Tons of basic bitch well meaning pro Russia Westerners assume that if you criticize Moscow in any way that means you accept the moral superiority of global homo. If you distrust Shoigu than you must trust Schaub and be a paid NAFO shill. The point about people being too damn lazy and boomer tier to just be able to mash the translate button on some Russian telegram pages is what annoys me the most personally. Gayzov tier neo-nazis tailor their outreach to Western right wingers. They are dependable allies of the Zog establishment but they are able to obfuscate this by knowing exactly how to appeal to Western dissedents. On the other hand pro Russians in the West apparently dont even know that Russian Patriots who mistrust Moscow exist at all. Of course this might be explainable by Western spooks knowing how to present Ukrainian neo-nazi PR to Western dissidents whereas Russian Patriots have no state backing whatsoever from anyone.
4or5 years ago I was also pretty trusting of the Russian government but if one really is interested in Russia it follows you would research it on your own. Before I could understand any Russian at all I was scouring the internet for 1st hand English language translations from Russian volunteer fighters in Donbass. I would actually use the horrendous internet translations of the time to try and least get a vague idea of what actual Russians thought about current events. Im not trying to fluff myself here, my point is that McGregor, Ritter etc are apparently researchers in their own right but even my amateur self many years ago was making more effort than they are. And if someone is seriously too lazy to just mash the translate button on Telegram than that person is only very superficially pro Russian. They are in fact just more anti globohomo than pro Russian. Thats all fine and perfectly acceptable in itself. Being a patriot/nationalist for your own people first is a good default. But when you are banking on Russia to save you indirectly by destroying NATO than you really, really should look into what your dissident counter parts in Russia have to say.
Anyway as for the war Im tentatively thinking that Bakhmut might end up being a pretty decisive battle in spite of the towns lack of strategic significance. The Ukrainians at resident are saying that Kiev is pulling reserves from Zaporozhye to throw at Bakhmut.
Apparently Zaluzhny is against it personally but is going along with it publicly. Sirski apparently smells blood and thinks the total bardak and conflict between MoD and Wagner is an opportunity to exploit and they need to hit soon. Imo its a huge gamble on Kievs part but I absolutely wouldn't put it past Shoigu for a second to fu(k over Wagner if they get hit hard by Ukrainian reserves. If a Ukrainian counter attack against Wagner succeeds than Russias best assault troops will be combat ineffective for the foreseeable future. Especially since they are cock blocked from recruiting zeks. No more tying down Ukrainian troops and the initiative at the front will be totally with Kiev. On the other hand if Zaluzhny is right and the counter attack flops than a future big Ukrainian counter offensive will be derailed for awhile.
Of course this is based mostly on the anons at residents analysis but they are considered pretty reliable sources that Russian Patriot channels often site and so far they havent made any bad calls.
My personal conspiracy theory is that Zelensky is being told to do all that he can to kill as many Wagnerites as possible because Wagner is the only real organization thats fighting well and fighting hard for Russia.
Well, the elite units (or whats left of them) come to mind as well. But they dont make movies, propaganda, encourage flagging Russian morale.
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If we exclude the McGregor and Orlov tier pro Russians than Wagner is damn near the only reason to go on living for those on the Z side. Clobbering Wagner would be an enormous moral victory for Zog on top of removing what amounts to Russias queen from the chess board. Sirski, Zelensky and Zog in general may very well think a future offensive to "retake Crimea" is less promising even with more men and equipment than hitting with less now when there is a very real chance MoD will deliver them another victory on a silver platter that totally removes Russias sharpest teeth. That is re-taking some fields and towns in the South would be great but smashing Wagner would be even better.
If Wagner is crushed not only is Russias offensive potential spent it would also absolutely break any remaining faith the Russian people have in Moscow. They will correctly blame MoD and correctly be crying bloody murder about a stab in the back. This will even effect the Army because normal troops and officers don't share their leaderships antipathy to Wagner.
Ironically if Sirskis plan really is what the resident guys are saying its Ukraine that might be demilitarising Russia as far as offensive capacity is concerned.
Wagner and the GRU is more "Russian" than the MoD thats for sure. They fight for money sure, but also for an idea. Can't say the same for the Kremlins.
"The point about people being too damn lazy and boomer tier to just be able to mash the translate button on some Russian telegram pages is what annoys me the most personally. "
So insightful. That not only explains all the misapprehensions, but puts the blame squarely upon the boomers where it belongs. Well done.
I generally otherwise enjoy your commentary. But as a boomer myself (though hardly a 5D-er), I followed what happened during and after the fall of wall in the 90's when the full ugliness and incompetence of the west's policies were made fully manifest. What followed in Russia was a real-time demonstration that there WAS a political-economic system worse than communism, and that was the west's very own financial corporatism. Many of the world's problems, not the least of which is the west's internal decline, have come from the latter's end-of-history attitude that its proponents are foisting upon the rest of the world.
Whatt followed among some in the west was boomer optimism originating from the hope that somehow better systems will prevail. Yes, it often led people to embrace unrealistic viewpoints that counter western propaganda. But at least it was/is a start. Good for you guys who are countering that counter. But you should might take some pause, and recognize that the main reason you can so freely criticize the mistakes of your predecessors in dissident reportage, is not that you're so much wiser, but that you just haven't gone down the road far enough to collect many of your own. To err is human, while forgiveness, divinity (and spirituality in general) are in short supply.
I stay tuned to discover what you and Rolo are reporting not only to learn details that supplement the naive optimism of 5D-ers, but to try to peek far enough behind the curtain to find out what you BOTH might be missing.
Hey, if I'm missing something, please enlighten me, I won't be mad. Im desperate for ideas. Barring that, I continue to meditate to one day ascend and leave this cursed plane behind.
While I'm not exactly in the enlightenment business, a lot of the "5D ers" explain the sluggish advance as deliberate policy, either to maximize Ukrainian damage while minimizing Russian lives, or perhaps to minimize losing civilian hearts and minds by a a surfeit of slash and burn. (Not to mention maintaining a modicum of Chinese and international good will.)
Nevertheless, the failure to stop bombardment of Donetsk after all this time, in my mind, is enough to think that such reasons seem pretty dumb. But, as Alexander Mercouris endlessly repeats ;-), I'm not a military expert, and they may have a point. But Putin isn't explaining his strategy openly enough to tell which of his plans are working and which aren't.
Here's where your reports of behind-the-scenes political conflicts between the decision-makers add important details to this simplistic view.
Who is "right"? Probably all of you at the same time. Even competing forces operate simultaneously, and we're better off trying to integrate all into a whole than to discard the ones without immediate appeal.
So after all my BS, what specifically do I think you might be missing? That a more aggressive military assault might imbalance internal Russian political support, diminish Russian status in the burgeoning independent international community, and increase political friction in a post-war Ukrainian state. And that people who take these factors into consideration aren't necessarily stupid.
But I suppose like you, I'm still waiting and watching for the day when after 9 years, Russia puts a stop to the shelling of Donetsk from Avdiivka.
Just ask the 5d chess retards why russia did lockdowns, vaccinated its population with a 'vaccine' developed with astrazeneca, is close to implementing a CBDC, and hasn't won the war yet. They will flat out deny this and call you a NATO shill.
This whole K/D ratio the 5drs continually harp on about has absolutely no sense of reality, infact id say the tables are rapidly turning for the Ukr side as the RU rapidly drain the remaining soviet legacy which is the only reason that they have had a artillery advantage, plus the Ukr overwhelming ISR advantage their artillery is also insanely more accurate no just randomly firing "Hail" into the Donbass moonscape, also there will come a point where there will be a shortage of gun barrels due to Russia's incompetent self indulging elites refusal to properly mobilize industry. All while this is happening Ukr is rapidly been flooded with advanced western weaponry been pooled in the rear for the coming final knock out blow in the south. Atleast it will be fun to watch the 5d kungfu master propagandists finally crash and burn if thats all that comes from this absolute shit show of a war. Ps Thanks for your work mate it needs to be told even if people will still continue to believe what they want to believe.
You can see daily new videos on youtube channels like kanal13 with Russians being killed and equipement destroyed. Sure its propaganda but its not fake either. Russians might have more and bigger guns but they still fire it like its ww2. While Ukrainians have laser guided ammunition and the latest western howitsers which usually fire just 1 or 2 shot to hit the target. What i see is that Russia lacks precision ammunition and electronic's. Why else would they have to use iranian drones and get shit from China via backdoor channels to avoid sanctions? The Russians have a system called Tornado-s MLRS which is superior on paper to US Himars with longer range and more firepower. I have been asking why this system is not used, and my response i got was they lack the advanced precision guided ammunition for them and that those rockets where is very short supply. So the Russians are using numbers to beat a more technologically advanced oponenent with better recon and intelligence aswell. You can see this is not going well for Russia. Even the Wagner chief said that the front would collapse if Wagner withdrawes from the field. And he is right, only the wagnerites are giving the Ukrainians heat.
