After 3 weeks of being in a very bad mood and having heartache, I took out a subscription in spite of or because of this. Even though I can't afford it because I live in the heart of darkness with the highest energy prices, the highest taxes, the most migrants but the lowest pensions. Coming from a country that no longer exists because it was sold. Growing up in a garrison town with Soviet soldiers who stole apples and bicycles from us, but also made good barter deals and let us ride in their tanks.
Reading this sub-stack was like a rude awakening. Like in a relationship when you sense that something is wrong but you can't put your finger on it. And then you catch your partner in bed with your boyfriend. Or like when, after years in a strict Christian community for which I had sacrificed a lot, I had to realise that I was just part of a big multi-level marketing scheme.
I have been following the war in Donbass from the very beginning. Back then, I opened a Facebook account and translated the Russian texts into German with two Ukrainian women to inform people about what was going on there because there was no information in our media. I fought together with Givi and Motorola, was wounded with Zakharchenko and later died with them, like those who had been murdered before. The betrayal of Mariupol still pains me. And when my heroes were murdered and I was told that it was the work of the Ukrainian secret service, I realised that something was very wrong.
Through my collaboration with various organisations that sent aid directly to the Donbass, I got the impression that there were people on the ground who were making money from it and directing the aid in the ‘right’ direction.
But I didn't want to stop believing in the good. That's why I was thrilled when SMO started. At the same time, we have the SMO to thank for the end of the coronavirus horror regime in Germany. The war ended the pandemic.
Over time, I realised that this was the strangest and sometimes most pointless war I could remember. You couldn't make so many mistakes over such a long period of time. The excuses for the mistakes became more and more implausible to me. At some point I came across https://fct-altai.ru/ where I could read or hear some of the arguments that you also put forward. But they still believe that Putin is a good guy who is just surrounded by traitors.
While searching for the source of a quote, I finally came across your site after a thousand detours. The ‘colleagues’ at UNZ hadn't put a link to the article you had stolen, but the readers made up for it in the comments and thus paved the way for me to find you. My intuitive hunches were confirmed and with them came the pain. There is nothing good. No heroes in the fight against the darkness. They are all on the dark side of the force. The Gnostics already knew it. After reading your texts and having all your hopes dashed, all you want to do, as someone wrote before me, is curl up and die.
Why does your site lead such a shadowy existence?
Why has it never been heard of?After all, translations of Edvard Slavsquat have made it onto the pages ofAfter all, translations of Edvard Slavsquat have made it onto the pages of After all, translations of Edvard Slavsquat have made it onto the pages of uncut-news.ch and helped me to understand that in Russia, work on corona and ‘vaccination’ was carried out in the same way as in the rest of the world. The experts were silenced and labelled as conspiracy theorists, then charlatans were brought in front of the cameras, with whom no serious scientist wanted to be seen together and who were presented to the public as experts. In the last two weeks, I have taken every opportunity to refer to your sub-stack in comments on Telegram or YouTube. I don't know if it did any good.
You asked some time ago about the meaning of this non-war. The answer was provided many years ago by the same Rebbe who serves Netanyahu, Trump and Putin.
In a 1994 speech published in the Vologda newspaper Slavyanin, Chabad leader, Messiah Menachem Mendel Schneerson outlined his plans for destroying both Ukraine and Russia.
"Slavs, and among them Russians - are the most unbending people in the world. Slavs are unbending as a result of their psychological and intellectual abilities, created by many generations of ancestors. It is impossible to alter these genes. Slav, Russian, can be destroyed, but never conquered. That is why this seed is subject to liquidation, and, at first, a sharp reduction in their numbers."
"First of all, we will divide the Slavic nations (of 300 million, half of them Russians) into the small countries with weak and severed connections. For this, we will use our old method: Divide and conquer. We will try to pit these countries against each other, and suck them into civil wars for the sake of mutual destruction."
"The Ukrainians would think that they are fighting against the expansionist Russia and struggling for their independence. They will think that they have finally gained their freedom, while they become fully subdued by us. The same will be thought by Russians, as though they defend their national interests to return their lands, "illegally" taken away from them, and so on."
"Looking back in history, it must be admitted that these lands are the ancient ancestral lands of the Jewish Khazaria, that is Israel, captured by Kiev's Rus' (the ancient state of Russia with the capital in Kiev) in the tenth century. The Slavs are temporary guests on these lands and are subject to eviction. We will return this territory, and build the Great Khazaria - the Jewish state -on these fertile lands the same way as, 50 years ago, we created Israel, squeezing the Palestinians out. Israelis will partially relocate here, and we will drive Slavic cattle out far to the north, beyond Moscow. There will be a small Northern Territory, a reservation with a compact population -- a reservation, like Indian reservations in America."
Thomas, first of all welcome. Sounds like you went on your own personal intellectual odyssey to get here. You are right to point out that my material is not shared or cited or allowed its day in the sun. It is incredible, really, the resistance that this information gets.
I enjoyed your anecdote about Russian soldiers stealing apples but offering tank rides.
That sounds like something we'd do.
Glad you got a tank ride out of the occupation at least.
Since you're a pensioner, I offer to give you the paid sub for free. Ppl on fixed incomes have written me before asking for the paid sub that can't afford it (or maybe they're cheap and stingy, I don't know). I figure that I can give you the paid sub as reparations for those stolen apples.
Please let me know what email you used to sign up with and ill try to refund your purchase and then upgrade you for free.
Regarding your despair. Don't be sad. It was always like this, all I did was shine a light on this reality. Nothing has changed though. Knowing what you always must have suspected should be a cause for celebration, not a source of despair.
Me, I've put all my hopes for a better future on a peasant uprising.
Peasant uprisings seem to fail outside China, where they create new dynasties.
I think you are right that they are motivated by shamans and mystics.
England had one that almost succeeded, but 1381 is a long time ago.
Here's an excerpt from T.C. Lethbridge's book 'Witches'
' In England matters canie to a head in A.D. 1381.
The Peasants' Revolt, or Wat Tyler's Rebellion as it was called in school history books, almost destroyed the whole fabric of feudal England. It was particularly directed against the Church and in eastern England was put down by a warrior bishop....
The crisis, however, passed in a remarkable manner. Dr. Murray has given good reasons for thinking that the Plantagenets were all devotees of the witch cult. Richard, son of the Black Prince and so descended from the founder of the Order of the Garter, rode out to the rebel army and persuaded them to go home. Even when their leader was killed in a brawl by the mayor of London, they still accepted the young king as their leader.
This was a most dramatic incident. London had been seized; law was at an end; the feudal overlords were utterly disorganized and unprepared; there was nothing to stop the rebels from doing exactly as they liked; and yet the young king had only to say a few words to them and they were ready to go home. The king was not representing the power of law, for the rebels had cut off the head of the chancellor; nor the Church, for they had cut off the head of its leader who was the same man. The rebels throughout the rising did in fact make the property of the Church their first target. The king, however, had complete confidence and complete authority, although he was only a boy of fourteen. It seems almost certain that he had this power, not because he was the lawful king, but because he was the accepted
head of the rival religion.
