I have recently chanced upon an interview by Alain Juillet, former head of intelligence at the DGSE, the French equivalent of the CIA or MI5. His analysis of the war in Ukraine is quite similar to that of Rurik. In particular he views the initial attack on Kiev as an attempt to expel Zelenski and the Americans in order to replace them with his own team. He stated that the deal negotiated in Istanbul consisted of recognising the annexation of Crimea by Russia, the reintegration of the Donbass in Ukraine, federal autonomy for most Russian-speaking regions, Russian recognised as state language. He stated that the deal was agreed and that both Russians and Ukrainians stopped combat operations then Western pressure pushed Zelenski to renege. The Russians had no choice but to resume fighting so redeployed the army in the Donbass. They adopted the only strategy feasible for them, i.e. shelling on a grand scale. So they started to attack Ukrainian stronghold after stronghold. Bakhmut and Avdeeka are militarily significant captures but Russians have not been able to fully take the first line of fortifications in 2 years. A full second line remains, and a partial third line. The defeat around Izium was due to the incompetence of the local Russian commanders. In general both armies are plagued by incompetence and corruption. His opinion is that the Russian methods spare the lives of Russian soldiers.
So Rurik is a rare but not lonely voice of reality on the not-war. Pay heed to his analyses.
RS, you may be interested to note that via Neofeudal who has classified a lot of blogs, on the axes Metaphysical-Political and Pessimistic-Optimistic, you rank as about the most extreme Metaphysical-Pessimist, and your diagonal opposite is Simplicius. You may not like each other, but I read both and find both useful. Horses for courses!
"Believe me, I have tried this." Why tho Americans are fine the only thing really bad is the food. I've bounced around Europe for a while now and some of these "right wing" euro monkeys do have nasty things to say about Americans. The west has the same problems more or less blaming America is cringe we are just hosting the chosen rn so the government ruins everything. Nothing to do with the actual people.
"Morality applies to one’s dealings with colleagues, friends and neighbors, not to politics or spiritual matters or the economy or dieting or working out or traveling or going for a nice drunk drive around the town on a fine Sunday evening."
Agreed. You deal with them openly and honestly. You don't lie to them, steal from them, kill them (with a few exceptions), or have an affair with their wife. You try not to covet what they have because that might make you commit the afore mentioned behaviors against them. Instead, go out and get your own equivalent. You don't try to coerce them into being like you. You don't interfere in their life unless they interfere in yours. If they do interfere, you can defend yourself against their aggressions in a manner that seems good to you, including going on an aggressive offense. We should live and let live, but defend ourselves or even go on offense should the situation require it.
I would argue that a similar approach between nations should be followed. The ordinary "morality" rules can be suspended in time of war, of course. I would also argue that the above description is what "Christian morality" should be. Unfortunately, it has been hijacked and perverted by the priests, spooks and oligarchs. The masses are completely oblivious. The term "useful idiots" comes to mind.
If you want to get a huge bump in readership, then you should interview Whitney Webb of unlimitedhangout.com. Well actually, she should interview you too. She definitely understands how the world works and brilliantly explains it in interviews, articles, and books.
Surely it's obvious that the minute one cannot question another human being... whether that "being" is a peer, friend, foe or revered/reviled "authority"... something "immoral" is cooking. Those too timid or callow to openly probe the intentions of so-called leaders have no business taking on the gnarly conundrum of morality. They are children.
TPTB are using 'morality' to stimulate hatred and war between east and west. Notice not only the hysterical western media's demonizing of Russia, but the corresponding increasing Russian contempt for westerners, as for instance expressed by Medvedev and Martyanov and Orlov. This is intended to give Yahweh another feast of delicious goyim blood before very long.
This of course is insisted upon by the yids who wear our skins, dominate all our institutions, re-define who 'we' are and can be, tell us what 'our' values and interests and morals must be, and like the yid bankster Macron, insist that 'we' must commit suicide, and all the faster by attacking Russia!