The Russians really do have some top notch gear, its just that Moscows elites would apparently rather be hung than settle for having to buy their kids 2 story apartments in London and Geneva as opposed to 3 stories. This equipment will never be produced in the numbers required to be meaningful on the front. The central bank will never release the needed capital and Putin wont force the Oligarchs to invest in the required infastructure. Russia is a neo-liberal post capitalist kleptocracy that cant print infinity shekels fighting a neo-liberal post capitalist kleptocracy that can. I have no doubt Russia does have more human capital than the West and if they did industrialize a bit the management would be White Slavs who are probably decently educated in actual hard sciences. However that industrialization wont be happening and it might be too late anyway.
I was watching a Strelkov interview and he mentioned something really crazy that I had no idea about. The USSR started laying the foundations for factories and the corresponding electric infrastructure east of the urals in siberia in 1935. The skeletons were set up just in case the factories in the European part of Russia would have to be moved east in case of invasion. Thats how all that Soviet infastructure was moved and up and running again so fast during WW2. That kind of redundancy, that kind of forward thinking is absolutely inconceivable anywhere today let alone Russia. Even if one hates the Stalin era Soviet elite, im ambiguous and Strelkov certainly is no fan just imagine if the cretins running Russia today had even a shred of that kind of inclination to think into the future.
The Soviets were planning and investing years ahead for worst case scenarios and the current Russian elites are on the edge of oblivion now and still doing nothing.
Imo the relative body counts arent even that important. Its a matter of who is going run out of munitions first and thats an open question. Russia could produce much more but they wont and Zog just cant produce much more. Russia has the expertise but wont use it for ideological reasons and Zog lacks the expertise completely to mobilize their own war fighting industry. Russia has also shown it will outright deprive its best troops of munitions at the whims of its chief traitors which telegraphs a total indifference to victory. Zog on the other hand is very single mindedly going for the kill. So both sides share many of the same problems but Zog looks way more focused.
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> Russia is a neo-liberal post capitalist kleptocracy that cant print infinity shekels fighting a neo-liberal post capitalist kleptocracy that can.
I'd argue Keynesian economics are doable in a system locked out of the global market. You can declare your fiat currency to hold real value inside the borders of your country: if you accept taxes being paid with it, then why not. Worked for Germany in the 30s, what they did not have they bartered for it against their own stuff, see trading industrial machinery for Argentine meat.
> That's how all that Soviet infrastructure was moved and up and running again so fast during WW2. That kind of redundancy, that kind of forward thinking is absolutely inconceivable anywhere today let alone Russia.
Today there is JIT, just-in-time supply chain philosophy: anything is found on the market instantly, so can forego inventory stocks and save on warehouse costs. Redundancy now is a bad word in the business world, its costs lead you to being not competitive.
But truly I am being picky, I enjoyed reading your message.
Rolo, good to read that you favorably mentioned Paul Craig Roberts' analysis. I don't know nearly as much about the intricacies of this war as many of your other readers. But I've read PCR's analyses ever since the Vicky Nuland-directed Maidan Coup, accomplished while Putin was presiding over the Sochi Olympics. I can't fault Roberts for anything he has written on the subject, even if he sometimes sounds a little hysterical. As time goes on, I distrust the opinions of Ritter and McGregor more and more, and am drawn toward your analyses, though I sincerely hope you are wrong. It's sickening to contemplate that Russia could lose to a fast-disintegrating Empire, nominally headed by a fool with full blown dementia, brought to power in a rigged election, but that's where we are.
Rolo, I agree that Ron Unz should link properly to your writings. But I first heard about you on his site, searched for you, found your Substack, and I am now a paying subscriber.
Also: are you surprised that hard facts are less popular than pleasant stories? Your call is to guide an elite, not the masses.
If Ukraine succeeds in their spring offensive, then this will probably break the psychological mind block in many people's heads. They might be willing to reconsider what they thought they knew. So by summer I should be up there with the big boys.
Alot of people already got waken up from their pro-Russian spell when the Russians abandoned Kharkov,Kuypansk and Kherson, which became de-facto Russian territory and 'would remain Russian forever' as the Kremlin said. Same as 'Ukraine would face armageddon' if Crimean bridge was attack retoric. Also the Azov prisoner swap and releasing foreign merc's while they kept talking crap on de-nazification and executing foreign merc's. It was all propaganda and bullshit. This Scott Ritter guy and the other US ex military commander are all over youtube now promoting themselves like they have some inside info about a big Russian offensive, well i studied history and alot of campaigns for ww2 as a hobby and let me tell you there won't be a big offensive because all the proffesional Russian troops and officers who have to be well trained in mobile operational warfare have either been killed,wounded,captured or their 6 month contract ran out. They used their most elite troops in the beginning of the invasion and what they have now is more and more conscripts as replacements. Which are good for manning a trench but not for combined mobile assault warfare. Hint: Thats why Ukraine is training 20.000 troops each months in the west. They get special Nato training in mobile manouvre warfare while they use territorial defensive (zelensky volkssturm) to man the trenches and buy time while they finish building their 2 armoured corps for the spring offensive. Russia doesnt have any offensive plan that i know of other then storming headlong into fortified lines and towns in the don bas. Which you cant exploit for breakthrough because the Ukrainians have defence in depth. I could go on but this idea of a Russian offensive is just pure fantasy and copium. This offensive they talk about already happend and it was called Vuhledar.
Truly outstanding article. I'm very crestfallen by the fact that even months into this "SMO" I kept being the edgy 5D Chess guy with my friends and family and that Russia was on the verge of an epic breakthrough cause "LULLZ Can't you see Ukraayne is running out of ammo and men!??!"
At this stage, I was at least mostly wrong, even if things turn around.
About a year and a half ago I was in a somewhat swanky resort in the Carribean (a real once in a lifetime event for me). It happened to be filled with Russians, I can only assume the elite kind. The amount of assholish and self-centered behavior I witnessed was shocking and revolting, and I am one who thoroughly enjoys reading and learning about traditional Russian culture.
If this group I saw is at all indicative of the kind of people who run Russia, then it's right to be highly skeptical of any real allegiance to ordinary Russian people (of whom I do like).
I would say an analogy would be if a Pro-US tourist went to the US with a romantic, hollywood based image of a white US, and then goes to literally any inner city of the US and sees an immigrant, homeless, globohomo filled dystopia.
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Only caveat I would add to this spot on post is that Russia is White and you simply can't expect more from a White country.
Expecting a White country to be strong and defend its culture and sovereignty is like expecting a special Olympic athlete to be better than a normal Olympic athlete. It just isn't going to happen.
Recently the Kenyan Supreme Court ruled that anal sex and marriage were who they were as a country in spite of the constitution stating marriage is only between a man and a woman. Major uproar in the legislature and it sounds like they are going to curtail the ability of the Supreme Court to redo the constitution. Who knows if they will succeed but the only major White country I can imagine doing that is Russia.
So as mixed up as the Russian policies are and as traitorous as the elite is, Russia is pretty much as good as you can expect a White country to be.
So in light of that it just shows how gullible Whites are that the 5D crowd has a major audience.
Unz is mainly a contrarian, but an amateur at most topics. He got Covid and Ukraine very wrong and has never admitted it. To recall, he pushed lockdowns, zero Covid and vaccinations.
100k Russian dead is still not realistic. BBC confirmed 15k by name and they estimate 30k in total. Add 10k militias and 10k Wagner, you arrive at 50k after Bakhmut.
By the way, AIDS, polio and viruses aren't myths. AIDS origin is a valid question. You should probably stick to mil analysis and rather not comment on virology ;)
The BBC estimate of >43K fatalities on the Russian side, seems to include Wagner. They are Russians, after all. But it's all guesswork to some extent, aside from the exact count of 16071 names. How credible is it, that the Russians can't name half of their dead?
" Strelkov or Wagner, for example, who are sounding the alarm"
This certainly got me thinking. I'm not so familiar with Strelkov maybe I have at some point I have seen the account, can't recall. However on Wagner here are my thoughts...consider for a moment the various Wagner and Prighozin posts of late, especially the ones attacking the MoD and various high command figures, the posts implying Wagner is holding the entire front and the ones implying or even overtly urging Russian regular forces to step up and do their bit...
what if it's psywar, trolling or kayfabe. Why? to create the impression of division, infighting even in the upper echelons, to create the impression or reinforce the U.S. hubris that Russian regular forces are a paper tiger. Because let's face it, who is Prighozin playing to? He's playing to the Pentagon and NATO planners, the EU, UK and US politicians and the western media. With the politicians and media especially we all know how much of a meal they will make out of the right kind of bone thrown in their direction.
