Not trying to insult any of the readerships intelligence and I assume most everyone gets what the post is saying but for anyone semi new here they mean that the Kremlins attempt to present Prigozhins villa as proof of his unique evil fell totally flat because everyone in Russia expected exactly this from both Prigozhin and the Kremlin. The FSB leaking the photos are working on behalf of people just like Prigozhin. They are trying to stir up the peasants against Prigozhin while treating him way better than they treat the peasants. Its total meltdown and just proving to the peasantry that their overlords are hapless idiots and hypocrites. If you are waging a war for antifa values than why is your Hitler walking free and having his loot returned?
As for Strelkovs anger I dont know anymore. What is this?
Strelkov is right about Prigozhin in principle but would Mozgovi have really rallied around the St Petersburg gang and advocated for shooting everyone in Wagner? By Strelkovs logic here shouldn't all the troops who stood aside for Wagner also be shot? How does the Shoigu clan and Kremlin who Strelkov is also at odds with here not win out and become further entrenched if we follow his advice? Doesn't this amount to rallying around Mozgovis murderers to spite Beregs murderers? Whats going on here?
Arent the peasants who are just making memes about the shit show and laughing at naked emperor more correct here than Strelkov even?
Strelkov isnt doing himself any favours with this sort of inconsistency, lots of people are recognizing it and its going to cost him allot of the capital he has built up as far as being incorruptible and trustworthy. Its seriously the Z version of the liberal/nationalist fiasco, tying the angry patriots to the novipops and Oligarchs for the greater good.
I'm telling you i think this inconsistency is because someone is yanking at his chain. That usually explains most such inconsistencies - someone is either being paid or coerced to be inconsistent.
I guess that would fall under promising him something. We promise White hats will arrest Shoigu and Nabiullina, deport the Churkas etc if you just demand the destruction of Wagner.
If its something like that than imo the real goal wouldnt be setting up a Russian Q-anon but rather an attempt to discredit Strelkov himself by getting him to White Knight for MoD while demanding the blood of Wagner. That has the potential to split the patriot/Nationalist community in Russia just like getting the 1488 crowd to White Knight for liberals split up the Russian WNs.
The Populist Delusion is a relevant, up to date and well written little book which explains much about the nature of power. Rolo might do well to peruse it before issuing a second edition of his own book.
As Barzoom tells us, that worked out sooooo well for the Red Indians!
Trump fever, Qanon, 'trust the plan', praising the Lord without having any ammunition to pass, that sort of thing has been the modern equivalent. Oh yes, and 'Vote Harder'.
I found a long discussion after his Ghost Dance article. It demonstrated for me that many Americans still believe they really can put Humpty Dumpty together again.
Rolo, I think maybe Simplicius has been reading your stuff. On his latest sitrep, he has a Russian public opinion poll showing that Shoigu has a 62% approval rating, while only about 20% hate him. "This should put to bed any specious narratives from the 2D bloggers that Shoigu is 'universally hated' by Russians".
I don't know why you even care what the peasants and peasant soldiers think, anyhow.
>What I had said was that amongst the regular populace, Shoigu is not really a controversial figure. Heโs not particularly liked or disliked simply because heโs not a โloudโ personality who takes the limelight. He does his job quietly and rarely has any scandals other than the minor thing with his daughter, which is not even his own scandal.
Holy and moley.
Shoigu's son in law was a large scandal. It was barely surpressed by the Russian media.
Shoigu is an extremely LOUD personality. He was a voracious media hog. He went quiet during the SMO out of shame.
Again, does this idiot even speak Russian? Who defends Shoigu's honor who isn't being paid to do so? Need I even state the obvious that Tuvans are hated generally by Russians and for good reason? Do Russians approve of his huge mansions and all the money his MoD steals and spends on luxury goods in Europe?
And yet, the swine gobble his offering of disinfo down and beg for more!
I can't believe that this is the hill the ZAnons want to die on: defending the most corrupt and inept man in Russia's honor. Wow. They must be getting paid well to grit their teeth and pretend that they like the Tuvan gangster.
I also saw an internet poll that put him at 9% approval.
Seeing as old-timers who watch TV and believe it would like Shoigu and those with internet connection would not, this seems to explain a lot of the discrepancy.
Again, in my patriot milieu, NO ONE likes the plywood fake general.
