto – these are finally the droids we were looking for!
This is cargo cult aka junk science at its finest.
Nice Star Wars reference!
You have to question either the abilities or the ethics of the people putting together these NHS ‘reports’, given how often they are so obviously wrong. I mean, we can see thorugh it after looking at data for just a few minutes. Not exactly rocket science either.
They’re just doing what everybody else does. In current times, whoever wants to push a political agenda has a statistic claimed to demonstrate that such is The Science[tm] and that it’s thus not really political.
wtf have they stuck a muzzle on a guy wearing an oxygen mask?
To protect the heroic NHS nurses against his deadly breath, as required by The Science.
As I mentioned the other day about this sort of thing, there are many factors that will play into whether people get seriously ill from COVID or not.
The factor I mentioned about ethnic background and where and how immigrants spent their childhood (i.e what nation and living conditions, diet and health) liekly makes a huge difference to their general health and immune system even today, possibly years or even decades later – exaccerbated if they have dark skin, because of the lesser intensity of sunlight in the UK compared to the likes of Africa and the subcontinent.
Add to these factors one I didn’t think of before that’s related to the above ones, namely that the ‘Delta variant’ was brough back in by and seemingly going around ethnic minority communities from the subcontinent and surrounds.
That surely means that great infection on return to the UK from seeing relatives back in March/April this year meant that transmission was far higher in those communities, which also have far lower take-up of the vaccines.
As a result, that itself skews the study findings because more susceptible people are getting infected. Infection, hospitalisation and death rates (whether we believe them as true or not) given by the NHS have been rising, but it was noticeable to me that those for my area had not really changed except for the number of infections.
Since April, and up until about 5 days ago, NOT ONE person in my borough council area In Herts (135k people approx) has died with or of COVID (as per the way they are shown). Just two have been listed as such since (though they could’ve been added then but died possibly a month ago). From what I hear locally, the two nearest hospitals also aren’t that busy as regards COVID patients.
Sure, vaccination rates (especially in the elderly/vulnerable) are high, but it’s also noticeable that a far larger percentage of the ethnic minority/immigrant population in the area is of Easten European origin, and thus light-skinned/likely to have had better health and diet than those from Africa, the subcontinent, etc).
I’d bet good money that the overwhelming majority of current COVID hospitalisations and deaths are:
I rarely have seen or heard ambulences in my area since April, and recent callouts appear to have been mainly due to a recent spate of car accidents. There also seems to be a relatively quick turnaround on COVID cases here too (under two weeks), which means that the overwhelming majority aren’t serious. Not a peep in the local rag (which was full of COVID scare stories and government COVID propaganda until about May) about COVID in weeks.
Worth looking at the data on NHS England re Deaths, 79% of deaths are in white/british. Lots of decent information to draw objective conclusions from.
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/08/30/the-fatal-flaw-in-phes-new-study-claiming-delta-doubles-risk-of-hospitalisation-compared-to-alpha/#comment-581477
Interesting about the ambulanes. We are about 20 miles from three hospitals so they never did the driving around with blues and twos here as they did in other places.
There’s a steady low level of ambulance activity probably due to all the old folks, and if anything during the “pandemic” it has been even lower than usual, unlike a winter a few years ago when there were fleets of them for a while.
We did get the air ambulance land in the back field but that turned out to be for a kid who was run over in the street. This year there seems to have been more aggressive and ignorant driving, not just the customary Audis, BMWs and Mercs. Post vax? Who knows.
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Oh well hysteria, panic, fear let’s all hide until we starve in our homes.
F’king bar stewards!
And the sheeple aren’t much better. How much life do they need to lose before they get a backbone. Oh here take my child and fill them with your test drugs, no matter they don’t get very ill, please take my child experiment with them.
A hospital stay seems to be defined as an overnight stay. The daughter of a friend called the emergency services at 4am due to breathing problems with Covid. She was discharged just 5 hours later; I suspect it was actually a panic attack, but it is nevertheless a qualifying statistic.
There’s a dichotomy between admissions and discharges. If you are admitted to a ward and discharged from the ward then admissions =discharges. If you attend the ED and are not admitted onto a ward but are discharged home then discharges increment by one, attendances increment by one but admissions remain unaltered. ED attendances are not admissions, but discharges are discharges irrespective. Discharges from the ED have to be treated as any other discharge to ensure that GP letters and any clinic follow ups are sent out.
The Author of this article, which criticises the study has fallen in to the trap of thinking he knows what he is talking about.
Much of the reasoning seems to revolve around his theory being that the alpha variant has become “old and tired”, where as it has actually just become less prevalent, due to the delta variant being more transmissible and itself becoming the dominant strain.
Had the article considered the actual data and methodology of the study and found some substantial error, then there may have been a justification for criticism. But no such analysis is done, so the author’s conclusions should be ignored.
That same delta variant that came from India, which stands at 118th in the world rankings of “covid cases” per million population and 117th for “covid deaths”, both well below the world average? Yeah, that delta’s some bad shit, I tell you. (Just imagine if they’d continued calling it the Indian variant, maybe some people would have started asking questions about just how bad this scariant is.)
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice the dark art of statisticat analysis.
(With apologies to Scott.)
Thank you, Will, for continuing to take the trouble to dissect the data.
Keeping up with the official stream of misleading stats has exhausted me after 18 months and my eyes now glaze over. Yet we must continue to debunk the data if we are eventually to win this battle.
Not “surprising” but “bullshit”.
The politicians and SAGE are back from their holidays so time to reassert control and continue with the programme of getting the country pharma addicted,
Still comes down to this double narrative Get vaccinated // Immunity is Waning… it cant be both we would have to be in a permanet state of vaccination walking around with infusions for gods sake .So why would i want a vaccine having just heard that people who have been vaccinated in recent months now have a reduced imminity .personalyl i d take my chance on natural immunitty because this state run innoculation does not seem very convncing /Its time the government got a grip on the media instead of giving them free reign to report any old shit.Get the vaccine its good for you or Dont bother its crap, but not both
Just a clarification, but presumably it’s not the virus which has different behaviour between young and old stages of the epidemic cycle (they are genetically identical otherwise would be classed as another variant). The difference is in the host population as early stages there are more susceptible individuals and later more with partial of full immunity due to vaccination or natural herd immunity. Having said that I would expect that over time, new variants would become increasingly more infectious/transmissible, but cause less severe symptoms as this is evolutionarily more advantageous…so SARS-CoV2 will become more like normal common cold coronaviruses
Try telling that to the rest of the Coronpanickers
They understand this. But people who play the lottery also understand that their chances of ever winning anything substantial are zero. They’re just not convinced that it’s actually true. That’s a personality trait which used to be called cowardice in former times: Being paralyzed by risk and thus, falling prey to dangers due to inaction.
Pre-democracy, this wouldn’t have been considered a desirable trait in political leaders or influencers. The shining, recent example for this would Dominic Dumbass who literally fled out of Downing St. 10 in order to hide with his parents(!), despite he certainly rationally new that he had been exposed enough to the dreadful disease that this couldn’t possibly make a difference anymore.
Nevertheless, people are still listening to this guy.
Rxactly what seems to be happening outside of the media.
I wonder if the criteria for hospital admission have been changed to drive up the numbers. I think we all know there will be another lockdown soon despite most deaths NOT being from covid.