Russian State Media Op-Ed Warns of Looming Threat From Irate Patriot Bloc!
Accusations of treachery start flying when things go bad.
A fascinating op-ed came out recently in RIA Novostiy. Let’s read it and then reconvene to break down what it means.
RIA:
The departure of our army from Kherson to the left bank of the Dnieper provoked the expected reaction from a part of society - what a horror, everything was gone. They also repeat one of the most famous phrases in Russian history: "What is this - stupidity or treason?"
These words were uttered 106 years ago, on November 14, 1916: at a meeting of the State Duma, the leader of the Cadet Party, Pavel Milyukov , in his speech denouncing the authorities, posed the question point-blank: "What is this - stupidity or treason?" Among the accusations thrown in the face of the highest authority - the royal court and the government - the main one was that she was looking for a "shameful peace" with Germany . The leader of the opposition named (prudently quoting the German press) those who supposedly make up this traitorous party: among them were Prime Minister Stürmer (from Russian Germans) and Grigory Rasputin. Milyukov's speech was banned by the censors, but it was on the lists. A few days later, Stürmer was dismissed (not because of Milyukov's speech), the next month Rasputin was killed - and two months later it was February 1917 ...
Yes, the situation on the even of the Freemason Coup followed by the Neocon Revolution in Russia was difficult and strained. The situation, at least superficially, was similar to the situation now.
But there are also many differences - too many differences to list, actually.
And, frankly, this is not where I want to go with this piece. I don’t agree with the premise, which will become clearer as the article continues, that the patriot bloc are the equivalent of Kerensky’s coup people or, worse, the Bolsheviks.
None of what Milyukov said was true—neither the royal court nor the government were conducting secret negotiations with Germany. But then a considerable part of educated society believed Milyukov, who, after the abdication of Nicholas II, became the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia and tried to wage the war to a victorious end. But the army without a king at the head (who was, after all, also the supreme commander in chief) began to decompose along with the whole country - and instead of victory, we got a revolution, the obscene Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (that is, the loss of western lands, including Ukraine ) and the Civil War. Why remember it now?
To the fact that the indignation at the next statement of our Foreign Ministry that Russia is ready for negotiations with Ukraine is very reminiscent of those same Milyukov suffering - how is it, why did we fight, we must not allow a blow to the back of our army, we need to stop the traitors in the elite who are ready to surrender Russian interests in negotiations (secret or overt)! Bad news from the fronts is commented on in exactly the same way - they are leaving Kherson because they want to come to an agreement with the West, start negotiations, and refuse to defeat Ukraine! Here are the traitors - they only think about their skins and capital! It is necessary to expose everyone, remove them and put them on trial, and the one who does not understand this and does not do this is himself a traitor!
We have been hearing and reading all this for a very long time, but now there is another exacerbation of pseudo-patriotic hysteria. It covers a small part of society, but this is not good either. Moreover, there is a danger that in the event of defeats at the front, in combination with some next statement about negotiations, the neurosis will spread to the broad masses, that is, it will begin to threaten the main condition for our victory: popular unity in trust in the supreme power. To prevent this from happening, we need to know the lessons of history well - including remembering November 1916 - and be aware of what is happening now, and distinguish between real and imaginary threats.
Alright so, I can sort of understand what he is saying because I was saying the same thing in Russia for many years. I argued that there was no point in continuing the Nationalist-Liberal alliance that had been set up by the founders of Nationalism 2.0 politically. I argued that Putin was popular, the military was popular, as was Orthodoxy (not popular enough to convince people to attend those boring and long services, but in general) and so going against these things was totally inane and stupid.
I also argued that nothing can be done without understanding that Russia’s enemies are breathing down her neck. Are the elite in Russia sadistic and corrupt? Of course! But that doesn’t mean that the American knee pressing down on Russia’s head is a myth or that it would be better. All that it means is that Russia has many enemies, internal and external, and that patriots have to oppose them all!
The current patriotic concerns about the conduct of the war, unlike the fictional negotiations of a century ago, are well-founded. So are the concerns about ongoing negotiations with the enemy right now. Unlike then, these negotiations are taking place in public - they’re going on right now in Turkey and in Indonesia! And what about the secret negotiations to swap Azov fighters out? What about the grain deals? What about the gas still flowing into Ukraine? Are these delusions cooked up by “pseudo-patriots” as the author alleges?
Also, the comparison to Duma parties of the early 20th century is extremely low-IQ and slanderous. At this point, alarms are going off in my head and I think we should run a quick physiognomy check on the author:
You know, it really is funny. People on the right, including Dugin, like to joke that everyone affiliated with the Russian government looks like they ought to be hawking their imported wares at the bazaar. Let’s just put it this way: I would be rather surprised to hear that someone who looks like this self-identifies as a Russian and do the polite, but disbelieving huwhyte person affected “oh” followed by a “that’s nice, fellow Russian” as I did the tilt my head back, eyebrows up thing.