If one studies the events in eastern England, where they have been worked out in some detail, it is obvious that the movement was largely anticlerical. It was the 'learning of the clerks' which was burnt with great rejoicing in the market place at Cambridge. 'Away with the learning of the clerks. Away with it!' yelled the crowd, as they hurled the university muniments into the bonfire. There was nothing vindictive about it; although the clerks were bad landlords. It was their learning, that is their
religious books, which the rioters wanted to destroy. At any rate this is how the picture presents itself to me....
When the feudal powers recovered from their shock, and it must be remembered that many living knights had seen what devastation could be wrought by the English long bow on the finest cavalry in Europe at Crecy and Poictiers, they acted with
ruthless force. The king became a boy again in the power of his councillors and his promises to the rebels were overruled. But the memory of what had happened was not forgotten by Church and State. The menace of the other religion had to be removed.'
Mozgovoi may be a sort of Russian version of Wat Tyler, but did he and his supporters have the spiritual support of some version of the pre-Christian 'Old Religion'? Did he just accept some watered down version of Communism as a substitute? Is there any sign of a popular desire to destroy the religious books of the ruling yids? If not there can hardly be any hope for a successful peasant uprising.
Most of us are not here to storm the Black Gate of Mordor, or to organize a world revolution or fight a holy war that will bring forth the eternal kingdom of heaven. The orcs and goblins and demons are within us, they are always near, whispering in your ear to steal a little, to cheat a little, to lie a little, to overindulge a little, to veer off-track a little. Fighting the demons inside us, I've found, is the only battlefield where we stand a chance, and in fact, the battlefield that matters most, because the powers that be can't stand a chance against truly moral people who are not afraid of death nor addicted to life. Ultimately, it's not mafia, spook-state, democracy or dictatorship, but the corruption of our hearts, our avarice, gluttony, envy and so on that leads to wars, not-wars, mass surveillance, carbon credits and death. It's our laziness and hate and pettiness and lust that raises psychopaths in our midst and later puts them into power.
Out of all people I've met in my life, the most, the deepest and the longest-living positive change in the society has been generated by mostly anonymous people who have processed their trauma, who have purified their minds and hearts, who have learned to love and forgive and master the waves of their little lives, finding true peace in the crazy whirlwind of time. To an untrained eye their actions and lives seem insignificant and futile in the grand scheme of things, but it's they who have generated the most ripples that truly and lastingly benefited and transformed those around them, that prevented wars, ugliness and death.
You remind of of a quote by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu:
"A country has the Jews it deserves. Just as mosquitoes can thrive and settle only in swamps, likewise the former can only thrive in the swamps of our sins.”
" There is nothing good. No heroes in the fight against the darkness. They are all on the dark side of the force. The Gnostics already knew it. After reading your texts and having all your hopes dashed, all you want to do, as someone wrote before me, is curl up and die. "
Every genuine folkish patriot in any country within the liberal globalist order needs to read this and assume everything written here is just as true of their 'national' ruling class as it is of the 'Russian' ruling class.
The rulers of the world surely don't need to care what the writers and readers of media and blogs know or think they know about what happens. We have no influence on their actions, and the attitudes of the public have more to do with local expectations than about whatever may happen in Ukraine. It's rather like the popular interest in sports. Soldiers obey politicians, and the politicians may not care much about the populations they rule, nor even about winning or losing particular territories, particularly when the main reason for the war may be to have the goyim killing each other.
Maybe TPTB permit some discussion, and channel it heavily in one direction, to encourage continuation of the conflict. Perhaps they were particularly interested in squelching Mozgovoi etc
and in obfuscating the real situation, to distract the public from even considering that such a revolt against their agenda could occur let alone succeed.
Thanks for the deep dive on this. Quite some work & angst, no doubt.
Indeed, “What to make of it”?
Appreciate your analogy regarding the IRA (MI5?) & the Gaelic language having been a resident there at the inception of that complete shitshow.
Yes, that premise would have been preposterous then but maybe could be useful nowadays some Ireland & Russia seems to be suffering a similar malaise at “the top” levels of controlarchy “
For me, it is bitter pill to swallow--being a Leftist and defender of the overall legacy of the USSR, despite its flaws, foibles, & shortcomings--that it is amongst the revanchist Great Russian right wing that we find those willing to fight tooth & nail to defend the national security, cultural & linguistic hegemony, and territorial integrity of what once comprised the once mighty USSR.
Gennady Zyuganov--and the rest of the CPRF--where are you?!?!?
It may be dead now--just as much of the worldwide "Left" underwent a collective lobotomy during "Covid Year Zero"--but I remain hopeful & confident that it can find its bearings once again.
The erstwhile revolutionary Left may be comatose, but the global class struggle remains unremitting.
Colonel Kvachkov who is frequently quoted on the blog is a Stalinist Orthodox Russian ethno-nationalist. One of my daily telegram checks is Tovarish Artems channel who is also a hardcore Stalinist but also an admirer of Rusich and Alexi Milchakov.
There are some Stalinist that are good people in Russia but they overlap much more with the Russian NS types than the mainstream CPRF people. These kinds of nuances make Russia very hard to understand for Westerners who ars obsessed with ideology.
This is what winning looks like... Putin, Shoigu, Gerasimov are just as much the scumbags the other side is, I spit on these mofos and have nothing but utter contempt for them.... nobody cares about the little people, on either side...
I had a visitor from Russia yesterday. Masha also told me that boys are now being sent to the front who were previously rejected as unfit due to illness or disability. She is now celebrating New Year's Eve in Berlin with relatives from Kiev, Moscow, St Petersburg and Mariupol.
Much appreciation for this post. Because like the other ones, they confirm my observations even from long ago. When in 1997 I visited a Russian pen pal in Latvia, she bitterly complained that despite having written children's books in Latvian, she had been fired (English teacher) because of being Russian. Worse even with the Jewish dentist who treated me: he had left Russia because of bad treatment, went to Israel where he was 3rd rate citizen, then to South Africa which was "too much apartheid" as well and even worked in the US which wasn't much better. So he wound up in Latvia (love issue) and asked how he could emigrate to Germany(!). If anything, it shows that unless a citizen (whatever his/her merits) can be used as PR issue, the "leaders" don't care one iota (cautiously put) about their fate.
He was honest enough to say that his employer at the clinic advised to give a cheap & lousy treatment "because that client wouldn't go back to Latvia to file a complaint". So I got a different treatment than for instance Americans or Germans.
BTW what was remarkable that during my stay in Latvia, I didn't see any person smiling or laughing.
