Russia Learned Who It's Real Friends Were Last Year

And banned them from entering for 5 years ...

A somewhat interesting article came out of TopWar, one of the most vocal pro-war, but anti-Kremlin websites that brought up some points I was meaning to address myself.

It’s nice to see these points being mentioned. A lot of people read TopWar. Not as many as say watch and consume Russian state media. But still, the quality of the audience is different. Grannies and normies don’t read TopWar. People like you and I and our equivalents in Russia do. If the 5D grifters read TopWar, I’d be out of a blogging hobby though, so I suppose I should count my blessings.

TopWar:

Very often we hear from the opposite side the phrase that "the whole world is with us." And very often in response we give a lot of arguments in favor of the fact that the “world” uses Ukraine as a condom, a disposable item and completely unusable after use. And we have? Who are our friends?

Remember those who even today call us friends and allies? At the same time, they support Kyiv and vote against us in various organizations. Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Tajikistan... It is somehow strange to see how the governments of these countries, which in many ways simply owe their existence to Russia, the Russian blood shed there quite recently, today spit on our friendship.

Don’t tell the 5D Eurasianists that most of Eurasia is taking US money to make life as difficult as possible for Russia. It would break their hearts. Literally no serious political commentator thinks that Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and Armenia are becoming friendlier and more integrated with Russia. Not one in Russia that is. It’s amazing that people like Pepe Escobar can get away with writing what they do. Truly.

Perhaps the past year has been a revelation for many of us regarding friendship. It turned out that those whom we “feed”, even tearing off food from our own people, whom we protect, losing resources and soldiers, are not friends at all. No matter what our politicians say at the next summit.

Even the PRC, which is not at all obliged to help its competitor in the world political arena, behaves much more honestly than these friends in the “give-want” style. China helps as much as it is beneficial to it, and does not hide it. We talk a lot about the cunning of the Chinese. But it must be admitted that after the issue is settled, and Moscow and Beijing have come to some kind of agreement, the Chinese behave honestly. Showing the world that China is truly an independent country.

Belarusians have been and remain our true friends. We have been told for many years that President Lukashenko has usurped power, that the people of Belarus are deprived of the right to choose, and so on. What do we see today? A small European country, which few people took seriously until recently, not only did not kneel before the “formidable” West, but is also ready to respond to any provocation, including a military one.

I confess that I have seen the pressure from Kyiv and Warsaw on the Belarusian people. How the West wants to drag Belarus into the war. How they beat the President of Belarus "on the nerve" so that he could not stand it and respond. To the credit of the President and the people of Belarus, they hold on. We, the Russians, do not need military assistance from Minsk.

It is enough that the Belarusians provided us with training grounds for our troops. It is enough that the Belarusians are aiming at the eastern flank of NATO. The fact that the Belarusians are ready to be the first to meet the blow. And this readiness largely cools hot heads in Brussels, Warsaw and other Baltic states.

I was amazed this year by our new friends. First of all, Iran! For many years, for the sake of the West, we have been talking about this country in a negative way. We supported sanctions against this state. And what answer did we get from the Persians? They perfectly understood and understand everything - and in the current situation they clearly took a pro-Russian position.

The North Koreans were even more surprised. For many years, a monster country was "sculpted" from the DPRK. With a starving population, with a brutal regime, with no economy. Rogue country - and that says it all. And today, the leader of North Korea repeatedly declares his desire to help Russia with manpower, weapons and ammunition.

In fact, the DPRK today has become a kind of outpost of Russia in the Far East. Yes, the Koreans are doing their job. They are opposed to the American, Japanese and South Korean armed forces. But at the same time, it is the DPRK that practically neutralizes the Americans and the same Japanese in their attempts to present yet another claim to our eastern lands.

Let’s give a round of applause for the Best Koreans, Iranians, and Belarussians.

