Good Will Gesture! Putin Releases Western Spooks in Exchange For Petty Criminals as Duma Bans YouTube, Maybe Android and Apple Next in the Name of Morality Jesus Antifa Values!

You can only wish and dream that you were this moral!

In yet another gesture of high-minded goodwill, the Kremlin secretly released some high-profile Western spooks. We covered the last prisoner exchange more than a year ago:

This exchange is almost as interesting as the previous one.

First of all, as usual, Peskov lied about it. Here:

The Kremlin has denied any rumors about an upcoming prisoner exchange

❌The Kremlin has declined to comment on rumors about the release of The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich. The press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that he would not comment on the issue of a possible exchange of journalist Evan Gershkovich. He noted that the Kremlin does not intend to make any statements regarding this situation.

Peskov literally just lies about everything. That being the case, why do you even need a press secretary, at this point? I mean this for all countries, by the way. I mean, they just get up there and say their piece and literally no one believes a word out of their mouthes. We simply turn to our favorite political pundits to read the tea leaves as it were as soon as the officials stop speaking. No one understands or believes them.

At this point, why not just cut out the bullshit middleman?

In Russia, they don’t even allow those verbal sparring sessions about minutiae like they do in the US. So there is literally not even any entertainment value to the whole thing. End it already. Just be honest and say, “lol we’ll do what we like, what are you going to do about it, go— *cough* I mean guy.

But that’s not the news I wanted to cover today.

Obviously, the swap was real and it went ahead and it was a rather curious affair.

There are several stories here:

Firstly, what does it mean that the swaps took place now? Is it a prerequisite for preliminary negotiations? Or was it just blatant treachery by Moscow, releasing Washington’s made men on orders from their own handlers at Langley?

Secondly, was the swap fair and/or was it a good idea? Who ended up getting released and who didn’t? What does this tell us about Moscow’s priorities?

Let’s tackle the second line of inquiry first.

The nationalists think it was another stab in the back. But you’d expect them to say that, I suppose. Here:

A ratio of 8 to 16. Naturally, not in Russia's favor. This, by the way, is a typical illustration of how the negotiations with Ukraine will proceed. Exactly the same way. Russia, under the leadership of these great negotiators and wise politicians, will have to give up significantly more.

And so it is with them always.

It isn’t just a quantity problem, but a quality problem as well.

Actually, let’s do a thought experiment to see if the readers have been really imbibing the core ideas of this blog or not. I will just show you the pictures of two prisoners that were up for release to the Russian side. Which one do you think Moscow ended up ransoming out of captivity:

Ready?

OK, let’s see how you did:

Meanwhile, a small-time hacker-thief Roman Seleznev, who never served his country and was only engaged in personal enrichment (he was arrested in the Maldives, where he went on vacation with prostitutes), returns to Russia from the USA.

It is not surprising - his father has been sitting in the State Duma for 17 years and probably put all his resources into saving his son.

At the same time, Yan Petrovsky, who shed blood for Russia and defended the interests of his country for many years, predictably turned out to be of no use to anyone in the Kremlin - after all, his father is not a deputy or a minister.

The thief scamming Western pensioners is on the left and the former founder of Rusich, the nationalist battalion fighting in Donbass, is on the right.

But there is no way that you needed me to actually tell you that.

Physiognomy doesn’t lie.

Also, it is interesting to learn just how moral the members of the Russian Duma are, and how even more moral still their children are! We will return to this topic later in the article, so keep it in mind.

Now, to be fair, I don’t actually know the full story of what happened with Yan (the nationalist). His backstory is that he fled Russia after Moscow reneged on their agreement with Prigozhin and assassinated him along with the other top commanders. Yan was involved in Wagner and so he ran for it to Finland fearing the worst. There he was detained, but the Finns refused to extradite him to Kiev. I suppose he’s still a prisoner there?

Maybe it is better that he stay wherever he is now.

Remnants of Wagner’s exiled fighting force operating in Mali were eliminated last week. It seems that they were shot at by their own side. We still don’t know the full details though. Maybe Moscow reneged on their agreement to let Wagner go abroad and decided to help the enemy find and ambush them. It is pure speculation for now. But, keep in mind that the Kremlin has literally attacked and bombed Wagner in Donbass before several times, and helped the Pentagon bomb their fighters in Syria as well.

There is a precedent of perfidy is all I am saying.

But let’s continue with the prisoner swap story. Strelkov’s wife commented on the affair. Here:

Igor Strelkov-Girkin's wife commented on the prisoner exchange with Western countries:

"Against the backdrop of the release of Yashin, Kara-Murza (recognized as foreign agents) and others, I was once again convinced that it is much more profitable and safer to be a Russophobe and a bastard in the Russian Federation".

