Shoigu Takes Rybar's Advice to Build Hangars For Planes, Slights Martyanov's Honor

You cannot teach morons.

We just got a new development in what is shaping up to be one of the funniest chapters in the ZAnon tragicomedy that I’ve heard in a good while.

Here, let me set the stage:

Months ago now, Russian Telegram-bloggers began commenting on the Ukrainian drone attacks targeting Russian planes and facilities deep in Russia. These bloggers were in disbelief that Russia’s defenses were unable to knock them out and that Shoigu’s MoD did nothing to mitigate damage by either a) constructing hangar defenses or b) at least concealing targets from the Ukrainian drones.

As an aside, I find news like this to be boring because we already know that Russia is fighting with an arm and a leg tied behind her back because … well, because they are too moral and humanitarian and naive, if we are to believe the Kremlin. So, I don’t cover it. But the others do, and they write entire tomes analyzing the way bolts are riveted into tank barrels or whatever to prove to their audiences that Shoigu is winning.

Thankfully, we talk about other topics here.

Anyway.

Eventually, Rybar, which is a large Z-channel run by a former spook, waded into the debate and asked the obvious: wouldn’t it be better to build hangars and take measures to not make it so easy for Kiev to hit Russian targets in Russia?

Of course, Russian-language war-watchers would not be surprised to discover that Shoigu’s MoD was engaging in either extreme incompetence or perhaps deliberately sabotaging the war effort … again.

But the reaction among Western ZAnon circles was totally different, naturally. Narrative damage control is the name of the game with these people, always. So, Martyanov flew into a frothing rage on cue and attacked Rybar for being a CIA-run project for daring to criticize the Shoigu. Here:

You cannot teach morons.

Here is the headline:

Russian hardliners are fuming that the Kremlin wasn't able to stop a string of embarrassing attacks on home soil

OK, I thought to myself, and who those "hardliners" are? I started reading further and lo and behold:

Russia's nationalists are fuming over a slew of attacks on Russian territory which exposed gaps in its defenses and put it on the back foot in its invasion of Ukraine. The hardliners criticized Russia's leaders for what they called their failure to protect the country. They also accused them of covering up the extent of new attacks hitting Russia. The blowback was picked up by the respected Institute for the Study of War think tank, which described it in an update on Wednesday. The ISW wrote that "Russian propagandists and milbloggers criticized Russian forces for their inability to defend Russian territory and military facilities, while simultaneously criticizing recent Russian MoD censorship efforts." It highlighted Telegram posts by popular media figures in Russia. The prominent anonymous blogger Rybar said a recent strike on Russia's Pskov airfield suggests Russia's air defenses haven't adapted to stop drone strikes. It criticized authorities for not protecting the valuable aircraft there with hangars, and compared their defenses unfavorably to those in Russian-occupied Crimea, closer to the fighter.

LOL, Rybar IS NOT "respected" blogger, neither is ISW which is a military joke.  Rybar is Michail Zvinchuk (in Russian) who worked in the press-service of Russian MoD a few years back and who made up most of his military interpreter biography. The boy whose military "education" is linguistics wouldn't know shit from shinola in anything operations related, or military in general, and the fact that he has many subscribers (a bulk of them from 404 and Russian miltech masturbators) means only one thing--real operations and strategy are hard, as are physics and tactics of complex defense systems which Zvinchuk never studied and nobody would give this loser any clearance to be near any serious weapon system. 

SOB, obviously, shadows this blog, but he would never dare to stand to real cadre officers with decades of serious military academic and combat experience because they will tear this ignoramus a new one. I could easily do this, but he will not oblige because he knows he would have floor wiped with him. I would love to see my friend Volodya Trukhan (BTW, Air Defense officer) beating the shit, figuratively speaking, out of this creep, especially with Vladimir using his very rich verbiage of Russian profanities. I have other connections too, as you might expect, but good luck trying to pull this ass-hole under the light and parading him an amateur that he is. There is no surprise, then, that ISW references this shyster. But, desperate times--desperate measures. 

P.S. There is a persistent "rumor", let's call it this way, circulating in Russia that this Zvinchuk is NOT "Russian" hardliner but an asset. Whose? I don't know. Certainly, not Russian, but let professionals in this field deal with that. 

Did you get all that?

The Rybar guy is actually a nobody, a poseur, he is irrelevant, he is wrong about everything, he should be beaten up and he is probably a high-level CIA plant.

I’m … I’m not even going to comment on the glaring contradictions in Martyanov’s characterization of his competitor lol. Also the article he is quoting from actually went on to say even worse things about Shoigu’s MoD, which is why the sycophant Martyanov didn’t include it in his news scrape. Here is the rest though:

The Russian journalist Alexander Kots said that recent attacks showed there would be no safe place in the parts of Russia that are close to Europe, and that Russia would need to adapt.

