It seems like one of the key advantages of being a hated boomer is that I can see these developments as glass half full.
For the first time in my life, there are two major world leaders, Putin and Xi, who get what the American Empire is doing, can state it clearly and are doing something significant about it. Modi also gets the political aspects but seems to be naive about the cultural imperialism. He especially seems to be letting feminism run wild but, again glass half full, is joining the multipolar movement, defying the US, and patching up things with China.
Speaking of the multipolar movement, this is also the first time there has been a compelling alternative to the American Empire and Jewish rule. (It was hard to be enthusiastic about the old socialist block.) They haven't fully shaped it up yet but the multipolar organizations are growing and systems are being put in place. So there is hope.
Yeah, I wish that Putin and Xi were less cautious but the world is better off with them being leaders. Have to also remember that the American Empire still carries a lot of financial firepower which can be seen in how Chinese and Indian companies don't go along with the new Mir system due to fear of sanctions.
This potential WW3 was inevitable if the rest of the world didn't bend over and take it for democracy. The Jews in particular can't be reasoned with. The other real downside is that things are dreadful in the US and the citizenry is still deluded by the media narratives and the desire to grill and watch sportsball. That is changing but is probably changing too slowly. The Jews are running (quite successfully) their old Bolshevik playbook again and it seems as though they will be as successful this time as last. But that was inevitable too.
I won't "like" the post because I really don't like it. I think releasing the Azov cadre of command is, symbolically speaking, ridiculously bad. Even if they are forced to remain in Turkey for a while, where the exchange reportedly took place.
I don't know how Mevdevchuk could be esteemed so valuable? Something the Kremlin knows and we peasants don't, 5D style? Or merely private friends helping friends, screw the collective cause of Russia and the war, what really counts is the well-being and loyalty inside our own little clique of oligarchs?
It seems I have stumbled onto a clique tossing around items of geopolitical nous, which competes successfully with the online bigname writers. I hope you guys don't mind if I tag a-long.
There are Russian servicemen and commenters on blogs and bit.ly/3C8sqRI that say the Russian orders are so inexplicable (especially re Kharkiv) that there must be collusion with the enemy i.e. the "war" is at least partly stage managed.
Very important questions. Riley has been asking similar ones on his blog for some time. How long will it be before we get to open the box and find out if the Schrödinger Putin is patriot or traitor? He can't be both. A week maybe I guess, as when the SMO ends and the war on Ukraine starts Ukrainian infrastructure will either be destroyed or it will not.
Actually, since you mention it, the point of quantum mechanics is that Putin (and the proverbial cat) ARE both, up to the instant when something forces a decision.
In politics, this is more often the rule than the exception ;-)
These questions upset me as much as anyone else. The only theory I have is Russia continues to worship European standards. A new era of all men have to be clean shaven. They play politics and not much else. The legal process is sacred. Feel good gestures like hanging traitors is barbaric.
The russian government already told us what they care about; a unipolar world. Gotta prop up and appease our dear neutral partners in turkey, India, SA, and China by any means necessary. Hope this gamble works, would I have done a better job? Who knows.
Kourginan (sorry Rolo, probably a boomer like myself or older, but one of the more likeable Russian philosophical patriots IMO) describes Putin as an incredibly astute and patient man, an careful unraveller of copious and complicated geopolitical knots. It´s probably an apt metaphor and we can see the way Putin and Lavrov have safely tiptoed Russia through many dangerous geopolitical minefields over the last number of years with precisely such a technique of ´´annoying patience with treacherous partners´´. Think how they handled Turkey in Syria for instance. Hard to bear for the more passionate among us, but this measured behaviour and constant emphasis on what is lawful may help establish trust in Russia, especially among nations trying to escape from Anglo-saxon exceptionalism and the curent ´´rules based´´ order of plunder.
Strelkov has crime blooded hands as well but as a self confessed Haeg tribunal attendee he in his Royalistic imperial manners have a point and two when shit hit the fans in Rurik lands.
Rasputins motives are very strange , perhaps he have "bought" Denys Prokopenko, after all hes
a Karelian at hart but then still how much crime did he commit in Mariupol id like to know regarding all those corpses lying at the walkways on that very long main street seen on P Lancasters videos.
Even Ramzan seams very unhappy with RasPutins tactics.
