Arestovich himself would probably give you a laughing emoji for that one.
The occasional tirades against the hapless peasantry of Ukraine that he drops are honestly harsher than anything you would get from Soloviev, Lavrov, Simonyan, etc etc. Than you have the frankly hilarious fact that he flatly refuses to speak Ukrainian in a country where speaking Russian might as well be illegal. I've read some speculations that Arestovich may be positioning himself to be a leader that is acceptable to Moscow in a post war Ukrainian rump state but I feel like Arestovichs disdain for the Ukrainian identity would actually make him unacceptable to Moscow if anything and he is smart enough to know that.
As for weather any of Arestovichs former nazibolish/Duginist convictions were true I think they were but no longer are. I already posted this quote from him from 2009 once before but since it's relevant to the conversation I'll throw it up again:
My guess is he once, maybe around 20 years ago identified with the Russian world, perhaps when he was Ukrainian GRU he didn't even see himself as anti Russian. Being a genuinely smart enough guy who saw the world for what it was as evidenced by the above quote he knew the RF was a house of cards. Following that awakening the only natural intellectual route open to him was the path of disillusioned nihilism and Arestovich definitely raidiates disillusioned nihilism.
He has contempt for the Ukrainian hapless peasantry that stubbornly insist on being lied to and led to the slaughter, he has total contempt for Moscow as well but it's expressed much more subtly. That is he knows damn well what he says about the Ukrainian authorities applies to the people running Russia as well and this is proven by the fact that Russian patriots express a low key admirations for Arestovich that they never express for the Kremlin. The critiques that Arestovich makes of Ukrainians and Kiev are critiques that would never come from Kremlinites. Ever. And it needs to be said again, Arestovich knows that, he knows what he is saying would never be acceptable to Moscow and would never make him any friends amongst the feudal oligarchy. He doesn't care what they think anymore than what Ukrainian peasants think. Personally I would be very interested to hear Arestovich speaking frankly about the Russian authorities one of these days. On his telegram he has posted tons of mundane and banal nonsense about how Putin personally is trying to impose his will on Ukraine via murdering children but this strikes as analogous to Ivan Karazamov publishing pro Orthodox church tracts that he himself didn't even remotely believe in but the clergy quite liked. His brother Aloysha who was a genuine believer didn't hold it against him at all and further more Aloysha and Ivan loved each other as brothers all the same.
Imo the ability to churn out nonsense you don't even believe in at all one day than dropping massive truth bombs with a smirk on your face about how peasants prefer pretty lies while being led to massacre the next is a symptom of complete disillusioned nihilism. Arestovich is a modern Dostoevsky character.
Forgive me for being totally off topic here but this post is so outrageous and illustrative of the absolute state of the RF and it's attitude towards Patriots that I feel compelled to share it here. TLDR is a volunteer from I presume part of the liberated territories where referendums were held to join Russia was maimed in battle. His passport was lost and now he is fucking forbidden from going to Russia proper for medical care. Furthermore he is receiving no benefits for his wounds. The dude is confined to a wheelchair and minus an arm and the beuracrats are happily pissing on him.
Meanwhile Russia is importing every last Azeri, Kazakh, Tajik etc etc plus their families who want to colonize the country. Plus Ukrainian DRGs, assassin's and saboteurs have no problem getting into Russia.
Feels really bad. But yeah shame on Strelkov for saying that the authorities are treating vets like shit.
It's a big club. The elites in US and Russia follow the same script, the conflict seems to be just one big game to them. Neither side commits and neither side makes any gains so the conflict goes on forever (or at least for many many years). Tax dollars get funnelled to various dark channels and they advacne their various agendas.
The policy employed by Washington from the beginning of the war has been supporting Ukraine โfor as long as it takes.โ Whether that was ever a good idea or bad, Iโll leave to debate another time. What is important here is that the policy did not produce an outcome beneficial to either Kyiv or Washington and now must evolve to acknowledge new realities.
No one can claim the United States didnโt give Ukraine every chance to find out if it could succeed on the battlefield, as we provided literally thousands of armored vehicles, millions of shells, missiles, and bombs, and training and intelligence support โ along with scores of billions in other aid. But that help did not produce a Ukrainian victory and it is now time to set new policies in light of current realities. The last part of this series will explore what Washington can do now that can mitigate the failures and produce the best outcome possible for the United States and Ukraine.
Daniel L. Davis is a Senior Fellow for Defense Priorities and a former Lt. Col. in the U.S. Army who deployed into combat zones four times. He is the author of โThe Eleventh Hour in 2020 America.โ Davis is also a 19FortyFive Contributing Editor.