My feeling is Prighozin is doing his part in a psy-op that seeks to encourage reckless decision making, more specifically to tip the balance and lure the Ukrainians into further reinforcing places like Bakhmut. Could it be that Wagner and Russian command knew without a doubt they could succeed in the Bakhmut encirclement a week or two ago. If there was already arguments on the Ukrainian side about reinforcing or withdrawing from Bakhmut, why not add some fuel to that by acting out a little kayfabe drama, provide some additional arguments to the Ukrainians pushing to reinforce?
In terms of the so called never arriving Russian offensive...I've read from some credible sources that the Russian regular forces are simultaneously absorbing manpower from the mobilization and are engaged in re-organization to beef up the infantry component of their BTG's into a new form of attack group. Why rush that process? It's still muddy in many places, why not complete the job and be ready for some asymmetrical offensive later in Spring?
I just cannot see this `Russia on the verge of defeat' narrative. I do see a lot of Ukrainian dead, Ukrainian draftees of extreme ages in the combat zone and Russian probing attacks to determine weak spots along the line. With the leaking of the Delta papers, Ukraines few operational victories don't seem so impressive, they were given a huge advantage. Russia's varied performance but generally ongoing & onward march against such a vast, advanced and highly networked eye in the sky seems somehow more impressive
So Russia is going to lose the war. Well, that is a prediction I will definitely remember. I remember one about Putin announcing in his recent speech a scaling down of the SMO to a “counter terrorism” something or other, but that didn’t happen. I guess it doesn’t matter. What does matter is that – although I feel that much of what the author of this blog has to say about the state of politics in Russia & the situation there more generally is mostly correct – the depiction of the SMO/war/not-a-war is highly misleading. Firstly, it is a war against NATO entire using Ukraine as proxy, the entire NATO bloc, the US first among them, has invested massively in this war, they have invested massively in ensuring a Russian defeat. But in addition, NATO “assets” are on the ground in a huge way as well, operatives, personnel, technology, surveillance, C4ISR, tracking everything the Russians do. But reading this blog, you get the impression Russia is fighting Ukraine that has some moral support from the west which seems enough to fire Ukrainian conscripts at Azovite gun point to still defeat Russia on the battlefield. This is what is depicted here. And it is disingenuous to say the least. I could use harsher language, I’m tempted, but I have nothing against Rolo & otherwise enjoy reading him, on all the other topics as well. Philosophy especially. But this is something else, this not-a-war. I have been convinced from the beginning that the principal concern on the Russian side, the Kremlin, Putin if you like, is escalation with NATO/US, & that is what is being managed most carefully. This is the reason Russia has injected a “light” force in Ukraine, avoided over commitment, & attempted to achieve a lot with a little & has succeeded, 17% of former Ukrainian territory which is crucial to Russia due its proximity to Crimea, if for no other reason. Much of the solid Russian ethnic territory in Ukraine has been secured, & the Ukrainians, with all the NATO support, have achieved nothing, a couple of Russian retreats at Kharkov & Kherson in light of NATO’s involvement is a huge failure for them in fact. An even bigger failure is the amount of equipment Russia has destroyed, which even the US admits, as does NATO’s gen sec, has caused the west a supply crisis. And with all those destroyed weapons went much of the best of the Ukrainian army, they may have a few million men they can draw on in theory but in reality, their main army has been destroyed, what is left is being cleaned up in Bakhmut & all over the front. Another aspect that gets overlooked is that entangled with the huge sums of money that the west has been allocating the Ukraine effort, will be bribery & infiltration money. I have heard first hand reliable reports of Russian commanders on the ground in Ukraine running what amount to sabotage operations against their own side, we’ve all heard of the now notorious Ugledar Muradov promotion debacle, who is he working for? And then Darya Dugina – how was that done? Bribery & infiltration. What I am saying is we have no way of knowing how much money the west has spend paying off Russian officials & military commanders to sabotage the war, but that they have been doing this you can be sure. The west, despite everything, remains rich, & has the capacity to bribe like no one else, it is one of the most lethal weapons in their arsenal. The entire front line is active, & Russia is making slow, but steady progress, the slow move is intentional, this is not 5D, it is simply allocating minimal resources to keep the main forces in the rear for when escalation really & truly begins. And it hasn’t begun yet. Russia did this in Syria, & had set backs, mistakes, Palmyra had to be liberated twice, there was a lot of wrangling around Aleppo before it was finally liberated. This is how war goes, it’s a messy business, & you can’t expect it to go your own way or perfectly all of the time, that is not 5D, it’s just the real world.
There are a couple of armoured corps being prepared in the Ukrainian rear in view of - if not a proper Summer Offensive - at least regaining the initiative in the front-lines. AFU servicemen are in the West being trained to use NATO gadgets, just as they were before the offensives in September last year.
I don't think Muradov would risk accepting bribery from the enemy, given Putin and his clique murderous streak. They have killed more people than the Clintons. Muradov is probably quiet well-heeled already and not a junkie so why would he need to complicate his life further. And then I don't believe in voluntary, deliberate incompetence, bribed or not his reputation as a commander took a fall.
Rolo's war, political, and cultural analyses are quite good, but he has always been a crackpot at heart, going on about how magic is real and you can astral project or whatever. I don't pay it too much mind, though. Lots of people that you wouldn't expect engage in magical thinking, all that really matters is whether they apply it to things that matter.
The AIDS pathogen was created out of a brucellosis bacteria mutated with a visna virus; then the toxin was removed as a DNA particle called a mycoplasma. They used the same mycoplasma to develop disabling diseases like MS, Crohn’s colitis, Lyme disease etc. In a United States congressional document of a meeting held June 9, 1969, the Pentagon delivered a report to Congress about biological weapons (described on page 129 of the document). The Pentagon stated, “We are continuing to develop disabling weapons.” Dr. MacArthur, who was in charge of the research said, “We are developing a new lethal weapon, a synthetic biological agent that does not naturally exist, and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired.” Think about it. If you have a deficiency of acquired immunity, you have an acquired immunity deficiency. Plain as that. AIDS. In laboratories throughout the United States and a certain number in Canada, including the University of Alberta, the U.S. government provided the leadership for the development of the AIDS virus for the purpose of population control.
After they had it perfected, they sent medical teams from the Centers for Disease Control to Africa and other mid-eastern countries where they thought the population was becoming too large. They gave them all a free vaccination for smallpox. Five years after receiving this smallpox vaccination, 60% of them were suffering from AIDS. They tried to blame it on a monkey, which is nonsense. There was a report in the newspapers a while back about a professor at the University of Arkansas who claimed that while studying the tissues of a dead chimpanzee, she found the HIV virus. The chimpanzee that she had tested was born in the United States 23 years earlier. It had lived its entire life in a U.S. military laboratory where it was used as an experimental animal for the development of these diseases. When it died, its body was shipped to a storage place where it was deep-frozen and stored in case they wanted to analyze it later. Then they decided that they didn’t have enough space for it, so they said, “Anybody want this dead chimpanzee?” and this researcher from Arkansas said, “Yes. Send it down to the University of Arkansas. We are happy to get anything that we can get.” They shipped it down and she found the HIV virus in it. That virus was acquired by that chimpanzee in the laboratories where it was tested.
Try reading RFK Jr.'s book and you might have some doubts of your own. 'The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense)'
The first clinical descriptions of poliomyelitis date back to the early 19th century. From 1800 to 1950 there were sporadic outbreaks in European cities. Tetanus shares a similar history, being identified during the Napoleonian wars and even having statistics on injured soldiers since then. Neither polio, nor tetanus are related to DDT. The vaccines against them were a godsend.
DDT is a neurotoxin though. However conflating intoxication with DDT and poliomyelitis is just ridiculous since one predates the other by at least 100 years. This statement goes a long way to damage the credibility of Rolo.
"We’re told the science on polio is settled — but that may not be the case. There are scientists who believe polio-like symptoms could be caused by toxic substances, including pesticides."
Many modern pesticides attack the nervous system. So it is not unexpected that those substances have an impact on the nervous system of humans. However there is a marked difference between finding that some pesticides induce polio-like symptoms to stating that poliomyelitis, a sickness ascribed to a virus for 100 years, is a myth and that some pesticides were causing it 100 years ago especially in some backward places that did not see any pesticide until the 1950s.
