Essay: Properly qualifying sources

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Euromaidan Press

Democrat operative Alexandra Chalupa who was instrumental in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax (left) and Deep State informant Eric Ciaramella, instrumental in Trump impeachment 1.0 (right). [1]
See also: Biden-Ukraine collusion scandal

Have you bothered to research Conservapedia's entry on Euromaidanpress?

This is insane. You collect the names of academics and researchers I use as sources, then take out of context quotes like Mearsheimer saying "Russia is a declining power" and spam it as justification for war against Russia. I will contact the owner of the website if you persist in this trolling. RobSThe Truth. Just Putin It Out There 13:58, February 2, 2025 (EST)

Are you going to purge all the USAID-funded crap from this page, or continue attacking the conservative movement and Trump agenda?

If the page was purged properly, my guess is it would be about 1/3 the current size. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 23:21, February 5, 2025 (EST)

Use the whole quote. In 2014, the international relations scholar John Mearsheimer wrote: "Russia is a declining power, and it will only get weaker with time."[6]
It is not humanly possible to take such an emphatic quote out of context. Deny this and lose all credibility. Conservative (talk) 21:18, February 15, 2025 (EST)
So what? France has been a declining power since 1812, and they're still around. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 21:51, February 15, 2025 (EST)
At least in my estimation, you didn't support your claim that I used the quote out of context nor did you support your claim that I want Ukraine/West to be at war with Russia. Conservative (talk) 22:13, February 15, 2025 (EST)
In my estimation, you are hardly a student of John Mearsheimer and international relations. And that was obvious when you first cited Mearsheimer's Death of liberalism video and you didn't understand what liberalism in the international sense means versus American domestic liberalism, which he wasn't talking about, at all. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 23:00, February 15, 2025 (EST)
As Jesus said, Ask, and ye shall receive. But you choose the path of deliberate ignorance. You're too wrapped up in your narcissistic ego and lifted up in pride to ask for help in understanding. This is evidenced by the way you treat visitors to your user page who offer help. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 23:06, February 15, 2025 (EST)

Russia news

The Moscow Times is a Brussels-based CIA information control operation.

I can see you clinging to BBC, Reuters, NYT, et al for a while. But you were informed years ago that

with all the attendant necessary sourcing were deep state propaganda fronts. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 19:56, February 10, 2025 (EST)

User:Conservative: If you had read The Gulag Archipelago as you claim, you would have a rudimentary understanding of the Russia-Ukraine relationship, which obviously you don't. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 13:52, February 14, 2025 (EST)

Do I "cling" to these news publications? You are definitely not supporting this claim of yours. Given that I wrote these two essays Don't believe all the political news "facts" and predictions you read on the internet and see on the news and Why I prefer to get my news from a wide variety of sources, your claim is going to be very hard to support.
Also, did I claim to read the book The Gulag Archipelago or did I merely claim to read a portion of the book? And given that you are not a mind reader, your opinion on how much I understand the Russia-Ukraine conflict isn't very relevant. This is especially true given that I predicted that the Russia-Ukraine conflict will turn into a frozen conflict (much earlier than what typical wars last) and that appears to be what is going to happen and you took a very different view that was quite pro-Russia and was very maximalist in terms of a Russian victory. Conservative (talk) 22:39, February 15, 2025 (EST)
You published the lies - it is your responsibility to clean em up. Either delete wholesale or revisit and rewrite.
It's not fair to other editors for the disrepute & lies you brought upon Conservapedia with your spamming. And you wonder why Conservapedia has trouble attracting editors? RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 23:14, February 15, 2025 (EST)
Neither Putin nor Trump want a "frozen conflict". "Frozen conflict" is deep state rhetoric cause they don't want to admit NATO lost. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 23:23, February 15, 2025 (EST)
You are still not supporting your claims concerning me. And given Russia's current economy, labor shortages, and other factors, the fact remains that my forecast concerning the war in Ukraine has a far greater probability of happening than your maximalist, pro-Russia forecast. Frozen conflict well within 10 years is probably going to be the net result - just like I predicted!
Mearsheimer also predicted that a frozen conflict is the most likely end result of the war in Ukraine with some possible flarups in the future, but he was more pessimistic concerning the timeframe of it happening than I was. The only difference is that I predicted a frozen conflict would happen relatively soon in terms of the average of how long modern wars last and much sooner than the 10 years that modern wars last. And it looks like Putin and the Trump Administration will hammer something out in 2025 in terms of an armistice or peace deal (But I also said that there could be flareups in the future). So it looks like I will soon have three words concerning my forecast of the war in Ukraine: Olé! Olé! Olé! Conservative (talk) 23:37, February 15, 2025 (EST)
Okay smarty. What's the difference between an armistice and a "peace deal"? RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 23:56, February 15, 2025 (EST)
1 day and no response.
It is obvious you pay no attention to what is being said.
Trump said once the war is over, he wants nuclear arms redactions with the US, Russia & China, and defense spending cut in half. Now, Mr. Big Brain, how is that possible in a "frozen conflict? RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 20:51, February 16, 2025 (EST)
I don't need to support my claims - your crap stands by itself, being discredited and a disgrace to the American conservative movement, Conservapedia, and Donald Trump.
Now Trump is working hand in hand to reshape peace in our time and for future generations with the corrupt kleptocrat and war criminal Vladimir Putin. Good luck with that.
Can you imagine? Trump invited the corrupt kleptocrat and war criminal Vladimir Putin to Washington. This will make a fine exhibit in the Trump Presidential Library as part of his enduring legacy. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 23:47, February 15, 2025 (EST)
Just imagine, FDR & Truman hung war criminals, but Trump made em the guest of honor at a State Dinner. Such is the history you wrote about Trump's legacy. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 23:52, February 15, 2025 (EST)