These are also literally the three most demonized states in the world. It was kind of obvious that they would join an Axis of Resistance against the Liberal Human Rights Freedom Democracy Global Anal Allies Empire. What people don’t know is that the Kremlin tried to distance itself from these countries on multiple occasions, as the author alludes to. Thank God the Kremlin ran out of time to muck it all up and is now forced to be friends with these guys. I’m waiting for Cuba, Venezuela, Burma, Syria, Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Basque to link up with Russia too lol.

The author goes on to muse that despite the brutal attacks on suspected “separs” and “traitors” going on in Ukraine, there is no actual underground resistance movement to the government in Kiev.

Of course, as readers sometimes write to me, a fairly tough fascist regime has been established in the country, which severely punishes separatism. Agree. But I, as the grandson of a Belarusian partisan, have a simple question. Was German fascism in the occupied territories soft on its opponents?

In Ukraine, then there were no partisan detachments? Didn't the underground operate in Rivne? To hide their own cowardice and support for the regime behind a desire not to interfere in the situation. Where the curve will take you... Let them do what they want, the main thing is not to touch me. They will order to shoot - I will. They will order to cut the Russians - I will. They will order to kill children - I will. It was these “lads” who in 1943 shot my grandmother, the mother of three children, 50 km from the famous Khatyn.

I will not write much about the state of Ukraine. I said, I say and I will say - we are to blame for the fact that this artificially created state still exists. And we will also be to blame for the fact that this state existed. What we see today is the agony of the Kyiv authorities. And the corpse doesn't deserve much attention. He is no longer a tenant and cannot do anything ...

It is curious that there is no partisan movement in Ukraine, of course, but also not really curious at all. The partisan movements of WWII were set up by the Bolsheviks to trigger brutal punitive retaliation against the local population by the German army. The Germans, being autistic blond androids, basically did a repeat of Holland and succeeded in turning the population against themselves with their heavy-handed measures, thereby falling right into the Communists’ hands. No doubt it was Germany’s lack of colonial experience that contributed to their inability to deal with insurgency.

The key point is that these partisan networks did not appear spontaneously like mushrooms suddenly springing up in the forest. There is no pro-Russia movement in Ukraine because Russia never bothered to set one up. They outsourced this task to oligarchs like Medvedchuk and his predecessors with the results that we all saw for ourselves last year. Also, for 8 years, the spooks hunted down anyone with any pro-Russia leanings in the government, the army, or whatever in Ukraine. Then, when the SMO started, the Kremlin was convinced that it would be over quickly, and so had further justification to continue doing nothing.

Remember: the whole point of an insurgency is to trigger an overreaction from your opponent and thereby turn the population that they lash out at against them. So, within Ukraine, the goal would be to get the government to start terrorizing its own population more in the search for “separs” I suppose. This would lead to Ukrainians eventually getting sick of their government. If you wanted to win hearts and minds, well, this wouldn’t be the worst strategy to use to go about doing it. Naturally, the FSB isn’t doing it. All those billions of roubles that they suck out of the state and they’re nowhere to be found when their services might actually be necessary. Ain’t that typical?

What else can I even say at this point?

It’s really quite the accomplishment how the Kremlin lost a country where about half the population supported them and more than half the population would at least not support a war against them. We can only wait to see what fresh stupidity they will get up to in 2023. I’m sure they won’t disappoint.

In the meantime, the Ukrainians will continue to rearm and refit with NATO weapons, they will continue to build their networks within Russia with what seems to be total impunity and the West will continue sending them bags of money at YOUR expense.

I’ll end the post on a more positive note though. There really does seem to be an army massing in Belarus. A new northern front might improve the situation. But I wouldn’t get your hopes up.

The old Russian saying that Russia’s only true friends are its army and navy holds up. Sadly, the spooks and the crooks who have been running Russia saw fit to neglect if for many years. Mostly, it was because they saw a threat coming from having a powerful military bloc re-ascendent in Russia. Pretty much everything in Russia has been done following a 5D plan, actually. A plan to keep the patriots down, the spooks in, and the loot flowing to the oligarchs.