More Russia News That I Feel Obligated to Comment On

Russia turned off the gas to Germany recently, citing a maintenance issue, and no one knows whether the EU will cave and lift some sanctions or embrace energy austerity to stick it to Putin. The main problem with this news is that I find it boring because I don’t live in Germany and I’m tired of caring about things that don’t affect me directly, especially now that so much of the news actually does affect me directly nowadays.

Like the Tanuki Sushi thing I wrote about. I care more about that, to be quite honest even though it’s probably less monumental.

Furthermore, Germany has no real say in its foreign policy because of the American occupation, and even if it did, the German politicians themselves seem to be more committed to globalism than to Germany’s interests. German businesses spearheaded and provided capital for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline with Russia. Now the project, although pretty much completed, is effectively scuttled. Clearly, whoever is making the decisions in Germany isn’t thinking about Germany’s interests, which is the main takeaway we should get from all this.

I think that the German political class and their US overlords have no problems sending Germany hurtling into the stone age by starving them of energy. Globalism requires sacrifices on the level of individual nation-states, you see? Didn’t the globalists want to basically do this anyways? They were going to do it for the Green Agenda, but now Putin gets the blame. Isn’t that a win-win? Germans will be forced to eat bikes and ride bugs … (flip that) and they vill be happy.

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Back in Russia, they’re talking about a stricter law on homosexual propaganda. Seeing as they do almost nothing to enforce the first law and open pedo grooming groups (I’m talking people using their real faces and names and posting their teaching positions at state universities and schools) exist on places like VK and Telegram, I’m not holding my breath about this law having any teeth to it. If citizens were allowed to report suspected homosexual activity, that’d be something. As it stands now, I have been personally involved in efforts to report such groups to the relevant law-enforcement agencies, most notably the pedophile advocacy faction of the Russian Libertarian movement, and these people were not stopped or arrested. The leader of the Russian Libertarians, Mikhail Svetov, openly posted child pornography on his blog, was arrested for it eventually, but only spent a day in jail before getting sprung by his well-connected Muscovite friends and then, eventually, moving to either Italy or Japan.

That being said, such a law has symbolic value. By adopting the law, Russia will be doing the equivalent of spitting in the West’s face, which I whole-heartedly support.

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A Russian court slapped a 366 million dollar fine on Google recently. That’s very good news indeed, but why Russia hasn’t banned Google and other Western services is beyond me. Russian equivalents exist and some IT protectionism would only hurt foreign enemies and help domestic businesses. Furthermore, Russian companies based in Russia have to follow Russian law and Russian law guarantees free speech to Russian citizens living in Russia … RUSSIA!

Perhaps its a pipe-dream, but I would really, really, really like to be able to have free speech on the Russian internet without having VK demanding we take down posts, refusing us advertisements, and shadow-banning our content.

Roskomnadzor (the government internet watchdog) has literally done nothing over the years. But everything changed when the fire nation attacked when Russia launched the special operation. It’s like seeing an old, rusted-out machine come to life and start chugging, gaining steam and momentum as the gears creak into motion.

Government agencies actually doing their jobs? Never thought I’d live to see the day.

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Aiden Aslin, the British mercenary, was condemned to death by the DNR government. He was also forced to sing the Russian national anthem, which I thought was a nice touch.

Concerned internet posters have raised the question: should we pity the condemned mercenary?

The answer: Uh, no. No, we shouldn’t.

I’m not even going to make the argument that he’s technically not protected by international conventions or that he deserved it for helping anti-Russian terrorists or posting anti-Russian material on his social media.

I just think executing him makes the DNR stronger. Now is not the time for showing clemency to mercenaries. Now is the time to make a show of putting one down pour encourager les autres. Or to discourage the autres, I suppose. Showing that there are consequences for taking shots at Russians just makes sense.

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And now some feel-good news to round off the report.

Russia also bombed another barracks full of foreign mercenaries a few days ago. They’re claiming 250 foreigners were killed in the attack. Very nice. I like that Russia isn’t pulling punches.

They even dropped a bomb on the Ukrainian Air Force command and claimed some kills.

Let’s hope they drop one on the Rada next.