Trump is willing to meet with most anyone if it advances America's interest. His meeting with anti-Christian Kim Jung Un is an example of that. He also met with the lightweight Justin Trudeau in November of 2024. Conservative (talk) 23:59, February 15, 2025 (EST)

And everyone has to support their claims if they want people who are not gullible to believe them. Conservative (talk) 00:00, February 16, 2025 (EST)
Look up the word gullible in the dictionary. It's got your picture right beside it. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 00:07, February 16, 2025 (EST)
The Deep State & USAID, not to mention the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign, have been playing you like a cheap fiddle for a long time. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 00:09, February 16, 2025 (EST)
Also, FDR met with the militant atheist Stalin who was responsible for killing many of his fellow citizens via purges and responsible for the widespread persecution of Christians in the USSR. Presidents will meet with horrendous people if they believe the national interest requires it. Conservative (talk) 00:04, February 16, 2025 (EST)
Thank you. Now we know where you stand. Trump will claim it's a victory and integral part of his legacy. You stand with the NeverTrumpers and critics who say it's something to condemn. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 00:13, February 16, 2025 (EST)
(Incidentally, it was Stalin at Yalta who got FDR to recognize Ukraine & Belarus independence by granting them full membership in the United Nations, which conservatives harshly condemned. I see you have come around to the FDR/Stalin, liberal Democrat/Soviet communist position now). RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 00:18, February 16, 2025 (EST)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Ukraine from the Gulag Archipelago

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: From The Gulag Archipelago, part V, chapter 2, “The First Whiff of Revolution.” Published 1974. English translation by Harry Willetts, © 1978 Harper & Row.

"For me this is a painful subject. Russia and the Ukraine are united in my blood, my heart, my thoughts. But from friendly contact with Ukrainians in the camps over a long period I have learned how sore they feel. Our generation cannot avoid paying for the mistakes of generations before it.

Nothing is easier than stamping your foot and shouting: “That's mine!” It is immeasurably harder to proclaim: “You may live as you please.” We cannot, in the latter end of the twentieth century, live in the imaginary world in which our last, not very bright Emperor came to grief. Surprising though it may be, the prophecy of our Vanguard Doctrine [i.e., Marxism-Leninism—Ed.] that nationalism would fade has not come true. In the age of the atom and of cybernetics, it has for some reason blossomed afresh. Like it or not, the time is at hand when we must pay out on all our promissory notes guaranteeing self-determination and independence—pay up of our own accord, and not wait to be burned at the stake, drowned in rivers, or beheaded. We must prove our greatness as a nation not by the vastness of our territory, not by the number of peoples under our tutelage, but by the grandeur of our actions. And by the depth of our tilth in the lands that remain when those who do not wish to live with us are gone.

Official Maidan regime nazi propaganda posted to Twitter in 2022. It was later deleted. [2] Solzhenitsyn & Putin evidently are liars, and the USAID-funded Nazi propagandists spoke the truth, per User:Conservative.

The Ukraine will be an extremely painful problem. But we must realize that the feelings of the whole people are now at white heat. Since the two peoples have not succeeded over the centuries in living harmoniously, it is up to us to show sense. We must leave the decision to the Ukrainians themselves—let federalists and separatists try their persuasions. Not to give way would be foolhardy and cruel. And the gentler, the more tolerant, the more careful to explain ourselves we are now, the more hope there will be of restoring unity in the future.

Let them live their own lives, let them see how it works." Conservative (talk) 18:40, February 16, 2025 (EST)

It's a bit late for you now to do a little Googling, after you published about 3 dozen Russophobic screeds to make peacemaking for Donald Trump more difficult.
"Russia and the Ukraine are united in my blood, my heart, my thoughts", that sounds like Putin propaganda, which all your USAID-sourced hate screeds ridicule and deny.RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 18:47, February 16, 2025 (EST)
“ This was essentially Alexander Solzhenitsyn's message: the Russians needed to give up the empire held together by force, So Putin is a follower of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He would like to have good relations with the Ukrainians whom he views as Orthodox Christian Slavic brothers. But we've made that almost impossible because of our support for the worst elements in Ukraine. ”

—Col. Douglas Macgregor, May 5, 2025.

See Daniel Davis / Deep Dive.

User:Conservative: Bottomline: You went along with all the Nazi propaganda since the justifiable 2022 conflict started, despite warnings and protestations. I will be monitoring closely your editing & trolling activity on Eastern European and Slavic subjects. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 19:29, February 16, 2025 (EST)

Note: The yellow colored Lvov oblast (Eastern Galicia or "Western Ukraine", territory claimed by Poland) is the only part of "Ukraine" where the "Ukrainians" live or the Ukrainian language is spoken. Not even Kiev. As quoted by Samuel Huntington: "Ukraine or rather Eastern Ukraine will come back in five, ten or fifteen years. Western Ukraine can go to hell!" [3]
Godwin's law. Conservative (talk) 19:42, February 16, 2025 (EST)
Also, who added the "cultural contributions" section to the Conservapedia Russia article? Because you were so busy playing with your Russian toy soldiers stomping on Ukraine's flag, I had to add this cultural contributions section to the Russia article. It's a total disgrace that you admire the worst aspects of Russian culture, but don't appreciate its greatest cultural achievements. The same applies to the Saint Petersburg article. Conservative (talk) 19:46, February 16, 2025 (EST)
Russians used to play with American GI Joes made by Mattel and manufactured in China. But economic sanctions changed all that. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 19:49, February 16, 2025 (EST)
Karajou, who has traveled around the world, turned out to be right about you. You don't understand international politics. At this point, I doubt you have visited Russia, Saint Peterburg or Ukraine. And remember, as far as the war in Ukraine and forecasting, your very pro-Russia, maximalist victory for Russia forecast is looking very bad right now, while my frozen conflict scenario (that may flare up from time to time) happening significantly before 10 years is looking very good. Conservative (talk) 19:58, February 16, 2025 (EST)

Quote of RobSmith: "Alternatively, the US can admit defeat, withdraw sanctions, apologize, and accept the treaties Putin & Lavrov offered in December 2021 before NATO decided to go on another murderous rampage. RobSGive Peace a chance 17:25, July 8, 2023 (EDT)"[7]

Sure looks like that is happening now: UK Telegraph: Trump is counting on a quick Ukraine peace deal, leaving Putin rubbing his hands, 06 April 2025.

