Ah yes , the old import substitution scheme. I was a beneficiary of the Indian governments import substitutions scheme when I was living the tantric yogi life in India in the early eighties. You see India was on the old im-sub scheme and all imports of electronics was banned and substituted with home made Indian brands , well it provided a good scam for all us hippy/yogis living in India. Just hop a plane to Singapore , stuff your suitcase with the best VCR's of the day , well two was the standard amount , all Japanese made of course, hightail it back to India , to the East coast capital of Tamil Nadu , Madras as it was known in those days, grab a cab at the airport , there were dozens waiting for you to arrive, skedaddle down to the city blocks of black markets and hey presto you had a handy $800 US profit! That was enough for a good six months or more of slumming it on the streets and in the doss houses of that wonderfull hashish and bang lassi cesspool/circus/zoo called India.You see the Indian VCR was a completely useless piece of junk hammered out by peasants squatting on their haunches in Bombay slums , it was about as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle! The thing was , the only black market for all imported goods was Madras , any other city was a no-no. Many a would be smuggler arrived in Bombay or New Delhi with a heavy suitcase only to find a swarthy customs officer shaking them down not only for their cargo but also a few hundreds of rupees to avoid the old slammer you know. Later Sri Lanka got into the act and it was only about a one hour flight from Madras, now Chennai , to Columbo which vastly improved the economics of the trade. Singapore was still my favourite though as I could include a few weeks surfing at Nias island in North Sumatra in my business trip. The black market in Madras was huge , blocks and blocks of stores buying and selling all kinds of electronic goods , you want a blender you say , a walkman maybe? No problem ,the black bazaar had it all. Yes, fond memories of the days when India stood up and was self sufficient in high tech consumer goods....not!
As far as I remember there was a manufacturing hub for radios in or around Delhi. The average factory was a workshop with 10-20 employees drilling and soldering circuit boards by hand. No machine tools and hardly any quality check beyond it works or "works" at the end. These people were working in the same fashion as I did when I was in electronics class at age 13. The meaning of the word industry varies a lot.
"Would it kill you to just hit the share button below here on Substack"
I sent Vox Day the article, he's pro Putin so I'm not optimistic about him actually reading it or getting anything out of it if he did read it, but many a seed might be planted.
“In one object, identified as a North Korean ballistic missile, 290 microelectronic components of foreign manufacture were found. Most of these elements, crucial for the missile’s navigation, were produced by over 25 companies headquartered in the U.S., China, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan and other countries,” Oleksandr Ruvin reported.
The more I learn about this Not-War(as you have so deftly named it) the more I experience a decidedly liberating acceptance of the utter futility of working myself up into a lather trying to "change" or "fix" any of this. It even guides my thought process as it pertains to making arrangements for my own future, such as that is knowable. People have been haranguing me my entire adult life to take my finances more seriously, to invest in the stock market and real estate and 401ks and all down the line. And it turns out, I was right to not trust in the solvency of any of it. I read your articles and listen to your podcasts, Rurik, and I feel myself awash in a certain profound, anguished yet comforting tranquility, content to simply know the truth without feeling compelled to act upon it. The alternate title to Kubrik's "Dr. Strangelove" often comes to mind: "How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love The Bomb."
One wonders how long the show can be managed without it spiralling out of control.
If Russia has been infiltrated how do they know they won't be "Saddamed". Seems to be shaping up that way with the radars being targeted.
If this turns into an utter debacle for Russia, the leadership will be getting itchy necks, What an uncomfortable position to be in. An excellent recipe for desperation.
🇪🇪 Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas explains to Europeans that peace talks are not needed.
"Ukraine must win the war, and Russia must understand that it has lost. This is our plan A, B, and C. Words and sanctions are important, but they are not enough. Ukraine needs weapons, ammunition, and training. It also needs financial and economic support, and it needs it now. Our role and duty are not only to continue but to strengthen our support for Ukraine on all fronts,"
I shared this post on Facebook, but I didn’t have a three sentence introduction to it, which would help. 😂 It’s a challenge to summarize such brilliant writing. 😂
Another interesting and thought provoking article, thank you RS.
It raises some other questions. Which networks of spooks and crooks including their esteemed partners in other parts of the world have gained and which have lost, including which interest groups gain from or lose as a result of neo-cohen inspired Western sanctions? It's surely caused losses for some American and European corporations.
Are the Russian spooks sharing or competing with the CIA in money-making international criminal activities? We are told that the CIA has long had a major interest in the drug trade, and the associated money laundering, as well as dubious off-books financial transactions. They have reduced the Vatican bank to one of their financial conduits. (See Operation Gladio by Paul Williamson.)
