The infamously clueless and hapless Kremlin PR guy, Dmitri Peskov, has come out recently categorically denying that a second mobilization is in the works.
Now I know that the Chechnyans contribution to the SMO is vastly overstated and Marko at AE has gone over that quite a bit. However Vladlen correctly points out that the Chechnyan administration does in fact go all out to make sure that the guys they send to the warzone are very well equipped. Its not just that Moscow makes sure the Chechnyans are well equipped because Moscow is cucked, everyone from Kadyrov on down in the Chechnyan administration prioritizes making sure their fighters have everything they need. So yes we can accurately state that Kadyrov is just taking money that is given to him from Moscow and giving it to his troops, but contrast that with the mobiki from the regions who are sent poorly equipped because their governers just dont care to begin with and would rather not part with any of their loot what so ever.
Of course the Chechnyans likely have more loot from Moscow to give their guys, but that doesn't change the fact that the heads of the regions arent doing anything to equip the mobiki properly. Sure maybe the region heads wouldn't be able to outfight their guys like the Chechnyans even if they wanted to, but sending guys without rucksacks, shovels, medkits etc just telegraphs indifference. Vladlen also points out that every week representatives from Grozny show up in person to the front to check up on the status of their troops and if the commanders of the Chechnyan battalions need anything they can call Grozny directly. Needless to say the Russian governors have no interest at all on checking up on their guys at the front after sending them there with piss poor preparation in the 1st place.
So again Im not trying to make some Chechnya strong apologetic but Vladlens point stands on its own merit. There is no denying that Chechnyan administration despite being a parasite on Russia in general actually gives a sh1t about its own at the front way more than the Russian regions do their own. I read somewhere else that Kadyrov bought 100s of quadracopters for his guys right after their utility became obvious with his own money. Now one could correctly say "yeah but that was just money given to him by Moscow anyway" but alright...what about the money that Russias region heads are undoubtedly embezzling? They couldn't spare any of their own kick backs and stolen funds for their mobiki? They couldn't sell one of their villas or yachts to make sure their own guys have some useful gear?
It seems Kadyrov understands crystal clear that if Moscow loses this his own position will be extremely precarious because he is part of the current elite. The region heads and the rest of russias wealthy elite apparently still dont understand this. I guess Kadyrov gets that its victory, death or standing trial for warcrimes in the Hauge. The rest of the confused and willfully blind Russian elite still dont get this.
Putin expresses regret over Donbass during meeting with the mothers of soldiers fighting in Ukraine.
Please tell me the last time a US leader conceded he had made a mistake, and mourned the loss of innocent lives because of it. We have the famous Madeline Albright comment when asked about the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children … “It was worth it”.
Reunification with Russia should probably have happened earlier, the president told the mothers of soldiers
“There might not have been so many casualties among civilians, there would not be so many children killed,” the Russian leader suggested. He maintained, however, that back in 2014, Russia did not have a full understanding of the situation in Donbass or of the true sentiments of the locals.
“[We] believed that we might still be able to reach an agreement and … reunify Donetsk and Lugansk with Ukraine within … the Minsk Agreements,” Putin noted, adding that Russia was “genuinely working towards that.”
Commenting on the matter further, the president blamed the 2014 coup in Kiev for the subsequent crisis in Donbass and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. “If not for the coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014, none [of this] would have happened,” he said.
>“[We] believed that we might still be able to reach an agreement and … reunify Donetsk and Lugansk with Ukraine within … the Minsk Agreements,” Putin noted, adding that Russia was “genuinely working towards that.”
So Putin acknowledges that not intervening earlier and stopping the militia commanders by sending in the FSB was a mistake.
Yes. That was the point. It was not subtle and doesn't need to be reworded. Also, 'I told you so', becomes tiresome at some point, even for those who agree with you., which I do.
Someone should assemble a Tabletop Book featuring hapless and obvious government liars. Baghdad Bob could be on the cover and we could learn more about HRC, Susan Rice, Adam Schiff, Dick Cheney (and his daughter), every member of the Biden administration, and all the perverts that now run our military. If Peskov ever decides to escape from Russia, he'll find plenty of jobs available for him in Washington, DC or with the US television networks.
"Russia didn’t have time to train the recruits that were badly needed on the front,.."
The recruits have served before. They should have all the skills they need. What training is necessary? Shouldn't a few days suffice?
Sure, if weapon systems have changed since they served, things might be different, but I assume that the Russian forces are still using equipment the mobilized recruits are familiar with. Is this assumption wrong?
You get very little training during the mandatory service. It is understood that before fighting in an actual war, recruits are to receive more training than just learning how to march and get dressed quickly.
Peskov reminds of Keitel, who was taken lightly in some other dictator's inner circle.