The equivalent of the patriotic bloc would have to be the Black Hundreds, clearly, which were a populist-peasant movement against traitors and saboteurs in Russian society. Fiercely pro-Russian and exemplifying some of the best traits and elements of Russian society, they were brutally put down by the secret police and then the army. Shorn of any populist-political base at home, the Tsar was easy pickings for the coup that followed. And, having spurned the populist movement that could have saved Russia in the years preceding the Bolshevik coup, the Whites struggled to gain any significant popular support. And rightly so. They were a gang of vicious, entitled and extremely Liberal retards in their own right. Case in point: democratizing the army, stripping officers of their epaulettes and holding elections for officers was a White idea and implemented by them first.
Now, I want to try explain what the “knife in the back” narrative this time around actually is as best I understand it. No one explicitly explains it in Russia, probably because they either assume that people already understand what they’re talking about, or they’re extremely sub-par writers (a persistent problem in Russia), or, finally, they’re afraid of being too explicit. Photos of Stremousov’s car have surfaced showing it riddled with bullet-holes, so maybe they’re right to be so reticent to speak openly and plainly.
And his partner-in-government, Ekaterina Gubareva, was nabbed by someone in Russian territory recently. No doubt they are both simply working with British disinfo agents to discredit the Russian war effort or something.
So yeah.
Anyways, I suppose the task falls on my unworthy shoulders to try and explain what goes unsaid by many Russian patriots.
The set-up is something like this: now that there is a war going on, the traitors in the elite negotiate with the West for stuff that they want and trade military objectives for it. So, say, the right to trade steel on the London stock exchange for calling up a commander and pressuring him to order a retreat, for example. Or, perhaps the treachery is committed by fighting mobilization tooth and nail at home to avoid getting in trouble with the West. Or, the lack of escalation and the artificial limits placed on the Russian military by the political class are because people in agencies like the MFA or some others want to negotiate a disadvantages peace for Russia in exchange for, say, condos and flats in the West. Finally, that there are secret arms sales and swaps of prisoner and that sort of thing being conducted by state agencies.
That’s the accusation, roughly speaking.
I have no idea whether this accusation is true or not or, more importantly, whether the many incidents that we have observed so far hint at an organized conspiracy. I do believe that the majority of the political class, business class, media class, education class, middle class, and foreigner class in Russia is anti-Russian and that something ought to be done about it. For the first time, I have heard the problem being openly discussed in Russian society, which pretends that it never noticed these problems before. Being able to talk about at least some of these problems is a big step forward already.
And there is no betrayal in the elites, because those who do not share the aspirations for victory, firstly, have no influence on the supreme power, and, secondly, they are ceasing to be an "elite". Yes, we have a huge personnel problem due to the fact that professionals are often unpatriotic, and patriots are unprofessional, but in an extreme situation, all processes are accelerated, and the formation of a new, state-minded elite (from power to business and culture) will go much faster. But renewal should not be replaced by a search for traitors and traitors in power (excluding, of course, real traitors), we do not need purges for the sake of purges - we need to get rid of weak and incompetent leaders, while relying on the consolidation of all forces that understand the seriousness of the challenges facing us tasks.
At the same time, the country will change more and more seriously - formulating and acquiring meanings, realizing its essence and building a national formula for its existence not just for the period of storm and onslaught, but also for the subsequent peacetime. This is a process no less important than what is occurring at the front, and it is precisely in it that there should be both maximum trust in each other and the desire to translate the Russian dream into the construction of a future just social order.
But, there is still much more work to do in pushing the boundaries of acceptable speech to encompass the entirety of the truth. Russians need to start openly discussing the ethnic Neocon problem, for example, if they’re to make any sense of who their true enemies are and what their intentions may be.
But victory at the front, at the same time, has no alternative for us - regardless of how much effort and time it takes to achieve it. It can be stolen from us not by betrayal at the top, but by those who, out of good intentions, out of stupidity and weakness, or will deliberately inflate panic moods, shouting "everything is lost, treason in the Kremlin." It is to them that Milyukov's "Stupidity or Treason?" can actually be attributed. Alas, there are also the second ones among them - those who directly rely on turmoil, that is, they work directly for the enemy.
And Russian history gives us numerous examples of how to distinguish between real and fictional betrayal - how to distinguish 1612 from 1916. We have learned these lessons.
Stupidity is to look for treason when there is none and cannot be, and treason is to try to kindle distrust of those who are only aimed at winning.
For all the talk of 1917 in this article, there is, of course, no mention of the chief culprits of the bloodbath that followed. For all the chiding about learning from history that the author indulges in, he remains too cowardly to state the most obvious parallel between then and now: namely a coordinated ethnic Neocon effort to destroy Russia.
Why does he fear doing so?
He positions himself as the real patriot opposed to the pseuds out there talking about traitors in the government, but he doesn’t show any real patriotic courage in his article, unfortunately. I also can’t help but think that if the patriots started explicitly naming names and noticing coincidences, he’d be among the first to condemn them.
But I’m actually pleasantly surprised by the article, overall. There were already many concessions in it such as when the author pointed out that even after 1.5 million hard-core Liberals fled from St. Petersburg and Moscow, the government is still beset with Liberals infesting its government. The obvious question though is: how did the situation get so bad? Who let the infestation get so bad? Was it really an accident?