Are there several Deep States, or are they entangled and possibly unified, or at least making rapid progress towards Yid World Government, possibly with its headquarters in Heavenly Jerusalem by mid century?
But it is not even this that is important, but a completely different, extremely negative for us functionality of this station. The fact is that the Voronezh radar family is not only surveillance, but also a gunner for Russia's most modern and powerful electronic warfare system, Tobol.
Thanks to this EW, the aggressor country is able to jam the GPS signal and mobile communications over Poland and the Baltic states . It is this EW that has the ability to disrupt the work of StarLink . It is the "Tobol" air defense missile that increases its influence on the territory of Ukraine, violating the accuracy of Western weapons , which Western media and officials have been talking about so often lately.
The task of striking the Voronezh radar is not a demonstrative, situational one, but neither more nor less – it is of strategic importance . Moreover, this attack completely and completely reveals the colossal problem that has arisen in Russia with air defense equipment, which is critically lacking to protect not only the refinery, but even such a unique object as the Voronezh-DM radar.
And everything goes to the point that if, under the current conditions, this radar station would have seen the threat of an intercontinental ballistic missile, then it would hardly have been possible for Russia to shoot it down . And many of Russia's antagonists in the geopolitical arena, as well as its ephemeral "allies" saw this fact last week.
1) Russia has massive factories working for the national interest and humming away at producing mountains of military and civilian goods;
2) The US State Department and neocon strategists are unworldly idiots who can't understand the simplest facts and who destroy US foreign relations at every opportunity. Russia continues to gain more economic allies through BRICS.
If the Duran is wrong on Russia, they may be wrong on the US neocon foreign policy establishment. That is, like it or not, the neocon strategy is actually working. The longer they continue to double down and support Ukraine military action, the larger the threat to the stability of the current Russian government.
The thing is that all these zanonist chess club cultists either don't know shit about Russia or they are paid and co-opted in some fashion. What IS the RF? Is it a rational National State acting in it's self interests or is it something else? There is a serious paradox going on with the RFs prosecution of the Special Needs Operation. Moscow can win this war on the battlefield but doing so means the end of the RF as we know it. Consider that for a moment, victory on the battlefield spells the end of the entire Putinist, neo-feudal, judeo oligarchic system. Economic, social and industrial mobilization means putting someone in charge, it means telling the oligarchs to fuck off with what loot they can carry on their backs or fall out of a window, it means competent Generals potentially becoming popular political players.
Russians in Russia are praying this happens, the troops at the front are praying this happens, and the RF LLC share holders are doing everything they can to prevent it. True, the recent arrests in MoD and the belated half ass half measures like re-opening some salvagable Soviet industrial operations and adding more shifts to those that werent already liquidated shows that there are some RF LLC share holders that don't won't to lose to catastrophically. Some of the share holders perceive that they are at a very fateful cross roads and those half ass half measures are them trying to forge a way through the thickets and swamps between the 2 available roads. One road leads to losing everything via catastrophic defeat, the other losing everything via battlefield victory.
Battlefield victory will birth a new Russia where parasites aren't welcome and if they aren't part of the circumsized community than they might end up in Hauge if Russia experiences a truly catastrophic defeat. What to do? Try and delay the inevitable and hold out for better surrender terms, try and desperately plow some 3rd road. Thats where we are. There isnt any 5D chess going on, just paraisites trying to fight fate.
Enthralled is the only appropriate term to employ in describing how captivated I had been by the analysis found on The Duran for the better part of two years, up until just a few months ago. I even turned a co-worker on to their channel when he expressed a fervent desire to get to "the truth" of what was happening in Ukraine. Sorry, Michael!
It's just incredible to reflect upon how deeply certain forces can embed themselves within my psyche, when they whisper so sweetly what I have longed to hear so dearly.
I still watch whenever they interview Robert Barnes. Perhaps I shouldn't.