Now what could Davis be hinting at? NATO boots on the ground perchance?
No doubt, Washington is chronically sick about keeping the entire world at war, and for the same reasons Israel (Mossad) is always so โinvolvedโ beyond itโs dumpy, sprawling boarders in other countyโs affairsโparticularly in the not-war between Russia & Ukraine, and all the turmoil within Iran, but prettily much all of the territories between Syriaโฆall the way to Afghanistanโwhere Washington, U.S. just recently abandoned/dumped off over 10 billion in military assets into the hands of at least three CIA/Mossad-created terrorist groups, again.
At this point, Iโve totally lost count of all the built up and evolving American military bases & spy-ops facilities scattered throughout the world over the past ten years, costing how much?? Meanwhile, the โleft and rightโ fight-club constituencies of America are set up by AIPAC psyops professionals (who will not-so-cleverly blame Russian interference, again, and the media will parrot that narrative, again) as America begins another money-driven politically-divided campaign battle over how fast my country must go bankrupt-to-death, again. Itโs as if the entire world is being โforced to repeatโ the early 1900โs; a replay of WWI & WWII; a real self-fulfilling end-of-times dystopian 1984โHunger Games movie combo being evolved.
No doubt, the territory of Washington, United States of English Royalty is doing everything in itโs power to foment another world war, I believe to kill off both Russia and the USA this time, for good, and the sheep cannot, do not or will not refuse to participate, it seems. No conscientious objects (I mean objectors), yet, just real false-pride waring believers.
๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ด๐ฆ๐ชโ๐ด ๐ง๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ถ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ณ๐จ๐ช๐ข ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง, ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ข ๐๐ฌ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ, ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ
Arestovich himself would probably give you a laughing emoji for that one.
The occasional tirades against the hapless peasantry of Ukraine that he drops are honestly harsher than anything you would get from Soloviev, Lavrov, Simonyan, etc etc. Than you have the frankly hilarious fact that he flatly refuses to speak Ukrainian in a country where speaking Russian might as well be illegal. I've read some speculations that Arestovich may be positioning himself to be a leader that is acceptable to Moscow in a post war Ukrainian rump state but I feel like Arestovichs disdain for the Ukrainian identity would actually make him unacceptable to Moscow if anything and he is smart enough to know that.
As for weather any of Arestovichs former nazibolish/Duginist convictions were true I think they were but no longer are. I already posted this quote from him from 2009 once before but since it's relevant to the conversation I'll throw it up again:
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฐ-๐๐ข๐น๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข - ๐ข๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ค๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ป๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ.
๐๐ง ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ, ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ, ๐๐ฌ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ข๐ณ๐บ.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐๐ฌ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ-๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ-๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข ๐ช๐ต๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง.
๐๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ง๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฐ-๐๐ข๐น๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฃ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด."
My guess is he once, maybe around 20 years ago identified with the Russian world, perhaps when he was Ukrainian GRU he didn't even see himself as anti Russian. Being a genuinely smart enough guy who saw the world for what it was as evidenced by the above quote he knew the RF was a house of cards. Following that awakening the only natural intellectual route open to him was the path of disillusioned nihilism and Arestovich definitely raidiates disillusioned nihilism.
He has contempt for the Ukrainian hapless peasantry that stubbornly insist on being lied to and led to the slaughter, he has total contempt for Moscow as well but it's expressed much more subtly. That is he knows damn well what he says about the Ukrainian authorities applies to the people running Russia as well and this is proven by the fact that Russian patriots express a low key admirations for Arestovich that they never express for the Kremlin. The critiques that Arestovich makes of Ukrainians and Kiev are critiques that would never come from Kremlinites. Ever. And it needs to be said again, Arestovich knows that, he knows what he is saying would never be acceptable to Moscow and would never make him any friends amongst the feudal oligarchy. He doesn't care what they think anymore than what Ukrainian peasants think. Personally I would be very interested to hear Arestovich speaking frankly about the Russian authorities one of these days. On his telegram he has posted tons of mundane and banal nonsense about how Putin personally is trying to impose his will on Ukraine via murdering children but this strikes as analogous to Ivan Karazamov publishing pro Orthodox church tracts that he himself didn't even remotely believe in but the clergy quite liked. His brother Aloysha who was a genuine believer didn't hold it against him at all and further more Aloysha and Ivan loved each other as brothers all the same.