Is Donald Trump going to apologize to Putin/Russia, completely withdraw sanctions and accept the treaties Putin & Lavrov offered in December 2021. Or is Russia, which has sky-high inflation, the beginnings of stagflation, rising corporate bankruptcies, labor shortages and a lower valued ruble, going to compromise? Conservative (talk) 20:06, February 16, 2025 (EST)

Trump has already cowed, being the first to initiate the phone call. [8]
More evidence of Nazi sympathies: See map image. User:Conservative went along with all the USAID/Nazi agitprop since 2022 that Putin wanted to conquer ALL of Ukraine and invade Western Europe in this clearly provoked NATO war.
Second warning: "frozen conflict" is Nazi-Deep State rhetoric. No one on Trump's team uses the term. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 20:16, February 16, 2025 (EST)

Update: Mearsheimer:

“ It's very important to understand that Hegseth said. He said explicitly that America's position is "a recognition of hard power realities on the ground". Just think about those words. He said this in Brussels [ NATO & EU headquarters.] It's a recognition of hard power realities on the ground. In other words, Hegseth understands, the Trump Administration understands we have lost. We have lost this war. The tide has turned against Ukraine and the West.

The problem is that huge numbers of people in the West don't understand that. They operate under this illusion that Ukraine is doing fine and all we have to do is give them a bit more weaponry and fine-tune the fighting machine, and they'll stop the Russians and eventually roll them back. And if you think like that about the situation on the ground, then obviously you're not going to like this deal at all. But if you face reality, which is what Hegseth and Trump and Company are doing, then it's obvious you have no choice here but to end the war on favorable terms, if you can so.

Again, I think the Hegseth speech, when you look at it, is a really quite remarkable document. The number of things that he says in very clear terms that are quite profound....quite explicit, are really amazing, and I think the Trump Administration will build on what Hegseth said. I think that's the foundation. I think they sent him out on purpose to make that set of arguments.

”

NATO has prepared for this war since its founding in 1949. There is no frozen conflict. You throw yourself on the mercy of the victor. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret 22:09, February 16, 2025 (EST)

So, in good faith, let's try to make User:Conservative a little more conversant in the language of geopolitics, not using an obsolete and outdated quote of Mearsheimer, but one made 6 or 7 weeks ago:
“ the Trump Administration understands we have lost. We have lost this war. The tide has turned against Ukraine and the West. The problem is that huge numbers of people in the West don't understand that. ”
Note: The quote has nothing to do with the declining power of Russia, but everything to do with the declining power of the United States, the West, and Ukraine.
Geopoliticss is dynamic, not static (active, always in motion, not standing at rest). This is the problem with User:Conservative's brain - it is static. Not conversant in ongoing, active matters. Sure, he can write on various static subjects like ideology with clearly defined parameters, but not on ongoing, ever changing news and events that require constant monitoring and analysis. Anything the various think tanks wrote about geopolitics in 2019 are now totally obsolete. And he doesn't understand the basic vocabulary of diplomacy and geopolitics.
I tried seriously discussing this with him, and got nowhere. That provided the inspiration for Are ignorance, stubbornness, and stupidity conservative values? It is his static brain, standing still, at rest, the defies the active motion of ongoing events, while holding stubbornness and ignorance, stupidly, in such high regard.
The original inspiration for that Essay was entitled, "Are ignorance & stubbornness conservative values?", which he positively claimed they were (I think LT sat in on that phone conversation). The only disagreement we had was whether Andy Schlafly shared User:Conservative's value of deliberate ignorance and stubbornness, which he insisted he did. Later on, after more interaction and being maliciously trolled, I had to add "stupidity" to the Essay, basically at User:Conservative's insistence.
And his constant spamming questionable, false, neocon, globalist, pro-Biden foreign policy, anti-Trump text and links into - not one place easy to correct - but dozens and dozens of articles, essays and mainspace is stupid, not conservative. Not even liberal. Just stupid. It is up to Andy now to decide if he shares User:Conservative's pride and the high esteem User:Conservative places on stupidity as a conservative value.
Note: Now we are hearing the same crap out of London regarding Trump tariffs that the Biden/UK globalists said about Ukraine: they will fight Trump tariff's "as long as it takes" - another suicide mission.
Nazi propaganda from US Embassy Kyiv. This is straight out of Mein Kampf, about Aryan man being civilization & "culture-bearing". [4]

Tell me the Insider is not anti-Putin anti-Trump anti-Musk pro-USAID propaganda. That's just one article. Scan all the headlines. RobSI don’t really care, Margaret

Foreign Policy rag

Looks like your Foreign Policy rag flip-flopped or moderated its stance:

Imagine that. One of your favorite globalist rags admitting the US, NATO, and Ukraine were defeated by Third World spear chucker's with no flush toilets, incapable of innovation who cannibalize washing machines for microchips, defeated the foremost hegemon for the foreseeable future.

So go ahead. Ignore that the time is now to make peace. See what happens as the West digs its own grave deeper. RobSZelensky Must Go! 02:31, March 20, 2025 (EDT)

Two questions

(1) Why does Gatewaypundit refer to The Atlantic as "Trump-hating"? [9]

(2) Why do you repeatedly cite The Atlantic as a bona fide qualified authority without identifying it for its left-wing and globalist bias in your screeds?