Simplicius isn't Russian, doesn't speak Russian and is a former saker employee (a bullshitter).
Polling is never easy. In the USA, people (and especially Republicans) are more and more reluctant to admit their political views to random strangers on the phone. So when the polls disagree radically with election outcomes (as they almost always do), nobody knows for sure whether it's because the polls are bad, or because the elections are being stolen.
It must be a big problem in Russia too? Do people feel safe to admit if they don't like Shoigu, or Putin himself?
On the other hand, if you ask your 'patriot' friends, or post a poll on a website, you'll also get a biased sample. 91% of Strelkov fans hate Shoigu? Surprise surprise.
Maybe we can agree that nobody should like Shoigu, if they do their research? Although I would be curious what you think of Simplicius's other point, which is that however bad Shoigu might be, Serdyukov was a lot worse. Also (I think he would add): Shoigu's troops are holding the line against the Ukrainian offensive, at least for the moment; so again, the situation could be worse.
Damn , what a can of worms. I assume the Ukrainian side is also racked with all this oligarch warfare as well. The impression I got from watching RT a coup[le of years back , was that of a strong cohesive military/ government partnership in Russia. However with the start of the SMO it soon became obvious that there is as much hubris on the Russian side as the Western side. It is painful to think about how many people are losing their lives and limbs in this madness. Willy OAM has some great interviews with foreign fighters on the Uky side and also from the Russian side. It is clear that the UKY'S are getting flogged pretty badly and have a lot of the same issues as the Russian side. It seems from watching a few of the interviews that the Ukranians are being bled dry and Russia is slowly getting it's shit together on their supply and tactical issues.
I think it is the opposite. Ukraine is gaining a larger and more experienced army and getting more and more equipment while Russia has less strength than when the war started. This could be remedied by introducing a war economy of course, but Nabiullina would never allow it.
Have a listen to some of this, a professional Australian soldier describing his experiences advising and training in Ukraine , he is fairly pessimistic about Ukraine's abilities to survive.
One autocrat: how would you feel it he turned out to be Shoigu? Authoritarianism is totally compatible with corruption. As with most absolutes (here an absolute dictator), you should be careful what you wish for.
Justice for Mozgovoi.
I found this analysis of the Prigozhin drama to be spot on:
๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ญ๐บ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฐ๐ป๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ค๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ด๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ-๐ต๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฃ๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ.
๐๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐น๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ข๐ด๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐จ๐ด. ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ. ๐ ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ. ๐๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ฃ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ.
๐๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ด, ๐จ๐ช๐ง๐ต ๐ด๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐จ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ง๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ โ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ดโ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ โ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ดโ (๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ), ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ. ๐๐ค๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐บ๐ฑ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ญ๐ข๐ธ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ต๐ด. "๐๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ" ๐ฐ๐ณ "๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ".
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ถ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ'๐ด ๐ญ๐ข๐ธ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต. ๐๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฐ๐ป๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ช๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ (๐ช๐ฏ ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ต, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ป๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ), ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ง๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ด? ๐๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ?
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ต.
๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ด๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ต. ๐ ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ต.
https://t.me/podled/9619
Not trying to insult any of the readerships intelligence and I assume most everyone gets what the post is saying but for anyone semi new here they mean that the Kremlins attempt to present Prigozhins villa as proof of his unique evil fell totally flat because everyone in Russia expected exactly this from both Prigozhin and the Kremlin. The FSB leaking the photos are working on behalf of people just like Prigozhin. They are trying to stir up the peasants against Prigozhin while treating him way better than they treat the peasants. Its total meltdown and just proving to the peasantry that their overlords are hapless idiots and hypocrites. If you are waging a war for antifa values than why is your Hitler walking free and having his loot returned?
As for Strelkovs anger I dont know anymore. What is this?
https://t.me/apwagner/9550
Strelkov is right about Prigozhin in principle but would Mozgovi have really rallied around the St Petersburg gang and advocated for shooting everyone in Wagner? By Strelkovs logic here shouldn't all the troops who stood aside for Wagner also be shot? How does the Shoigu clan and Kremlin who Strelkov is also at odds with here not win out and become further entrenched if we follow his advice? Doesn't this amount to rallying around Mozgovis murderers to spite Beregs murderers? Whats going on here?
Arent the peasants who are just making memes about the shit show and laughing at naked emperor more correct here than Strelkov even?
