I had an amusing tidbit of news to share today.
Strelkov said that if he was released from prison that would only mean that the Kremlin intended to assassinate him soon, like they did Prigozhin (and too many others). Newbies, do you know who Strelkov is? Patron saint of the blog.
Start here, and work your way back:
You should probably know who he is, like, no joke. It’s getting embarrassing at this point, the absolute of the casual Zanonner. Do the prophets even mention Strelkov anymore? Some gloated over his demise then, but now?
At the very least, I won’t allow my readers to forget about him.
Here:
Former Minister of Defense of the DPR, former FSB officer Igor Strelkov (Girkin) said that he expects imprisonment “for an indefinite period.”
Strelkov spoke about this in an interview with BAZA. According to him, he faces a conviction and an indefinite prison sentence. He added that what he fears most is that he will be released from prison - for fear of repeating the fate of the founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
“In general, I view this event as a curious precedent: after the accusation is made, there is no place left on Earth where I would be recognized as a law-abiding citizen. In the West, I have already been recognized as a terrorist after the verdict of the Hague Tribunal. And in my homeland, apparently, the dubious reputation of an extremist awaits me. <...> My arrest happened a month after Prigozhin’s rebellion. Most of all, I fear that instead of the usual criminal punishment, I will be “amnestied” in the same way as the Cook (Evgeniy Prigozhin - editor’s note),” he shared his fears.
He added that he did not feel any joy when he learned about Prigozhin’s death, despite the conflict that existed between them. According to Strelkov, his debate with the founder of Wagner began in Syria in 2016; he briefly mentions this in an interview.
“My attitude towards Prigozhin is purely negative. I believe that such particularly serious crimes as rebellion, especially in wartime, certainly need to be punished severely. But only in court. Even after the “amnesty,” Prigozhin posed a huge danger to Russia at the head of his illegal PMC “Wagner,” he added.
He added that the “removal” of Prigozhin was unlikely to be an order of the “current supreme power.”
So Strelkov still believes that someone more powerful than Putin ordered the assassination. An interesting perspective, if he really believes it, which I’m not sure he does. We all know the rules: no criticizing the Tsar, he’s doing his best and he doesn’t need your second-guessing now does he!
But yeah, we’ve talked about how Putin is outranked by members of the Deep State that oversaw the transition from USSR to satrapy in the 80s and 90s who still lurk in the shadows as spooks and ethnic oligarchs to this day.
Sure, Putin is too young and too unconnected, ethnically speaking, to be the one who calls the shots in Russia. But I don’t know if this necessarily means that he is blameless in the elimination of Prigozhin. Still, Prigozhin did seem to act like he was doing his Not-Mutiny in the name of the Emperor. I chalked this up to simple PR best practice geared to appeal to peasant sensibilities at the time, but maybe there was more to it than I initially thought.
Who knows.
How does Strelkov know anything sitting in a priZon cell?
In incidents like the Prigozhin incident, a Ukrainian trace is visible. Earlier, the SBU admitted that they killed former Rada deputy Ilya Kiva. Also indicative is the terrorist attack carried out by Daria Trepova*, which resulted in the death of military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky - she handed him a figurine stuffed with explosives. There is no evidence that the Ukrainian side was involved in this incident, but after this, pro-Russian experts began to receive similar statuettes. Doctor of Military Sciences Knstantin Sivkov expressed the opinion that this is an attempt to “silence the journalistic community, behind which stands the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine and the SBU.” In May, the editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and RT, Margarita Simonyan, received a package containing traces of explosives.
This part is just needless editorializing by the staff. The threat against Simonyan and Sobchak was a hoax.
Both women are non-Russian and therefore too well-connected in the “Russian” government to be targeted by the SBU, which targets people who are in disfavor or nobodies with the Kremlin i.e., people without a krisha over their heads.
But you guys should really just direct your questions about Margarita to Riley Slavsquat, friend of the blog, who Nagorno’d her Karabakh if you get my meaning and has all sorts of sordid RT secrets revealed to him during the subsequent pillow talk sessions.
Strelkov was detained in Moscow in July. The former head of the DPR Ministry of Defense was charged with calling for extremist activities. The court recognized Strelkov's arrest as legal.
Well, if the court says it was legal, it was legal. Same as if the media tells you if something is moral. These are the arbiters of our reality. Who are we to doubt our superiors?
Earlier, Capital of the Country reported that Igor Strelkov, imprisoned in a pre-trial detention center, released an election program.