DDT was not the first pesticide. These epidemics all happen around the same time that Europe and America are ballooning in technological progress. In the 19th century they were treating people with mercury and who knows what else. Also they happened during summer, during planting season, not during winter which was normal. Of course that is when the fertilizer comes out.
Poliomyelitis was an urban disease. Pesticides and fertilisers affected the countryside in the first place.
Next do you believe that the doctors who sampled the cripple for infectious agents and converged on the virus all colluded in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish scientific papers published in many rival countries ? Seriously.
The epidemics of the 19th century occurred because of the crowding and poor hygiene in the cities. Plus healthcare was unaffordable for most. Plus really bad air. Read on the London Great Stinks.
That's a good clue is it not? Urban living has always been associated with unclean living. Pesticides would not be the only agent that could produce these results. As I mentioned, mercury was used by doctors in treatments, cities were filled with smog and people were working in dirty mine shafts. Already in ancient Rome the cities would have been depopulated if not for heavy immigration. In the 19th century with industrialization the amount of chemicals and the size of cities ballooned to unprecedented proportions.
The doctors did not collude but they did attach themselves to a certain line of thought. If you believe disease has to come from say germs, then that is all you are looking for. For years doctors refused to wash their hands when treating patients. The science was settled. Then some rogue doctor discovered that the nunneries did not have these epidemics. The women working there were not doctors, but they had common sense to wash their hands. When this doctor came out with this discovery, did his fellow doctors applaud him? No, they got him disbarred. That's doctors for you. As dumb and prone to peer pressure like the rest of us.
Fact is people mostly get sick when they are weak. That means the old, the infirm, the genetically compromised. If viruses and germs were causing disease, then being a doctor would be a high risk profession.
I am not surprised in the least. That doctor must have made some well-known university professors look like fools so they made him pay for the damage to their reputation and to the fees that were charging.
I am in broad agreement with you. The use of chemicals, especially dyes, increased enormously in the 19th century. I can even add that piping made of lead was another cause of neurological problems. And yes, since the germ theory of disease became accepted, doctors have looked for viruses and bacteria, not toxins. The mad-cow disease with the prion protein as agent was a small revolution for the field.
Nevertheless Rolo's statement that poliomyelitis is not caused by a virus but by DDT is patently false since DDT was barely used before the 1950s, whereas poliomyelitis has been crippling people for 200 years at least. This statement kills his credibility. If Ron Unz reads this, Rolo shall never be taken seriously.
> How he hasn’t been censored yet is beyond me. But there he remains, for now, hosting content from the entire spectrum of Western dissident thinking all in one place.
A mystery ...
> I get pretty much nothing out of it except outraged comments from people who are quite sure that I am a CIA/Mossad shill.
A sane mind comes to the opposite conclusion, Unz is a placed gate keeper.
I was banned for pointing out at the very beginning of the plandemic, that it is all a scientific fraud.
He promoted back then the "lab leak" already.
If you ask me, he just went with the flow to gain some credibility and to contrast to his tribal fellows. Certain topics cannot be enforced any longer, the truth has spread, and maintaining narrative becomes a farce.
The "covid" is the holyhoax 2.0, , same perpetrators of the psyop, same patterns, same mechanisms deployed to silence "deniers.
Just no prison yet for telling the truth, that the emperor has no clothes.
An excellent article that exposes the betrayal of Russian leaders to daylight.
The Russian Masonic leaders are prolonging the war in order to bring forth the rigged Third World War so longed for by the satanic bankers led by the Rothschilds through which they think in their wild delusion that they will be able to impose finally Satanism in the whole world.
Both Ukraine and Russia are in the hands of the Khazarian mafia of which the Chabad Lubavitch is the most influential organization.
The Chabad controls Putin and Zelensky, both o them are their puppets.
Putin, Xi Jinping and Biden are part of the same clique and share the same "program"
Do they really want us to believe that Xi Jinping will declare war on Biden, his greatest business partner in the West who has given him all kinds of state secrets and that would have already been executed by high treason if in the United States did not reign the more authentic and masonic chaos?
It is not strange that it is in St. Petersburg, the center of liberalism in Russia, where the fair has been held that is an exact copy of the globalist plans for a great restart that should rather be called a great apocalyptic final.
It must be very clear that liberalism is not a political doctrine, it is a moderate version of a religion: that of the gnosis filtered by the Jewish Kabbalah , the only thing that liberals have in common is their opposition to Christian creed summarized in the Nicene creed. You will try to find in vain, a political program that all liberals share, each one of them supported the measures that please them in each historical moment, measures often opposed and irreconcilable. The only thing that defines them is their aversion to Christianity, full stop.
Liberals are Gnostics only that most o them do not know it, I won't bother you defining their cabalistic creed although it is urgent to do so that the liberals find out once for all what they believe in, but if I had to summarize said cult in a phrase or an axiom it would be precisely this: gnosis replaced the Worship of the logos or the absolute divine reason for the cult of the finite and fallible human reason frequently represented as a goddess.
Liberalism arose after the defeat of the Jacobins during the French Revolution as a supposedly moderate faction whose only intend was to displace Christians from power without resorting to excessive violence and without frightening the masses.
Liberals could be considered moderate Gnostics by the simple fact that they do not want to exterminate Christians, just separate them from public life and decisive positions, to silence them, to prevent them from preaching or make public manifestation of their beliefs, to confine them in a kind of ghetto and reduce the Christian religion to the domestic sphere. Radical Gnostics, that is, communists, want to exterminate them or at least "re -educate them" by force. They cannot tolerate the existence of Christianity, nor of theism even if only in the private sphere. Liberals are considered tolerant by the mere fact of not promoting the murder of Christians. But they do not tolerate thay they preach, only they can preach their gnostic creed in parliaments or public forums. In any case, moderate liberalism or gnosis was always a stratagem of the Satanists aimed at eradicating Christianity gradually, and resorted to it after the defeat of the Jacobins simply because they did not have enough power to exterminate Christians or to completely silence them. It should be remembered that for the gnosis the god of the Old Testament is a malevolent divinity from which the devil liberates us. This aberrant belief, often unconscious, is at the base of communism and also anarchism and that is why their followers exalt Satan frequently.
Everything seems to indicate that after the dissolution of the Soviet Union the Russian authorities went from being radical Gnostics to moderate Gnostics, the Orthodox patriarch is therefore not anything other than a decorative figure.
Their real homeland is not Russia, but the City of London, an independent and masonic state embedded in the middle of the capital of the UK and the financial center where the black money of all the mafias of the world is laundered.
Christian power centers serve the global elite, they believe in human convergence too. The problem with universalism... The globalist left despise christians because they view them as being old-fashioned jews who need to be updated for the noahide global convergence.
''It should be remembered that for the gnosis the god of the Old Testament is a malevolent divinity from which the devil liberates us.''
Unz - the site and the man - are a hard call. I think Chomsky may be the model: deep-controlled life actor. Unz is a big supporter of the mRNA injections - absolutely denies any wide-scale deaths or injuries have been caused by the injections. He (I think) also refers to those questioning the Sandy Hook event as "crackpots" - critical litmus test there ; like Sept 11, a clear delineation of the limited hang out boundaries. One of his chief writers, Mike Whitney, has done a long series of 5D-like Ukr war pieces - "Putin's Winter Offensive" - gives the flavor - "will sweep the field" and other "big arrow" sort of scenarios - "as soon as the ground freezes" we were assured last Dec. Now, he has gone on to other assignments; Whitney also had some early and strong anti-mRNA pieces then dropped it and was re-assigned to the 5D beat. So goes Unz. Dip in and out very selectively is my approach.
Tons of basic bitch well meaning pro Russia Westerners assume that if you criticize Moscow in any way that means you accept the moral superiority of global homo. If you distrust Shoigu than you must trust Schaub and be a paid NAFO shill. The point about people being too damn lazy and boomer tier to just be able to mash the translate button on some Russian telegram pages is what annoys me the most personally. Gayzov tier neo-nazis tailor their outreach to Western right wingers. They are dependable allies of the Zog establishment but they are able to obfuscate this by knowing exactly how to appeal to Western dissedents. On the other hand pro Russians in the West apparently dont even know that Russian Patriots who mistrust Moscow exist at all. Of course this might be explainable by Western spooks knowing how to present Ukrainian neo-nazi PR to Western dissidents whereas Russian Patriots have no state backing whatsoever from anyone.