RobSZelensky Must Go! 16:22, March 24, 2025 (EDT)

No response. I win. Ole ole ole. RobSZelensky Must Go! 18:11, March 28, 2025 (EDT)
No response 10 months later. I win. Ole ole ole. RobSRecovering Republican 16:45, December 6, 2025 (EST)

This is what you call stuck on stupid

Antony Blinken: Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! [5]

"Mearsheimer says Russia is a weak great power".

  • Russia is the only country (not China) on the planet with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the United States (this makes them, by definition a "strong power", unless you are a totally ignorant ass).

Spamming an out of context one liner, for a year, on a subject you do not understand is being stuck on stupid.

You would have been an excellent replacement for Antony Blinken in the Biden Administration. RobSZelensky Must Go! 18:11, March 28, 2025 (EDT)

MAD = Mutually assured destruction.
Also, the New York Post on a drunken Russian engaged in nuclear saber rattling: "Even some of the most senior officials are not immune to alcohol addiction: Verstka reported that former president Dmitry Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy chairman of the Security Council, often writes his saber-rattling Telegram posts threatening the West with nuclear annihilation while deep in his cups."[10]
Russian vodka kills more Russians that its nuclear arsenal has killed its foes! "But the biggest reason for the high mortality rate among men is alcohol abuse. “Every year, at least 150,000–200,000 people die in Russia due to alcohol, and about 80 percent of them are men,” Raksha says."[11]
Russia's military that is plagued by corruption and incompetence has struggled mightily for about 3 years against the much smaller country of Ukraine in population a size - weak! See: Russian military weaknesses. Conservative (talk) 18:27, March 28, 2025 (EDT)
Huh? What? What does that have to do with the fact that you carried the Biden/Blinken agenda for 3 years now? RobSZelensky Must Go! 18:38, March 28, 2025 (EDT)
Why do you think Biden & Blinken just had their security clearances & briefings cancelled? Could it be because they sabotaged the 2022 Istanbul peace talks? making April 2022 a pivotal moment in the future of global politics for which Trump now is trying to mitigate the damage?
But you keep, day after day, spewing Biden talking points. RobSZelensky Must Go! 18:44, March 28, 2025 (EDT)
Stuck on stoopid.
Evidence that I carried the Biden agenda? That is something you have never produced! One can easily and almost effortlessly see that both Ukraine and Russia are both authoritarian, corrupt and declining given the wealth of evidence to this matter! And it was clear that Trump was favored to win in 2024 - just like I predicted.
You predicted that the economies of Russia/China are strong and would remain strong - so wrong! I forecasted that these fragile economies would become weaker - which they clearly have!
America first - not Russia first!
And I laugh at the thought that a man obsessed with narcissistic rivalry desperately wishes that I was stupid and less intelligent than him. Lift yourself up via reading instead of trying to bring others down! You have called multiple Conservapedia editors stupid which is exactly what a man with Grandiose Narcissism would do! Conservative (talk) 18:56, March 28, 2025 (EDT)
You use Biden neocon talking points every day (or are you that stupid that you don't see it?). You just spammed them all over MPR & MPL for which Andy rebuked you.
Now, if you wish to argue that Biden & Blinken's security clearances were cancelled for some other reason other than making April 2022 a pivotal moment in the future of global politics, such as Russiagate or the Hunter Biden laptop, than you are essentially confessing to my claim that your disruptive trolling activity for the past 3 years does connect Russiagate, Impeachment 1.0 & the NATO war in Ukraine - evidence I will take to Andy of your disruptive and malicious editing. RobSZelensky Must Go! 18:57, March 28, 2025 (EDT)
I am definitely not going down that illogical rabbit hole.
Be a man and take me up on my challenge concerning Russia: My challenge to [redacted about Russia given on August 11, 2024]. Unless of course, you are too chicken because you are a girly gossiper who lacks machismo! Conservative (talk) 19:05, March 28, 2025 (EDT)
You were just rebuked by the boss for trolling. Stop it. Find someone else to play your trolling games with. RobSZelensky Must Go! 19:07, March 28, 2025 (EDT)
I have no boss! Several of the most trafficked websites in the world have been my web marketing clients. Anytime I want, I can put more effort into driving more web content to my material on other websites!
And recently, thanks to your inspiration, I decided to help an anti-Putin website that is now getting hundreds of thousands of page views to its anti-Putin, anti-Russian imperialism and anti-authoritarian governments content! Would you like to inspire me to do more? You are powerless to stop me from helping that anti-Putin website. "Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances." - Sun Tzu.
By the way, recently I sent Andy an email and here is an excerpt: "Andy, A quick note about one of our previous conversations. First, a good friend of mine is moving to the beautiful area of Crimea,Russia in 2025 and I am going to visit him. I will be visiting St. Petersburg, Russia too. RobSmith has never even been to Russia and he didn't even understand some of the basics concerning Russia which I reported on. Like any country, Russia has its good/bad aspects." Conservative (talk) 19:56, March 28, 2025 (EDT)

Daddy Warbucks

I don't think this Paul Warburg wannabee is anything more than a propagandist. The name is kinda a giveaway.

If you quote him, "Paul Warburg says...", the hearer is going to hear something quite different than you intend. Now one can argue that "Paul Warburg" is indeed this YouTubers birth name, however a gifted and knowledgeable "expert" such as himself should have had enough sense to use a middle initial or something to avoid confusing his followers.

According to Wikipedia, "The cartoon character, Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks in the Little Orphan Annie series, was purportedly inspired by Warburg's life and times. RobSZelensky Must Go! 13:04, May 1, 2025 (EDT)

Is capitalism working in Russia? Its economy is ranked 131th freest in the world (mostly unfree - Heritage Foundation)

"Russia's economic freedom score is 52, making its economy the 131st freest in the 2024 Index of Economic Freedom." - Heritage Foundation.[12]

Russia's GNP ranking is 10th in the world.[13] Russia's GNP (nominal) per capita is ranked 65th in the world.[14]

Remember according to the international relations expert John Mearsheimer, military might rest on economic might since it is expensive to field a military.