Unfortunately, I can't help but agree. (https://t.me/new_totalis/17862) All the news now is about the exchange of liberal prisoners. While the exchange of traitors to the Motherland is taking place, the patriot of his country and military officer Igor Strelkov remains in prison. And even in this situation, he continues to ask to go to the front to serve his Fatherland.

There was one good prisoner exchanged. Some sort of spook assassin working in Germany was returned. Here:

Vadim Krasikov. The most valuable of those who were returned. He really did liquidate the Chechen field commander in Germany and was sentenced to life imprisonment. I welcome the hero to the Motherland. May goodness be with you!

As for the first line of inquiry, about whether it means that the groundwork for negotiations is being laid down or not, well, I don’t think it is proof of anything one way or the other.

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Another bit of related news in this vein is the shutdown of YouTube in Russia.

Amusingly, I came to the same conclusion as Zharov about why the Kremlin refused to ban subversive tech platforms and not prop up their own Russian alternatives. I explained that YouTube/Google paid its bribes to the Kremlin on time, whereas smaller, alternative sites like Rumble are shut down because the FSB can’t make money off of shaking them down.

Simple as.

Now, does this mean that the Kremlin is scared of criticism over what they plan to do next? Or does it mean that the servers in Russia can’t handle YouTube anymore because of sanctions and the lack of available parts. Remember: China abides by Western sanctions on Russia and has even started clamping down and freezing Russian businessmen’s assets in recent weeks. Anyone who is telling you that China and Russia are allies is lying to you in the name of some Higher Truth (clicks, money). Also, I don’t know what the status of the pipelines are at the moment, but China cut the taps off a few months while demanding new absolutely cut-throat lower prices for the energy. And they’re definitely not happy about Moscow reaching out to North Korea and cutting a side deal with them by going around Beijing.

Anyway.

Some say that YouTube simply can’t be maintained in Russia. Here:

The great attack on the freedom of Telegram and YouTube is purely technical. In Russia, all the hardware is gradually failing, and it is very difficult to ensure the security of data transmission and the smooth operation of key IT services.

Rostelecom and the Russian Government were denied equipment and hardware supplies from China due to the risk of secondary sanctions. China refused Sber, VTB, Rostelecom and Texas Group.

And where is ours? There is none of ours. We lost it in the battle for a fair global division of products. Oil in exchange for servers - the world has never gone through such a program.

That is why ours are wriggling around now, pretending to be tightening the screws [on the population]. It is better to look scary than to look weak.

There is equipment worth $450 million in the port of Shenzhen and it is not being shipped to Russia.

UPDATE:

There is more information coming out now and so far YouTube denies it is a technical problem. Here:

Today, YouTube users from Russia collided with mass interruptions in the operation of the service, up to the stop of video flow. Previously, telecom operators warned of wear on Google equipment, but the company denied this version, saying that failures in Russia « are not the result of any technical problems » on their part.

The data of the service « TAG1> fault detector indicate that, starting from midnight on August 1, the Russians began to actively complain about problems in the work of YouTube. By evening, the « Failure.rf » service had accumulated 9.5 thousand complaints about the platform. The technical data of the video player indicate that the connection speed with video hosting is about 322 Kbit / s, and the buffering value remained zero. In July, according to measurements under similar conditions, the player buffered at least 50 seconds of video quality 1080p. The connection speed with the service gradually decreased: on July 25 it was equal to 8.5 Mbps, and on July 30 only 918 Kbps.

Most Russian telecom operators declined to comment on this issue. In « Rostelecom » and « Megafon » did not provide information regarding the causes of problems with YouTube in Russia, but noted that the operator equipment is malfunctioning. In the middle of last month, « Rostelecom » talked about the possible deterioration of YouTube due to the wear of Google Global Cache servers installed in the country.

At the same time, Google denies any involvement in the problems of YouTube in Russia. « We know reports that some people cannot access YouTube in Russia. This is not the result of any technical problems or actions on our part », — said in a Google message.

Earlier, the head of the Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinstein, announced the possible blocking of YouTube in the Russian Federation as intentional actions by the authorities against « foreign resource administrations », which violates the laws in force in the country. According to experts, a technical analysis of traffic problems may indicate that this plan has begun to be implemented.