True. During cold war 1 I visited the former Yugoslavia under Tito where despite tensions people were helpful, friendly and showed the kind of emotions to be expected when people are contented. None of that in Latvia where the Baltic coast was called "Russian Riviera". Even Bulgaria in '74 was a far better place despite restrictions like <10 min allowance to talk to foreigners, whatever the status.
Recently RIA Novosti mentioned an 80% divorce rate in the RF, which isn't a sign of "happy population" either.
" he had left Russia because of bad treatment, went to Israel where he was 3rd rate citizen, then to South Africa which was "too much apartheid" as well and even worked in the US which wasn't much better. So he wound up in Latvia (love issue) and asked how he could emigrate to Germany( "
Thats a whole lot of moving around. Feels very suspect.
To me it wasn't. Because by the time I visited Latvia, I already had emigrated from the Netherlands to Belgium and a few years later from Belgium to Spain. Nowadays in Panama with permanent residency.
Fascinating. That terms offered by Pootie will never be fully met by most illegal "guests" so either hes not serious, or he wants them to fail leaving the illegals two options:
1. Leave Russia
2. Join the military and fight in Ukraine.
But I though the Russians had all the troops they need, plus some. Whats going on Pootie ?
" Illegal immigrants who wish to stay must meet strict requirements, including submitting biometric data, undergoing medical checks for drugs, infectious diseases, and HIV, and pass tests on the Russian language, history, and legal system. They are also required to settle any outstanding debts and ensure their documents, such as work or residence permits, remain valid.
*********Exceptions are made for undocumented foreign citizens who sign contracts with the military, allowing them to avoid deportation. ************
"Instead of looking into what these men of action did, how they organized and operated, how they reached out and motivated their own people, how they managed fledgling statelets wedged between two hostile powers …"
So how DID they manage fledgling statelets wedged between two hostile powers? If I read between the lines, it seems that they first had funding from Moscow and then, when the funding dried up, so did they.
But you're explaining how it was initiated, while I'm asking how it was sustained.
How did he continually attain enough money, food, fuel and ammunition to maintain his own power center? Presumably he used his newfound power to negotiate a business relationship with some players in either Ukraine or Russia? What type of relationships did he strike up? What did he supply in return? Had someone else already laid the groundwork? IMHO this is far more interesting and challenging than simply storming an SBU HQ and killing everyone inside.
Ok. And what business where the local oligarchs in? Steel? Coal?
Did they export via Ukraine or Russia?
Were any sanctions imposed on their oblasts?
Did they have a banking system, or did everything run in cash? Which currency?
I'm thinking about parallels with the Transnistria situation. They used to import/export with their own customs seal via Odessa port. Nowadays, their border with Ukraine is closed and they're forced to transit all goods through Moldova, which places its own tax on their goods. The idea is that slow economic strangulation will force unification with Moldova.
they just own literally everything through investments, racketeering, etc.
you don't need to start a business exporting pineapples to support a rebellion. you just take a % from the others who run businesses. you become the government.
yes, Moscow sanctioned Donbass.
you don't need a large economy to resist. all you need is the ability to inflict pain on your would-be conquerors. enough pain that they decide it is better to cut a deal with you.
I can understand how extorting the oligarchs (who in turn are extorting everyone below them) and otherwise allowing business as normal can work at first, but I don't see long term viability. How does an oblast remain economically relevant enough to Moscow or Kiev to avoid a complete economic blockade, when the political cost to allowing its continued free existence is ever increasing? At some point, it seems inevitable that they'd bite the bullet, cut off the oblast from the rest of the world, and let them all starve to death. The oligarchs wouldn't be happy, but Moscow could take the view that 'control your turf or lose it'.
As a spook neoliberal, i understand and agree with the analysis here. But i have yet to see any of the actual thoughtful Russian nationalists explain why, even given the cynical reality of Ukraine-Russia cooperation, Ukraine would be better off going back to being a subject of the Russian empire.
Every time the Russians are in charge, they liquidate the Ukrainian intelligentsia and extract all of their grain and industrial production to help Russia conquer other colonial targets in asia and the Caucasus.
Why would Ukrainians ever want the old deal again? The pitch seems to always be subjugating Ukraine is good for Russia - obviously, but why the faux-surprise when lots of Ukrainians would rather fight and die than be exploited way worse and with worse political and economic prospects compared to how their own rulers exploit them? Yeah some token -chuks got to be higher-ups in the Soviet military but that doesn’t equate to self-determination. Why aren’t any Ukrainians voluntarily heading to the occupied territories?
(1) (((no))), but they are doing the liquidating today and Putin has decided Russia is the inheritor of the Soviet mantle and all the Soviet colonial possessions that the soviets inherited from the tsar. So doesn’t seem fair to expect Ukraine to roll over just bc the commissars holding them at gunpoint are totally different this time bc they’re uncircumcised and asiatic.
(2) also (((no))), my question is why ukronazis are willing to fight and die to preserve the current ethnic power structure over Russian rule - i don’t get the unwillingness to concede that it sucks to be Russian right now and Ukrainians have way better economic governance and opportunities as Ukraine despite the corruption and problems.
My take is the same as yours re Ukrainian identity - it is being embraced as an ahistorical constructed identity. I guess the departure is that i think it’s happening bc it gives them an alternative to how shitty it is to be ruled by Russia. I researched and helped consult on privatization and economic reform in the fsu so will pluck an example I have expertise in - Estonians revived their identity despite being sovietized for the same reason - the last time things were good in the Baltic is when the Estonians had their own ethnic identity, so they re-recreated it to escape Russianness.
The "Ukrainian intelligentsia" was literally created by Russian bourgeois liberals during the imperial era and than the whole project of Ukrainian identity was solidified by the Bolshiveks. Started by Cosmopolitan bourgeois Russians and finished by Lenin, Kaganovich, Stalin and Khrushchev. There is absolutely nothing whatsoever organically "Ukrainian" about Ukrainian identity.
You as a self professed neo liberal should be totally fine with neo liberal Moscow owing Ukraine shouldn't you? Is there like some kind Ukrainian brand of neo liberalism thats worth dying for? Also lol @Russia not letting Ukraine have any grain when all of Ukraines agriculture infrastructure is legacy Soviet along with the rest of Ukraines critical infrastructure. Literally nothing new has been built since the Soviet era. Northing. "Free" Ukraine produces less of everything than Soviet occupied Ukraine. Including Ukrainian people btw. That goes for Russia as well of course but the point is you don't know what you are talking about at all.
Yeah, that happened throughout slavdom in the 19th century, all the Central Europeans and yugos had the same national revival after being deracinated in cosmopolitan empires for the century or two prior.
Can you just answer the question tho? What’s in it for Ukrainians today to submit to Putin, and why are Ukrainians choosing to die fighting or flee to the west or draft dodge in unoccupied Ukraine rather than turning in their ukrop passports or fighting for Russia directly?