This is in response to the main page right post of "Putin's military industrial complex - when capitalism works." [15]

I used to be more interested in Russia, but the ButterGate scandal put a damper on that.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia's war economy is well balanced to supply both guns and butter, but the price of butter itself is now soaring as surging inflation distorts parts of the economy. The price of a block of butter has risen by 25.7 per cent since December, according to the state statistics service.

'The Armageddon with butter is escalating,' Russian economists claim on Telegram.

See: Butter prices soar in Russia amid surging inflation in war economy, CBC News, November 2, 2024 and Russians Resort to Stealing Butter Amid Shortages, Newsweek, October 29, 2024
This File image page, https://www.conservapedia.com/File:Butter.jpg, which does not even appear in the Butter article, evidently was boosted by clickbots to over 1,000 page views to promote User:Conservative's Essays in Google results.
In 2024, the Russian ruble lost a LOT of its value compared to the US dollar

I hope this information helps clarify matters. Conservative (talk) 08:45, November 24, 2024 (EST)

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I warned against spamming too much of making Mearsheimer a credible and authoritive expert into dozens and dozens of Conservapedia mainspace and talk pages for several years. Now Mearsheimer says President Trump is delusional and his so-called "peace" efforts are doomed to fail. So here we created a problem for ourselves which now has to be dealt with for the remainder of Trump's term.
And to argue against Mearsheimer is to place oneself into the warmonger and advocate of perpetual war camp.
As to the guns and butter argument, I can't remember how many decades ago I last ate butter. Butter was finally knocked out of the market in favor of oleamargarine during the Vietnam war, which old timers then explained it was the ongoing legacy of World War II & the Korean war. In another 40, 50, or 80 years, maybe the predominantly rural & agrarian Russian Federation who make their own butter may have to convert to oleomargarine. RobSZelensky Must Go! 01:55, May 11, 2025 (EDT)
Final note: As a veteran and survivor of the oleo wars anyone who says there is no difference between butter and margarine is a propagandist. Butter is made from animal fat (replete with cholesterol and health risks), which there is a limited supply of, and margarine from plant or vegetable shortening which is abundant. RobSZelensky Must Go! 03:46, May 11, 2025 (EDT)

A Nazi created the Nazi kill list

Deputy Ukrainian Interior Minister and Advisor to President Zelensky Anton Gerashchenko is the founder and curator of the Ukrainian nazi kill list. Being that private handgun ownership is illegal in Ukraine, the defiant outlaw pose this government official strikes with his finger on the trigger is particularly intimidating to citizens.

I finally had the opportunity to read this "ButterGate" article which was spammed into at least 17 Conservapedia pages. The Newsweek report was built around a single instance of 2 shoplifters who were apprehended, armed with knives. The information was first posted to X by Anton Gerashchenko, the notorious neo-nazi webmaster who maintains Myrotvorets, better known as the Ukrainian kill list. Sen Rand Paul & DNI Tulsi Gabbard are included in the list.

Next time you hear Conservapedia is Nazi propaganda, don't laugh. A senior Admin made it so. RobSZelensky Must Go! 06:33, May 11, 2025 (EDT)

Conservapedia needs stronger anti-spamming enforcement. When an editor adds content, it should be in only one place - not 17 - and time given for other editors to vet the content. RobSZelensky Must Go! 14:18, May 11, 2025 (EDT)

I read the Newsweek article in question and the video in question was merely one data point and there other data points in the article that were stronger. Additionally, the Newsweek article clearly states that author of the article attempted to verify the video via the Russian government, but failed to do so. Furthermore, I have used multiple articles to indicate that butter and other food prices have had big inflation in Russia.
Do you seriously deny that the price of butter, potatoes and other food items have seen big inflation in Russia? If so, why?
Next, you use mainstream news sources at Conservapedia when you agree with them. So I will say again, rules for me, but not for thee. In short, you are being inconsistent. In addition, I will add that the sourcing of your material/contentions is often not good. For example, you asked me to look at a video by some YouTube leftists saying the economy of China was good and this is was while the China was in the midst of some major economic troubles such as their real estate crisis.
At the end of the day, I forecasted the current economic troubles of China/Russia which you took issue with. I was right and you were clearly wrong. Conservative (talk) 04:27, May 13, 2025 (EDT)
By the way, here are two other reports that the price of butter has soared in Russia: Record 82.5% rise in butter prices in Russia halted, Dairy News Today, 9-24-2024 and Russian Butter Squeeze Highlights Growing Economic Toll From War | World Business Watch | WION, 2024 Conservative (talk) 04:42, May 13, 2025 (EDT)

Digression

Early in the biggest event since World War II, which remains the biggest event in human history (after Christ), you once posted a Scott Ritter article on MPR which, in discussion with you and Andy I mentioned that Ritter was a convicted sex offender. The posting was taken down.

Since then, I have posted Ritter on MPR several times. Why? ("rules for thee but not for me") Because if challenged, I can defend Ritter. You, obviously, could not. You perpetually pay ABSOLUTELY NO ATTENTION, NONE, to the sources you use.

You must qualify the source FIRST, not regurgitate bigoted confirmation bias.

Your one attempt to qualify a source in the past 3 years, Prof. Mearsheimer, has again blown up in your face, who now says President Donald Trump is "delusional". RobSZelensky Must Go! 00:10, May 14, 2025 (EDT)

Your redundant complaint about "rules for thee and not for me" reveals your splitting (psychology) regarding MSM reporting. You think it's all or nothing - regardless of context. You pay absolutely ZERO attention to context in any reporting, in addition to your weakness or inability to qualify a source properly. RobSZelensky Must Go! 00:24, May 14, 2025 (EDT)

Mearsheimer calls Trump delusional

Mearsheimer: [16]

“ [Trump]'s dead wrong on both World War I and World War II. I won't talk about World War I, but I will talk about World War II where of course he's dead wrong. And also I think he's showing great disrespect to Russia and to the former Soviet Union for the enormous price that they paid in defeating the Wehrmacht in World War II....