“Identity” as a first principle is thin soup. What exactly is “Slavic” or “American” identity? Rurik offers zero definition, bc this is really an adolescent blood & soil fantasy, an hallucination.
Is “Americanist” identity Trump and MAGA? Or worship of the Founders and a constitution long ago replaced by spook cabals and a permanent bureaucracy? What is “Slavicism?” Folk holidays and borscht?
Rurik is a pretend intellectual, a faker. He is wholly unoriginal, a mere contrarian with a nasty attitude towards “peasants” and a large chip on his shoulder.
None of his predictions of imminent disaster or betrayal by Putin et al have come true. Yet he persists and has found 6k followers, he says.
His straw man argument that all “Zanon” pundits are fools, that only he, Rurik, sees the hard diamond truth are silly and pathetic. This is a sophomoric stance, best abandoned after teenage years.
If Russia wins decisively in Ukraine, Rurik will either double down or quietly disappear. Meanwhile, I’ve paid for one more month to give him grief, to which he will reply, if at all, with zero content and max hostility.
Oh well. Simplicius, Ritter, MacGregor, Big Serge, Mercouris, Mersheimer etc. are better, but ALL pundits are flawed and NO ONE knows what the fuck will happen even if trends are becoming more certain.
This is the level of non response I expected from you. Of course Slavs exist and deserve to thrive in the Slavlands. Slavic culture is ancient and beautiful. As are many surrounding ethnos.
The problem is blood and soil ideologies and their apologists, especially sophomoric ideologues like yourself.
As an essentially American boy, with an American accent, probably a full on American upbringing, your claim of Slav identity is a close parallel to that of Ukrainian nationalist “identity .”
In neoNAZI Western Ukraine, fucked over, ethnically confused peoples absorbed into this empire and that nation, constantly invaded, oppressed, whip sawed this way and that, finally found a savior, Bandera.
With a charismatic leader, they invented from whole cloth an “identity” as a master race, the original Rurik Slavs. Then they went marauding, murdering, genociding, and threatening me, my kids and everyone with WW3 and nuke holocaust. So, fuck the Galician Ukros. Long live Russia.
You have a similar identity disturbance at a personal level. You moved to Russia or Ukraine (according to what little history your readers can piece together) and got into shit w spooks as a wannabe Slav nationalist. This created intense anger against the “impure” Russian leaders who should be Slav champions.
But your identity crises has the same causes as the larger, group identity crises of the Ukros. And it has the same eventual outcome, rage, violence and mass murder.
In my hierarchy of evil tribalism, I’d place the murderous Zionists at the pinnacle, the murderous Ukros second, and assorted ethnic identitarians like you below them.
But as a PROMOTER of an ethnic identity brand, as the would be founder or at least a propagandist/apologist for Slavic identitarianism.. well.. fuck you, fuck war and triple fuck nuclear holocaust tribalism will lead us to.
PS stop hating, find a Slavic wife and produce some blond, blue-eyed children. Then if you love them, find peace by creating a safe future for them.
You are a moral coward. Oh well. The seven bucks is def worth it to stick a tiny black pill of self doubt into your fantasy and delusion ridden mind, and to push back against your fanboys with larger black pill lozenges. I do this because I respect your intellect, and find your metaphysical content interesting. You go down paths I haven't traveled. Some day.. when you get that Slavic wife pregnant.. I'll invite you to have a beer. Till then, a toast to contradictions.