I think Ukrainians should get to decide if their country is worth dying for, they should be free to surrender if they decide it’s better to live under Putin than die resisting. Boris Johnson should never have tanked the Istanbul deal and he will go down in history as almost as bad a figure as Putin himself - it’s great Russia has lost its navy, lost tartus, and wrecked its army for a generation but I’d rather have all those dead Ukrainians be alive. But your answer was “Russia revived Ukrainian identity in the 19th century so we have the right to destroy it in the 21st”, which doesn’t seem like a great sales pitch.
Theres no point answering your question because the whole premise is dumb. Ukrainians can submit to the West or submit to Moscow. Luckashencko for example hates Moscow and the feeling is mutual but he has chosen Moscow because the alternative is worse. The idea that Ukraine can be some independent totally sovereign nation sandwiched between Russia and the West is dumb.
You are also incorrect that Moscow seeks to destroy Ukrainian identity. Ukrainian language courses are still mandatory in Russia controlled Ukraine, there are still monuments to Bandera in Moscow controlled parts of Kherson. You just arent very well informed so I'm not going to engage with a question based on faulty premises.
Russians, even those at the front more often than not don't like Putin so the whole affair isn't about whether or not to submit to him. Likewise Ukrainians at the front aren't big on Zelensky and some are even genuinely highly skeptical of the EU. Again your premise is dumb and I can rephrase your question as why "submit to Zelensky and Washington". But the Ukrainians at the front aren't fighting for that specifically. They are fighting for a LARP identity created by Russian liberals, Lenin and Kaganovich with some SS aesthetics throne in to make it marketable to dumb kids. Russians are fighting to keep the East Slav ethnos from being further divided and to the prevent the permanent loss of what they correctly see as Russian soil.
If Ukrainians want to die for their LARP identity nobody is stopping them from doing that. But again "submitting to Putin" is no more relevant than "submitting to Washington" and discussing that brings nothing relevant to the table at all.
All I’m saying is that empirically, most Ukrainians prefer to submit to Zelensky and Washington over Putin, so I was asking why you think that is. And you answered it - Ukrainian identity is a fake false consciousness LARP and despite Putin being the first Tuvan premier and the front man for a series of ethnic mafias, Putin is somehow also the protector of all slavs from Kiev to Belgrade. I don’t understand how you square that with your and rolo’s critique of Putin as globohomo branch manager but it is a coherent explanation, thanks.
LMFAO. Please give a citation of where Rurik or I claimed Putin is defending Slavs. Slime through the fingers is impossible to engage with in seriousness. You have shifted from claiming that Russia is out to destroy Ukrainian culture and steal their grain to claiming I or Rurik said Putin is the defender of all Slavdom.
For the sake of anyone reading this exchange I will just point out that this commenter is essentially trying to boil down the conflict to a binary "submit to Putin or submit to Washington dynamic". While that dynamic is actually in play at the zoomed out level as I mentioned in regards to Luckashencko for example it is not in play in any meaningful way at the level of men in the trenches. Russian soldiers are fighting to prevent the loss of their soil as are the Ukrainians who dont just desert, move to Europe etc.
The Russian troops who are bothering to show up are fighting for a future without Putinism and the Ukrainians are fighting for a Ukraine that doesn't resemble an LGBTQ toilet bowl which is what Zelensky tier leaders will deliver. So this commenters attempt to present the war as simply being about Putinism vs Washington fails when we look at the motivations of the men on the ground. At that point it's necessary to analyse whose claims to Ukraine are the truest and imo that is the Russian claims. Ukrainianism really is a LARP identity created by Russian liberals and Bolshiveks and it ought not to exist. Furthermore Ukraine really is Russian soil and it's current geographic borders are a Bolshivek abortion. Getting of modern Ukraine is nothing more correcting the Bolshiveks mistakes.
That this isnt going to happen anytime soon doesn't change the truth of the matter.
“Russians are fighting to keep the East Slav ethnos from being further divided and to the prevent the permanent loss of what they correctly see as Russian soil.” - if you’re saying is that Shoigu and the officer corps waging the war are patriots and Putin is fighting for different reasons, got it. I thought Girkin, Popov, Surovikin and Teplinsky’s fate and the way they’ve been discussed here meant that the patriots or at least the Russians who actually want to win have all been purged or sidelined and all the patriots willing to serve as enlisted men were wasted in the volunteer battalions raised in June-July 2022 that were funneled into the 3rd army corps and thrown at Kharkov before they were ready.
Can the patriots wrest control of the war from Putin without removing Putin from power?
damn... the amount and variety of emotions this kind of articles bring are overwhelming. This is the kind of purpose in life many men search and strive for but many can not even come close to. Молодец!
Pozdnyakov's channel has distributed a video in which two fighters, a Russian and a Ukrainian, are trying to kill each other in hand-to-hand combat. Fists, knives, stones are used...
How wild and unnatural, scary and painful. Two people from the once single country of the USSR, with the same language and most likely even mixed blood and genes (we are all mixed), with the same faith, culture, with the same childhood, raised on "Well, just you wait", "S legkim parom" and the memory of their grandfathers fighting shoulder to shoulder, these two people mindlessly kill each other without understanding why... For whom??? Simply by order of the presidents.
This is terrible.
And how does this fight end? With the Russian language and a humane request "let me die in peace"....
This is the most terrible thing that could happen to the descendants of Soviet people.....😭😓🥲😭
Full video hand-to-hand combat.
The dialogue between the two opponents after the mortal combat was over
As a result, the seriously wounded Ukrainian asked for a peaceful death, to let him die quietly from his wounds, our fighter granted him such mercy. The Ukrainian was delighted and before his death called the Yakut "The best fighter in the world."
I'm trying to understand all of this. Moscow betrayed New Russia for fear of more western sanctions? Why was Moscow so against absorbing the republics?
Just so I understand, Moscow betrayed New Russia for fear of more western sanctions? In a nutshell, what were the reasons for the treachery? Maybe I missed it, but why was Moscow so against absorbing the republics?
Putin's goal was to shove donbass into ukraine but with extra privileges for the ethnic globalist mafia clans that operate there because they are powerful in the kremlin.
After 3 weeks of being in a very bad mood and having heartache, I took out a subscription in spite of or because of this. Even though I can't afford it because I live in the heart of darkness with the highest energy prices, the highest taxes, the most migrants but the lowest pensions. Coming from a country that no longer exists because it was sold. Growing up in a garrison town with Soviet soldiers who stole apples and bicycles from us, but also made good barter deals and let us ride in their tanks.
Reading this sub-stack was like a rude awakening. Like in a relationship when you sense that something is wrong but you can't put your finger on it. And then you catch your partner in bed with your boyfriend. Or like when, after years in a strict Christian community for which I had sacrificed a lot, I had to realise that I was just part of a big multi-level marketing scheme.