[...]

The real danger is it just shows disrespect for other people. Number one, I think if you're in Russia today, which is of course the principal remnant state left over from when the Soviet Union collapsed, this is deeply offensive. Just think about the sacrifice that Russia/the Soviet Union played to defeat Nazi Germany. And here you have President Trump disrespecting that great sacrifice, disrespecting this country. But furthermore, when Trump makes comments like that which are so at odds with the historical record, it really cast doubt or doubts on his judgment. It's truly remarkable that he would make such a foolish statement. Someone who is the president of the United States should simply know better. And I know that we've reached the point where we just say "Well this is Donald Trump, and you know he just says a lot of outrageous things". He contradicts himself from one day to another, and it really doesn't matter because it's just Donald Trump and everybody understands that. But I don't believe that's true. I think it says a lot about his judgment. And I think it says a lot about whether you can trust the man because he's saying one thing one day and another thing another day. And much of what he says is simply not true. So if you're a foreign leader, and you're looking at the United States and you're thinking about how to deal with Donald Trump, you have to scratch your head and say "Is he a reliable negotiating partner?" And I think the answer in most cases is no.

”

RobSZelensky Must Go! 16:24, May 8, 2025 (EDT)

Putin:

“ We remember the lessons of the Second World War and will never agree with the distortion of its events, with attempts to justify executioners and slander the true victors. Our duty is to defend the honor of the fighters and commanders of the Red Army, the great feat of representatives of different nationalities who will forever remain in world history as Russian soldiers. Russia was and will be an indestructible barrier to Nazism, Russophobia and Anti-semitism, and will fight against the atrocities committed by the proponents of these aggressive destructive ideas. Truth and justice are on our side. ”

Judge Napolitani interview with Mearsheimer:

“ Judge Napolitano: In an interview with Meet the Press [Trump] made this rather startling statement that Russia is interested in taking "all of Ukraine", just as President Biden did.

Mearsheimer: Yeah, I saw that clip. And he also says in the clip President Trump, that it's only because of him that they haven't taken all of Ukraine. Uh, I mean this is delusional, on both counts. First of all, there is zero evidence that the Russians have been interested in conquering all of Ukraine. Just zero evidence. They don't have the capability to do that. And furthermore, the idea that they were bent on it and Donald Trump stopped them is kind of a laughable argument. The guy has been in office only since January 20th and he certainly has not stopped them in that.

Judge Napolitano: What does this tell you about either his understanding of the relationship between Ukraine and Russia or his listening to neocons whispering in his ear, or his political chicainery with the rest of us? Maybe he wants us to think that Putin wants all of Ukraine and when he ends up with just Crimea and the four oblasts Trump will take credit for having saved the rest of Ukraine. Who knows what's going through his mind. But there is no evidence, whatsoever, from anywhere on the planet that Putin wants all of Ukraine.

Mearsheimer: Exactly. And this gets back to his claim the other day that we won both World War I and World War II. When you hear those kind of comments, you say "What planet is this guy living on?" This just makes no sense at all.

Judge Napolitano: How does this play in the Kremlin, Professor Mearsheimer, when he makes a statement like this?

Mearsheimer: Well, I think that it basically means that you don't know what Trump is really thinking because he changes his tune from day to day. So you really can't trust anything he says. And furthermore, even if you get a deal, let's say we work out a deal. How much faith can you put in him to keep that deal and to not walk away from it at some point? So this is a huge problem for us in terms of dealing with the Russians. And, by the way, it's also a huge problem for us in terms of dealing with the Iranians. You know, the Iranians remember very well that he walked away from the JCPOA which they thought was an agreement that was going to be kept by the United States. But Trump walked away. And if the Russians cut a deal with Trump, and they make concessions to Trump to get that deal, can they trust that he won't welch on the deal shortly thereafter? And the answer is, no. And this really gets in the way of negotiating a settlement.

Judge Napolitano: So in the past 10 days Trump has claimed that the United States was largely responsible for defeating Nazi Germany and not the Russians. He has claimed that Russia has lost over a million men in the Ukraine conflict, and he has dispatched General Kellogg, yet again. And I'll play a clip from him just yesterday to offer a peace plan that he knows is dead in the water. What does this tell the Kremlin?

Mearsheimer: Again, it tells the Kremlin that his policy is incoherent. That there's just, you know, no clear policy objective. And no strategy for achieving that objective. I mean, what else can the Kremlin conclude? I mean, the Kremlin has a vested interest in playing nice with Trump and not picking a fight with him, and pretending that they're still willing to work out a deal. But I would imagine that behind closed doors the Russians are thinking that we can't place much faith in Trump. And even if we get a deal, we can't place much faith in that deal. What we have to do is we have to position ourselves on the battlefield in ways that ensure our security once the shooting stops and you get a frozen conflict.

