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Apr 29, 2023Liked by Rurik Skywalker

Rolo the money ( 200 рублей)will be automatically debited from my bootsy account tomorrow ,and I will let you know immediately Thanks for the opportunity to read your work from Russia .

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dont worry about it I gave you a full year

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Thanks for giving me a full year, I will pay 200 rubles every month, the money was debited yesterday at boosty, I know it is a tiny contribution, but I will keep doing this. Thanks.

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Apr 29, 2023Liked by Rurik Skywalker

If I start my day with listening your pearly podcast, the day is made. Thanks a lot, Rolo.

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Immigrants from Kyrgyzstan are very angry about having to work in Russia while large number of Chinese workers move to Kyrgyzstan taking jobs. The Chinese immigrants take jobs in Central Asia, then Central Asians need to move to Russia to get work. Remember, most of the central Asians get jobs near the Arctic. They say they would rather stay in Kyrgyzstan. So, even the central Asians are against this. See this article.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/anti-chinese-mood-growing-kyrgyzstan/?source=in-article-related-story

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IT'S THE CIRCLE OF LIFEEEEE

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Rolo, you asked what's happening in Sudan - here it is:

Sudan - yet another country that is going to be occupied/colonized after making deals with Putin and naively trusting him for protection if attacked by his Western "partners".

It seems that Sudan leadership agreed to a Russian naval base and either assumed or were assured directly that Putin will protect them. Once NATO moved in, after threats gave no results, Russia/Putin simply disappeared, and left them to themselves. I've not heard Putin even mentioning let alone condemning NATO regarding to Sudan or anything like that. He may express some "concerns" before his "partners" though, later on, once NATO's "job" is done.

All countries should learn this lesson, Sudan just learned the hard way - never ever trust Putin! There are also hints that Saddam was promised protection by Putin at the time, and we all know what happened to him!

COLOR REVOLUTION IN SUDAN – CHRONOLOGY

https://voxday.net/2023/04/26/color-revolution-in-sudan/

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DEEBLY GONCERNED XD

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Eh, a destabilisation in a West Asian country is always a good thing - it could give ammunition to ISIS, for example. Or even spread to Egypt! Egypt is reeling under the Saudi boot, while being destined for greatness. The Sudan used to make deals with the USSR, although the dream of an Indian-Ocean port remained a mirage (to Jirinovsky's chagrin).

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''Egypt is reeling under the Saudi boot, while being destined for greatness.''

Destined to be gorged on by the soul cannibals waiting in the void

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Apr 29, 2023·edited Apr 29, 2023

Why did Russia's action in Syria make sense and was successful, but Russia's action in the Ukraine since 2014 makes no sense? The two wars overlap.

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Apr 29, 2023·edited Apr 29, 2023

MoD couldnt sabotage the Syria campaign as efficiently as in Ukraine. The 2 key players in Syria where the Russian air force and Wagner. MoD can only indirectly sabotage Wagner through artificial supply issues, Im assuming the Syrians and Iranians helped fill whatever gaps MoD created with Wagners supplies in Syria. MoD probably did leak to Zog Wagners general plans in Syria and this resulted in them getting mauled by NATO a few times but apparently it wasn't enough to cause a Russian defeat in the end.

The biggest thing though is that Wagner could rely on tactical airforce support. ISIS/Zog in Syria never had credible air defence to begin with. That means even if MoD was leaking to Zog in regards to hits against stuff like warehouses and barracks Wagner could still hit targets in real time because ISIS and Zog didn't have S300 coverage. If Wagner was observing 100 ISIS homos and some tanks in real time than those guys would all be dead soon. In Ukraine thats not possible.

Due to Ukraines legacy Soviet air defence tactical air strikes are very risky, and due to MoD sabotage a strategic campaign against Ukraines air defence network is impossible.

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OK, but how could these forces have prevented Putin supporting Yanukovych breaking off and creating an East Ukraine nation in 2014? Yanukovych controlled the UN Mission and the army. Weeks after the overthrow in Kiev, Yanukovych still controlled the Donbass. This is what observers thought Putin would do in 2014. Putin could of done it with few resources, I do not know how any of these saboteurs could of stopped him.

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Putin never had any intention of taking Donbass from Ukraine. Presumably Putin wanted to bail out Assad but in 2014 he only wanted Crimea and not Donbass. What stopped Putin from taking more of Ukraine in 2014 was Putin.