I have been following the war in Donbass from the very beginning. Back then, I opened a Facebook account and translated the Russian texts into German with two Ukrainian women to inform people about what was going on there because there was no information in our media. I fought together with Givi and Motorola, was wounded with Zakharchenko and later died with them, like those who had been murdered before. The betrayal of Mariupol still pains me. And when my heroes were murdered and I was told that it was the work of the Ukrainian secret service, I realised that something was very wrong.
Through my collaboration with various organisations that sent aid directly to the Donbass, I got the impression that there were people on the ground who were making money from it and directing the aid in the ‘right’ direction.
But I didn't want to stop believing in the good. That's why I was thrilled when SMO started. At the same time, we have the SMO to thank for the end of the coronavirus horror regime in Germany. The war ended the pandemic.
Over time, I realised that this was the strangest and sometimes most pointless war I could remember. You couldn't make so many mistakes over such a long period of time. The excuses for the mistakes became more and more implausible to me. At some point I came across https://fct-altai.ru/ where I could read or hear some of the arguments that you also put forward. But they still believe that Putin is a good guy who is just surrounded by traitors.
While searching for the source of a quote, I finally came across your site after a thousand detours. The ‘colleagues’ at UNZ hadn't put a link to the article you had stolen, but the readers made up for it in the comments and thus paved the way for me to find you. My intuitive hunches were confirmed and with them came the pain. There is nothing good. No heroes in the fight against the darkness. They are all on the dark side of the force. The Gnostics already knew it. After reading your texts and having all your hopes dashed, all you want to do, as someone wrote before me, is curl up and die.
Why does your site lead such a shadowy existence?
Why has it never been heard of?After all, translations of Edvard Slavsquat have made it onto the pages ofAfter all, translations of Edvard Slavsquat have made it onto the pages of After all, translations of Edvard Slavsquat have made it onto the pages of uncut-news.ch and helped me to understand that in Russia, work on corona and ‘vaccination’ was carried out in the same way as in the rest of the world. The experts were silenced and labelled as conspiracy theorists, then charlatans were brought in front of the cameras, with whom no serious scientist wanted to be seen together and who were presented to the public as experts. In the last two weeks, I have taken every opportunity to refer to your sub-stack in comments on Telegram or YouTube. I don't know if it did any good.
You asked some time ago about the meaning of this non-war. The answer was provided many years ago by the same Rebbe who serves Netanyahu, Trump and Putin.
In a 1994 speech published in the Vologda newspaper Slavyanin, Chabad leader, Messiah Menachem Mendel Schneerson outlined his plans for destroying both Ukraine and Russia.
"Slavs, and among them Russians - are the most unbending people in the world. Slavs are unbending as a result of their psychological and intellectual abilities, created by many generations of ancestors. It is impossible to alter these genes. Slav, Russian, can be destroyed, but never conquered. That is why this seed is subject to liquidation, and, at first, a sharp reduction in their numbers."
"First of all, we will divide the Slavic nations (of 300 million, half of them Russians) into the small countries with weak and severed connections. For this, we will use our old method: Divide and conquer. We will try to pit these countries against each other, and suck them into civil wars for the sake of mutual destruction."
"The Ukrainians would think that they are fighting against the expansionist Russia and struggling for their independence. They will think that they have finally gained their freedom, while they become fully subdued by us. The same will be thought by Russians, as though they defend their national interests to return their lands, "illegally" taken away from them, and so on."
"Looking back in history, it must be admitted that these lands are the ancient ancestral lands of the Jewish Khazaria, that is Israel, captured by Kiev's Rus' (the ancient state of Russia with the capital in Kiev) in the tenth century. The Slavs are temporary guests on these lands and are subject to eviction. We will return this territory, and build the Great Khazaria - the Jewish state -on these fertile lands the same way as, 50 years ago, we created Israel, squeezing the Palestinians out. Israelis will partially relocate here, and we will drive Slavic cattle out far to the north, beyond Moscow. There will be a small Northern Territory, a reservation with a compact population -- a reservation, like Indian reservations in America."
Thomas, first of all welcome. Sounds like you went on your own personal intellectual odyssey to get here. You are right to point out that my material is not shared or cited or allowed its day in the sun. It is incredible, really, the resistance that this information gets.
I enjoyed your anecdote about Russian soldiers stealing apples but offering tank rides.
That sounds like something we'd do.
Glad you got a tank ride out of the occupation at least.
Since you're a pensioner, I offer to give you the paid sub for free. Ppl on fixed incomes have written me before asking for the paid sub that can't afford it (or maybe they're cheap and stingy, I don't know). I figure that I can give you the paid sub as reparations for those stolen apples.
Please let me know what email you used to sign up with and ill try to refund your purchase and then upgrade you for free.
Regarding your despair. Don't be sad. It was always like this, all I did was shine a light on this reality. Nothing has changed though. Knowing what you always must have suspected should be a cause for celebration, not a source of despair.
Me, I've put all my hopes for a better future on a peasant uprising.
Peasant uprisings seem to fail outside China, where they create new dynasties.
I think you are right that they are motivated by shamans and mystics.
England had one that almost succeeded, but 1381 is a long time ago.
Here's an excerpt from T.C. Lethbridge's book 'Witches'
' In England matters canie to a head in A.D. 1381.
The Peasants' Revolt, or Wat Tyler's Rebellion as it was called in school history books, almost destroyed the whole fabric of feudal England. It was particularly directed against the Church and in eastern England was put down by a warrior bishop....
The crisis, however, passed in a remarkable manner. Dr. Murray has given good reasons for thinking that the Plantagenets were all devotees of the witch cult. Richard, son of the Black Prince and so descended from the founder of the Order of the Garter, rode out to the rebel army and persuaded them to go home. Even when their leader was killed in a brawl by the mayor of London, they still accepted the young king as their leader.
This was a most dramatic incident. London had been seized; law was at an end; the feudal overlords were utterly disorganized and unprepared; there was nothing to stop the rebels from doing exactly as they liked; and yet the young king had only to say a few words to them and they were ready to go home. The king was not representing the power of law, for the rebels had cut off the head of the chancellor; nor the Church, for they had cut off the head of its leader who was the same man. The rebels throughout the rising did in fact make the property of the Church their first target. The king, however, had complete confidence and complete authority, although he was only a boy of fourteen. It seems almost certain that he had this power, not because he was the lawful king, but because he was the accepted
head of the rival religion.
If one studies the events in eastern England, where they have been worked out in some detail, it is obvious that the movement was largely anticlerical. It was the 'learning of the clerks' which was burnt with great rejoicing in the market place at Cambridge. 'Away with the learning of the clerks. Away with it!' yelled the crowd, as they hurled the university muniments into the bonfire. There was nothing vindictive about it; although the clerks were bad landlords. It was their learning, that is their
religious books, which the rioters wanted to destroy. At any rate this is how the picture presents itself to me....