Ah yes , the old import substitution scheme. I was a beneficiary of the Indian governments import substitutions scheme when I was living the tantric yogi life in India in the early eighties. You see India was on the old im-sub scheme and all imports of electronics was banned and substituted with home made Indian brands , well it provided a good scam for all us hippy/yogis living in India. Just hop a plane to Singapore , stuff your suitcase with the best VCR's of the day , well two was the standard amount , all Japanese made of course, hightail it back to India , to the East coast capital of Tamil Nadu , Madras as it was known in those days, grab a cab at the airport , there were dozens waiting for you to arrive, skedaddle down to the city blocks of black markets and hey presto you had a handy $800 US profit! That was enough for a good six months or more of slumming it on the streets and in the doss houses of that wonderfull hashish and bang lassi cesspool/circus/zoo called India.You see the Indian VCR was a completely useless piece of junk hammered out by peasants squatting on their haunches in Bombay slums , it was about as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle! The thing was , the only black market for all imported goods was Madras , any other city was a no-no. Many a would be smuggler arrived in Bombay or New Delhi with a heavy suitcase only to find a swarthy customs officer shaking them down not only for their cargo but also a few hundreds of rupees to avoid the old slammer you know. Later Sri Lanka got into the act and it was only about a one hour flight from Madras, now Chennai , to Columbo which vastly improved the economics of the trade. Singapore was still my favourite though as I could include a few weeks surfing at Nias island in North Sumatra in my business trip. The black market in Madras was huge , blocks and blocks of stores buying and selling all kinds of electronic goods , you want a blender you say , a walkman maybe? No problem ,the black bazaar had it all. Yes, fond memories of the days when India stood up and was self sufficient in high tech consumer goods....not!
As far as I remember there was a manufacturing hub for radios in or around Delhi. The average factory was a workshop with 10-20 employees drilling and soldering circuit boards by hand. No machine tools and hardly any quality check beyond it works or "works" at the end. These people were working in the same fashion as I did when I was in electronics class at age 13. The meaning of the word industry varies a lot.
"Would it kill you to just hit the share button below here on Substack"
I sent Vox Day the article, he's pro Putin so I'm not optimistic about him actually reading it or getting anything out of it if he did read it, but many a seed might be planted.
worse, he's catholic(
Thanks doc. These series alone are worth my subscription.
Rurik, please do more podcasts with the brilliant doctor.
Hey, I thought they were part of the axis of evil!
War is great business until the nukes fly.
https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/290_foreign_parts_found_in_north_korean_missile_launched_by_russia-10567.html
“In one object, identified as a North Korean ballistic missile, 290 microelectronic components of foreign manufacture were found. Most of these elements, crucial for the missile’s navigation, were produced by over 25 companies headquartered in the U.S., China, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan and other countries,” Oleksandr Ruvin reported.
The more I learn about this Not-War(as you have so deftly named it) the more I experience a decidedly liberating acceptance of the utter futility of working myself up into a lather trying to "change" or "fix" any of this. It even guides my thought process as it pertains to making arrangements for my own future, such as that is knowable. People have been haranguing me my entire adult life to take my finances more seriously, to invest in the stock market and real estate and 401ks and all down the line. And it turns out, I was right to not trust in the solvency of any of it. I read your articles and listen to your podcasts, Rurik, and I feel myself awash in a certain profound, anguished yet comforting tranquility, content to simply know the truth without feeling compelled to act upon it. The alternate title to Kubrik's "Dr. Strangelove" often comes to mind: "How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love The Bomb."
Thank you , sir. I will in fact take some more.
One wonders how long the show can be managed without it spiralling out of control.
If Russia has been infiltrated how do they know they won't be "Saddamed". Seems to be shaping up that way with the radars being targeted.
If this turns into an utter debacle for Russia, the leadership will be getting itchy necks, What an uncomfortable position to be in. An excellent recipe for desperation.
https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1795067102946115808
DD Geopolitics
@DD_Geopolitics
🇪🇪 Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas explains to Europeans that peace talks are not needed.
"Ukraine must win the war, and Russia must understand that it has lost. This is our plan A, B, and C. Words and sanctions are important, but they are not enough. Ukraine needs weapons, ammunition, and training. It also needs financial and economic support, and it needs it now. Our role and duty are not only to continue but to strengthen our support for Ukraine on all fronts,"
I shared this post on Facebook, but I didn’t have a three sentence introduction to it, which would help. 😂 It’s a challenge to summarize such brilliant writing. 😂
Another interesting and thought provoking article, thank you RS.
It raises some other questions. Which networks of spooks and crooks including their esteemed partners in other parts of the world have gained and which have lost, including which interest groups gain from or lose as a result of neo-cohen inspired Western sanctions? It's surely caused losses for some American and European corporations.
Are the Russian spooks sharing or competing with the CIA in money-making international criminal activities? We are told that the CIA has long had a major interest in the drug trade, and the associated money laundering, as well as dubious off-books financial transactions. They have reduced the Vatican bank to one of their financial conduits. (See Operation Gladio by Paul Williamson.)
Are there several Deep States, or are they entangled and possibly unified, or at least making rapid progress towards Yid World Government, possibly with its headquarters in Heavenly Jerusalem by mid century?
More ominous :
https://x.com/anno1540/status/1795403854869139955
Lew Anno Suport#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22
@anno1540
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But it is not even this that is important, but a completely different, extremely negative for us functionality of this station. The fact is that the Voronezh radar family is not only surveillance, but also a gunner for Russia's most modern and powerful electronic warfare system, Tobol.
