A rant about a runt

I’ve transcribed and translated for your delectation a short interview with the flamboyant Russian historian Yevgeny Ponasenkov. He is sharing his frank – and absolutely correct – views about global warming in general and Greta Thunberg in particular.

Ponasenkov’s principal interest is Russia’s Napoleonic wars, about which he has written what many of his colleagues rate as the definitive monograph. But he readily enlarges on other subjects as well, maintaining a constant presence on YouTube.

Ponasenkov has been vociferous in his opposition to Putin’s war on the Ukraine, which has earned him the status of foreign agent from his grateful government. Typically, people receiving that accolade run for their lives, but Ponasenkov has stubbornly stayed in Moscow, refusing to keep his head down and his mouth shut.

I’m surprised he is still at large, especially since the Russian government also takes a dim view of his lifestyle, flaunting as it does what’s called ‘untraditional tendencies’ there. I wish Panasenkov best of luck and fear he is going to need it.

You’ll notice that he expresses himself with a forthrightness seldom heard from any public figure in Britain. Death to qualifiers, euphemisms, understatements and equivocations – Ponasenkov shoots from the lip and, though he often hits the bull’s eye, the accompanying noise of the blast may sound a bit too deafening to a British ear.

This is an oblique illustration to one of the points I made yesterday: the Russians, including those as brilliant as Ponasenkov, tend to eschew rhetorical nuances and conventions. That, I think, diminishes the effect of their statements – even when we happen to agree with them.

When we disagree, such shrill brashness of tone becomes unbearable, which Ponasenkov also proves whenever he delivers himself of views on religion.

That he is an atheist is to be expected, but that’s strictly his own business. However, when Ponasenkov argues in numerous interviews and articles that religion, especially Christianity, is the root of all evil in the world, he throws his scholarly integrity to the wind.

For example, he holds priests directly responsible not only for Putin’s bandit raid on the Ukraine, but even for the First World War, which strikes me as a hard case to make. But I did tell you Ponasenkov is flamboyant – he has a showman’s propensity to say things just for effect and shock value, not to mention self-promotion.

However, I am relieved to see he doesn’t blame any Christian denomination for the global warming fraud. He identifies the real culprits unerringly and attacks them with a combination of youthful exuberance and Russian savagery.

Here’s the word-for-word translation of that interview and, though I might take exception to Panasenkov’s tone, I agree with every word he says.

Q. Some people believe that global warming is a kind of conspiracy to extort money from taxpayers.

A. A hundred per cent. That’s exactly what it is. And as a historian I can tell you that everything that’s going on with the climate has been known for ever, for at least 3,000 years.

Back and forth, to and fro, long ice ages, short ice ages, warming periods, cooling periods… If you simply study history, not too remote, say the past couple of thousand years, you’ll know this is such old hat, such a banal story…

Everything has been said, all the books have been written, all the lectures have been delivered – it’s impossible to listen to that any longer.

Incidentally, that schizo runt, that degenerate Greta Thunberg, the retard, doesn’t write her tweets herself. She gets them from her criminal puppet masters, lefties. And recently that international criminal – yes, criminal, bandit – Greta removed the post in which she had predicted that 2023 would see the end of mankind due to global warming.

She has removed that because she isn’t held accountable for her words, she is a feral animal, idiot, degenerate and, to boot, an international criminal. A global warrant should be issued for her arrest. She extorts money, she blocks roads, she swindles millions of people – and in general, she is a sick runt.

Q. So you do consider this to be just a conspiracy to extort money?

A. A hundred per cent. We’re talking about a sect, or rather an organised gang of international crooks. There exist different kinds of crooks. Some rob banks with guns, some do so by computer hacking, but these are different.

A leftie government robs working people with taxes – lefties, socialists, communists take people’s money away. But then there are also those who may not be in government yet, but they’ve learned to manipulate society in such a way that they get money for grants, all sorts of projects, programmes and so on to spread the lie of global warming.

This is an international gang of organised criminals, there’s no other name for them. And that’s it. The issue was settled by historians and scientists centuries ago. Hence those criminals must be investigated, arrested and sent down. Every crime can be traced back to specific people, specific names. That’s what we should be doing.

Hear, hear. My sentiments exactly, if not necessarily my kind of words.