Off-topic, I just found this video now a few weeks old, with the interesting as always takes of Spencer on the war and on Russia, if anyone has half an hour to spare
TL,DR: the war shakes the world out of its 80-years-long torpor; Russia outside the 2 big cities is a gloomy place with gloomy people. The Kremlin is not interested in defending the European autochthonous population and its traditions, but instead regards the West as the ultimate enemy. Moscow is actually happy with the current internal situation in Europe and the US, which is plunging them in the maximum strife and chaos.
Your time would be better spent watching grass grow in realtime than listening to Spencer. Do tell, is any Zog aligned government interested in defending actual Europeans or people of European descent? Are the EU, NATO, DC etc authentic representatives of "the west"? Kremlin mouth pieces do conflate these institutions with the west but thats besides the point entirely. The relevant question is is the Kremlin at war with drag queen story hour and infinity dildos or are they at war with Shakespeare, Donatellos sculptures, the illiad and odyssey etc. Spencer being fairly dumb is conflating these things to an even more ridiculous degree than the Kremlin. Putin at least differentiates Notre Dame from the gay disco in regards to the West, Spencer does not...nor does Greg Johnson for that matter.
In short even if you are a doomer in regards to the state of affairs in Moscow you would still be more consistent supporting Putin and the Russian effort in general if you actually care about salvaging anything good when it comes to Western culture.
On the other hand, I hold Spencer in high esteem: his takes are nearly always thought provoking. Obviously he has a taste for being a contrarian, plus he's always under menace of lawfare, so he acts Liberal to disorient the Liberals.
But I think he is reviled from both sides because he's overall quite ahead of the curve, intellectually and in terms of being perceptive of trends.
He's been married to a Nationalist Russian woman for years, so he's got some insight into how they think.
He is rich, he could have led a comfortable and respectable life. He chose not to but that does not take away his high social standing. Other dissidents may think everyone's at the same level in their circles. But he'd feel cheated if he weren't to constantly remind them his higher status. So he's universally reviled as a consequence of his prickliness.
This is how aristocrats behave vis-a-vis the plebeians. They ferociously and persistently lay claim to a higher standing than everyone else, and they keep being insufferable until you submit. I thought you liked this kind of people.
I think this IQ thing is a giant inflationary mess. There are various IQ scales. According to the most standard one, the frequency of IQ 140 amongst even the most intelligent of populations should be like 1 in tens of thousands.
For proof, take 40 minutes aside and see if you can reach 120 on this one https://mensa.dk/iqtest/
A second large wave of call-ups would likely depend on whether Putin want to take more land or be happy with what Russia has now. If there is a cease-fire tomorrow Russia wins because it ends up with more land. There are enough troops to dig in and hold what they got.
Speaking of mobilization, have you any take on the colonel - top guy in training/recruitment it seems - who was recently apparently suicided? (Or is "5 shots" some sort of suicide world record?!)
Recall: "military coup" - and me asking "you got any good colonels? ( typically the most likely cohort for that sort of thing) - ha! - maybe he was a good colonel?
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Colonel Vadim Boyko Bio – Colonel Vadim Boyko Wiki
Vadim Boyko who specialized in working with the mobilized is reported to have committed suicide. After 4 shots to the chest.
Colonel Vadim Boyko, 44, who had been involved in the mobilisation campaign, reportedly had “multiple bullet wounds”. He was deputy head of the prestigious Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School in Vladivostok.
It was reported he came to work, entered his office, and soon afterwards five shots were heard. Another officer heard the shots and then rushed to find Boyko –
Have not read this closely yet - but I did watch the full nine minutes of those poor recruits - I suggest others do the same - and then come back to the issue of what point is served by more recruits? - so they can cry out to their relatives - their relatives! - in Russia to come save them? I say Russia should develop a proper officer class and come back some other decade and try again!
So "Hohols" is slang for Ukrainians? - as in Nicolai Gogol ? (so transliterated into English) - the famous 19C some say Ukrainian, others say Russian novelist. Dead Souls indeed!
I love reading your alternative viewpoints, Rolo. It would be most interesting if the men at the Duran, who seldom if ever bring up Putin's mishandling of the war, invited you to do a livestream.
Vladlen Tatarskys update today brought up a good point in regards to Russias mobilization problems.
https://t.me/vladlentatarsky/17631
Now I know that the Chechnyans contribution to the SMO is vastly overstated and Marko at AE has gone over that quite a bit. However Vladlen correctly points out that the Chechnyan administration does in fact go all out to make sure that the guys they send to the warzone are very well equipped. Its not just that Moscow makes sure the Chechnyans are well equipped because Moscow is cucked, everyone from Kadyrov on down in the Chechnyan administration prioritizes making sure their fighters have everything they need. So yes we can accurately state that Kadyrov is just taking money that is given to him from Moscow and giving it to his troops, but contrast that with the mobiki from the regions who are sent poorly equipped because their governers just dont care to begin with and would rather not part with any of their loot what so ever.