Imo the ability to churn out nonsense you don't even believe in at all one day than dropping massive truth bombs with a smirk on your face about how peasants prefer pretty lies while being led to massacre the next is a symptom of complete disillusioned nihilism. Arestovich is a modern Dostoevsky character.
I added the quote, thanks for reminding me of it.
"Tell the truth, but have one foot in the stirrup." -- Turkish proverb.
Forgive me for being totally off topic here but this post is so outrageous and illustrative of the absolute state of the RF and it's attitude towards Patriots that I feel compelled to share it here. TLDR is a volunteer from I presume part of the liberated territories where referendums were held to join Russia was maimed in battle. His passport was lost and now he is fucking forbidden from going to Russia proper for medical care. Furthermore he is receiving no benefits for his wounds. The dude is confined to a wheelchair and minus an arm and the beuracrats are happily pissing on him.
https://t.me/tupi4okDezignera/2250
Meanwhile Russia is importing every last Azeri, Kazakh, Tajik etc etc plus their families who want to colonize the country. Plus Ukrainian DRGs, assassin's and saboteurs have no problem getting into Russia.
Feels really bad. But yeah shame on Strelkov for saying that the authorities are treating vets like shit.
It's a big club. The elites in US and Russia follow the same script, the conflict seems to be just one big game to them. Neither side commits and neither side makes any gains so the conflict goes on forever (or at least for many many years). Tax dollars get funnelled to various dark channels and they advacne their various agendas.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57742.htm
The policy employed by Washington from the beginning of the war has been supporting Ukraine โfor as long as it takes.โ Whether that was ever a good idea or bad, Iโll leave to debate another time. What is important here is that the policy did not produce an outcome beneficial to either Kyiv or Washington and now must evolve to acknowledge new realities.
No one can claim the United States didnโt give Ukraine every chance to find out if it could succeed on the battlefield, as we provided literally thousands of armored vehicles, millions of shells, missiles, and bombs, and training and intelligence support โ along with scores of billions in other aid. But that help did not produce a Ukrainian victory and it is now time to set new policies in light of current realities. The last part of this series will explore what Washington can do now that can mitigate the failures and produce the best outcome possible for the United States and Ukraine.
Daniel L. Davis is a Senior Fellow for Defense Priorities and a former Lt. Col. in the U.S. Army who deployed into combat zones four times. He is the author of โThe Eleventh Hour in 2020 America.โ Davis is also a 19FortyFive Contributing Editor.
Now what could Davis be hinting at? NATO boots on the ground perchance?
https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1693006786914132460
MAKS 23 ๐๐บ๐ฆ
@Maks_NAFO_FELLA
๐บ๐ฆโ๏ธ "The F-16 has already been in Ukraine and landed on our airfields", - Air Force Commander Oleshchuk.
"Now we are preparing the runways. By the time Ukraine acquires the F-16, we will already be able to deploy them"
9:07 AM ยท Aug 20, 2023
ยท
Golly - what could possibly go wrong?
No doubt, Washington is chronically sick about keeping the entire world at war, and for the same reasons Israel (Mossad) is always so โinvolvedโ beyond itโs dumpy, sprawling boarders in other countyโs affairsโparticularly in the not-war between Russia & Ukraine, and all the turmoil within Iran, but prettily much all of the territories between Syriaโฆall the way to Afghanistanโwhere Washington, U.S. just recently abandoned/dumped off over 10 billion in military assets into the hands of at least three CIA/Mossad-created terrorist groups, again.
At this point, Iโve totally lost count of all the built up and evolving American military bases & spy-ops facilities scattered throughout the world over the past ten years, costing how much?? Meanwhile, the โleft and rightโ fight-club constituencies of America are set up by AIPAC psyops professionals (who will not-so-cleverly blame Russian interference, again, and the media will parrot that narrative, again) as America begins another money-driven politically-divided campaign battle over how fast my country must go bankrupt-to-death, again. Itโs as if the entire world is being โforced to repeatโ the early 1900โs; a replay of WWI & WWII; a real self-fulfilling end-of-times dystopian 1984โHunger Games movie combo being evolved.
No doubt, the territory of Washington, United States of English Royalty is doing everything in itโs power to foment another world war, I believe to kill off both Russia and the USA this time, for good, and the sheep cannot, do not or will not refuse to participate, it seems. No conscientious objects (I mean objectors), yet, just real false-pride waring believers.
Rolo, do listen , you will love it. https://podmailer.com/podcast/cult-of-conspiracy/-242-is-the-devil-controlled-opposition