Baron Pyotr Wrangel, a decorated general of the Russian Empire, became a general of the White Russian Army during the civil war against the Bolsheviks. He was immortalized in the marching song "The Red Army Is The Strongest" as "The Black Baron".
When the Bolsheviks finally won the Russian Civil War, Wrangel successfully evacuated 150,000 White soldiers and civilians from the approach Reds, a feat Wrangel's grandson compared Biden's Afghanistan evacuation invidiously to in The Wall Street Journal a couple of years ago:
My grandfather, Lt. Gen. Peter N. Wrangel, with infinitely fewer resources in Russia’s anti-Bolshevik White Army, evacuated 150,000 civilians and soldiers, including 7,000 children, by sea from Crimea in November 1920 in the face of the advancing Red Army. He was the very last person to leave, two hours before the Red Army entered Sebastopol. The difference was planning and foresight—and bureaucratic incompetence in Afghanistan by the U.S. government over three administrations.
After the war, Baron Wrangel published his memoirs, the title of which translated to Always With Honor.
The Influence Of X (Twitter)
Wrangel's book was translated into English in 1929, but there were no further printings of it for 60 years, and like the book we mentioned in a previous post (Changing The Past To Change The Future), Jean Raspail's The Camp Of The Saints, it was effectively unavailable. Then a pseudonymous Twitter account called "Mystery Grove Publishing" self-published an English translation of it.
And from one corner of right-leaning X/Twitter, the book got into the hands of the most watched broadcast journalist in America, Tucker Carlson.
Tucker Carlson Sees The Bolshevik Parallels
In a recent speech, Tucker Carlson recounted Pyotr Wrangel's observations from Saint Petersburg and Moscow at the beginning of the Russian Revolution. Via The Blaze (emphasis ours):
Tucker tells the story of Pyotr Wrangel and the Russian Revolution: "The country is in complete chaos. He goes into a movie theater and everyone in the theater is completely absorbed in the movie, like there's no revolution happening outside.
He's very close to the Romanovs, the family. He goes back to Moscow and he notices about 80% of the women in the Romanov family are wearing red ribbons in solidarity with the Bolsheviks who wound up murdering them. How is it that this country is being devoured by a violent revolution and the people are refusing even to acknowledge that it's happening and the ruling class against whom it is aimed are sympathizing with it? If this doesn't remind you of BLM, I don't know what does.
I was reading this like wait I live in that country. That's happening now. This is a revolution. Its aim is to hurt you."
Watch Tucker say that in the video clip in the post below:
Tucker tells the story of Pyotr Wrangel and the Russian Revolution: "The country is in complete chaos. He goes into a movie theater and everyone in the theater is completely absorbed in the movie, like there's no revolution happening outside.
It's interesting how the most prophetic books are the ones the establishment has no interest in keeping in print, but thanks to Mystery Grove, Wrangel's memoir is available in multiple formats on Amazon.
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On Thursday, we posted our new Top Ten Names on our trading Substack. We also showed how the batch from six months ago, and the other batches from earlier this year had performed:
Over the next six months, our top ten names from March 16th were up 10.69%, on average, while the SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF (SPY 0.00) was up 10.27%.
That was the 9th top names cohort of 12 so far this year that outperformed the market (PA top ten returns are on the left below; SPY returns on the right).
You can find our current top names on our trading Substack or our website, links to both of which are below. One of last week's top names is especially interesting, in that it has a short interest of 25%. We wrote about that one, and an options trade to capitalize it, here: Portfolio Armor's New #1 Name.
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