Problems with downloading video to YouTube can be caused by the operation of technical means of countering threats (TSPU), which are installed on networks of telecom operators according to the law « on the sovereign roll ». Slowing is based on an analysis of Server Name Indication (SNI) information that is transmitted to the server. When installing a secure connection to the server, browsers and applications use SNI to clarify data regarding which server they want to access. It is noted that the speed of access to the YouTube server remains, as a month ago, if you change the SNI in the headers. There should have been no problems of this nature if the cause of the speed reduction was wear on Google equipment. In addition, the deceleration is not manifested in all Internet providers, which is also characteristic of blockages carried out using TSPU.

Finally, there is an interesting bit of news coming out the Russian Duma.

They apparently want to ban Apple and Android in Russia too.

Here:

In an exclusive conversation with the editors of RuNews24.ru, State Duma deputy Aleksey Nikolaevich Didenko urged not to « cling » to « YouTube », but to think ahead.

« Soon Google will be blocked, and with it Google Android. IOS will also be blocked, and this will not happen on our initiative. Civil servants and officials have long been prohibited from using these platforms, especially those who have access to confidential information. This was the first hint that you need to switch to other platforms. We recommend that business representatives and scientists switch to other platforms », — said the parliamentarian.

Alexey Nikolaevich noted that no « tragedy » did not happen when the Russians lost access to « Netflix ».

« Someone, of course, expressed his dissatisfaction, poked his tongue, but over time everyone calmed down. Restrictions were imposed on access to films, series and cartoons. Although it was originally said that restrictions would not affect children and would only be imposed on dual-use goods and politicized content. Do not be mistaken. Just now we are faced with restrictions, and we will also be forced to introduce them. It is obvious. You don’t need to think that someone will say something against and others will be guided by this », — the speaker explained.
Alexey Didenko emphasized that the issue of the survival of our systems and our sovereignty — is a matter of existence.

I actually wrote that Russia would have to ban all these platforms if they were serious about breaking from the West. You get the same sentiment in my interviews with Tsiganov, which you should read if you haven’t yet, newbies. An excerpt:

But time will tell if there are actually any alternatives ready to be implemented.

If not, the Russian government is essentially forcibly sending its citizens into the stone age in terms of tech. I’m not pro-technology in general, but I do believe that the internet has almost done enough good to offset the bad. I love the internet and I believe that I use it for its proper purpose: to research occultism and conspiracy theories.

The masses, however, simply use it for porn. They’re either uploading it (women) or consuming it (men). I don’t think the Duma is banning all these sites because they care about the welfare of the people, but it might have some unintended positive effects. I mean, just the other day a Senator was arrested for stealing literally hundreds of millions of roubles and parking it all in London. Here:

House in the UK, seven huge plots, apartments, cars and a "Harley" — all this was owned detained Senator Dmitry Savelyev and his family.

According to SHOT, a house of about 500 squares in the UK, seven plots with a total area of 15.6 hectares, a huge house with an area of more than 1.3 thousand square meters were recorded on a member of the Council of People's Federation and its relatives. m, apartments (on him and his wife Olga, 247 and 258 squares each, one of them in a house in Kursovy Lane in the Prechistenki area), garages, a whole set of non-residential premises, a bathhouse, gateway and guest house. In the Senator's fleet, the Range Rover SUV and Harley Davidson and — unexpectedly — VAZ-2105 motorcycle.

The senator's family also often went to other countries. His wife Olga calls herself a travel blogger, she was in 60 countries, and children, according to her, study in three different countries of the world. The family often threw magnificent holidays, on which it spent tens of millions of rubles. So, in 2019, Svetlana Loboda, Ivan Dorn and Dima Bilan performed at the birthday of Savelyev’s wife. About 10 million rubles were spent on all this.

The moral titans of the Duma are probably just thinking about the peasants and how to improve their lives with these new laws, eh? Sarcasm aside, maybe there is a silver lining to Russians being deprived of most social media. Kind of like how the Iron Curtain kept the East isolated from degenerate CIA-created Western culture for half a century.

Chance are though that this is simply a systems collapse occurring in Russia along the lines of those old Russian planes falling out the sky with increasing frequency because of lack of parts and embezzlement from Putin’s buddies.

It sure is a shame that Putin let his buddies embezzle all the money allocated for “import-substitution.”

Truly, who could have known that it would come back to bite Russia in the butt like this? And now some questions for the philosophers:

Was it another oopsie-daisy?

Was it a clever 5D move to appear corrupt and retarded and thereby to trick the globalists into continuing the war and getting their shadow legions hidden in the flat earth destroyed by Mr. Kinzhal?

Or was it another great moral victory for Putin that us immoral peasants simply cannot understand? He has built 6 million churches in Russia in the last 5 years after all. Would an immoral man do that? Check and mate, Satanist.

