Strelkov Announces Run For President of Russia

Igor Girkin is a threat to our Democracy, our Values, everything that we Are ...

Igor Girkin has stolen the headlines again, but probably for the very last time. He announced his run for the office of President of the Russian Federation.

Now, I want to start out by stating that myself and the team, we all disavow and detest and deride Strelkov on this blog. I also defame and demean and I desecrate him at every opportunity I get to signal my loyalty (to say nothing of my virtue). I demonstratively drop to my knees howling and slobbering with rage all over myself at the very thought of Strelkov even existing. I used to periodically open my window and yelp into the middle of the night every time he posted on Telegram as a form of protest and to let people know I strongly disagreed with his criticism of the Kremlin. I would even claw at my own skin with bloody nails and upload pictures of the mess on social media to combat the disinfo that Strelkov was putting out.

It was a thankless job, but someone had to do it. Someone had to raise awareness about the threat Strelkov posed to the Russian government and the worldwide freedom movement. This one man, this rouge threat - well, as anyone will tell you, I went above and beyond the call of patriotism when I took it upon myself to bravely defend the honor of the Kremlin against the belligerent veterans, serving soldiers and Donbass civilians who posed a direct threat to Putin’s 5D Judo-Checkmate by complaining on the internet. Now that my new readers understand my position on public enemy #1, they will also understand why, when I read that he had decided to run for President the other day, I simply fell to the ground and passed out for the next 24 hours. When I came to in a puddle of my own bodily fluids, I rushed to the computer to denounce Strelkov. But, before I get around to that, I suppose I need to translate what he said when announcing his own run:

ON MY NOMINATION AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

My advantages in comparison with the current president in the conditions of the SMO:

1. The President refuses to lead military operations and considers himself incompetent in military affairs. I consider myself more competent in military affairs than the current president, and certainly than the current minister of defense, therefore I could fulfill the duties of the supreme commander in chief as required by the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

2. Our president is an extremely trusting person; for 8 years he was led by the nose, together and separately, by Obama, Trump, Macron, Merkel, Poroshenko and Zelensky. They drove in Minsk and in the Normandy format, in Istanbul and many other places. For my part, I can note: since 2014, I have never called “dear and respected partners” those people who led the current president by the nose; on the contrary, I have never trusted them a penny.

3. The current president is too kind. When the SVO began a year and a half ago, he was able to quickly make sure that he was being led by the nose not only by respected Western and Kiev partners, but also by the heads of our law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies and the military-industrial complex. It turned out that neither the country, nor the army, nor the industry of Russia are ready for war, and the so-called Ukraine is not at all a straw man in military terms. Nevertheless, all the heads of these structures (as well as others, for example, the Central Bank) remained in their places and continue to amaze us with their incompetence.

I'm not at all so kind, which I can prove in practice.

4. Our president has a lot of friends, billionaires and other businessmen, to whom he cannot (due to the above-mentioned kindness and generosity of soul) refuse anything. As a result, the export of capital from the Russian Federation continues, military production is growing much more slowly than the capital of the president’s friends is growing. I don’t have a single friend who is even a millionaire, I have a hard time making friends who are entrepreneurs, in general I have few friends and mostly they are all poor people. Accordingly, I will not have to give in to the wishes of my friends to the detriment of the Russian economy.

5. Vladimir Vladimirovich is a highly moral person, always true to his word and firmly fulfills the promises given to those who brought him to power at the end of the dashing “nineties”. I didn’t promise anything to anyone and therefore I can ignore all the personal guarantees of all the presidents of the Russian Federation from 1991 to the present, if I think that this is useful for the people and the state.

6. I am not as athletic and healthy as Vladimir Vladimirovich was at my age, so I will not be able to bother you, dear voters, for more than 20 years purely physically, even if I suddenly have a desire to mess with you after the military period has been overcome crisis and its most severe consequences.

If you notice, I am posting articles by Rolo Slavskiy, who no longer works at this blog.

I, Rurik Skywalker and the new management team sent in to optimize profits and limit liability, firmly disavow all the links posted under Strelkov’s comments. I encourage you to read them all so that you know what disinfo to look out for in the near future.

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Strelkov isn’t becoming the President. Chances are, Strelkov isn’t even getting out of jail. The people running it now would rather risk a nuclear holocaust than let someone like him anywhere near power. The reason why should become quite clear if you are able to watch the Strelkov documentary that just came out. Part 1 is very well done, but it is in Russian. I can provide a summary though at least.

You’re probably aware of all his usual talking points by now. He repeated them and some others in the documentary:

• The Kremlin is bought and paid for/works for Langley

• The war was a mistake and a trap and fought badly

• The leadership isn’t “too naive” or “too moral” and getting tricked all the time, they are actually playing along

• There are sure to be surrender talks soon

• There is nothing wrong with nationalism and patriotism

• The concept of monarchism is based on a belief in the sacred, actualized by having a sacred ruler ruling over the nation

• The Communists who fought in Donbass were bad at their job and loudmouths mostly

• The country is teetering on a 1917 scenario thanks to the policies of the Kremlin

• The Wagner mutiny is just a taste of what is to come soon

There was also a funny moment in the documentary where Strelkov talks about his old FSB boss. His spook connections are what are often used to attack him, by the way, and for good reason.