Hi Rurik,
I have recently chanced upon an interview by Alain Juillet, former head of intelligence at the DGSE, the French equivalent of the CIA or MI5. His analysis of the war in Ukraine is quite similar to that of Rurik. In particular he views the initial attack on Kiev as an attempt to expel Zelenski and the Americans in order to replace them with his own team. He stated that the deal negotiated in Istanbul consisted of recognising the annexation of Crimea by Russia, the reintegration of the Donbass in Ukraine, federal autonomy for most Russian-speaking regions, Russian recognised as state language. He stated that the deal was agreed and that both Russians and Ukrainians stopped combat operations then Western pressure pushed Zelenski to renege. The Russians had no choice but to resume fighting so redeployed the army in the Donbass. They adopted the only strategy feasible for them, i.e. shelling on a grand scale. So they started to attack Ukrainian stronghold after stronghold. Bakhmut and Avdeeka are militarily significant captures but Russians have not been able to fully take the first line of fortifications in 2 years. A full second line remains, and a partial third line. The defeat around Izium was due to the incompetence of the local Russian commanders. In general both armies are plagued by incompetence and corruption. His opinion is that the Russian methods spare the lives of Russian soldiers.
So Rurik is a rare but not lonely voice of reality on the not-war. Pay heed to his analyses.
The video in French:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-xrBGoBXQo&list=PLgk0izNiKuJTjb4Ie-x-KC8CXkadPTo9d&index=65
Thank you for the link.
RS, you may be interested to note that via Neofeudal who has classified a lot of blogs, on the axes Metaphysical-Political and Pessimistic-Optimistic, you rank as about the most extreme Metaphysical-Pessimist, and your diagonal opposite is Simplicius. You may not like each other, but I read both and find both useful. Horses for courses!
https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/an-overview-of-dissident-right-substack
"Believe me, I have tried this." Why tho Americans are fine the only thing really bad is the food. I've bounced around Europe for a while now and some of these "right wing" euro monkeys do have nasty things to say about Americans. The west has the same problems more or less blaming America is cringe we are just hosting the chosen rn so the government ruins everything. Nothing to do with the actual people.
Great post. Again selling groupthink and brainwashing as "morality", but I won't mention it. Oh I mentioned it, sorry.
rurik... you are being... nice... to casual readers?
i've got no issues with your heretical views and analysis, but you didn't even abuse them once in any way???
the feds must have gotten to you sir
"Morality applies to one’s dealings with colleagues, friends and neighbors, not to politics or spiritual matters or the economy or dieting or working out or traveling or going for a nice drunk drive around the town on a fine Sunday evening."
Agreed. You deal with them openly and honestly. You don't lie to them, steal from them, kill them (with a few exceptions), or have an affair with their wife. You try not to covet what they have because that might make you commit the afore mentioned behaviors against them. Instead, go out and get your own equivalent. You don't try to coerce them into being like you. You don't interfere in their life unless they interfere in yours. If they do interfere, you can defend yourself against their aggressions in a manner that seems good to you, including going on an aggressive offense. We should live and let live, but defend ourselves or even go on offense should the situation require it.
I would argue that a similar approach between nations should be followed. The ordinary "morality" rules can be suspended in time of war, of course. I would also argue that the above description is what "Christian morality" should be. Unfortunately, it has been hijacked and perverted by the priests, spooks and oligarchs. The masses are completely oblivious. The term "useful idiots" comes to mind.
If you want to get a huge bump in readership, then you should interview Whitney Webb of unlimitedhangout.com. Well actually, she should interview you too. She definitely understands how the world works and brilliantly explains it in interviews, articles, and books.
Surely it's obvious that the minute one cannot question another human being... whether that "being" is a peer, friend, foe or revered/reviled "authority"... something "immoral" is cooking. Those too timid or callow to openly probe the intentions of so-called leaders have no business taking on the gnarly conundrum of morality. They are children.
TPTB are using 'morality' to stimulate hatred and war between east and west. Notice not only the hysterical western media's demonizing of Russia, but the corresponding increasing Russian contempt for westerners, as for instance expressed by Medvedev and Martyanov and Orlov. This is intended to give Yahweh another feast of delicious goyim blood before very long.
This of course is insisted upon by the yids who wear our skins, dominate all our institutions, re-define who 'we' are and can be, tell us what 'our' values and interests and morals must be, and like the yid bankster Macron, insist that 'we' must commit suicide, and all the faster by attacking Russia!