Habeus Corpus … I think you know what I’m about to say here … something about a speedy, open trial and rights and blah blah blah. Russia has the best laws on earth actually regarding all the human rights and what-not. But without political will to enforce these laws or organized opposing force from the citizenry to punish the government for violating these laws, well, they become just nice suggestions written out on fancy toilet paper and nothing more. Russia’s constitution resembles the United States’ because it was written by a team of Harvard you-know-whos in the 90s. Unlike the United States though, civil/political organizations are de facto illegal in Russia and definitely in the USSR, which essentially required all gatherings of 5 or more people to have a permit. Rights are not self-enforcing. As soon as the threat of organized force from the citizenry is done away with, so too are the rights because rights are essentially a detente between government and citizenry agreed upon to prevent bloodshed. If one side of this equation loses its claws and fangs, well, they also forfeit their rights.
If someone was looking to reform and rehabilitate Russian society, they would re-legalize civic associations and outlaw the spook agencies. This societal medicine would work wonders for any of our sick societies, actually.
Alas.
Take the example of this blog.
You see, the constitution of this blog states that I provide translations, commentary, analysis and deep dives into conspiracy lore and in exchange I get the financial support of the blog’s readers. That’s what it says in black and white and I’ve had constitutional scholars verify beyond a shadow of a doubt that my 5500 subscribers all owe me a paid sub. But do they obey the social contract that they have signed by reading my blog? No, of course not.
Does asking them nicely work?
Well, I tried that recently over the course of three fantastic entries on the blog.
This yielded negative results (one guy’s subscription ran out OR he said to himself, “Rurik is a pushover who I do not fear/will not offer the contents of my wallet to”.
I had to issue my first threat in a long while the other day, and what do you know, I got three paid subs immediately from it. Thank you to those three, by the way, all water under the bridge, welcome aboard and boy oh boy, you’re going to be thanking your stars soon when you see what I have in store for the mouth-breathing ingrates who still refuse to pay the toll.
“Tick-tock”, as they say.
And I haven’t even pulled the big guns out yet, so my casual readers still have time to appease me and prevent the spilling of much ink and blood in the coming days. What these … people … don’t seem to understand is that I will get what is owed me one way or another. There is no scenario in which I do not get what I deserve. There is also no scenario in which my casual readers do not get what they deserve. The old-timer stalkers know what is coming. You should listen to their warnings of doom and disaster.
They’ve seen the dark days of the blog.
They know what I am capable of.
So please, let’s be civilized here and respect the constitution of the blog. Let’s just both of us follow the rules and continue working together like we ought to be doing. I will provide great content that cannot be found anywhere else on the English-speaking internet for a pittance and you, dear reader, will make sure that I get enough dough by the end of December to keep this arrangement cordial and respectful.
Basically, I don’t mess around when it comes to civic engagement.
So, don’t make me go full scorched earth on my casual readers again.
OK? OK. Now, here’s what I’m going to need you to do.
Click this link and subscribe.
Go ahead, it’s not a trick, it’s just your constitutional duty.
Don’t make it worse for everybody.
Just get it over with, man.
Thank you.
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Thanks, Rurik. Good to know that Strelkov is alive, and in a "safe place"...Hope so, at least (!). Truth-tellers are no more popular in Russia than they are in Amerika, with the possible exception of outright political assassinations as a routine course of things; but, there *is* currently a Non-War going on, so I guess that's the difference right now. "Assassinations" in The States now are generally of the "legal system" variant, which sometimes are even worse.
And far as you guys who can't/don't want to give up a few of your precious shekels to Rurik for the amount of Work this Man does: I'm fully disabled, have a part-time job, now on medical leave for I don't know how long-but I DO give this blog what I can scrape up, every month...If *I* can do it, surely you can tell 'ol Saint Nick this year to keep one of the toys or other cheap-ass China trinkets to get the whole site? (and *NO*, I am NOT being remitted, nor even asked to do this informal jab!). It's well worth it, I assure you.
one guy’s subscription ran out OR he said to himself, “Rurik is a pushover who I do not fear/will not offer the contents of my wallet to”. Bruh Im not putting my actual card info into substack to pay for your account. Some people might potentially misinterpret your blog as having an immoral Nazi message. Long time readers of course know that this blog is all about respecting women and Cultivating friendly relations between brotherly socialist Rossiyans and their respected neighbors. Unfortunately many people lack discernment and might consider this blog radical so yeah when I have a chance to pick up a prepaid card I will renew subscription.