”

[REACTION Trump "Russia wants all of Ukraine" : Col Douglas Macgregor

Dmitry Polyanskiy: Victory Day & politics of historical revisionism. [17]

Vox Day/Theodore Beale redux [18]

You know, I'm now remembering... back when it took numerous forceful pushbacks for [ User:Conservative ] to finally remove his citations of Nazisymp Theodore "Vox Day" Beale. He knew full well that the alt-right figure in question was a fanboy of mass murderer Breivik, yet for a while defended the citations and dismissed all criticisms as constituting "genetic fallacy." —LT Rev. 22:13 Friday, 22:35, July 25, 2024 (EDT)
It's amazing he did. His usual habit is to double down on bigotry when called out. RobSRecovering Republican 21:16, December 27, 2025 (EST)
But actually, No, he didn't remove the citations. He edited over 100 mainspace articles that he created, cited and linked to Vox Day (like this one here), deleted the internal link to Vox Day and changed to citation to simply say "Theodore Beale", while leaving the content and external link intact in the mainspace. This antisemite is now cited by User:Conservative in over 100 mainspace articles. Then he tried to sanitize most his fawning praise for Vox Day from talk pages.
This is bad faith and sociopathic editing. RobSRecovering Republican 21:20, December 27, 2025 (EST)
Vox Day declares Nazism “semiotically useful,” specifies which kind of Jew is ok to him.
I have removed Theodore Beale from the Atheism and Mass Murder page (all 3200+ bytes of the Nazi antisemitic spam). 1 down, 99+ to go. RobSRecovering Republican 11:19, December 28, 2025 (EST)
Update: make that 7,500 bytes of antisemitic spam spammed into Conservapedia by User:Conservative. RobSRecovering Republican 11:55, December 28, 2025 (EST)

For the record

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This mainspace page evidently refutes your previous position taken in April 2022.

Bottomline: You can't learn this stuff on the fly, and you are a long way from being able to speak, let alone write on the subject.

All you do is spam confusion to Conservapedia readers, and young readers in particular are the biggest victims of your delusions about your own qualifications and the neo-Nazi globalist rants you spam into Conservapedia. RobSZelensky Must Go! 23:59, May 13, 2025 (EDT)

Traffic to Conservapedia: 2026 to 2036

Your choice. Keep this in mind.

"Conservapedia.com is a niche, conservative wiki encyclopedia with relatively low and declining traffic. Based on recent data, it averaged approximately 85,000 monthly visits in 2025 (derived from August 2025 figures of ~87,000 visits, adjusted for reported month-over-month drops). This baseline reflects heavy reliance on search engine traffic (about 20–25% of traffic) and direct/referral sources, with a global rank in the low millions.

...traffic is likely to decline steadily.

  • 2026: ~12% decline
  • 2027: Additional ~15% decline
  • 2028–2036: ~18% annual decline

By 2036, traffic could stabilize at a minimal level (~10,000 monthly visits), resembling a small blog rather than a viable encyclopedia. This represents an ~87% cumulative drop from 2025, aligning with the site's historical niche status and the assumed headwinds.", Source: Traffic to Conservapedia

Please see: Traffic to RobSmith's articles. Conservative (talk) 21:17, September 22, 2025 (EDT)

Traffic to Conservapedia: 2011 to 2025

Conservapedia has dropped from #60,000 globally in 2011 to #360,000 now under your "expertise" as an SEO "specialist". From 20,000+ daily to 2,900 daily now with about 3 active editors. I don't know how much further it can go down.
And the criticism has only gotten worse from "more credible" sources, like United States Government, for example. RobSZelensky Must Go! 21:25, September 22, 2025 (EDT)
A little more than a year ago you & I spoke on the phone. We agreed that you, me, and Andy each had a daily following of about 5,000 readers, totaling about 15,000-18,000 daily visitors. In your narcissistic rage, you wiped out mine, Andy's, and half of your own regular following. Your open threats to do more harm to Conservapedia are somewhat hollow and meaningless now. RobSZelensky Must Go! 21:38, September 22, 2025 (EDT)
My hands are largely tied as far as helping Conservapedia's SEO to a big degree. For example, my SEO recommendations to improve the website could be implemented in days, but I am not getting green light from Andy. Web traffic would go up by at least 20,000 to 30,000 monthly visits as a result. Using some computer programs, the current dead links could be replaced with Internet Archive links, the unused pictures could be deleted and the thin content pages that are stub pages, etc. could be deleted. These are all brakes on Conservapedia's SEO. Also, moving up to the latest version of MediaWiki would help Conservapedia's SEO. When you add all this up, this is about 300,000 yearly extra SEO visits. Normally, I would persist and get the green light from Andy, but I am no longer interested in doing this. I am pursuing other things now. Say goodbye to those 300,000 yearly extra web visits forever in all likelihood.
On top of this, there are the DDOS attacks.
As far as us talking on the phone again, in all likelihood, we will never talk on the phone again. I have no interest in doing so. Conservative (talk) 21:46, September 22, 2025 (EDT)
Comgrats. With your DDoS clickbot attacks to promote yourself, and your admission to shadow banning active users with Negative SEO, you managed to complete the Mission of Rationalwiki of turning Conservapedia from a conservative alternative to Wikipedia into a "small blog". And it didn't just happen overnite. It's been a long time in coming. RobSZelensky Must Go! 22:12, September 22, 2025 (EDT)
RobSmith, you don't have a big following. The web visits to your user page are merely 200 visits per month, whereas the web visits to my user page are 2,000 page views a month. And I don't believe you ever had a big following. But if you did, given Trump growing disappointment with Putin who he now calls "crazy", your Putinism would certainly harm any following you have from a website that gets half its web traffic from the USA. In addition, Russia is in decline and generally speaking people admire strong things and not weak things.
The biggest threat I could make to the website is to simply not push for SEO reforms given that I am positive that my above mentioned SEO changes would make the web traffic of Conservapedia go up by 25,000 to 30,000 visits a month. By the way, your web pages that do rank high for various Google terms could lose their ranks fast by a SEO who improves the rankings of competing pages. A few links built to competing pages and "badda boom, badda bing" your articles lose SEO traffic from Google, Bing and other search engines. No negative SEO needed such as convincing web masters to delink from your articles in an ethical way. A talented SEO could make your articles lose their Google rankings in a number of ethical ways.
One thing for sure. Don't come crying to me when your articles page views take a dive - which is going to happen if you persist in your present course. Conservative (talk) 22:19, September 22, 2025 (EDT)
One last thing, the website is under a DDOS attack. I am not using a clickbot. Conservative (talk) 22:21, September 22, 2025 (EDT)
Andy needs a new technical advisor if Conservapedia is to survive as a knowledge base (and some input on who to appoint, so the same error isn't repeated again). RobSZelensky Must Go! 22:22, September 22, 2025 (EDT)

Wrong again, RobSmith. In 2024, I helped a leading website in the world with its SEO and its now getting over 1,000,000 web visits a month. Conservative (talk) 22:30, September 22, 2025 (EDT)

It's for Andy to decide after examining the facts and data. RobSZelensky Must Go! 22:42, September 22, 2025 (EDT)

Rob's following and its destruction by User:Conservative since June 2023

Through the following graphs, we will measure the effects of internal Conservapedia trolling on web traffic which began June 30, 2023.