Stunning and brave. And absolutely fudgin' on-point.
Rurik,
>"The pinned Donbass war primer is a good place to start."
There is no pinned Donbass War Primer.
You need to link to the articles you reference, when you mention them.
“Identity” as a first principle is thin soup. What exactly is “Slavic” or “American” identity? Rurik offers zero definition, bc this is really an adolescent blood & soil fantasy, an hallucination.
Is “Americanist” identity Trump and MAGA? Or worship of the Founders and a constitution long ago replaced by spook cabals and a permanent bureaucracy? What is “Slavicism?” Folk holidays and borscht?
Rurik is a pretend intellectual, a faker. He is wholly unoriginal, a mere contrarian with a nasty attitude towards “peasants” and a large chip on his shoulder.
None of his predictions of imminent disaster or betrayal by Putin et al have come true. Yet he persists and has found 6k followers, he says.
His straw man argument that all “Zanon” pundits are fools, that only he, Rurik, sees the hard diamond truth are silly and pathetic. This is a sophomoric stance, best abandoned after teenage years.
If Russia wins decisively in Ukraine, Rurik will either double down or quietly disappear. Meanwhile, I’ve paid for one more month to give him grief, to which he will reply, if at all, with zero content and max hostility.
Oh well. Simplicius, Ritter, MacGregor, Big Serge, Mercouris, Mersheimer etc. are better, but ALL pundits are flawed and NO ONE knows what the fuck will happen even if trends are becoming more certain.
Just because you aren’t a Slav doesn’t mean that we don’t exist.
This is the level of non response I expected from you. Of course Slavs exist and deserve to thrive in the Slavlands. Slavic culture is ancient and beautiful. As are many surrounding ethnos.
The problem is blood and soil ideologies and their apologists, especially sophomoric ideologues like yourself.
As an essentially American boy, with an American accent, probably a full on American upbringing, your claim of Slav identity is a close parallel to that of Ukrainian nationalist “identity .”
In neoNAZI Western Ukraine, fucked over, ethnically confused peoples absorbed into this empire and that nation, constantly invaded, oppressed, whip sawed this way and that, finally found a savior, Bandera.
With a charismatic leader, they invented from whole cloth an “identity” as a master race, the original Rurik Slavs. Then they went marauding, murdering, genociding, and threatening me, my kids and everyone with WW3 and nuke holocaust. So, fuck the Galician Ukros. Long live Russia.
You have a similar identity disturbance at a personal level. You moved to Russia or Ukraine (according to what little history your readers can piece together) and got into shit w spooks as a wannabe Slav nationalist. This created intense anger against the “impure” Russian leaders who should be Slav champions.
But your identity crises has the same causes as the larger, group identity crises of the Ukros. And it has the same eventual outcome, rage, violence and mass murder.
In my hierarchy of evil tribalism, I’d place the murderous Zionists at the pinnacle, the murderous Ukros second, and assorted ethnic identitarians like you below them.
But as a PROMOTER of an ethnic identity brand, as the would be founder or at least a propagandist/apologist for Slavic identitarianism.. well.. fuck you, fuck war and triple fuck nuclear holocaust tribalism will lead us to.
PS stop hating, find a Slavic wife and produce some blond, blue-eyed children. Then if you love them, find peace by creating a safe future for them.
You contradict yourself and aren’t worth replying to seriously.
Hope the 7 bucks was worth it.
You are a moral coward. Oh well. The seven bucks is def worth it to stick a tiny black pill of self doubt into your fantasy and delusion ridden mind, and to push back against your fanboys with larger black pill lozenges. I do this because I respect your intellect, and find your metaphysical content interesting. You go down paths I haven't traveled. Some day.. when you get that Slavic wife pregnant.. I'll invite you to have a beer. Till then, a toast to contradictions.
Cowards don’t start truth telling blogs. Send me more money.
Nothing is right or wrong except thinking makes it so. Spearshaker.