When the feudal powers recovered from their shock, and it must be remembered that many living knights had seen what devastation could be wrought by the English long bow on the finest cavalry in Europe at Crecy and Poictiers, they acted with
ruthless force. The king became a boy again in the power of his councillors and his promises to the rebels were overruled. But the memory of what had happened was not forgotten by Church and State. The menace of the other religion had to be removed.'
Mozgovoi may be a sort of Russian version of Wat Tyler, but did he and his supporters have the spiritual support of some version of the pre-Christian 'Old Religion'? Did he just accept some watered down version of Communism as a substitute? Is there any sign of a popular desire to destroy the religious books of the ruling yids? If not there can hardly be any hope for a successful peasant uprising.
Most of us are not here to storm the Black Gate of Mordor, or to organize a world revolution or fight a holy war that will bring forth the eternal kingdom of heaven. The orcs and goblins and demons are within us, they are always near, whispering in your ear to steal a little, to cheat a little, to lie a little, to overindulge a little, to veer off-track a little. Fighting the demons inside us, I've found, is the only battlefield where we stand a chance, and in fact, the battlefield that matters most, because the powers that be can't stand a chance against truly moral people who are not afraid of death nor addicted to life. Ultimately, it's not mafia, spook-state, democracy or dictatorship, but the corruption of our hearts, our avarice, gluttony, envy and so on that leads to wars, not-wars, mass surveillance, carbon credits and death. It's our laziness and hate and pettiness and lust that raises psychopaths in our midst and later puts them into power.
Out of all people I've met in my life, the most, the deepest and the longest-living positive change in the society has been generated by mostly anonymous people who have processed their trauma, who have purified their minds and hearts, who have learned to love and forgive and master the waves of their little lives, finding true peace in the crazy whirlwind of time. To an untrained eye their actions and lives seem insignificant and futile in the grand scheme of things, but it's they who have generated the most ripples that truly and lastingly benefited and transformed those around them, that prevented wars, ugliness and death.
May you find peace in 2025.
You remind of of a quote by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu:
"A country has the Jews it deserves. Just as mosquitoes can thrive and settle only in swamps, likewise the former can only thrive in the swamps of our sins.”
" There is nothing good. No heroes in the fight against the darkness. They are all on the dark side of the force. The Gnostics already knew it. After reading your texts and having all your hopes dashed, all you want to do, as someone wrote before me, is curl up and die. "
Not true, not true at all.
Every genuine folkish patriot in any country within the liberal globalist order needs to read this and assume everything written here is just as true of their 'national' ruling class as it is of the 'Russian' ruling class.
The rulers of the world surely don't need to care what the writers and readers of media and blogs know or think they know about what happens. We have no influence on their actions, and the attitudes of the public have more to do with local expectations than about whatever may happen in Ukraine. It's rather like the popular interest in sports. Soldiers obey politicians, and the politicians may not care much about the populations they rule, nor even about winning or losing particular territories, particularly when the main reason for the war may be to have the goyim killing each other.
Maybe TPTB permit some discussion, and channel it heavily in one direction, to encourage continuation of the conflict. Perhaps they were particularly interested in squelching Mozgovoi etc
and in obfuscating the real situation, to distract the public from even considering that such a revolt against their agenda could occur let alone succeed.
Thanks for the deep dive on this. Quite some work & angst, no doubt.
Indeed, “What to make of it”?
Appreciate your analogy regarding the IRA (MI5?) & the Gaelic language having been a resident there at the inception of that complete shitshow.
Yes, that premise would have been preposterous then but maybe could be useful nowadays some Ireland & Russia seems to be suffering a similar malaise at “the top” levels of controlarchy “
For me, it is bitter pill to swallow--being a Leftist and defender of the overall legacy of the USSR, despite its flaws, foibles, & shortcomings--that it is amongst the revanchist Great Russian right wing that we find those willing to fight tooth & nail to defend the national security, cultural & linguistic hegemony, and territorial integrity of what once comprised the once mighty USSR.
Gennady Zyuganov--and the rest of the CPRF--where are you?!?!?
Bought and paid for.
Sovietism is dead.
Nationalism springs eternal.
Sovietism is dead.”
I keep telling him but he doesn’t listen
It may be dead now--just as much of the worldwide "Left" underwent a collective lobotomy during "Covid Year Zero"--but I remain hopeful & confident that it can find its bearings once again.
The erstwhile revolutionary Left may be comatose, but the global class struggle remains unremitting.
Colonel Kvachkov who is frequently quoted on the blog is a Stalinist Orthodox Russian ethno-nationalist. One of my daily telegram checks is Tovarish Artems channel who is also a hardcore Stalinist but also an admirer of Rusich and Alexi Milchakov.
https://t.me/t_artm/4380
There are some Stalinist that are good people in Russia but they overlap much more with the Russian NS types than the mainstream CPRF people. These kinds of nuances make Russia very hard to understand for Westerners who ars obsessed with ideology.
This is what winning looks like... Putin, Shoigu, Gerasimov are just as much the scumbags the other side is, I spit on these mofos and have nothing but utter contempt for them.... nobody cares about the little people, on either side...
Russian soldier with extreme -16 and -17 vision was exchanged from Ukrainian captivity. https://x.com/clashreport/status/1873981026072186986
I had a visitor from Russia yesterday. Masha also told me that boys are now being sent to the front who were previously rejected as unfit due to illness or disability. She is now celebrating New Year's Eve in Berlin with relatives from Kiev, Moscow, St Petersburg and Mariupol.
Much appreciation for this post. Because like the other ones, they confirm my observations even from long ago. When in 1997 I visited a Russian pen pal in Latvia, she bitterly complained that despite having written children's books in Latvian, she had been fired (English teacher) because of being Russian. Worse even with the Jewish dentist who treated me: he had left Russia because of bad treatment, went to Israel where he was 3rd rate citizen, then to South Africa which was "too much apartheid" as well and even worked in the US which wasn't much better. So he wound up in Latvia (love issue) and asked how he could emigrate to Germany(!). If anything, it shows that unless a citizen (whatever his/her merits) can be used as PR issue, the "leaders" don't care one iota (cautiously put) about their fate.
be careful with that dentist. sounds like he's up to no good.
He was honest enough to say that his employer at the clinic advised to give a cheap & lousy treatment "because that client wouldn't go back to Latvia to file a complaint". So I got a different treatment than for instance Americans or Germans.
BTW what was remarkable that during my stay in Latvia, I didn't see any person smiling or laughing.
latvia is GRIM
True. During cold war 1 I visited the former Yugoslavia under Tito where despite tensions people were helpful, friendly and showed the kind of emotions to be expected when people are contented. None of that in Latvia where the Baltic coast was called "Russian Riviera". Even Bulgaria in '74 was a far better place despite restrictions like <10 min allowance to talk to foreigners, whatever the status.
Recently RIA Novosti mentioned an 80% divorce rate in the RF, which isn't a sign of "happy population" either.