From my experience, most people working as bureaucrats in Russia are Liberals. Russia’s institutions are hardly a bastion of conservative patriotism. They focus more on predatory corruption and haughty elitism, generally, which is just a synonym for Liberalism, really. If “Liberaling” were a verb it would come to mean stealing money and justifying it by looking down on others and promoting bizarre social causes while engaging in recreational homosexuality (optional, but encouraged).
Now, the only problem with this being so prevalent in the Russian bureaucracy is that it makes fighting a war against the entirety of the Western world even harder than it should be. If I agree with the author on one thing it is that changes need to occur and that without the war, the ball would have never even gotten rolling.
Hello Rolo,
Corruption is a problem everywhere but it matters only when it cripples the functions of the state or of an important institution. In the USA, the Joint Strike Fighter / F-35 programme is a major problem not because of the astronomical sums embezzled, but because the fighter plane has subpar performance, which puts the American air supremacy in jeopardy. The US Air Force is saddled with this problem for the next 20 years at least. Needless to say the Pentagon, the politicians and the neocons are furious but cannot do much.
Similarly corruption did cripple the government of the tsar. Over time the competent ministers were pushed out by the profiteers until the last police forces and the Cossacks refused to fight for them. Not much of a masonic coup there as the sheer weakness of the tsar who let go of the competent and kept the thieves. The masons took advantage of the collapse of the tsar's government and of the abdication but they were not the cause.
Under Putin, the ministry of defence performed where the political pressure asked them to perform, i.e. in the development of hypersonic missiles and very long range torpedoes and in improving the air defences of Russia (S-400, S-500, etc). Elsewhere large scale theft has been the rule, with the consequence that most of the army was poorly equipped and trained, but it went unnoticed until the attack on Ukraine. Similarly the FSB performed where the political pressure asked them to perform, i.e. in the surveillance of the population.
The large state companies, Rosneft, Gazprom, Rosatom, Rosoboronexport, function fairly well because Putin wanted them to, put the right people in charge, and supported them. The Russian government badly needed these companies to be functional for income and for essential technology development.
Could Putin and his government have obtained less overall corruption and provision of adequate equipment for the army ? Could they have cleaned up the bureaucracy and made it function properly ? I believe not. They had choices to make. In the late 1990's and early 200's they had to build a power base both in Moscow and in the regions. Parts of the state and many regions were left to be preyed on. From what you described, the Donbass was one of the them. Now these people have their own henchmen and client networks. The clean-up is hard and attempts at doing it would endanger Putin and his government.
The key to understanding what is happening in the world today, is to realize that as far as the global elite are concerned, countries no longer exist - but that they have to lay on an endless theatrical performance for the masses, who are not aware that their countries no longer exist in any meaningful sense - and who would rise up against their governments if they understood that those governments could not give a damn about their own countries.
Thus, at the last WEF meeting, Karl Schwab in the closing speech, stressed that 'we' have the power to force the WEF agenda through - and that the meeting participants must put aside considerations of how that agenda will impact their own countries - and instead adhere rigidly to the WEF plan for humanity.
The elites of Russia are guided by an identical world view, and personal priorities, as the elites of Washington DC, London, Bonn or anywhere else you care to think of - characterised by a belief that the days of independent countries are long gone,; that global problems require a single World Government; and that their global club, where what country each member comes from is an irrelevance, greatly benefit by cooperating together to maximize their own personal wealth.
Since the politicians of all mainstream parties in most countries share this view, and since all mainstream media is controlled by the global cabal, the politicians and deep state players of all countries realize that there is now absolutely nothing to stop them enriching themselves by corruption on a grand scale which previously in Western countries particularly would previously have been unthinkable - for the simple reason that there is no one who could expose their crimes!
This realization by the elites that there is no longer any limit to the scale of corruption that they can engage in has been accompanied over recent decades by the creation and concentration of enormous amounts of wealth among the global oligarch class - Bill Gates et al.
Since the global corporations and oligarchs have far more money and power than national governments, the politicians - basically all massively corrupt - now simply perform the job of being the front men for those global corporations and oligarchs in the politicians' respective countries - pretending that their respective countries still exist, and pretending that they are opposed to this or that country or group of countries - when the reality is that this is all just a piece of theatre laid on for the masses by the global predator class.
There is no conflict between the Putin & Co. and the West - but they have to pretend that there is, because Putin and Russia's job is to be cast as the bad guys causing (for example) energy prices to go through the roof, while actually, Putin & Co. invaded Ukraine to perform the essential role of providing a pretext for the global cabal to drive energy prices skywards, which is a key part of their preparations for the Great Reset.
It's a piece of theatre, I'm sorry to say - a series of mass deception operations including the 'Covid crisis', the fake Covid 'vaccines'; the 'carbon crisis' and 'net zero'; the Ukraine war: they're all just 'Narratives' (as the global cabal calls them) to con the masses across the world into believing that only by doing XYZ can the world cope with these totally fictional crisis - and of course, the function of these crisis is to pass ever more money and power into the hands of the global cabal.