4or5 years ago I was also pretty trusting of the Russian government but if one really is interested in Russia it follows you would research it on your own. Before I could understand any Russian at all I was scouring the internet for 1st hand English language translations from Russian volunteer fighters in Donbass. I would actually use the horrendous internet translations of the time to try and least get a vague idea of what actual Russians thought about current events. Im not trying to fluff myself here, my point is that McGregor, Ritter etc are apparently researchers in their own right but even my amateur self many years ago was making more effort than they are. And if someone is seriously too lazy to just mash the translate button on Telegram than that person is only very superficially pro Russian. They are in fact just more anti globohomo than pro Russian. Thats all fine and perfectly acceptable in itself. Being a patriot/nationalist for your own people first is a good default. But when you are banking on Russia to save you indirectly by destroying NATO than you really, really should look into what your dissident counter parts in Russia have to say.
Anyway as for the war Im tentatively thinking that Bakhmut might end up being a pretty decisive battle in spite of the towns lack of strategic significance. The Ukrainians at resident are saying that Kiev is pulling reserves from Zaporozhye to throw at Bakhmut.
https://t.me/rezident_ua/16708
Apparently Zaluzhny is against it personally but is going along with it publicly. Sirski apparently smells blood and thinks the total bardak and conflict between MoD and Wagner is an opportunity to exploit and they need to hit soon. Imo its a huge gamble on Kievs part but I absolutely wouldn't put it past Shoigu for a second to fu(k over Wagner if they get hit hard by Ukrainian reserves. If a Ukrainian counter attack against Wagner succeeds than Russias best assault troops will be combat ineffective for the foreseeable future. Especially since they are cock blocked from recruiting zeks. No more tying down Ukrainian troops and the initiative at the front will be totally with Kiev. On the other hand if Zaluzhny is right and the counter attack flops than a future big Ukrainian counter offensive will be derailed for awhile.
Of course this is based mostly on the anons at residents analysis but they are considered pretty reliable sources that Russian Patriot channels often site and so far they havent made any bad calls.
My personal conspiracy theory is that Zelensky is being told to do all that he can to kill as many Wagnerites as possible because Wagner is the only real organization thats fighting well and fighting hard for Russia.
Well, the elite units (or whats left of them) come to mind as well. But they dont make movies, propaganda, encourage flagging Russian morale.
If we exclude the McGregor and Orlov tier pro Russians than Wagner is damn near the only reason to go on living for those on the Z side. Clobbering Wagner would be an enormous moral victory for Zog on top of removing what amounts to Russias queen from the chess board. Sirski, Zelensky and Zog in general may very well think a future offensive to "retake Crimea" is less promising even with more men and equipment than hitting with less now when there is a very real chance MoD will deliver them another victory on a silver platter that totally removes Russias sharpest teeth. That is re-taking some fields and towns in the South would be great but smashing Wagner would be even better.
If Wagner is crushed not only is Russias offensive potential spent it would also absolutely break any remaining faith the Russian people have in Moscow. They will correctly blame MoD and correctly be crying bloody murder about a stab in the back. This will even effect the Army because normal troops and officers don't share their leaderships antipathy to Wagner.
Ironically if Sirskis plan really is what the resident guys are saying its Ukraine that might be demilitarising Russia as far as offensive capacity is concerned.
Wagner and the GRU is more "Russian" than the MoD thats for sure. They fight for money sure, but also for an idea. Can't say the same for the Kremlins.
"The point about people being too damn lazy and boomer tier to just be able to mash the translate button on some Russian telegram pages is what annoys me the most personally. "
So insightful. That not only explains all the misapprehensions, but puts the blame squarely upon the boomers where it belongs. Well done.
I generally otherwise enjoy your commentary. But as a boomer myself (though hardly a 5D-er), I followed what happened during and after the fall of wall in the 90's when the full ugliness and incompetence of the west's policies were made fully manifest. What followed in Russia was a real-time demonstration that there WAS a political-economic system worse than communism, and that was the west's very own financial corporatism. Many of the world's problems, not the least of which is the west's internal decline, have come from the latter's end-of-history attitude that its proponents are foisting upon the rest of the world.
Whatt followed among some in the west was boomer optimism originating from the hope that somehow better systems will prevail. Yes, it often led people to embrace unrealistic viewpoints that counter western propaganda. But at least it was/is a start. Good for you guys who are countering that counter. But you should might take some pause, and recognize that the main reason you can so freely criticize the mistakes of your predecessors in dissident reportage, is not that you're so much wiser, but that you just haven't gone down the road far enough to collect many of your own. To err is human, while forgiveness, divinity (and spirituality in general) are in short supply.
I stay tuned to discover what you and Rolo are reporting not only to learn details that supplement the naive optimism of 5D-ers, but to try to peek far enough behind the curtain to find out what you BOTH might be missing.
Hey, if I'm missing something, please enlighten me, I won't be mad. Im desperate for ideas. Barring that, I continue to meditate to one day ascend and leave this cursed plane behind.
While I'm not exactly in the enlightenment business, a lot of the "5D ers" explain the sluggish advance as deliberate policy, either to maximize Ukrainian damage while minimizing Russian lives, or perhaps to minimize losing civilian hearts and minds by a a surfeit of slash and burn. (Not to mention maintaining a modicum of Chinese and international good will.)
Nevertheless, the failure to stop bombardment of Donetsk after all this time, in my mind, is enough to think that such reasons seem pretty dumb. But, as Alexander Mercouris endlessly repeats ;-), I'm not a military expert, and they may have a point. But Putin isn't explaining his strategy openly enough to tell which of his plans are working and which aren't.
Here's where your reports of behind-the-scenes political conflicts between the decision-makers add important details to this simplistic view.
Who is "right"? Probably all of you at the same time. Even competing forces operate simultaneously, and we're better off trying to integrate all into a whole than to discard the ones without immediate appeal.
So after all my BS, what specifically do I think you might be missing? That a more aggressive military assault might imbalance internal Russian political support, diminish Russian status in the burgeoning independent international community, and increase political friction in a post-war Ukrainian state. And that people who take these factors into consideration aren't necessarily stupid.
But I suppose like you, I'm still waiting and watching for the day when after 9 years, Russia puts a stop to the shelling of Donetsk from Avdiivka.
Just ask the 5d chess retards why russia did lockdowns, vaccinated its population with a 'vaccine' developed with astrazeneca, is close to implementing a CBDC, and hasn't won the war yet. They will flat out deny this and call you a NATO shill.
Gintsberg was the russian moses, his vaccine set them free.
This whole K/D ratio the 5drs continually harp on about has absolutely no sense of reality, infact id say the tables are rapidly turning for the Ukr side as the RU rapidly drain the remaining soviet legacy which is the only reason that they have had a artillery advantage, plus the Ukr overwhelming ISR advantage their artillery is also insanely more accurate no just randomly firing "Hail" into the Donbass moonscape, also there will come a point where there will be a shortage of gun barrels due to Russia's incompetent self indulging elites refusal to properly mobilize industry. All while this is happening Ukr is rapidly been flooded with advanced western weaponry been pooled in the rear for the coming final knock out blow in the south. Atleast it will be fun to watch the 5d kungfu master propagandists finally crash and burn if thats all that comes from this absolute shit show of a war. Ps Thanks for your work mate it needs to be told even if people will still continue to believe what they want to believe.
It will be interesting to report on how the Kremlin will mobilize to spin this as a "victory" and "mission accomplished" at home.
They got away with Minsk I and II the first time.
I wonder what will happen this go around.
You can see daily new videos on youtube channels like kanal13 with Russians being killed and equipement destroyed. Sure its propaganda but its not fake either. Russians might have more and bigger guns but they still fire it like its ww2. While Ukrainians have laser guided ammunition and the latest western howitsers which usually fire just 1 or 2 shot to hit the target. What i see is that Russia lacks precision ammunition and electronic's. Why else would they have to use iranian drones and get shit from China via backdoor channels to avoid sanctions? The Russians have a system called Tornado-s MLRS which is superior on paper to US Himars with longer range and more firepower. I have been asking why this system is not used, and my response i got was they lack the advanced precision guided ammunition for them and that those rockets where is very short supply. So the Russians are using numbers to beat a more technologically advanced oponenent with better recon and intelligence aswell. You can see this is not going well for Russia. Even the Wagner chief said that the front would collapse if Wagner withdrawes from the field. And he is right, only the wagnerites are giving the Ukrainians heat.
The Russians really do have some top notch gear, its just that Moscows elites would apparently rather be hung than settle for having to buy their kids 2 story apartments in London and Geneva as opposed to 3 stories. This equipment will never be produced in the numbers required to be meaningful on the front. The central bank will never release the needed capital and Putin wont force the Oligarchs to invest in the required infastructure. Russia is a neo-liberal post capitalist kleptocracy that cant print infinity shekels fighting a neo-liberal post capitalist kleptocracy that can. I have no doubt Russia does have more human capital than the West and if they did industrialize a bit the management would be White Slavs who are probably decently educated in actual hard sciences. However that industrialization wont be happening and it might be too late anyway.