No doubt I will inspire the rolling of eyes and be told "piss off ya silly old fart". but I'm gonna do this anyway... as Lord Acton observed "There are no great leaders, only bad men, and they write the histories". I have seen nothing in my life that contests Acton's sage advice. All leaders play us for mugs. My only wriggleroom is that I note some leaders are more intelligent than others. 20 year's close observation has taught me Putin is head and shoulders above any western leader when it comes to intelligence, strategic capacity, and wise caution. I will take that before demented Biden, narcissist Macron, elitist Truss, or any of the gaggle of geese calling themselves German leaders. Given that Albo betrayed the Assange who exposed US mass war crimes, I don't care what he thinks. He ain't even a man.
My impression of Strelkov (from my wife ,an original Russian patriot from Smolensk) is of a once influencial, but by now marginal figure, earlier a self appointed leader, but gradually pushed out of power by the Donbass people. If that is true, maybe there is quite a lot of "sour grapes" in his analysis of current events? Also, I wonder do you follow Dimitri Orlov? His piece yesterday is cynically critical of all those fussing and panicking over last weekend's Ukrainian offensive.
I am one boomer who won't be deterred from reading this substack, despite the boomer-bashing (a mere distraction); but point taken: Tim Flannery is an Australian "climate scientist" (age 66) who talked up sea level rise for 2 decades or more (and thereby talked down the value of coastal real estate) and subsequently bought not one, but two sea coast properties. One for himself and, in his words, one for his children "as an investment".
Yeah, Orlov sometimes pisses me off too with his very glib superior attitude, but he´s a pretty bright fellow (not in the gay sense) and has produced some great essays. He was a climate freak for a while for sure, but admirably has ´´corrected´´ himself in recent years and by now has produced some great debunking pieces on the issue. He´s particularly funny on sea level rising, but I was surprised that he remained virtually silent on the great pandemic and in the comments, I pointed him towards Riley Waggaman and his brilliant and extensive work on the covid kneedlework saga as rolled out in Russia. Orlov said he hadn´t ever heard of Riley and didn´t think there was anything significant about Russia´s medical response to Covid. Just that vaccines had been a good money spinner... etc ...
"According to some reports, many Russian servicemen returned from captivity castrated. Some guys committed suicide on their return home. Only after an autopsy in the morgue did the parents find out that their child was castrated in captivity. Russian media are silent about this for ethical reasons. The Russian side could not reveal all the horrific detail on the tortures as the prisoners exchange was carried out right after the announcement of the partial mobilization in Russia.
As for the Ukrainian prisoners, in total 215 were released. 118 National guardsmen, including 108 servicemen of the Nazi Azov regiment. Among them, there are notorious Azov commanders Denis Prokopenko [...] Among the exchanged Azov fighters, there are Konstantin (Fox) Nikitenko and Nikolai (Frost) Kushch, who surrendered at Azovstal. They were found guilty by the tribunal of shooting civilians and Russian prisoners. Frost “became famous” by sharing videos on the Internet. One of them showed a Russian tankman being shot in the stomach."
I am coming to reckon with the fact that both NATO and Russia are full committed . Russia is committed to salvaging the South East from the insanity of Ukrainian purity and fascsim, while NATO is using that fanatical resolve in a misguided attempt to bring Russia down. Germany operating on behalf of Europe will steadily be crushed for the third time in just over a century.. The apparent tip toe operation from Russia was clearly designed to avoid Nuclear confronatation. Hpwever you can't hold a front line of over 1500 km with less than about 500,000 men. The West is in a suicidal insane mass pyschoses, its idiot people watching and sucking televsion screens for all of the Wests' poisoned life values and the disease that come with that.
I'll sit quietly in the corner until I get invited to the party... unless, of course, some world-shattering event transpires, as the Bundestag was promised for Sept 25th. In that case I will be busy preparing for tyrant-hanging parties.
It seems like one of the key advantages of being a hated boomer is that I can see these developments as glass half full.
For the first time in my life, there are two major world leaders, Putin and Xi, who get what the American Empire is doing, can state it clearly and are doing something significant about it. Modi also gets the political aspects but seems to be naive about the cultural imperialism. He especially seems to be letting feminism run wild but, again glass half full, is joining the multipolar movement, defying the US, and patching up things with China.
Speaking of the multipolar movement, this is also the first time there has been a compelling alternative to the American Empire and Jewish rule. (It was hard to be enthusiastic about the old socialist block.) They haven't fully shaped it up yet but the multipolar organizations are growing and systems are being put in place. So there is hope.