Tendetnik’s FSB son ended up working for Western intelligence. Many such cases!

I myself was very suspicious of Strelkov for a long time too because of that background and because my Russian normie podcast chat told me that he was a trap for seditionists set up by the FSB and that is why he wasn’t ever going to be arrested. Well, now he’s in a cell on secret charges and they’ve found another reason to hate on the bearer of bad news, of course. You have to understand - crises short-circuit most people’s already limited cognitive software and make them unable to assess and evaluate information accurately. Even in the best of times, the average person isn’t able to differentiate reality from opinion because their opinion is their reality. So, even if you don’t particularly love NATO, because you might be realistic about their capabilities, you are actually on the side of NATO for pointing them out!

At least that is how it looks in the mind of a cognitive prole.

Now, I’d be lying if I told you that Strelkov enjoyed a lot of public support in Russia. The media has gone to work on him and the average Russian hates him by now, almost certainly if my interaction with the Russian internet is any indication. In fact, there are probably more people that want him dead who are ostensibly on his “side” than in Kiev. I mean, just look at me - am I popular among my own? No, not at all. Thankfully, Strelkov is far more loved, but also far more hated simply by dint of his media reach and importance. Besides, unlike Rolo, who never even took his writing career all that seriously, Strelkov is an actual person of history, someone who shaped the trajectory of the 21st century in his own way.

Furthermore, the masses only ever want to side with the side that is winning. So, if their side is losing and you alert them to this fact, well, you’ve basically just cratered their entire reason for fighting on which means that you deserve to die in their minds. Isn’t that a curious phenomenon? That people only cheer or support the winning side? You see this play out even in elections - most voters try to figure out who will win and then vote for that person because they want to be on the winning team. That is why presidential candidate try to portray themselves as having already won, to convince the voters to support the winning horse.

It was the same with this SMO, really.

In the early days, Russia had absolutely no media operation set up because, well, knowing what we know now, Prigozhin probably embezzled all the money that he was given to set up a pro-Putin social media network and so NATO + Ukraine dominated the cyberfront for the first 6 months of the war. Paradoxically, as the SMO continued and morphed into a grueling cull barely even resembling a modern war, the Kremlin media operation improved drastically, so even as Russia’s position worsened drastically following the continuous regroupings, the image of Russia winning the war solidified. As a result, morale actually improved in some cases as the normies were given a nice, safe, respectable narrative about attritioning the NATO-Nazis’ weapon supplies to chew over like cud in their soft, mushy brains.

Now, I don’t share anything about what I write with people I know IRL, because I don’t want to ruin our relationship and because I find them useful as indicators of popular opinion. Based on the reactions of my pet normies, I feel comfortable reporting that there is no real alarm or sense of urgency or panic on the Russian side - just growing apathy and sullenness. The war seems far away and totally inconsequential and impossible to figure out for sure either way. Strelkov’s dire warnings that the country is on the brink of 1917 fall largely on deaf ears. Even the Prigozhin mutiny was over too quickly to register in most people’s minds. His subsequent accident was seen as totally expected and just more of the same status quo.

What did Prigozhin expect? … He was one of them anyways. … Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

If anything, Strelkov isn’t really trying to speak to the common people anyway.

There is simply no way that the peasant masses could understand what he is saying because it is just too high-level and delivered too earnestly. Instead, Strelkov appears to be trying to appeal to smart people, of which there are vanishingly few of in any country and even less so in Russia, where a large chunk of them left a year ago. Intelligence doesn’t necessarily relate to patriotism, folks, as anyone who lives in the real world knows. In fact, the data shows that there is a dangerous valley in between genuinely intelligent people and dumb people, a dark dip in positive behavior where the schemers reside and they tend to collect beliefs that, when clustered together, we now refer to them as “liberal” in shorthand. Theirs’ isn’t necessarily a coherent collection of beliefs, but more like an attitude that sets itself against the larger body of the people and seeks to parasitize off it through anti-social behavior. Before they were the liberals that we know and love today, they had another set of beliefs that set them apart and against the proles beneath them in a similar way.

Keeping all this in mind, with Rolo gone, I’m going to try and take this blog in a new direction. The Strelkov and the Wagner sagas have both concluded now, respectively. Rolo did a stellar job chronicling them, but hey, that’s all for now, folks! We’re going to have to start talking about other things going forward, regardless.

People are getting sick of this war anyway. I’m so burned out on it that I thought today was a Monday. But today is a Friday, actually.

That means it’s all downhill from here.