Thanks to this EW, the aggressor country is able to jam the GPS signal and mobile communications over Poland and the Baltic states . It is this EW that has the ability to disrupt the work of StarLink . It is the "Tobol" air defense missile that increases its influence on the territory of Ukraine, violating the accuracy of Western weapons , which Western media and officials have been talking about so often lately.
10:36 PM · May 28, 2024
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And:
https://x.com/anno1540/status/1795404683575546071
Conclusions
The task of striking the Voronezh radar is not a demonstrative, situational one, but neither more nor less – it is of strategic importance . Moreover, this attack completely and completely reveals the colossal problem that has arisen in Russia with air defense equipment, which is critically lacking to protect not only the refinery, but even such a unique object as the Voronezh-DM radar.
And everything goes to the point that if, under the current conditions, this radar station would have seen the threat of an intercontinental ballistic missile, then it would hardly have been possible for Russia to shoot it down . And many of Russia's antagonists in the geopolitical arena, as well as its ephemeral "allies" saw this fact last week.
10:40 PM · May 28, 2024
https://twitter.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1795178029326410187
You really can't make this stuff up NEW B-21 named after the Doolittle Raid: a SURPRISE attack in WW2
If it works as advertised, it will be capable of a first strike.
The Duran has two primary foci:
1) Russia has massive factories working for the national interest and humming away at producing mountains of military and civilian goods;
2) The US State Department and neocon strategists are unworldly idiots who can't understand the simplest facts and who destroy US foreign relations at every opportunity. Russia continues to gain more economic allies through BRICS.
If the Duran is wrong on Russia, they may be wrong on the US neocon foreign policy establishment. That is, like it or not, the neocon strategy is actually working. The longer they continue to double down and support Ukraine military action, the larger the threat to the stability of the current Russian government.
The thing is that all these zanonist chess club cultists either don't know shit about Russia or they are paid and co-opted in some fashion. What IS the RF? Is it a rational National State acting in it's self interests or is it something else? There is a serious paradox going on with the RFs prosecution of the Special Needs Operation. Moscow can win this war on the battlefield but doing so means the end of the RF as we know it. Consider that for a moment, victory on the battlefield spells the end of the entire Putinist, neo-feudal, judeo oligarchic system. Economic, social and industrial mobilization means putting someone in charge, it means telling the oligarchs to fuck off with what loot they can carry on their backs or fall out of a window, it means competent Generals potentially becoming popular political players.
Russians in Russia are praying this happens, the troops at the front are praying this happens, and the RF LLC share holders are doing everything they can to prevent it. True, the recent arrests in MoD and the belated half ass half measures like re-opening some salvagable Soviet industrial operations and adding more shifts to those that werent already liquidated shows that there are some RF LLC share holders that don't won't to lose to catastrophically. Some of the share holders perceive that they are at a very fateful cross roads and those half ass half measures are them trying to forge a way through the thickets and swamps between the 2 available roads. One road leads to losing everything via catastrophic defeat, the other losing everything via battlefield victory.
Battlefield victory will birth a new Russia where parasites aren't welcome and if they aren't part of the circumsized community than they might end up in Hauge if Russia experiences a truly catastrophic defeat. What to do? Try and delay the inevitable and hold out for better surrender terms, try and desperately plow some 3rd road. Thats where we are. There isnt any 5D chess going on, just paraisites trying to fight fate.
Enthralled is the only appropriate term to employ in describing how captivated I had been by the analysis found on The Duran for the better part of two years, up until just a few months ago. I even turned a co-worker on to their channel when he expressed a fervent desire to get to "the truth" of what was happening in Ukraine. Sorry, Michael!
It's just incredible to reflect upon how deeply certain forces can embed themselves within my psyche, when they whisper so sweetly what I have longed to hear so dearly.
I still watch whenever they interview Robert Barnes. Perhaps I shouldn't.
I by no means agree with everything in this video, but the parts detailing a Russian military buildup in Belarus are interesting.
https://rumble.com/v4xuc1o-new-x-channel-for-klw-world-news-klwnews1-ww3-is-about-to-go-hot.html
Major war is forecast in as little as a week.
We shall see.
The Ukraine has attacked two of Russia's strategic early warning systems against ICBMs - at Armavir and Orsk/Orenburg.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-drone-targets-russian-early-warning-radar-record-distance-kyiv-source-2024-05-27/
See the map here. A potential American nuclear strike from the Eastern Mediterranean or Arab Sea imminent? (June 18th, fingers crossed?)
https://x.com/LXSummer1/status/1794820157451223483