I was watching a Strelkov interview and he mentioned something really crazy that I had no idea about. The USSR started laying the foundations for factories and the corresponding electric infrastructure east of the urals in siberia in 1935. The skeletons were set up just in case the factories in the European part of Russia would have to be moved east in case of invasion. Thats how all that Soviet infastructure was moved and up and running again so fast during WW2. That kind of redundancy, that kind of forward thinking is absolutely inconceivable anywhere today let alone Russia. Even if one hates the Stalin era Soviet elite, im ambiguous and Strelkov certainly is no fan just imagine if the cretins running Russia today had even a shred of that kind of inclination to think into the future.
The Soviets were planning and investing years ahead for worst case scenarios and the current Russian elites are on the edge of oblivion now and still doing nothing.
Imo the relative body counts arent even that important. Its a matter of who is going run out of munitions first and thats an open question. Russia could produce much more but they wont and Zog just cant produce much more. Russia has the expertise but wont use it for ideological reasons and Zog lacks the expertise completely to mobilize their own war fighting industry. Russia has also shown it will outright deprive its best troops of munitions at the whims of its chief traitors which telegraphs a total indifference to victory. Zog on the other hand is very single mindedly going for the kill. So both sides share many of the same problems but Zog looks way more focused.
> Russia is a neo-liberal post capitalist kleptocracy that cant print infinity shekels fighting a neo-liberal post capitalist kleptocracy that can.
I'd argue Keynesian economics are doable in a system locked out of the global market. You can declare your fiat currency to hold real value inside the borders of your country: if you accept taxes being paid with it, then why not. Worked for Germany in the 30s, what they did not have they bartered for it against their own stuff, see trading industrial machinery for Argentine meat.
> That's how all that Soviet infrastructure was moved and up and running again so fast during WW2. That kind of redundancy, that kind of forward thinking is absolutely inconceivable anywhere today let alone Russia.
Today there is JIT, just-in-time supply chain philosophy: anything is found on the market instantly, so can forego inventory stocks and save on warehouse costs. Redundancy now is a bad word in the business world, its costs lead you to being not competitive.
But truly I am being picky, I enjoyed reading your message.
Rolo, good to read that you favorably mentioned Paul Craig Roberts' analysis. I don't know nearly as much about the intricacies of this war as many of your other readers. But I've read PCR's analyses ever since the Vicky Nuland-directed Maidan Coup, accomplished while Putin was presiding over the Sochi Olympics. I can't fault Roberts for anything he has written on the subject, even if he sometimes sounds a little hysterical. As time goes on, I distrust the opinions of Ritter and McGregor more and more, and am drawn toward your analyses, though I sincerely hope you are wrong. It's sickening to contemplate that Russia could lose to a fast-disintegrating Empire, nominally headed by a fool with full blown dementia, brought to power in a rigged election, but that's where we are.
Rolo, I agree that Ron Unz should link properly to your writings. But I first heard about you on his site, searched for you, found your Substack, and I am now a paying subscriber.
Also: are you surprised that hard facts are less popular than pleasant stories? Your call is to guide an elite, not the masses.
I also first read Rolo’s articles on Unz, searched him out and found his substack and think his work is one of a kind and much needed so I subscribed.
Ron could be more helpful by linking his substack but being published there is helpful, as our stories prove.
Good read. I predict you will not be languishing in obscurity for long.
If Ukraine succeeds in their spring offensive, then this will probably break the psychological mind block in many people's heads. They might be willing to reconsider what they thought they knew. So by summer I should be up there with the big boys.
Or it might not. They might double down.
The Qanon phenomenon comes to mind.
Alot of people already got waken up from their pro-Russian spell when the Russians abandoned Kharkov,Kuypansk and Kherson, which became de-facto Russian territory and 'would remain Russian forever' as the Kremlin said. Same as 'Ukraine would face armageddon' if Crimean bridge was attack retoric. Also the Azov prisoner swap and releasing foreign merc's while they kept talking crap on de-nazification and executing foreign merc's. It was all propaganda and bullshit. This Scott Ritter guy and the other US ex military commander are all over youtube now promoting themselves like they have some inside info about a big Russian offensive, well i studied history and alot of campaigns for ww2 as a hobby and let me tell you there won't be a big offensive because all the proffesional Russian troops and officers who have to be well trained in mobile operational warfare have either been killed,wounded,captured or their 6 month contract ran out. They used their most elite troops in the beginning of the invasion and what they have now is more and more conscripts as replacements. Which are good for manning a trench but not for combined mobile assault warfare. Hint: Thats why Ukraine is training 20.000 troops each months in the west. They get special Nato training in mobile manouvre warfare while they use territorial defensive (zelensky volkssturm) to man the trenches and buy time while they finish building their 2 armoured corps for the spring offensive. Russia doesnt have any offensive plan that i know of other then storming headlong into fortified lines and towns in the don bas. Which you cant exploit for breakthrough because the Ukrainians have defence in depth. I could go on but this idea of a Russian offensive is just pure fantasy and copium. This offensive they talk about already happend and it was called Vuhledar.
Seems like some 5D chess there bud
Truly outstanding article. I'm very crestfallen by the fact that even months into this "SMO" I kept being the edgy 5D Chess guy with my friends and family and that Russia was on the verge of an epic breakthrough cause "LULLZ Can't you see Ukraayne is running out of ammo and men!??!"
At this stage, I was at least mostly wrong, even if things turn around.
About a year and a half ago I was in a somewhat swanky resort in the Carribean (a real once in a lifetime event for me). It happened to be filled with Russians, I can only assume the elite kind. The amount of assholish and self-centered behavior I witnessed was shocking and revolting, and I am one who thoroughly enjoys reading and learning about traditional Russian culture.
If this group I saw is at all indicative of the kind of people who run Russia, then it's right to be highly skeptical of any real allegiance to ordinary Russian people (of whom I do like).
I would say an analogy would be if a Pro-US tourist went to the US with a romantic, hollywood based image of a white US, and then goes to literally any inner city of the US and sees an immigrant, homeless, globohomo filled dystopia.
Only caveat I would add to this spot on post is that Russia is White and you simply can't expect more from a White country.
Expecting a White country to be strong and defend its culture and sovereignty is like expecting a special Olympic athlete to be better than a normal Olympic athlete. It just isn't going to happen.
Recently the Kenyan Supreme Court ruled that anal sex and marriage were who they were as a country in spite of the constitution stating marriage is only between a man and a woman. Major uproar in the legislature and it sounds like they are going to curtail the ability of the Supreme Court to redo the constitution. Who knows if they will succeed but the only major White country I can imagine doing that is Russia.
So as mixed up as the Russian policies are and as traitorous as the elite is, Russia is pretty much as good as you can expect a White country to be.
So in light of that it just shows how gullible Whites are that the 5D crowd has a major audience.
Unz is mainly a contrarian, but an amateur at most topics. He got Covid and Ukraine very wrong and has never admitted it. To recall, he pushed lockdowns, zero Covid and vaccinations.
100k Russian dead is still not realistic. BBC confirmed 15k by name and they estimate 30k in total. Add 10k militias and 10k Wagner, you arrive at 50k after Bakhmut.
By the way, AIDS, polio and viruses aren't myths. AIDS origin is a valid question. You should probably stick to mil analysis and rather not comment on virology ;)
The BBC estimate of >43K fatalities on the Russian side, seems to include Wagner. They are Russians, after all. But it's all guesswork to some extent, aside from the exact count of 16071 names. How credible is it, that the Russians can't name half of their dead?
I agree about AIDS, polio and viruses.
yes, including Wagner, and the convicts are "expendable". But, you can only conquer one Bakhmut in this way, and Bakhmut isn't even an actual city.
DDT may also have caused neurological damage. But Polio infected kids, just once, and afterwards they were immune. That's not how a poisoning works.
" Strelkov or Wagner, for example, who are sounding the alarm"
This certainly got me thinking. I'm not so familiar with Strelkov maybe I have at some point I have seen the account, can't recall. However on Wagner here are my thoughts...consider for a moment the various Wagner and Prighozin posts of late, especially the ones attacking the MoD and various high command figures, the posts implying Wagner is holding the entire front and the ones implying or even overtly urging Russian regular forces to step up and do their bit...
what if it's psywar, trolling or kayfabe. Why? to create the impression of division, infighting even in the upper echelons, to create the impression or reinforce the U.S. hubris that Russian regular forces are a paper tiger. Because let's face it, who is Prighozin playing to? He's playing to the Pentagon and NATO planners, the EU, UK and US politicians and the western media. With the politicians and media especially we all know how much of a meal they will make out of the right kind of bone thrown in their direction.