Yeah, I wish that Putin and Xi were less cautious but the world is better off with them being leaders. Have to also remember that the American Empire still carries a lot of financial firepower which can be seen in how Chinese and Indian companies don't go along with the new Mir system due to fear of sanctions.
This potential WW3 was inevitable if the rest of the world didn't bend over and take it for democracy. The Jews in particular can't be reasoned with. The other real downside is that things are dreadful in the US and the citizenry is still deluded by the media narratives and the desire to grill and watch sportsball. That is changing but is probably changing too slowly. The Jews are running (quite successfully) their old Bolshevik playbook again and it seems as though they will be as successful this time as last. But that was inevitable too.
Shalom fellow white person. How are things in Tel Aviv these days with the election?
I won't "like" the post because I really don't like it. I think releasing the Azov cadre of command is, symbolically speaking, ridiculously bad. Even if they are forced to remain in Turkey for a while, where the exchange reportedly took place.
I don't know how Mevdevchuk could be esteemed so valuable? Something the Kremlin knows and we peasants don't, 5D style? Or merely private friends helping friends, screw the collective cause of Russia and the war, what really counts is the well-being and loyalty inside our own little clique of oligarchs?
It seems I have stumbled onto a clique tossing around items of geopolitical nous, which competes successfully with the online bigname writers. I hope you guys don't mind if I tag a-long.
I'll be happy to have you, but we are at Rolo's so he gets to say if you can hang or not
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Hxd3fqwW1d5O/
Bentley is the real deal.
There are Russian servicemen and commenters on blogs and bit.ly/3C8sqRI that say the Russian orders are so inexplicable (especially re Kharkiv) that there must be collusion with the enemy i.e. the "war" is at least partly stage managed.
Very important questions. Riley has been asking similar ones on his blog for some time. How long will it be before we get to open the box and find out if the Schrödinger Putin is patriot or traitor? He can't be both. A week maybe I guess, as when the SMO ends and the war on Ukraine starts Ukrainian infrastructure will either be destroyed or it will not.
" He can't be both."
Actually, since you mention it, the point of quantum mechanics is that Putin (and the proverbial cat) ARE both, up to the instant when something forces a decision.
In politics, this is more often the rule than the exception ;-)
These questions upset me as much as anyone else. The only theory I have is Russia continues to worship European standards. A new era of all men have to be clean shaven. They play politics and not much else. The legal process is sacred. Feel good gestures like hanging traitors is barbaric.
The russian government already told us what they care about; a unipolar world. Gotta prop up and appease our dear neutral partners in turkey, India, SA, and China by any means necessary. Hope this gamble works, would I have done a better job? Who knows.
Kourginan (sorry Rolo, probably a boomer like myself or older, but one of the more likeable Russian philosophical patriots IMO) describes Putin as an incredibly astute and patient man, an careful unraveller of copious and complicated geopolitical knots. It´s probably an apt metaphor and we can see the way Putin and Lavrov have safely tiptoed Russia through many dangerous geopolitical minefields over the last number of years with precisely such a technique of ´´annoying patience with treacherous partners´´. Think how they handled Turkey in Syria for instance. Hard to bear for the more passionate among us, but this measured behaviour and constant emphasis on what is lawful may help establish trust in Russia, especially among nations trying to escape from Anglo-saxon exceptionalism and the curent ´´rules based´´ order of plunder.
Strelkov has crime blooded hands as well but as a self confessed Haeg tribunal attendee he in his Royalistic imperial manners have a point and two when shit hit the fans in Rurik lands.
Rasputins motives are very strange , perhaps he have "bought" Denys Prokopenko, after all hes
a Karelian at hart but then still how much crime did he commit in Mariupol id like to know regarding all those corpses lying at the walkways on that very long main street seen on P Lancasters videos.
Even Ramzan seams very unhappy with RasPutins tactics.
No doubt I will inspire the rolling of eyes and be told "piss off ya silly old fart". but I'm gonna do this anyway... as Lord Acton observed "There are no great leaders, only bad men, and they write the histories". I have seen nothing in my life that contests Acton's sage advice. All leaders play us for mugs. My only wriggleroom is that I note some leaders are more intelligent than others. 20 year's close observation has taught me Putin is head and shoulders above any western leader when it comes to intelligence, strategic capacity, and wise caution. I will take that before demented Biden, narcissist Macron, elitist Truss, or any of the gaggle of geese calling themselves German leaders. Given that Albo betrayed the Assange who exposed US mass war crimes, I don't care what he thinks. He ain't even a man.