Let me know what you think the comments section below!

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But actually, there is no point in constantly speculating about intentions and potentialities. These things are nothing more than spooks in our minds that do not actually exist in our material reality. At the end of the day, all we can analyze is results. All of Putin and his buddies’ actions have the same results: undermining Russia. Maybe it was an accident. Maybe it was an act of moral generosity to the West. Maybe Putin is a white-hat good guy doing all he can, but all the people he surrounded himself with are all holding him back.

Regardless, the results of mistakes and moral triumphs and deliberate enemy sabotage are the same.

And that is the only thing that matters at the end of the day.

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Oh, also, I wanted to bring my readers’ attention to Bastyon, which they should check out. It is a social media site that combines videos, messaging, cryptocurrency and both long and short form media content and it only requires a username from you, nothing else. There doesn’t even appear to be any censorship there, so redpills could be dumped there en masse. Sadly, because it is actually a decent site, it is a ghost town mostly. But it appears to take encryption seriously and the team hasn’t handed over the backdoor keys to everything to either the FSB or MI6 like Telegram’s founder Durov did.

I have high hopes for Bastyon’s development.

But very little hopes for its adoption though.

I mean, Telegram has been around for a long time now but it was only really because of the war that we got something resembling mass adoption even within Eastern Europe. Older folks still doggedly refuse to read Telegram though. They’re on Facebook or Odnoklassniki or Whatsapp or Viber which are all terrible. The Israelis used Whatsapp to assassinate the Hamas leader in Iran (allegedly) for crying out loud.

Me, I was an early adopter of Telegram because of how good it was for finding interesting news and information. But despite me talking about how I use it for 90% of my articles, about 99% of my readers refuse to check it out on their own, which is good for me, I guess! I get to keep my job.

But the point here is that laziness is a double-edged sword and people are so lazy, it is actually incredible.

If I got shut down by Stripe tomorrow, I think maybe 10 people, tops, would be willing to send me crypto to keep me going. If I had to switch platforms to Bastyon, maybe 10% would follow me over there as well. Basically, if you’re not allowed on YouTube, you simply do not exist in the minds of 98% of the population. People know that there is intense censorship going on, but it would literally be too inconvenient to type out the url of another video website. That’s how unserious people are.

And you want to talk about “resisting” the global elites?

Give me a fucking break.

Not with these cadres.

I get emails from people promising to send me money, but complaining that they don’t have time because they are so wealthy and have so many businesses or that they’re going to do it next month or something. Absolutely bizarre behavior. Keep that carrot-dangling to yourself. Shameful.

Point being: when given the choice between genuine samizdat and non-propaganda, the masses prefer the info-swill, clearly. Like, I’ve been asking for financial support for the last three months. Where is it? When will it come? Why do you casuals suck so much? Genuinely. It boggles the mind. It isn’t just me and my writing, mind you. I’ve talked to like 30 genuinely alternative voices at this point, with powerful ideas and a commitment to spreading truth (see the podcast). Most of them get even less support than I do. Some of them are jealous of me!

So, why do we even bother?

It feels like we are dealing with two divergent species within our own race. I feel the divide between me and the average person widening more and more with each day. The compliers, the fist-pumpers, the pearl-clutchers … you get the thing.

Anyway.

Don’t mind me though, I just needed to vent today. I’ll be fine, I just need a break and a stiff drink. If you want to help somebody, maybe help Iurie Rosca? He’s been sentenced to 6 years in prison for … well … I don’t actually understand the formal charge, but the real one is that he is a nuisance to powerful people. Hopefully we can set up some support fund for the man. Go on his channel and he should have the info.

Being a genuine dissident is not a fun career path, folks.

You know, maybe the masses resent anybody that they perceive as having a backbone or principles because they are reminded of their own spinelessness by the very fact that brave people exist? Perhaps you’ve noticed this in your own lives? You try to think slightly larger than your own immediate self-gain and immediately they turn on you with daggers in their forced smiles.

“Oh you think you’re better than us?”

And once they’ve sold out to the system enough times, they want others to do the same so that they don’t feel so wretched in comparison. Many people I’ve worked with over the years took the 30 pieces. Especially in recent weeks. I can’t pretend to respect them anymore.

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Thank you, by the way, to the Stalkers who continue to support me and my work.

I’ve noticed that it is almost always the people with the least to give who are the most supportive and who send messages of appreciation my way. If you can’t afford to pay for a sub, but would like one anyway, feel free to message me and I’ll send it your way. All I ask is that you share the articles in exchange. But you guys do that anyway. I do notice that. Thanks again.