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Mass Migration

by Medron Pryde on May 28, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The history of Russia is not well known in Western histories. They first came together as a collection of Slavic tribes centered around Kiev who called themselves the Rus. They commanded most of Eastern Europe beyond Lithuania, Poland, and Hungary. The Mongolian horde crushed the Rus, drove them north, and forced them to pay tribute. Moscow rebelled in time to form the Russian Empire and they considered it their duty to retake all the lands they lost and to drive all the way back to Mongolia to make certain the Mongols didn’t do it to them again. They also drove west into what we now call Eastern Europe and fought a long series of wars with the European powers over the lands they wanted back. And maybe a little bit more to act as a buffer zone for their people.

The Russo-Ottoman Wars are also not well known in the West. Both the Russians and the Turks were rising powers when they met. Sometimes the Russians won. Sometimes the Turks. But as time went on, the Russians marched south through all the lands they lost. Some names from that time resound even in our own ears. Ivan the Terrible. Peter the Great. Kiev. Ukraine. Sevastopol. Crimea. The Russians spent literal centuries retaking their lost territories and more. They didn’t want anyone driving them from their lands. Again. And just as the Turks moved into a region they conquered, so did the Russians. And neither side was keen to let the other remain settled in a land they conquered. Forced conversions or executions were common on both sides. And as the Russians advanced most of the Turkish Muslim populations migrated back into modern day Turkey. Sometimes willingly. Sometimes to escape the executioners.

Both the terms mass migration and genocide describe the population movements along the shifting frontiers over the centuries, and neither the Russians, the Europeans, or the Turks were shy about implementing either. One might even call that entire mess we call Eastern Europe the result of weaponized mass migration.

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Mass Migration

by Medron Pryde on May 27, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Turkish mass migration into South Eastern Europe is obvious for all to see, both in the coming and in the going. At its height, in the general 1600s to 1700s era, the Ottoman Empire controlled most of it, and the Turkish Muslims moved in to take over local Christian churches and turn them into mosques. The European Christians did not greet this with friendly eyes. The Turks faced opposition from the Holy Roman Empire and its allies and vassals, and it was a full scale holy war between the polities that lasted for centuries. The kind of treatment Vlad the Impaler is famous for is one example that history remembers of this time, but was not at all one of a kind. The Ottoman expansion was famously halted at the walls of Vienna when the Polish Winged Hussars broke the Ottoman assaults.

The various European powers then spent a long and slow march going from Vienna to Constantinople that took centuries. It even included a series of revolutions when captive populations in the Balkans broke free of their Ottoman overlords. Many of the Turkish Muslim populations migrated back into modern day Turkey during this long series of reversals. Sometimes willingly. Sometimes to escape with their lives ahead of the executioners who remembered what their ancestors did to their ancestors. In some regions, you can still see their influence today. In others you absolutely cannot. Neither are an accident.

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Memorial Day

by Medron Pryde on May 26, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

On Memorial Day, we remember those who died fighting for our country. The boys and girls who never made it home. Who never lived to see their children get married or graduate from school. Those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Remember them.

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Trump – The Presidency

by Medron Pryde on May 25, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

On this week’s episode of Trump – The Presidency, Season Two…

At the start of this week’s episode, Axios released the audio content of Joe Biden’s deposition. As it turns out, Robert Hur was right about Biden being a prosecutor’s nightmare because of his mental deficiency. Moreover, it is proof of Biden’s mental collapse prior to 2023, if not the 21st century. Will Kamala Harris, the Democrats, or the legacy media, apologize for their rebuke of Hur? Tune in to future episodes (but don’t hold your breath.)

The Biden family countered the Tapper-fed media disaster with a diagnosis of cancer in the former President, hoping pity would override a sense of national betrayal. The left immediately capitalizes on the nation’s pity by saying no one could criticize Biden’s actions because he is suffering from what is likely a terminal diagnosis. Sane Americans point out that the left no longer gets to tell people what they can and can’t talk about, investigate, or prosecute. Mic drop.

The Supreme Court ruled that Administration CAN deport illegals under the Alien Enemies Act, as long as they are given proper notice. Tom Homan, America’s biggest badass, went online and said, “Hey, members of MS 13 and Tren de Aragua, I’m notifying you, I’m deporting your sorry criminal-invading asses!” Case closed.

Representative LaMonica McIver was arrested for assaulting two federal agents in New Jersey when she illegally tried to force her way into an ICE facility. She immediately played the race and victim cards in her defense. The Department of Justice played the “We have your ass on bodycams shoving federal agents” card in response, trumping her hand (pun intended).

The big lie of this week’s episode goes to Chuck Schumer who blamed DOGE cuts for the Mexican sailing vessel hitting the Brooklyn Bridge. Retards around the world demand that people not refer to Chuckie as a retard because it was insulting to be associated with someone so ignorant. Henceforth, he will be known as a Megatard.

The Supreme Court also overturned a ruling from an Obama-appointed judge that force Trump to give Venezuelans protected status. Justice Ketanji Jackson was the only dissenter because she couldn’t find Venezuela on a map, but then again, she’s not a cartographer (or a biologist).

The US starts work on the Golden Dome initiative to protect the country. China announces that it would be “turning space into a warzone.” Apparently they have never heard of the US Space Force. Heaven forbid we try to protect our own nation for a change!

The South African President visits White House and is verbally slammed for his calls for genocide of whites in his country. Trump all but teabags the guy on live TV, that’s how epic the takedown was. The same mainstream media that covered up Biden’s mental collapse claims that there is no genocide in South Africa. Their evidence is, they haven’t covered it, so it must not be real.

Meanwhile, the House of Representatives emerges from their coma and votes on the Big Beautiful Bill, moving it on to the Senate. Every single Democrat in Congress voted against the largest tax cuts in history, immigration reform, and cutting taxes on tips. Their hate of all things Trump overrode common sense and any concern they may have faked regarding the American people…again.

Early in this episode, Trump, as the voice of reason, calls Putin and Zenensky, telling them to stop being little bitches and talk to each other. By the end of the week they were exchanging POW’s. In one fell swoop, he accomplished more for spreading peace than the now defunct Voice of America did over decades.

Will Marco Rubio de-pants Chris Van Hollen on live TV, or will Jake Tapper ever admit he was part of the Biden cover-up? Tune in next week, same MAGA time, same MAGA channel.

– Blaine Lee Pardoe

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Mass Migration

by Medron Pryde on May 24, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The expansion of the Ottoman Empire was a bit of an odd duck when it comes to accompanying mass migrations. They conquered much of South Eastern Europe, South Western Asia, and the old Arabic Caliphates in the Middle East and the North African territories. Some of the mass migrations, like those into Europe and Asia, are easy to see in the styles of buildings and mosques that exist to this day. Or in some cases don’t. Other mass migrations like those into and out of the Arabian and African regions are harder to track.

The exact reasons for this are relatively unclear. Did they move in and then leave again, or did they never move in more than a few basic administrators to watch over the conquered territories who were later absorbed into the general population? The predominant faith of both ethnic groups was Muslim by that time, so the religious wars that took place were more disagreements between the different flavors of Islam, and those flavors crossed ethnic borders. This all makes mass migrations in those areas a bit harder to track.

There are basic types of architecture that are famously Ottoman that can be seen throughout the old Ottoman Empire. Experts can easily recognize a surviving Ottoman government building, but the Turks themselves were far more willing to pull up stakes and move somewhere else than their European counterparts. And the modern Middle East and North African nations they once controlled exhibit a distinct lack of respect for or influence from their former rulers if you ask the modern day Turks.

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