Ramzan Kadyrov was certainly not happy:
https://topwar.ru/202233-glava-chechni-o-vcherashnem-obmene-plennymi-on-byl-vypolnen-na-ukrainskih-uslovijah-s-uchastnikami-specoperacii-nikto-dazhe-ne-posovetovalsja.html
My impression of Strelkov (from my wife ,an original Russian patriot from Smolensk) is of a once influencial, but by now marginal figure, earlier a self appointed leader, but gradually pushed out of power by the Donbass people. If that is true, maybe there is quite a lot of "sour grapes" in his analysis of current events? Also, I wonder do you follow Dimitri Orlov? His piece yesterday is cynically critical of all those fussing and panicking over last weekend's Ukrainian offensive.
Yes, there is a lot of sour grapes and he doesn't know how to frame his message correctly.
BUT.
He's been totally right this whole time.
I don't read boomers like Orlov, sorry. Doesn't he sell houseboats because global warming will raise sea levels? Also, he's part you-know-who-ish.
I am one boomer who won't be deterred from reading this substack, despite the boomer-bashing (a mere distraction); but point taken: Tim Flannery is an Australian "climate scientist" (age 66) who talked up sea level rise for 2 decades or more (and thereby talked down the value of coastal real estate) and subsequently bought not one, but two sea coast properties. One for himself and, in his words, one for his children "as an investment".
Yeah, Orlov sometimes pisses me off too with his very glib superior attitude, but he´s a pretty bright fellow (not in the gay sense) and has produced some great essays. He was a climate freak for a while for sure, but admirably has ´´corrected´´ himself in recent years and by now has produced some great debunking pieces on the issue. He´s particularly funny on sea level rising, but I was surprised that he remained virtually silent on the great pandemic and in the comments, I pointed him towards Riley Waggaman and his brilliant and extensive work on the covid kneedlework saga as rolled out in Russia. Orlov said he hadn´t ever heard of Riley and didn´t think there was anything significant about Russia´s medical response to Covid. Just that vaccines had been a good money spinner... etc ...
Orlov and friends have gone after Riley from what I understand for speaking the truth about Sputnik.
Do you have a link for this piece by Dimitri Orlov?
https://cluborlov.wordpress.com for new essays, you might need to pay a small subscription
Cheers
From https://southfront.org/unequal-prisoners-exchange-first-testimonies/
"According to some reports, many Russian servicemen returned from captivity castrated. Some guys committed suicide on their return home. Only after an autopsy in the morgue did the parents find out that their child was castrated in captivity. Russian media are silent about this for ethical reasons. The Russian side could not reveal all the horrific detail on the tortures as the prisoners exchange was carried out right after the announcement of the partial mobilization in Russia.
As for the Ukrainian prisoners, in total 215 were released. 118 National guardsmen, including 108 servicemen of the Nazi Azov regiment. Among them, there are notorious Azov commanders Denis Prokopenko [...] Among the exchanged Azov fighters, there are Konstantin (Fox) Nikitenko and Nikolai (Frost) Kushch, who surrendered at Azovstal. They were found guilty by the tribunal of shooting civilians and Russian prisoners. Frost “became famous” by sharing videos on the Internet. One of them showed a Russian tankman being shot in the stomach."
I am coming to reckon with the fact that both NATO and Russia are full committed . Russia is committed to salvaging the South East from the insanity of Ukrainian purity and fascsim, while NATO is using that fanatical resolve in a misguided attempt to bring Russia down. Germany operating on behalf of Europe will steadily be crushed for the third time in just over a century.. The apparent tip toe operation from Russia was clearly designed to avoid Nuclear confronatation. Hpwever you can't hold a front line of over 1500 km with less than about 500,000 men. The West is in a suicidal insane mass pyschoses, its idiot people watching and sucking televsion screens for all of the Wests' poisoned life values and the disease that come with that.
I'll sit quietly in the corner until I get invited to the party... unless, of course, some world-shattering event transpires, as the Bundestag was promised for Sept 25th. In that case I will be busy preparing for tyrant-hanging parties.