" he had left Russia because of bad treatment, went to Israel where he was 3rd rate citizen, then to South Africa which was "too much apartheid" as well and even worked in the US which wasn't much better. So he wound up in Latvia (love issue) and asked how he could emigrate to Germany( "
Thats a whole lot of moving around. Feels very suspect.
To me it wasn't. Because by the time I visited Latvia, I already had emigrated from the Netherlands to Belgium and a few years later from Belgium to Spain. Nowadays in Panama with permanent residency.
Fascinating. That terms offered by Pootie will never be fully met by most illegal "guests" so either hes not serious, or he wants them to fail leaving the illegals two options:
1. Leave Russia
2. Join the military and fight in Ukraine.
But I though the Russians had all the troops they need, plus some. Whats going on Pootie ?
" Illegal immigrants who wish to stay must meet strict requirements, including submitting biometric data, undergoing medical checks for drugs, infectious diseases, and HIV, and pass tests on the Russian language, history, and legal system. They are also required to settle any outstanding debts and ensure their documents, such as work or residence permits, remain valid.
*********Exceptions are made for undocumented foreign citizens who sign contracts with the military, allowing them to avoid deportation. ************
https://www.rt.com/russia/610207-putin-russia-illegal-immigrants-deadline/
Sounds like he's just posturing. Illegal immigrants are, by definition, not abiding by the law, so why would new laws matter?
But this gives Pootie a legal reason to scoop them up as they might all " agree" to go to the front when caught.
I suppose so. Or maybe the police just take a bigger bribe and let them go as usual.
We'll need some Russians to tell us how it plays out in practice.
"Instead of looking into what these men of action did, how they organized and operated, how they reached out and motivated their own people, how they managed fledgling statelets wedged between two hostile powers …"
So how DID they manage fledgling statelets wedged between two hostile powers? If I read between the lines, it seems that they first had funding from Moscow and then, when the funding dried up, so did they.
They literally just stormed the local spook hq and started killing them.
That’s it. That’s how it was done.
I disavow and condemn of course in the most moral terms possible.
Yes yes likewise disavow morally.
But you're explaining how it was initiated, while I'm asking how it was sustained.
How did he continually attain enough money, food, fuel and ammunition to maintain his own power center? Presumably he used his newfound power to negotiate a business relationship with some players in either Ukraine or Russia? What type of relationships did he strike up? What did he supply in return? Had someone else already laid the groundwork? IMHO this is far more interesting and challenging than simply storming an SBU HQ and killing everyone inside.
he shook down the local oligarchs and replaced the police
Ok. And what business where the local oligarchs in? Steel? Coal?
Did they export via Ukraine or Russia?
Were any sanctions imposed on their oblasts?
Did they have a banking system, or did everything run in cash? Which currency?
I'm thinking about parallels with the Transnistria situation. They used to import/export with their own customs seal via Odessa port. Nowadays, their border with Ukraine is closed and they're forced to transit all goods through Moldova, which places its own tax on their goods. The idea is that slow economic strangulation will force unification with Moldova.
"businesses?"
lol that's not how oligarchy works.
they just own literally everything through investments, racketeering, etc.
you don't need to start a business exporting pineapples to support a rebellion. you just take a % from the others who run businesses. you become the government.
yes, Moscow sanctioned Donbass.
you don't need a large economy to resist. all you need is the ability to inflict pain on your would-be conquerors. enough pain that they decide it is better to cut a deal with you.
What was the substance of the sanctions?
I can understand how extorting the oligarchs (who in turn are extorting everyone below them) and otherwise allowing business as normal can work at first, but I don't see long term viability. How does an oblast remain economically relevant enough to Moscow or Kiev to avoid a complete economic blockade, when the political cost to allowing its continued free existence is ever increasing? At some point, it seems inevitable that they'd bite the bullet, cut off the oblast from the rest of the world, and let them all starve to death. The oligarchs wouldn't be happy, but Moscow could take the view that 'control your turf or lose it'.
It appears the Russian spring was never supposed to succeed. It was used as part of a larger piece of theater and agenda.
As a spook neoliberal, i understand and agree with the analysis here. But i have yet to see any of the actual thoughtful Russian nationalists explain why, even given the cynical reality of Ukraine-Russia cooperation, Ukraine would be better off going back to being a subject of the Russian empire.
Every time the Russians are in charge, they liquidate the Ukrainian intelligentsia and extract all of their grain and industrial production to help Russia conquer other colonial targets in asia and the Caucasus.
Why would Ukrainians ever want the old deal again? The pitch seems to always be subjugating Ukraine is good for Russia - obviously, but why the faux-surprise when lots of Ukrainians would rather fight and die than be exploited way worse and with worse political and economic prospects compared to how their own rulers exploit them? Yeah some token -chuks got to be higher-ups in the Soviet military but that doesn’t equate to self-determination. Why aren’t any Ukrainians voluntarily heading to the occupied territories?
Did Russians do the liquidating?
Do Ukrainians rule in Kiev?
(1) (((no))), but they are doing the liquidating today and Putin has decided Russia is the inheritor of the Soviet mantle and all the Soviet colonial possessions that the soviets inherited from the tsar. So doesn’t seem fair to expect Ukraine to roll over just bc the commissars holding them at gunpoint are totally different this time bc they’re uncircumcised and asiatic.
(2) also (((no))), my question is why ukronazis are willing to fight and die to preserve the current ethnic power structure over Russian rule - i don’t get the unwillingness to concede that it sucks to be Russian right now and Ukrainians have way better economic governance and opportunities as Ukraine despite the corruption and problems.
My take is the same as yours re Ukrainian identity - it is being embraced as an ahistorical constructed identity. I guess the departure is that i think it’s happening bc it gives them an alternative to how shitty it is to be ruled by Russia. I researched and helped consult on privatization and economic reform in the fsu so will pluck an example I have expertise in - Estonians revived their identity despite being sovietized for the same reason - the last time things were good in the Baltic is when the Estonians had their own ethnic identity, so they re-recreated it to escape Russianness.
did you read my article on lithuania or on yakovlev?
The "Ukrainian intelligentsia" was literally created by Russian bourgeois liberals during the imperial era and than the whole project of Ukrainian identity was solidified by the Bolshiveks. Started by Cosmopolitan bourgeois Russians and finished by Lenin, Kaganovich, Stalin and Khrushchev. There is absolutely nothing whatsoever organically "Ukrainian" about Ukrainian identity.
You as a self professed neo liberal should be totally fine with neo liberal Moscow owing Ukraine shouldn't you? Is there like some kind Ukrainian brand of neo liberalism thats worth dying for? Also lol @Russia not letting Ukraine have any grain when all of Ukraines agriculture infrastructure is legacy Soviet along with the rest of Ukraines critical infrastructure. Literally nothing new has been built since the Soviet era. Northing. "Free" Ukraine produces less of everything than Soviet occupied Ukraine. Including Ukrainian people btw. That goes for Russia as well of course but the point is you don't know what you are talking about at all.
