Pinchuk wrote a book in 2018 called cadences of blood that sounds interesting. Apparently nobody has read it judging from the fact I can't find any TLDR about it. Heres a blerb about it covers:
Would be interested to know about these Orthodox secret societies, Stalins spirituality, why Crimea was actually annexed..if there was an occult angle that would be a big relevant piece of the puzzle. An FSB insiders take on this stuff would be nice to have along the same lines as Prighozhins selective bomb dropping. Anyway maybe Pinchuk isn't as doctrinaire Orthodox as he is letting on. Will need to find a TLDR, free online copy or just order the damn thing I guess.
When you claim you are "hated" for your forthright(and I would imagine spot-on) analysis of Russian internal affairs, it is a good exercise in self-worth to consider the source of such castigation. For several months I have been posting my informed opinions(mostly regarding the domestic economic and social welfare program in the NSDAP in 1930s Germany) on a site called Peak Prosperity and, oh man, do I receive a ton of grief from a rather sizable contingent of that community. Many call me a "Fed" or a "chaos agent" looking to get the entire site taken down for hosting white supremacist members. What a bunch of pansies! I could care less what a mewling, menstruating gaggle of milquetoast s think of me and my viewpoints which are the result of a years-long search for what is true, not what is polite to discuss in public.
Fuck these guys, Rolo.
Your ardent Stalkers appreciate all that you do for the cause of calling it like you see it.
Nice one, thank you RS, Dr. Livci and Mr. Pinchuk.
Regarding the emotionalism, I would not be surprised in a couple of years to see on the international stage a double act of Putin and Zelensky jointly bemoaning how they were deceived and betrayed by their esteemed western partners, and how united Russia and Ukraine must be henceforth in seeking revenge.
Thank you for translating and annotating this interview.
The power structure is not simply an oligarchy - authoritarianism axis. First democracy is real and can work well at the level of a village, small city, or neighbourhood in large city. The Swiss are a perennial illustration that annoys every ruling class. Democracy fails in larger polities because people's perceptions are distorted by propaganda. Second aristocracy is real and may work for the society at large : power to the best of warriors and their retinues, with or without a hereditary component. Third corporatism (in British English) is the government through professional guilds and housing groups : beyond the mechanisms for determining leadership, the principle is that whatever concerns a guild or a housing group must be approved by them; it worked well for many centuries before being obliterated by oligarchy disguised in democracy in the 19th century. All these models are still relevant but hardly known.
I don't think Democracy has much to do with voting. I don't talk much about voting because i see it as largely irrelevant. The USSR had elections, but was ruled by an unelected "soviet" of oligarchs.
More important is how power is shared among the elite, who the elite is and how political decisions are made.
Pinchuk wrote a book in 2018 called cadences of blood that sounds interesting. Apparently nobody has read it judging from the fact I can't find any TLDR about it. Heres a blerb about it covers:
๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐น ๐๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ต๐บ?
๐๐ณ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ?!
๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ข๐บ? ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ? ...๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ (๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ?)?
๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ?
๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ? ...๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ด๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต? ...๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ?
๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต?
๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ?
๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐น๐ฆ๐ฅ?
... ๐๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ฎ๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด.
๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐ช๐ต? ๐๐ฏ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ-๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ค๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐บ? ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ, ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ข๐น? ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ค๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ - ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ? ๐๐ข๐บ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต. ๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ.
Would be interested to know about these Orthodox secret societies, Stalins spirituality, why Crimea was actually annexed..if there was an occult angle that would be a big relevant piece of the puzzle. An FSB insiders take on this stuff would be nice to have along the same lines as Prighozhins selective bomb dropping. Anyway maybe Pinchuk isn't as doctrinaire Orthodox as he is letting on. Will need to find a TLDR, free online copy or just order the damn thing I guess.
When you claim you are "hated" for your forthright(and I would imagine spot-on) analysis of Russian internal affairs, it is a good exercise in self-worth to consider the source of such castigation. For several months I have been posting my informed opinions(mostly regarding the domestic economic and social welfare program in the NSDAP in 1930s Germany) on a site called Peak Prosperity and, oh man, do I receive a ton of grief from a rather sizable contingent of that community. Many call me a "Fed" or a "chaos agent" looking to get the entire site taken down for hosting white supremacist members. What a bunch of pansies! I could care less what a mewling, menstruating gaggle of milquetoast s think of me and my viewpoints which are the result of a years-long search for what is true, not what is polite to discuss in public.
Fuck these guys, Rolo.
Your ardent Stalkers appreciate all that you do for the cause of calling it like you see it.
Nice one, thank you RS, Dr. Livci and Mr. Pinchuk.
Regarding the emotionalism, I would not be surprised in a couple of years to see on the international stage a double act of Putin and Zelensky jointly bemoaning how they were deceived and betrayed by their esteemed western partners, and how united Russia and Ukraine must be henceforth in seeking revenge.
Hi Rurik,
Thank you for translating and annotating this interview.
The power structure is not simply an oligarchy - authoritarianism axis. First democracy is real and can work well at the level of a village, small city, or neighbourhood in large city. The Swiss are a perennial illustration that annoys every ruling class. Democracy fails in larger polities because people's perceptions are distorted by propaganda. Second aristocracy is real and may work for the society at large : power to the best of warriors and their retinues, with or without a hereditary component. Third corporatism (in British English) is the government through professional guilds and housing groups : beyond the mechanisms for determining leadership, the principle is that whatever concerns a guild or a housing group must be approved by them; it worked well for many centuries before being obliterated by oligarchy disguised in democracy in the 19th century. All these models are still relevant but hardly known.
I don't think Democracy has much to do with voting. I don't talk much about voting because i see it as largely irrelevant. The USSR had elections, but was ruled by an unelected "soviet" of oligarchs.
More important is how power is shared among the elite, who the elite is and how political decisions are made.
Is everything about Ukraine as fake as this story? Is lying to themselves what the people mostly do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mb8mzMreuc