My feeling is Prighozin is doing his part in a psy-op that seeks to encourage reckless decision making, more specifically to tip the balance and lure the Ukrainians into further reinforcing places like Bakhmut. Could it be that Wagner and Russian command knew without a doubt they could succeed in the Bakhmut encirclement a week or two ago. If there was already arguments on the Ukrainian side about reinforcing or withdrawing from Bakhmut, why not add some fuel to that by acting out a little kayfabe drama, provide some additional arguments to the Ukrainians pushing to reinforce?
In terms of the so called never arriving Russian offensive...I've read from some credible sources that the Russian regular forces are simultaneously absorbing manpower from the mobilization and are engaged in re-organization to beef up the infantry component of their BTG's into a new form of attack group. Why rush that process? It's still muddy in many places, why not complete the job and be ready for some asymmetrical offensive later in Spring?
I just cannot see this `Russia on the verge of defeat' narrative. I do see a lot of Ukrainian dead, Ukrainian draftees of extreme ages in the combat zone and Russian probing attacks to determine weak spots along the line. With the leaking of the Delta papers, Ukraines few operational victories don't seem so impressive, they were given a huge advantage. Russia's varied performance but generally ongoing & onward march against such a vast, advanced and highly networked eye in the sky seems somehow more impressive
So Russia is going to lose the war. Well, that is a prediction I will definitely remember. I remember one about Putin announcing in his recent speech a scaling down of the SMO to a “counter terrorism” something or other, but that didn’t happen. I guess it doesn’t matter. What does matter is that – although I feel that much of what the author of this blog has to say about the state of politics in Russia & the situation there more generally is mostly correct – the depiction of the SMO/war/not-a-war is highly misleading. Firstly, it is a war against NATO entire using Ukraine as proxy, the entire NATO bloc, the US first among them, has invested massively in this war, they have invested massively in ensuring a Russian defeat. But in addition, NATO “assets” are on the ground in a huge way as well, operatives, personnel, technology, surveillance, C4ISR, tracking everything the Russians do. But reading this blog, you get the impression Russia is fighting Ukraine that has some moral support from the west which seems enough to fire Ukrainian conscripts at Azovite gun point to still defeat Russia on the battlefield. This is what is depicted here. And it is disingenuous to say the least. I could use harsher language, I’m tempted, but I have nothing against Rolo & otherwise enjoy reading him, on all the other topics as well. Philosophy especially. But this is something else, this not-a-war. I have been convinced from the beginning that the principal concern on the Russian side, the Kremlin, Putin if you like, is escalation with NATO/US, & that is what is being managed most carefully. This is the reason Russia has injected a “light” force in Ukraine, avoided over commitment, & attempted to achieve a lot with a little & has succeeded, 17% of former Ukrainian territory which is crucial to Russia due its proximity to Crimea, if for no other reason. Much of the solid Russian ethnic territory in Ukraine has been secured, & the Ukrainians, with all the NATO support, have achieved nothing, a couple of Russian retreats at Kharkov & Kherson in light of NATO’s involvement is a huge failure for them in fact. An even bigger failure is the amount of equipment Russia has destroyed, which even the US admits, as does NATO’s gen sec, has caused the west a supply crisis. And with all those destroyed weapons went much of the best of the Ukrainian army, they may have a few million men they can draw on in theory but in reality, their main army has been destroyed, what is left is being cleaned up in Bakhmut & all over the front. Another aspect that gets overlooked is that entangled with the huge sums of money that the west has been allocating the Ukraine effort, will be bribery & infiltration money. I have heard first hand reliable reports of Russian commanders on the ground in Ukraine running what amount to sabotage operations against their own side, we’ve all heard of the now notorious Ugledar Muradov promotion debacle, who is he working for? And then Darya Dugina – how was that done? Bribery & infiltration. What I am saying is we have no way of knowing how much money the west has spend paying off Russian officials & military commanders to sabotage the war, but that they have been doing this you can be sure. The west, despite everything, remains rich, & has the capacity to bribe like no one else, it is one of the most lethal weapons in their arsenal. The entire front line is active, & Russia is making slow, but steady progress, the slow move is intentional, this is not 5D, it is simply allocating minimal resources to keep the main forces in the rear for when escalation really & truly begins. And it hasn’t begun yet. Russia did this in Syria, & had set backs, mistakes, Palmyra had to be liberated twice, there was a lot of wrangling around Aleppo before it was finally liberated. This is how war goes, it’s a messy business, & you can’t expect it to go your own way or perfectly all of the time, that is not 5D, it’s just the real world.
And then we discovered paragraphs.
There are a couple of armoured corps being prepared in the Ukrainian rear in view of - if not a proper Summer Offensive - at least regaining the initiative in the front-lines. AFU servicemen are in the West being trained to use NATO gadgets, just as they were before the offensives in September last year.
I don't think Muradov would risk accepting bribery from the enemy, given Putin and his clique murderous streak. They have killed more people than the Clintons. Muradov is probably quiet well-heeled already and not a junkie so why would he need to complicate his life further. And then I don't believe in voluntary, deliberate incompetence, bribed or not his reputation as a commander took a fall.
Rolo, with your DDT-Polio and Aids is a myth statement you've gone full out crackpot. It's impossible to take you seriously anymore.
Rolo's war, political, and cultural analyses are quite good, but he has always been a crackpot at heart, going on about how magic is real and you can astral project or whatever. I don't pay it too much mind, though. Lots of people that you wouldn't expect engage in magical thinking, all that really matters is whether they apply it to things that matter.
touching comment, really.
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DR. SUZANNE HUMPHRIES ON THE HISTORY OF COMPULSORY VACCINATION
https://www.bitchute.com/video/DE7iXEkVdC40/
The AIDS pathogen was created out of a brucellosis bacteria mutated with a visna virus; then the toxin was removed as a DNA particle called a mycoplasma. They used the same mycoplasma to develop disabling diseases like MS, Crohn’s colitis, Lyme disease etc. In a United States congressional document of a meeting held June 9, 1969, the Pentagon delivered a report to Congress about biological weapons (described on page 129 of the document). The Pentagon stated, “We are continuing to develop disabling weapons.” Dr. MacArthur, who was in charge of the research said, “We are developing a new lethal weapon, a synthetic biological agent that does not naturally exist, and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired.” Think about it. If you have a deficiency of acquired immunity, you have an acquired immunity deficiency. Plain as that. AIDS. In laboratories throughout the United States and a certain number in Canada, including the University of Alberta, the U.S. government provided the leadership for the development of the AIDS virus for the purpose of population control.
After they had it perfected, they sent medical teams from the Centers for Disease Control to Africa and other mid-eastern countries where they thought the population was becoming too large. They gave them all a free vaccination for smallpox. Five years after receiving this smallpox vaccination, 60% of them were suffering from AIDS. They tried to blame it on a monkey, which is nonsense. There was a report in the newspapers a while back about a professor at the University of Arkansas who claimed that while studying the tissues of a dead chimpanzee, she found the HIV virus. The chimpanzee that she had tested was born in the United States 23 years earlier. It had lived its entire life in a U.S. military laboratory where it was used as an experimental animal for the development of these diseases. When it died, its body was shipped to a storage place where it was deep-frozen and stored in case they wanted to analyze it later. Then they decided that they didn’t have enough space for it, so they said, “Anybody want this dead chimpanzee?” and this researcher from Arkansas said, “Yes. Send it down to the University of Arkansas. We are happy to get anything that we can get.” They shipped it down and she found the HIV virus in it. That virus was acquired by that chimpanzee in the laboratories where it was tested.
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It's the shrooms maaan, mankinds most dangerous and secretive foe. The fungus amongst us.
Try reading RFK Jr.'s book and you might have some doubts of your own. 'The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense)'
"The presence of DDT, BHC and other persistent pesticides correlate
with neurological disease epidemics during the 20th century..."
The first clinical descriptions of poliomyelitis date back to the early 19th century. From 1800 to 1950 there were sporadic outbreaks in European cities. Tetanus shares a similar history, being identified during the Napoleonian wars and even having statistics on injured soldiers since then. Neither polio, nor tetanus are related to DDT. The vaccines against them were a godsend.
DDT is a neurotoxin though. However conflating intoxication with DDT and poliomyelitis is just ridiculous since one predates the other by at least 100 years. This statement goes a long way to damage the credibility of Rolo.
"We’re told the science on polio is settled — but that may not be the case. There are scientists who believe polio-like symptoms could be caused by toxic substances, including pesticides."