Strelkov's bizarre position on this makes sense if we factor in his FSB loyalty.
Strelkov isnt doing himself any favours with this sort of inconsistency, lots of people are recognizing it and its going to cost him allot of the capital he has built up as far as being incorruptible and trustworthy. Its seriously the Z version of the liberal/nationalist fiasco, tying the angry patriots to the novipops and Oligarchs for the greater good.
I'm telling you i think this inconsistency is because someone is yanking at his chain. That usually explains most such inconsistencies - someone is either being paid or coerced to be inconsistent.
Not disagreement but it means they either really have something on Strelkov, are paying him, or are promising him something. All bad news.
I think he's being psyoped into a "white hats working secretly in the gubmint" type Qanon/Operation Trust scheme.
I guess that would fall under promising him something. We promise White hats will arrest Shoigu and Nabiullina, deport the Churkas etc if you just demand the destruction of Wagner.
If its something like that than imo the real goal wouldnt be setting up a Russian Q-anon but rather an attempt to discredit Strelkov himself by getting him to White Knight for MoD while demanding the blood of Wagner. That has the potential to split the patriot/Nationalist community in Russia just like getting the 1488 crowd to White Knight for liberals split up the Russian WNs.
Oligarchs must always have a king, and king must be kept weak.
Nice one. Thank you Rolo.
Thanks for the great article.
The Populist Delusion is a relevant, up to date and well written little book which explains much about the nature of power. Rolo might do well to peruse it before issuing a second edition of his own book.
https://the-rdk.github.io/books/populist_delusion.pdf
One may wonder whether Belarus and Wagner may provide some opposition to the oligarchic managerialists of Russia.
Its a good book, but I haven't finished it.
Any good conclusions?
Page 68 shows why TPTB are so focussed on hating white people - although Schlomo's role is barely mentioned.
'The moment of truth for any regime will come at the moment in which
ideological โsoft powerโ is stripped away and it must use repressive force to
crush its opposition. Hesitancy on the part of Power at the hour of decisionโ
whether through a failure of nerve in the leadership or a failure in confidence
on the part of their generalsโwill seal their fate if rival aristocrats exploit
popular discontent.
What is the benefit of reading Jouvenel? What can he give us that we cannot
find in the elite theorists or in Schmitt? I believe he gives us a dynamic model
of change that is somewhat taken for granted in the other thinkers. Mosca
discusses the tendency towards feudalism or towards bureaucratisation but
does not explain how a society transitions from one state to the next, or
indeed, why; Jouvenel does. Pareto outlines his circulation of elites, and the
predominance of foxes or lions in the ruling class, but he does not give us the
exact mechanism through which this happens; Jouvenel does. Schmitt states
that every sovereign must declare its friends and enemies, but Jouvenel
provides a rationale for who might be the sovereignโs enemy at any given
point. For example, in 2021, the US Federal Governmentโthe public face of
the aforementioned syndicalist nexus of finance, corporations, and NGOsโ
has declared that โwhite supremacistsโ constitute the highest terrorist threat to
the country; former President George W. Bush even argued they belong in
the same breath as ISIS and that, in a statement as Schmittian as any ever
uttered, โbigotry and white supremacy are โblasphemyโ against the American
creed.โ34 The media daily propagandises against โwhite privilegeโ, explains why
white people are โthe problemโ. But why would Power focus so heavily on this
group, โwhite peopleโ? It is because it comprises people who are independent
of the state, would-be aristocrats, subsidiaries in potential, and even a few truly
independent institutions, and therefore represents the largest threat to its
hegemony. This was embodied in the hated figure of Donald Trump, but
since he was banished from the airwaves and social media, now it must take
the form of a direct attack on the disobedient people themselves, especially if
they have refused the vaccination against the pandemic which is a very
convenient proxy marker of โfriendโ or โenemyโ to Power. Jouvenel as a guide
would tell us two things: first, one way or the other, the hour of decision will
come; second, whatever order exists after this hour of decision will grant no
more โlibertyโ than what came beforeโthe game stays the same, only the
players change.'
The answer for "what to do" is to do a white ghost dance.
As Barzoom tells us, that worked out sooooo well for the Red Indians!