Yeah, that happened throughout slavdom in the 19th century, all the Central Europeans and yugos had the same national revival after being deracinated in cosmopolitan empires for the century or two prior.
Can you just answer the question tho? What’s in it for Ukrainians today to submit to Putin, and why are Ukrainians choosing to die fighting or flee to the west or draft dodge in unoccupied Ukraine rather than turning in their ukrop passports or fighting for Russia directly?
I think Ukrainians should get to decide if their country is worth dying for, they should be free to surrender if they decide it’s better to live under Putin than die resisting. Boris Johnson should never have tanked the Istanbul deal and he will go down in history as almost as bad a figure as Putin himself - it’s great Russia has lost its navy, lost tartus, and wrecked its army for a generation but I’d rather have all those dead Ukrainians be alive. But your answer was “Russia revived Ukrainian identity in the 19th century so we have the right to destroy it in the 21st”, which doesn’t seem like a great sales pitch.
Theres no point answering your question because the whole premise is dumb. Ukrainians can submit to the West or submit to Moscow. Luckashencko for example hates Moscow and the feeling is mutual but he has chosen Moscow because the alternative is worse. The idea that Ukraine can be some independent totally sovereign nation sandwiched between Russia and the West is dumb.
You are also incorrect that Moscow seeks to destroy Ukrainian identity. Ukrainian language courses are still mandatory in Russia controlled Ukraine, there are still monuments to Bandera in Moscow controlled parts of Kherson. You just arent very well informed so I'm not going to engage with a question based on faulty premises.
Russians, even those at the front more often than not don't like Putin so the whole affair isn't about whether or not to submit to him. Likewise Ukrainians at the front aren't big on Zelensky and some are even genuinely highly skeptical of the EU. Again your premise is dumb and I can rephrase your question as why "submit to Zelensky and Washington". But the Ukrainians at the front aren't fighting for that specifically. They are fighting for a LARP identity created by Russian liberals, Lenin and Kaganovich with some SS aesthetics throne in to make it marketable to dumb kids. Russians are fighting to keep the East Slav ethnos from being further divided and to the prevent the permanent loss of what they correctly see as Russian soil.
If Ukrainians want to die for their LARP identity nobody is stopping them from doing that. But again "submitting to Putin" is no more relevant than "submitting to Washington" and discussing that brings nothing relevant to the table at all.
All I’m saying is that empirically, most Ukrainians prefer to submit to Zelensky and Washington over Putin, so I was asking why you think that is. And you answered it - Ukrainian identity is a fake false consciousness LARP and despite Putin being the first Tuvan premier and the front man for a series of ethnic mafias, Putin is somehow also the protector of all slavs from Kiev to Belgrade. I don’t understand how you square that with your and rolo’s critique of Putin as globohomo branch manager but it is a coherent explanation, thanks.
LMFAO. Please give a citation of where Rurik or I claimed Putin is defending Slavs. Slime through the fingers is impossible to engage with in seriousness. You have shifted from claiming that Russia is out to destroy Ukrainian culture and steal their grain to claiming I or Rurik said Putin is the defender of all Slavdom.
For the sake of anyone reading this exchange I will just point out that this commenter is essentially trying to boil down the conflict to a binary "submit to Putin or submit to Washington dynamic". While that dynamic is actually in play at the zoomed out level as I mentioned in regards to Luckashencko for example it is not in play in any meaningful way at the level of men in the trenches. Russian soldiers are fighting to prevent the loss of their soil as are the Ukrainians who dont just desert, move to Europe etc.
The Russian troops who are bothering to show up are fighting for a future without Putinism and the Ukrainians are fighting for a Ukraine that doesn't resemble an LGBTQ toilet bowl which is what Zelensky tier leaders will deliver. So this commenters attempt to present the war as simply being about Putinism vs Washington fails when we look at the motivations of the men on the ground. At that point it's necessary to analyse whose claims to Ukraine are the truest and imo that is the Russian claims. Ukrainianism really is a LARP identity created by Russian liberals and Bolshiveks and it ought not to exist. Furthermore Ukraine really is Russian soil and it's current geographic borders are a Bolshivek abortion. Getting of modern Ukraine is nothing more correcting the Bolshiveks mistakes.
That this isnt going to happen anytime soon doesn't change the truth of the matter.
“Russians are fighting to keep the East Slav ethnos from being further divided and to the prevent the permanent loss of what they correctly see as Russian soil.” - if you’re saying is that Shoigu and the officer corps waging the war are patriots and Putin is fighting for different reasons, got it. I thought Girkin, Popov, Surovikin and Teplinsky’s fate and the way they’ve been discussed here meant that the patriots or at least the Russians who actually want to win have all been purged or sidelined and all the patriots willing to serve as enlisted men were wasted in the volunteer battalions raised in June-July 2022 that were funneled into the 3rd army corps and thrown at Kharkov before they were ready.
Can the patriots wrest control of the war from Putin without removing Putin from power?
damn... the amount and variety of emotions this kind of articles bring are overwhelming. This is the kind of purpose in life many men search and strive for but many can not even come close to. Молодец!
Geopolitics & Empire:
Pozdnyakov's channel has distributed a video in which two fighters, a Russian and a Ukrainian, are trying to kill each other in hand-to-hand combat. Fists, knives, stones are used...
How wild and unnatural, scary and painful. Two people from the once single country of the USSR, with the same language and most likely even mixed blood and genes (we are all mixed), with the same faith, culture, with the same childhood, raised on "Well, just you wait", "S legkim parom" and the memory of their grandfathers fighting shoulder to shoulder, these two people mindlessly kill each other without understanding why... For whom??? Simply by order of the presidents.
This is terrible.
And how does this fight end? With the Russian language and a humane request "let me die in peace"....
This is the most terrible thing that could happen to the descendants of Soviet people.....😭😓🥲😭
Full video hand-to-hand combat.
The dialogue between the two opponents after the mortal combat was over
As a result, the seriously wounded Ukrainian asked for a peaceful death, to let him die quietly from his wounds, our fighter granted him such mercy. The Ukrainian was delighted and before his death called the Yakut "The best fighter in the world."
😭 Very sad when brothers killing each other 😭
Algocracy: Russian Edition https://t.me/mrn_death/58718
I'm trying to understand all of this. Moscow betrayed New Russia for fear of more western sanctions? Why was Moscow so against absorbing the republics?
Just so I understand, Moscow betrayed New Russia for fear of more western sanctions? In a nutshell, what were the reasons for the treachery? Maybe I missed it, but why was Moscow so against absorbing the republics?
Putin's goal was to shove donbass into ukraine but with extra privileges for the ethnic globalist mafia clans that operate there because they are powerful in the kremlin.
that was the main concern.
But why? Why not appease this mafia and acquire more territory?
why not annex donbass? because that would be a Nazi-Fascism.
VIP - very important post. Took me a while to digest, but it was worth it. Thank you.