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/polio-pesticides-ddt-science/
Many modern pesticides attack the nervous system. So it is not unexpected that those substances have an impact on the nervous system of humans. However there is a marked difference between finding that some pesticides induce polio-like symptoms to stating that poliomyelitis, a sickness ascribed to a virus for 100 years, is a myth and that some pesticides were causing it 100 years ago especially in some backward places that did not see any pesticide until the 1950s.
After the last three years most should've learned that scientific theories are never settled.
DDT was not the first pesticide. These epidemics all happen around the same time that Europe and America are ballooning in technological progress. In the 19th century they were treating people with mercury and who knows what else. Also they happened during summer, during planting season, not during winter which was normal. Of course that is when the fertilizer comes out.
Poliomyelitis was an urban disease. Pesticides and fertilisers affected the countryside in the first place.
Next do you believe that the doctors who sampled the cripple for infectious agents and converged on the virus all colluded in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish scientific papers published in many rival countries ? Seriously.
The epidemics of the 19th century occurred because of the crowding and poor hygiene in the cities. Plus healthcare was unaffordable for most. Plus really bad air. Read on the London Great Stinks.
That's a good clue is it not? Urban living has always been associated with unclean living. Pesticides would not be the only agent that could produce these results. As I mentioned, mercury was used by doctors in treatments, cities were filled with smog and people were working in dirty mine shafts. Already in ancient Rome the cities would have been depopulated if not for heavy immigration. In the 19th century with industrialization the amount of chemicals and the size of cities ballooned to unprecedented proportions.
The doctors did not collude but they did attach themselves to a certain line of thought. If you believe disease has to come from say germs, then that is all you are looking for. For years doctors refused to wash their hands when treating patients. The science was settled. Then some rogue doctor discovered that the nunneries did not have these epidemics. The women working there were not doctors, but they had common sense to wash their hands. When this doctor came out with this discovery, did his fellow doctors applaud him? No, they got him disbarred. That's doctors for you. As dumb and prone to peer pressure like the rest of us.
Fact is people mostly get sick when they are weak. That means the old, the infirm, the genetically compromised. If viruses and germs were causing disease, then being a doctor would be a high risk profession.
>> No, they got him disbarred
I am not surprised in the least. That doctor must have made some well-known university professors look like fools so they made him pay for the damage to their reputation and to the fees that were charging.
I am in broad agreement with you. The use of chemicals, especially dyes, increased enormously in the 19th century. I can even add that piping made of lead was another cause of neurological problems. And yes, since the germ theory of disease became accepted, doctors have looked for viruses and bacteria, not toxins. The mad-cow disease with the prion protein as agent was a small revolution for the field.
Nevertheless Rolo's statement that poliomyelitis is not caused by a virus but by DDT is patently false since DDT was barely used before the 1950s, whereas poliomyelitis has been crippling people for 200 years at least. This statement kills his credibility. If Ron Unz reads this, Rolo shall never be taken seriously.
dont forget the lead water pipes, there are still even lead piping in my country in Amsterdam. People back then were very malnourished aswell.
Rolo, when do you think the Russian surrender will come?
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> How he hasn’t been censored yet is beyond me. But there he remains, for now, hosting content from the entire spectrum of Western dissident thinking all in one place.
A mystery ...
> I get pretty much nothing out of it except outraged comments from people who are quite sure that I am a CIA/Mossad shill.
A sane mind comes to the opposite conclusion, Unz is a placed gate keeper.
I was banned for pointing out at the very beginning of the plandemic, that it is all a scientific fraud.
He promoted back then the "lab leak" already.
If you ask me, he just went with the flow to gain some credibility and to contrast to his tribal fellows. Certain topics cannot be enforced any longer, the truth has spread, and maintaining narrative becomes a farce.
The "covid" is the holyhoax 2.0, , same perpetrators of the psyop, same patterns, same mechanisms deployed to silence "deniers.
Just no prison yet for telling the truth, that the emperor has no clothes.
What you wrote is much too possible, some articles at unz review are top notch though. We'll enjoy it while it lasts.
An excellent article that exposes the betrayal of Russian leaders to daylight.
The Russian Masonic leaders are prolonging the war in order to bring forth the rigged Third World War so longed for by the satanic bankers led by the Rothschilds through which they think in their wild delusion that they will be able to impose finally Satanism in the whole world.
Both Ukraine and Russia are in the hands of the Khazarian mafia of which the Chabad Lubavitch is the most influential organization.
The Chabad controls Putin and Zelensky, both o them are their puppets.
Putin, Xi Jinping and Biden are part of the same clique and share the same "program"
Do they really want us to believe that Xi Jinping will declare war on Biden, his greatest business partner in the West who has given him all kinds of state secrets and that would have already been executed by high treason if in the United States did not reign the more authentic and masonic chaos?
It is not strange that it is in St. Petersburg, the center of liberalism in Russia, where the fair has been held that is an exact copy of the globalist plans for a great restart that should rather be called a great apocalyptic final.
It must be very clear that liberalism is not a political doctrine, it is a moderate version of a religion: that of the gnosis filtered by the Jewish Kabbalah , the only thing that liberals have in common is their opposition to Christian creed summarized in the Nicene creed. You will try to find in vain, a political program that all liberals share, each one of them supported the measures that please them in each historical moment, measures often opposed and irreconcilable. The only thing that defines them is their aversion to Christianity, full stop.
Liberals are Gnostics only that most o them do not know it, I won't bother you defining their cabalistic creed although it is urgent to do so that the liberals find out once for all what they believe in, but if I had to summarize said cult in a phrase or an axiom it would be precisely this: gnosis replaced the Worship of the logos or the absolute divine reason for the cult of the finite and fallible human reason frequently represented as a goddess.
Liberalism arose after the defeat of the Jacobins during the French Revolution as a supposedly moderate faction whose only intend was to displace Christians from power without resorting to excessive violence and without frightening the masses.
Liberals could be considered moderate Gnostics by the simple fact that they do not want to exterminate Christians, just separate them from public life and decisive positions, to silence them, to prevent them from preaching or make public manifestation of their beliefs, to confine them in a kind of ghetto and reduce the Christian religion to the domestic sphere. Radical Gnostics, that is, communists, want to exterminate them or at least "re -educate them" by force. They cannot tolerate the existence of Christianity, nor of theism even if only in the private sphere. Liberals are considered tolerant by the mere fact of not promoting the murder of Christians. But they do not tolerate thay they preach, only they can preach their gnostic creed in parliaments or public forums. In any case, moderate liberalism or gnosis was always a stratagem of the Satanists aimed at eradicating Christianity gradually, and resorted to it after the defeat of the Jacobins simply because they did not have enough power to exterminate Christians or to completely silence them. It should be remembered that for the gnosis the god of the Old Testament is a malevolent divinity from which the devil liberates us. This aberrant belief, often unconscious, is at the base of communism and also anarchism and that is why their followers exalt Satan frequently.
Everything seems to indicate that after the dissolution of the Soviet Union the Russian authorities went from being radical Gnostics to moderate Gnostics, the Orthodox patriarch is therefore not anything other than a decorative figure.
Their real homeland is not Russia, but the City of London, an independent and masonic state embedded in the middle of the capital of the UK and the financial center where the black money of all the mafias of the world is laundered.
Christian power centers serve the global elite, they believe in human convergence too. The problem with universalism... The globalist left despise christians because they view them as being old-fashioned jews who need to be updated for the noahide global convergence.
''It should be remembered that for the gnosis the god of the Old Testament is a malevolent divinity from which the devil liberates us.''
gnosts view the jew god as the demiurge
I like to call Liberalism "Christianity without God".
Unz - the site and the man - are a hard call. I think Chomsky may be the model: deep-controlled life actor. Unz is a big supporter of the mRNA injections - absolutely denies any wide-scale deaths or injuries have been caused by the injections. He (I think) also refers to those questioning the Sandy Hook event as "crackpots" - critical litmus test there ; like Sept 11, a clear delineation of the limited hang out boundaries. One of his chief writers, Mike Whitney, has done a long series of 5D-like Ukr war pieces - "Putin's Winter Offensive" - gives the flavor - "will sweep the field" and other "big arrow" sort of scenarios - "as soon as the ground freezes" we were assured last Dec. Now, he has gone on to other assignments; Whitney also had some early and strong anti-mRNA pieces then dropped it and was re-assigned to the 5D beat. So goes Unz. Dip in and out very selectively is my approach.
As far as unz review writers go, Jung-Freud is great if you have patience for verbosity.
Something from Larry Romanoff is appreciable, as his post on the richest man in the world (like, 24k words), but clearly paid by the Chinese.
Anglin is funny and usually a quick read to get up to date with current events, but I think paid by the Chinese too
Unz himself is quite rigorous in his many investigations over conspiracy theories