Of course the Chechnyans likely have more loot from Moscow to give their guys, but that doesn't change the fact that the heads of the regions arent doing anything to equip the mobiki properly. Sure maybe the region heads wouldn't be able to outfight their guys like the Chechnyans even if they wanted to, but sending guys without rucksacks, shovels, medkits etc just telegraphs indifference. Vladlen also points out that every week representatives from Grozny show up in person to the front to check up on the status of their troops and if the commanders of the Chechnyan battalions need anything they can call Grozny directly. Needless to say the Russian governors have no interest at all on checking up on their guys at the front after sending them there with piss poor preparation in the 1st place.
So again Im not trying to make some Chechnya strong apologetic but Vladlens point stands on its own merit. There is no denying that Chechnyan administration despite being a parasite on Russia in general actually gives a sh1t about its own at the front way more than the Russian regions do their own. I read somewhere else that Kadyrov bought 100s of quadracopters for his guys right after their utility became obvious with his own money. Now one could correctly say "yeah but that was just money given to him by Moscow anyway" but alright...what about the money that Russias region heads are undoubtedly embezzling? They couldn't spare any of their own kick backs and stolen funds for their mobiki? They couldn't sell one of their villas or yachts to make sure their own guys have some useful gear?
It seems Kadyrov understands crystal clear that if Moscow loses this his own position will be extremely precarious because he is part of the current elite. The region heads and the rest of russias wealthy elite apparently still dont understand this. I guess Kadyrov gets that its victory, death or standing trial for warcrimes in the Hauge. The rest of the confused and willfully blind Russian elite still dont get this.
What do you think?
Putin expresses regret over Donbass during meeting with the mothers of soldiers fighting in Ukraine.
Please tell me the last time a US leader conceded he had made a mistake, and mourned the loss of innocent lives because of it. We have the famous Madeline Albright comment when asked about the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children … “It was worth it”.
Reunification with Russia should probably have happened earlier, the president told the mothers of soldiers
“There might not have been so many casualties among civilians, there would not be so many children killed,” the Russian leader suggested. He maintained, however, that back in 2014, Russia did not have a full understanding of the situation in Donbass or of the true sentiments of the locals.
“[We] believed that we might still be able to reach an agreement and … reunify Donetsk and Lugansk with Ukraine within … the Minsk Agreements,” Putin noted, adding that Russia was “genuinely working towards that.”
Commenting on the matter further, the president blamed the 2014 coup in Kiev for the subsequent crisis in Donbass and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. “If not for the coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014, none [of this] would have happened,” he said.
https://www.rt.com/russia/567195-putin-regret-donbass-ukraine/
>“[We] believed that we might still be able to reach an agreement and … reunify Donetsk and Lugansk with Ukraine within … the Minsk Agreements,” Putin noted, adding that Russia was “genuinely working towards that.”
So Putin acknowledges that not intervening earlier and stopping the militia commanders by sending in the FSB was a mistake.
So much for that 5D chess theory!
Yes. That was the point. It was not subtle and doesn't need to be reworded. Also, 'I told you so', becomes tiresome at some point, even for those who agree with you., which I do.
Someone should assemble a Tabletop Book featuring hapless and obvious government liars. Baghdad Bob could be on the cover and we could learn more about HRC, Susan Rice, Adam Schiff, Dick Cheney (and his daughter), every member of the Biden administration, and all the perverts that now run our military. If Peskov ever decides to escape from Russia, he'll find plenty of jobs available for him in Washington, DC or with the US television networks.
The ''wind of change'' smells strangely like pomoika in spite of constant insistance otherwise.
"Russia didn’t have time to train the recruits that were badly needed on the front,.."
The recruits have served before. They should have all the skills they need. What training is necessary? Shouldn't a few days suffice?
Sure, if weapon systems have changed since they served, things might be different, but I assume that the Russian forces are still using equipment the mobilized recruits are familiar with. Is this assumption wrong?
You get very little training during the mandatory service. It is understood that before fighting in an actual war, recruits are to receive more training than just learning how to march and get dressed quickly.
Peskov reminds of Keitel, who was taken lightly in some other dictator's inner circle.
Off-topic, I just found this video now a few weeks old, with the interesting as always takes of Spencer on the war and on Russia, if anyone has half an hour to spare
https://odysee.com/@A%C9%B4%C9%A2%E1%B4%87%CA%9FD%E1%B4%9Cs%E1%B4%9B:3/richard-spencer-returns-killstream-2022:c?t=4344
TL,DR: the war shakes the world out of its 80-years-long torpor; Russia outside the 2 big cities is a gloomy place with gloomy people. The Kremlin is not interested in defending the European autochthonous population and its traditions, but instead regards the West as the ultimate enemy. Moscow is actually happy with the current internal situation in Europe and the US, which is plunging them in the maximum strife and chaos.