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It pains me to see ISIS equated with ZOG. Sure, they never attacked Israel. But they didn't share a border with the Jews, and they already had plenty of enemies in the local Arab puppet states + the Shia dogs in Iran (no offense towards Shia dogs btw, Heydar Heydar).

But Strelkov and others consider the entire Syrian campaign one giant sabotage - because Russia wasted a lot of military materiel on a useless foreign country, a country supply routes to which are fully controlled by NATO (Türkiye). Somewhat similar, albeit on a smaller scale, to how Strelkov chides Wagner's activities in Mali and Central Africa (although the current civil war in the Sudan is kind of cute, ngl).

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I was responding as to why Russias campaign in Syria was some what successful in comparison to the Ukrainian one. Whether it was useful is another question.

Lol@ISIS not being a Zog astro turfed proxy army.

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How does it serve the interests of ZOG to reinstitute Jizya for the infidels?

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ISIS ain't zog, they are stunning and brave rebels beating them at their own game... like the ukranians are. The globalists will never see it coming

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RILEY TURN UP THE DAMN MIC

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Hi, i like your lucidity. On the other hand, stay away from the gypsy strelkov and other traitors. your answer was always there - putin, only clean around him.

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The point at 15:00 onward is so delightful to hear! It is indeed an error of categories - many people in the West (such as Mearsheimer) try to depict Russia as a state actor (or, as Russian Marxists would say, a "subject of history") when it is anything but! The "Russians" are not a scary, monolithic Other (that's the West if anything, with everyone in lock-step), the Russians are a myriad of anarchic warlords à la early-20th ct. China.

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"Why not do Greece instead?"

It's well-known that Putin originally tried to run his Black Sea pipeline to Bulgaria, but had to shift to Turkey midstream when the EU' scolded Bulgaria for daring to violate its ownership rules. He famously asked whether Bulgaria was actually a sovereign nation that was free to make their own business arrangements. I guess the answer today is obvious.

If you can't even get to Bulgaria how are you going to get to Greece? It's not like Putin had much choice landing the pipeline in Turkey. Why then would Turkey NOT build their own hub?

Do you see now?

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Re: q.1: Yanukovich & Putin had telephone discussion immediately prior to the Maidan in which Putin reportedly (according to Putin's own claim, if he is not lying) urged Yanukovich to use whatever force was necessary to clear the Maidan of protesters. Yanukovich confirmed this & stated that he refused to do this because he did not wish bloodshed - which is obviously bullshit - the real reason for Yanukovich's inaction was the west, the US/UK/NATO pressure, which was open at the time in threatening Yanukovich not to even think about clamping down on the protests. It is not the Kremlin, Russia or Putin who is at fault here. Furthermore, Russia saved Yanukovich's life. So I take issue with the way this situation has been depicted in the podcast, because it would give a person the impression that Russia is at fault for everything that happened in 2014 & the Maidan coup, but those ho organized it? Well what about them?

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Apr 29, 2023Liked by Rurik Skywalker

No that is not correct - the opposite is true!

[1] Vladimir Putin: moron or traitor? | Nikola Mikovic | 2022

https://theliberum.com/vladimir-putin-a-moron-or-a-traitor/

Excerpt: In 2018 the Russian leader explained how he, following the request from his American partners during the Maidan protests in Kyiv in 2014, pressured the then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych not to deploy troops and crackdown on Maidan demonstrators. As a result, Yanukovych was overthrown, and Putin blamed Poland, France, and Germany for not forcing Yanukovych’s opponents to implement the agreement on a settlement of the political crisis in Ukraine signed on February 21, 2014, by the Ukrainian president and opposition leaders. “Was that the first time that the West deceived us,” Russian journalist – critics would call him a propagandist – Vladimir Solovyov asked Putin. “It was possibly the first time that they deceived us in such a rude and arrogant way,” the Russian leader replied. To this day, Putin continues blaming the West for violating various deals, quite aware that the Russian media will never dare to question the Kremlin’s narrative. In other words, no mainstream figure on the Russian political scene will ever ask if Putin is a complete moron who keeps getting deceived by his Western partners or if he might consciously work for the interests of Russia’s opponents.