Another blogger said that Russia's airfields should be better protected, and another said Russia should admit the attacks as soon as they happen, rather than be forced into acknowledging them after Ukrainian sources report them.

Russia's war bloggers and media personalities share news and opinion about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, serving to both influence and reflect the country's attitude to the war and how Russia is performing.

They have often highlighted problems within Russia's military which were not acknowledged by officials or Russia's closely-controlled mass media.

They typically agree with the aims of the war, but voice frustration at Russia's inability to defeat Ukraine more quickly.

Their anger was prompted by an increasing number of drone attacks, likely organized by Ukraine or Ukraine-affiliated groups.

The UK Ministry of Defense said that the at least five separate drone attacks reported in Russia on Tuesday night and into Wednesday is "the largest attack on Russia" since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

And some of these strikes have destroyed and damaged Russian military aircraft sitting on home soil.

Russia has blamed Ukraine for most of them, though Ukraine typically doesn't accept responsibility.

Military analysts told The Wall Street Journal that Ukraine has probably disabled more Russian aircraft sitting in Russian bases than it has aircraft involved in combat.

So the drone strikes are a real problem — one that Martyanov is trying to deny, obviously.

Basically, after Kiev’s big counter-offensive was unable to even poke through the Russian lines, they switched back to smaller probes and attacking infrastructure behind enemy lines. This strategy worked for them before, and Shoigu’s MoD likes to line up targets for them to knock out, so why not? Shoigu lines planes and depots up for them, and they knock ‘em out!

After Martynov’s unhinged tirade, we had a few days to wait for the dust to settle and then we got an update on the hangar scandal from Rybar himself:

After numerous discussions about the need to create shelters for aircraft, a photo of one of the recently erected structures, taken at an unknown airfield, appeared on the Internet. It is a metal frame with a network stretched between the walls

.Although this is not a full-fledged hangar, this design is much better than nothing. At first glance, it at least allows you to protect the aircraft from dropping ammunition from copters, and in the case of installing protective flaps (which seem to be also provided) - also from FPV drones. It is also important that such a canopy can be installed in just a few days.

However, despite all the advantages, such shelters are still only a temporary measure. The military construction complex is quite capable of quickly erecting (https://t.me/rybar/51588) more serious defensive structures, and the most ordinary observers will remember the sheds for equipment in Patriot Park. (https://t.me/rybar/51681)

Let us repeat again: measures to protect aircraft largely depend on the fundamental decision of the responsible persons. And the further it is delayed, the higher the price will be.

In other words, pressure was put on the MoD or the embarrassment was too much or something and Shoigu’s people conceded that they should have been taking common sense measures to defend Russian planes from Ukrainian drone attacks after all.

*ssss*

I can almost hear the air hissing out of Martyanov’s fat head when he reads this and begins to deflate.

So, the man that Martyanov labeled an ignoramus, a nobody without a security clearance and a CIA asset to boot!!! got his suggestion by the MoD accepted, finally, and now common sense measures are going to be implemented to protect some Russian planes. Normal people would breathe a sigh of relief, but I doubt that this is what is happening over at Chateau Martyanov.

This is kind of a mini-story, really, not even a full story — more like an episode.

But it has all the elements of the ongoing ZAnon drama in it only in an abridged format, doesn’t it? See, Martyanov was able to convince his clapping seals that where there was an obvious MoD failing, there was actually a 5D plan to checkmate the Satanists. He puffed himself up as the credentialed expert and called anyone who disagreed with him an agent of the enemy. Now, to complete the drama, he’s no doubt going to claim that both he and Shoigu both knew that they needed to build hangars, but they were just tricking NATO.

Just you wait.

You know, Martyanov really is probably the most puffed up fathead out of all the ZAnon court-jesters spinning yarns about Putin and friends’ 5D adventures at this point. As a character himself though, he resembles a 2D caricature of a goofy, megalomaniacal, but also lacking in any common sense villain found in like any second-rate comic book series. When he speaks to the peasants, he hides behind jargon and appeals to his own authority as his main manner of argumentation. And when that doesn’t cut it, he claims to have access to super secret expertise that you or I don’t have.

The peasants are simply too scared to point out that the emperor has no clues, as always. And, let’s be honest here, blowhards with fantastical stories have always been able to capture the public mind. But at some point, people do eventually figure out that the conman has just been making shit up as they go. The usual key giveaway is that the sooth-sayer is telling them what they themselves want to hear.

Pretty little lies sell better, don’t they?