Your time would be better spent watching grass grow in realtime than listening to Spencer. Do tell, is any Zog aligned government interested in defending actual Europeans or people of European descent? Are the EU, NATO, DC etc authentic representatives of "the west"? Kremlin mouth pieces do conflate these institutions with the west but thats besides the point entirely. The relevant question is is the Kremlin at war with drag queen story hour and infinity dildos or are they at war with Shakespeare, Donatellos sculptures, the illiad and odyssey etc. Spencer being fairly dumb is conflating these things to an even more ridiculous degree than the Kremlin. Putin at least differentiates Notre Dame from the gay disco in regards to the West, Spencer does not...nor does Greg Johnson for that matter.
In short even if you are a doomer in regards to the state of affairs in Moscow you would still be more consistent supporting Putin and the Russian effort in general if you actually care about salvaging anything good when it comes to Western culture.
I really cannot understand Greg Johnson's pro-Ukraine editorial line, hosting nonsense like anything written by this author: https://counter-currents.com/2022/10/poland-ireland-nato/
On the other hand, I hold Spencer in high esteem: his takes are nearly always thought provoking. Obviously he has a taste for being a contrarian, plus he's always under menace of lawfare, so he acts Liberal to disorient the Liberals.
But I think he is reviled from both sides because he's overall quite ahead of the curve, intellectually and in terms of being perceptive of trends.
He's been married to a Nationalist Russian woman for years, so he's got some insight into how they think.
>I hold Spencer in high esteem
You really shouldn't. The amount of lives that this alcohol-addled, prissy little Fed collaborator has ruined is astonishing.
He is rich, he could have led a comfortable and respectable life. He chose not to but that does not take away his high social standing. Other dissidents may think everyone's at the same level in their circles. But he'd feel cheated if he weren't to constantly remind them his higher status. So he's universally reviled as a consequence of his prickliness.
This is how aristocrats behave vis-a-vis the plebeians. They ferociously and persistently lay claim to a higher standing than everyone else, and they keep being insufferable until you submit. I thought you liked this kind of people.
I can only tolerate 140+ iq people.
Spencer, clocking in at a miserly 134-6 (don't ask how I know) doesn't meet the cut.
But I want a response on my criticism of elitism, above.
TL,DR: if you allow legitimacy to the notion of aristocracy, you will get prickly behaviour from them.
I think this IQ thing is a giant inflationary mess. There are various IQ scales. According to the most standard one, the frequency of IQ 140 amongst even the most intelligent of populations should be like 1 in tens of thousands.
For proof, take 40 minutes aside and see if you can reach 120 on this one https://mensa.dk/iqtest/
A second large wave of call-ups would likely depend on whether Putin want to take more land or be happy with what Russia has now. If there is a cease-fire tomorrow Russia wins because it ends up with more land. There are enough troops to dig in and hold what they got.
Does Putin want a cease-fire or more land?
Speaking of mobilization, have you any take on the colonel - top guy in training/recruitment it seems - who was recently apparently suicided? (Or is "5 shots" some sort of suicide world record?!)
Recall: "military coup" - and me asking "you got any good colonels? ( typically the most likely cohort for that sort of thing) - ha! - maybe he was a good colonel?
= =
Colonel Vadim Boyko Bio – Colonel Vadim Boyko Wiki
Vadim Boyko who specialized in working with the mobilized is reported to have committed suicide. After 4 shots to the chest.
Colonel Vadim Boyko, 44, who had been involved in the mobilisation campaign, reportedly had “multiple bullet wounds”. He was deputy head of the prestigious Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School in Vladivostok.
It was reported he came to work, entered his office, and soon afterwards five shots were heard. Another officer heard the shots and then rushed to find Boyko –
https://prizebondlives.com/vadim-boyko-wiki-bio/
= =
Have not read this closely yet - but I did watch the full nine minutes of those poor recruits - I suggest others do the same - and then come back to the issue of what point is served by more recruits? - so they can cry out to their relatives - their relatives! - in Russia to come save them? I say Russia should develop a proper officer class and come back some other decade and try again!
So "Hohols" is slang for Ukrainians? - as in Nicolai Gogol ? (so transliterated into English) - the famous 19C some say Ukrainian, others say Russian novelist. Dead Souls indeed!
I love reading your alternative viewpoints, Rolo. It would be most interesting if the men at the Duran, who seldom if ever bring up Putin's mishandling of the war, invited you to do a livestream.
Unlikely, but I'd take them up on the offer.
They're just selling a product though.
Can you get Anatoly Karlin as a guest on Worst of All Worlds?
Anatoly and I don't get along.
If due to academic differences a debate would be interesting. I suggested because he is actually in Moscow and Marko quotes him.