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Results of internal Conservapedia trolling attacks, June 30, 2023 - October 20, 2023.

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Conservapedia traffic after two years of User:Conservative's targeted trolling, September 22, 2025:

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Expect the traffic to go lower. I know the various web marketing technical indicators indicating that a website is on a declining trajectory and Conservapedia has them. Of course, if I convinced Andy to make some SEO changes and other changes like I did in the past, things would look much better. But I am no longer interested in doing this - despite the fact that my SEO recommendations would increase Conservapedia's SEO traffic by 20,000 to 30,000 visits a month and that is a conservative estimate.
Abandon all hope! The SEO who helped a website in 2024 that now has 1,000,000 visits per month has spoken! Conservative (talk) 22:43, September 22, 2025 (EDT)



RobSmith, the web pages that rank for similar terms to your Conservapedia articles with grow in relative strength while yours will grow weaker.

You shouldn't have gone out of your way to try to annoy a SEO. Big mistake.

If you still have any high hopes for your articles getting a lot of web traffic, I would stop having those high hopes.
User:Conservative: Your Satanic symbols of death are convincing.

“ As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. ”

—Proverbs 23:7

RobSmith quote: "You are and I'll put it in the Acknowledgements. If everything goes right, hopefully it'll stand next to the Dialogues of Plato, Socratic method, and Machiavelli Discourses in classrooms someday. nobs 00:20, 29 January 2017 (UTC)"
If you still have hopes of being as well-known as Plato, Socrates and Machavelli, I would give up those high hopes.
The web pages that compete SEO-wise with your articles with your articles will generally become stronger relative to your articles. Your choice. Now live with it. Conservative (talk) 23:01, September 22, 2025 (EDT)



The Google rankings of RobSmith Conservapedia articles are going down.

And wait until Russia has problems funding its war in Ukraine which seems a fairly likely event due to Russia's current economic problems. The traffic to RobSmith's Russia/Ukraine articles will go further down.
OMG!
“ These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. 		”

—Proverbs 6:16-19

Where you wanna start? The wicked imaginations with Satanic symbolism you uploaded and posted above, or the false witness and discord among the brethren in the Sysop community by accusing me of being "a useful idiot of an atheist website"?
Maybe it was your proud look of having an IQ of 123 that caused you to call a fellow Sysop a useful idiot, which proud look you still wear more than a decade later?
One more thing: I don't write for myself to boast how Lewis Black once mentioned me. I'm not driven by narcissism, as you obviously think everyone is motivated by the same need for self-glorification as you are. RobSZelensky Must Go! 23:19, September 22, 2025 (EDT)

more senseless trolling & harassment

A key assumption of the below Conservapedia web traffic projections is me not lifting a finger to get Andy to implement my SEO recommendations which would cause the website to have about 300,000 more annual visits (20k to 30K extra monthly visits).

  • 2026: ~12% decline
  • 2027: Additional ~15% decline
  • 2028–2036: ~18% annual decline

By 2036, traffic could stabilize at a minimal level (~10,000 monthly visits), resembling a small blog rather than a viable encyclopedia. This represents an ~87% cumulative drop from 2025, aligning with the site's historical niche status and the assumed headwinds.", Source: Traffic to Conservapedia

Just by me doing nothing and not lifting a finger to improve the websites SEO any longer, all your high hopes of becoming as well-known as Socrates, Plato and Machiavelli are smashed to smitherines! Conservative (talk) 23:37, September 22, 2025 (EDT)


Query: Conservapedia.com has about 58,000 pages. Approximately how much SEO traffic a month is Conservapedia.com losing a month due to its thin content problem, dead link problem and it not having the most recent version of MediaWiki?
Summary: Assuming fixes could double SEO performance based on similar wiki optimizations, Conservapedia is likely forfeiting 20,000-30,000 visits monthly—enough to boost total traffic by 25-35%.
That's about 300,000 web visits a year. Conservative (talk) 23:45, September 22, 2025 (EDT)

This loss of traffic has happened since my desysopping in 2011, which Andy has admitted was his mistake of listening to you.

After my re-sysoping, rankings stabilized and even improved somewhat - until your bloated head & ego got offended cause I got tired of you sticking your know-nothing nose in conversations about a subject you didn't even have a junior high school understanding of.

If you had any qualms about my writing on American foreign policy, there were more than a dozen ways to engage on the subject. But you didn't use them. You chose to target an individual editor for harassment (thinking you were dealing with PZ Myers or some idiot stooge you engaged with in the past). You were wrong. And when asked by me or Andy to stop, you doubled, tripled, quadrupled, and quintupled down, convinced of your own righteousness. And the net effect is you killed Conservapedia.

And you still don't care, cause your own self-image comes before Conservapedia.

“ When you believe in nothing greater than your own righteousness, the only thing left is to destroy those who challenge your certainty. ”

—Bill Bennett

spamming & trolling part 2

We'll see how well RobSmithpedia does in the coming years. With me no longer pushing Andy to implement SEO improvements to Conservapedia and Russia's economy probably seeing big troubles within 2 years, the SS RobSmithpedia will probably be as mighty as Russia's only aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov which is likely to be dismantled or sold! Conservative (talk) 00:20, September 23, 2025 (EDT)

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