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This is your evidence? Mirkovic who? Total nonsense, – even Wikipedia, of all sources (surely I don’t need to explain to you what Wikipedia is) makes an accurate recording of events, Russia/Kremlin/Putin were against Yanukovich making any agreements with the opposition. This is a fact. Putin spoke with Yanukovich by telephone & urged him to clear the Maidan, Yanukovich would not do it – incidentally, Yanukovich has never said that the Kremlin pressurised him NOT to use force, there is quote after quote of Yanukovich stating he did not wish to use force against the protesters because he did not want bloodshed. In reality, Yanukovich was bowing to western pressure. Putin afterward stated clearly that Yanukovich had violated an agreement NOT to implement any concessions to the opposition prior to them clearing out of government buildings they either occupied or blockaded. Now if you wish not to believe this, that is your prerogative, I frankly don’t care what you think & I am not trying to convince you, for all I care believe Putin is to blame for the bad weather in Ohio, if that floats your boat. But don’t try to make idiotic claims that this is not true because even a cursory review of events of the Maidan confirm that Russia/Kremlin/Putin were urging Yanukovich not to bend to the Maidan protesters, to use whatever force necessary to clear them from the Maidan, & to ensure they clear out of government buildings. Putin accused Yanukovich afterward of “capitulating” to the opposition. Fact. Putin did this. So, I repeat, to discuss the Maidan events & claim the Kremlin was dissuading Yanukovich from using force against the protesters – disinformation, Yanukovich himself NEVER claimed this, also Yanukovich never requested Russian support the way Assad, Lukashenko & Tokayev did when their turn came. If a claim is to be made that Putin was disingenuous, & was advising Yanukovich to hold back whilst claiming the opposite, this needs to be evidenced, & if it is not, what can it be other than disinformation? Then the question arises, why engage in blatant misinformation? Who exactly benefits from that? Russia? Russian nationalists? It is obvious who benefits from that, & I am genuinely sad to say it, it is obvious whose agenda that serves. Ultimately, people can research it for themselves, as I said, even Wikipedia gives an accurate account where these accusations against Putin are concerned. That is my last word on this, I’m not debating the point or trying to convince anyone, I am pointing out that what was said on the podcase is simply not accurate. And, where is the evidence that the Kremlin/Putin were dissuading Yanukovich from using force against the Maidan protesters when the evidence clearly points to the exact

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Even Angela made a complete fool out of Putin [1] and more than once! So it was not just 2014 - Putin's idiocy continued for the next 8 years there!

[1] Former German Chancellor Merkel admits the Minsk agreement was merely to buy time for Ukraine’s arms build-up: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/22/ffci-d22.html

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You can say "made a complete fool" accurately, but it was evident that Putin was bending over backwards to be accepted by the west. Look at the beautiful but denigrated (in western papers) Sochi olympics, and the Minsk example you give. How could someone be so foolish?

One answer is, because there was so much at stake that now has been irrevocacably lost. Europe could have been invigorated with energy from Russia, and good-will integration across the line of the former Warsaw countries (not like Lithuania, but perhaps like Hungary). This suggests a much more vibrant and positive geopolitical climate than the EU/NATO diplomatic junkyard we have today.

OK, maybe Putin tried too hard, but had his attempts at rapprochement succeeded, and not been trashed at every turn by the west, everyone would now be living in a far better world than what we see today.

It's easy to judge in hindsight that Putin was wasting his efforts. Nevertheless, I see Putin's "naive" diplomatic efforts and their failure as tragic but not unworthy. He gave western leadership every opportunity to turn away from their disgustingly destructive policies, and they are too psychopathic to chose aught but evil. None of the fault can be laid at the door of Putin and Lavrov.

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Oh, & the site mention, Liberium whatever, check out who its editor is, Arthur Blok, a British born Jew who graduated from the Tecnion in Israel. That is your source, a Mossad publication shitting on Putin. You can't make this up. Keep it coming.

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I closely followed the Maidan developments in 2014 on a daily basis, mostly on RT, and Srbalj's account is what I remember. It became evident, from the false flag shootings, and unforgettably gruesome street tactics of some of the demonstrators (such as one person spray-painting police face shields black and another stepping in to ram faces underneath with the ends of poles), that professional agitators were involved. What I recall is, Putin had been urging Yanukovich to order the Berkut take harsher measures, but Yanukovich refused to give orders to shoot his own people.

As for Wikipedia, it cann't ALWAYS lie: if it did, it would let you see what the truth is ;-)

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You rely on Wikipedia for the truth about Russia/Putin/Ukraine???

Nikola is just quoting Putin and his main MSM minion! He publishes articles on many portals. Here's his twitter: https://twitter.com/nikola_mikovic

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The west has centralized corruption whilst russia is a free for all?

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