Trump fever, Qanon, 'trust the plan', praising the Lord without having any ammunition to pass, that sort of thing has been the modern equivalent. Oh yes, and 'Vote Harder'.
you should see my note on this. the ghost man dance is a long discussion that ive been having with JC for a while now. seriously, read what i wrote.
I found a long discussion after his Ghost Dance article. It demonstrated for me that many Americans still believe they really can put Humpty Dumpty together again.
Rolo, I think maybe Simplicius has been reading your stuff. On his latest sitrep, he has a Russian public opinion poll showing that Shoigu has a 62% approval rating, while only about 20% hate him. "This should put to bed any specious narratives from the 2D bloggers that Shoigu is 'universally hated' by Russians".
I don't know why you even care what the peasants and peasant soldiers think, anyhow.
>What I had said was that amongst the regular populace, Shoigu is not really a controversial figure. Heโs not particularly liked or disliked simply because heโs not a โloudโ personality who takes the limelight. He does his job quietly and rarely has any scandals other than the minor thing with his daughter, which is not even his own scandal.
Holy and moley.
Shoigu's son in law was a large scandal. It was barely surpressed by the Russian media.
Shoigu is an extremely LOUD personality. He was a voracious media hog. He went quiet during the SMO out of shame.
Again, does this idiot even speak Russian? Who defends Shoigu's honor who isn't being paid to do so? Need I even state the obvious that Tuvans are hated generally by Russians and for good reason? Do Russians approve of his huge mansions and all the money his MoD steals and spends on luxury goods in Europe?
And yet, the swine gobble his offering of disinfo down and beg for more!
I saw a poll putting Shoigu in the 40% range.
I can't believe that this is the hill the ZAnons want to die on: defending the most corrupt and inept man in Russia's honor. Wow. They must be getting paid well to grit their teeth and pretend that they like the Tuvan gangster.
I also saw an internet poll that put him at 9% approval.
Seeing as old-timers who watch TV and believe it would like Shoigu and those with internet connection would not, this seems to explain a lot of the discrepancy.
Again, in my patriot milieu, NO ONE likes the plywood fake general.
Simplicius isn't Russian, doesn't speak Russian and is a former saker employee (a bullshitter).
Polling is never easy. In the USA, people (and especially Republicans) are more and more reluctant to admit their political views to random strangers on the phone. So when the polls disagree radically with election outcomes (as they almost always do), nobody knows for sure whether it's because the polls are bad, or because the elections are being stolen.
It must be a big problem in Russia too? Do people feel safe to admit if they don't like Shoigu, or Putin himself?
On the other hand, if you ask your 'patriot' friends, or post a poll on a website, you'll also get a biased sample. 91% of Strelkov fans hate Shoigu? Surprise surprise.
Maybe we can agree that nobody should like Shoigu, if they do their research? Although I would be curious what you think of Simplicius's other point, which is that however bad Shoigu might be, Serdyukov was a lot worse. Also (I think he would add): Shoigu's troops are holding the line against the Ukrainian offensive, at least for the moment; so again, the situation could be worse.
my fans hate strelkov for being a spook actually.
Damn , what a can of worms. I assume the Ukrainian side is also racked with all this oligarch warfare as well. The impression I got from watching RT a coup[le of years back , was that of a strong cohesive military/ government partnership in Russia. However with the start of the SMO it soon became obvious that there is as much hubris on the Russian side as the Western side. It is painful to think about how many people are losing their lives and limbs in this madness. Willy OAM has some great interviews with foreign fighters on the Uky side and also from the Russian side. It is clear that the UKY'S are getting flogged pretty badly and have a lot of the same issues as the Russian side. It seems from watching a few of the interviews that the Ukranians are being bled dry and Russia is slowly getting it's shit together on their supply and tactical issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QGaKhiOCTo&t=1211s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKZpYglZrW4&t=3686s
I think it is the opposite. Ukraine is gaining a larger and more experienced army and getting more and more equipment while Russia has less strength than when the war started. This could be remedied by introducing a war economy of course, but Nabiullina would never allow it.
Have a listen to some of this, a professional Australian soldier describing his experiences advising and training in Ukraine , he is fairly pessimistic about Ukraine's abilities to survive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKZpYglZrW4
One autocrat: how would you feel it he turned out to be Shoigu? Authoritarianism is totally compatible with corruption. As with most absolutes (here an absolute dictator), you should be careful what you wish for.