Things Are Moving Very Fast Now

We're going "Dark Clown Mode" from here on out.

Evegeniy Prigozhin AKA “the Dark Clown” released a bombshell video yesterday where he said that Wagner would pull out of Bakhmut (still not taken) if Shoigu and friends didn’t release the ammo they had been holding hostage.

This was, of course, a brilliant plan to confuse and lure the Ukrainian army into a trap and I played my part in it by pretending to be outraged and on the side of Wagner.

Over the next 7 hours, the following happened:

First, about 6 million Ukrainians rushed in headlong into Bakhmut, looney-tunes style, with their slack jaws drooling and their feet moving so fast that they turned into whirling circles. They were then destroyed by Wile E. Wagner, as per plan, at a 6,000,000:1 K/D ratio. Seven hours later, Prigozhin declared victory, and ended the clever charade by posting a letter in which a third party confirms that Shoigu apparently acquiesces to supplying Wagner again.

And there you have it, folks. Thanks for playing along. The “Dark Clown” simply outplayed ya! Ha! No hard feelings, right?

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OK, but seriously. Here is the actual sequence of events:

• Prigozhin blasts the MoD for weeks and months

• Finally releases bombshell interview calling them traitors and cretins

• Follows up with short video showing dead Wagner soldiers whose deaths he blames the MoD for

• Issues written and video ultimatum and promises to retreat by May 10th if demands not met

• Has demands met (maybe) seven hours later

Where exactly is the “kayfabe”? Where is the 5D chess? Where is the secret plan?

I just gave you an accurate account of the events that occurred. But, in the seven hours between the release of the video ultimatum and Shoigu’s supposed capitulation, the narrative from the short bus morons was that this was a psy-op aimed at luring Ukraine into an ambush.

Some questions: Why then did Shoigu ruin the psy-op seven hours later? How many millions of gullible Ukrainians did Wagner manage to kill in that seven hours? Why spook the Ukrainians by publicly agreeing to send more weapons to Wagner thereby violating Sun Tzu’s famous axiom of “appear to be weak when you are strong”.

Do you see what I am saying? Do you see how the 5D “Prigozhin and Shoigu are working together to trick Kiev” narrative doesn’t work, really?

You must see it by now. I mean, seriously.

If you don’t you really ought to go and get your IQ checked. It might explain a lot about how your life turned out the way that it did. Go do that now and, if the results are as I suspect, politely recuse yourself from having opinions on anything more important than the color of the socks you are going to wear this morning.

Anyways, good on Prigozhin for bending the MoD over the barrel.

Wagner should march on Moscow after Kiev wins this war. Just imagine the memetic irony of such an event coming to pass. A group calling itself “Wagner” because of … reasons…

… and seizing control of Russia. That would be so damn funny, you have to admit.

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Evacuation has now begun in earnest in the south.

Acting head of the Zaporozhye region, Balitsky announced the partial removal of residents of 18 frontline settlements: Timoshovka, Smirnovo, Tarasovka, Orlyanske, Molochansk, Kuibyshevo, Prishib, Tokmak, Malaya Belozerka, Vasylivka, Velyka Belozerka, Dneprorudnoe, Mikhailovka, Kamenka-Dneprovskaya, Energodar, Pologi , Horse Discord, Rozovka

Drawn on the map settlements from which civilians are being evacuated.

Astute observers will be quick to point out that this is one of the key harbingers of doom that Rolo was on the lookout for.

Remember when I said that I was waiting for news on evacuation of civilians before I made my final decision on whether or not Ukraine would be successful in its attack? I said that there was a good chance that if news came out of an evac then I would definitively say that Russia would lose Zaporozhye. Well, if this confirmed (for now we have to take Strelkov at his word because I don’t see it in the media) then that is the proof I was looking for.

Also, I said that if the initial breakthrough is successful, and if the Russian army assesses that there is not enough men to prevent an encirclement following said breakthrough, they would then pull back.

There is no point in fighting outnumbered. Pulling out is the smart decision to make in such circumstances.

However, the problem is that such a situation was able to develop in the first place. Yes, a retreat is better than no retreat if the troops are outnumbered and about to enveloped. But, it seems clear that strategic decisions were made to create a situation where retreat is the only viable option.

That means there is a very good chance that, if Russia can’t stop the initial breakthrough group, they will pull back and retreat. A “strategic regrouping” if you will.

Now, I know what you are thinking: didn’t Prigozhin and Strelkov and Rolo warn about an imminent attack on this area?

Hmm …

Q: And what did the 5D people say about Prigozhin when he talked openly about this?

A: They said it was a fake out to throw Kiev off guard and lure them into a trap.

Interesting. So, is the evacuation a fake out too? Is no one really evacuating? Just another ploy by the “dark clown” to “kayfabe” the Ukrainians?

Inquiring minds want to know what fresh bullshit the 5D wizards have concocted in their magical narrative cauldrons.

Actually, I made the prediction that Ukraine would attack Zaporozhye with a large army all the way back in winter. Meanwhile, most Z-bloggers are still denying that a Ukrainian attack is even possible, now, in May. They’re on book tours in St. Petersburg declaring that the war is already won.

Ritter in Russia

Whats funny is that I can’t even enter Russia for the next 4 years, remember? And it wasn’t because of my writing - I didn’t have a blog and I was uniformly positive and optimistic back then anyways.

It is probably for the best though.

I’d be saddling up with Wagner or creating a PMC to carve out my own methnostate in the sticks somewhere.

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The Russian state is now asking electric companies to … what exactly? Create their own PMCs? Apparently so:

The head of the defense committee also believes that companies that own important facilities, such as oil storage facilities, should independently provide protection against drone attacks. To do this, they need to provide for the installation of electronic warfare systems (EW) with drones at the design and construction stage of such facilities, making appropriate adjustments to the project.

Against the backdrop of increasing drone attacks, at the end of April, Kartapolov proposed to involve volunteers in the protection of state borders. “Unfortunately, we now do not have such opportunities as in the Soviet Union, when the entire country along the perimeter was guarded by military units of the border troops of the USSR. Therefore, now there are somewhat different ways of protecting borders,” he explained.

[Volunteers and PMCs guarding the Russian border because the MoD can’t be bothered to. Uh-may-zin!]

His deputy on the Duma committee, deputy Yuri Shvytkin, in an interview with RBC, considered that the proposal makes sense. According to Shvytkin, this may, among other things, help to more effectively detect drones on approach to the borders of Russia. The deputy believes that it is possible to entrust such functions to the territorial defense formations, but before that the issue must be legally regulated. Among other things, this will help equip volunteers with the means to detect UAVs. At the same time, Shvytkin stressed that everything should be done "with a great deal of caution."

This is nothing new. I have written about this phenomenon before. The Kremlin is telling the people of Belgorod and Bryansk, for example, who get raided by Ukraine all the time to man up and defend themselves. They have to spend their own local budget on fortifications that they buy from enterprising Russian and Chinese companies on Russian Ebay type sites.

Yep, here is the article:

Q: So, who is organizing the defense of the Kursk region?

Stop and think about it.

Moscow?

Nope, think again.

A: It’s the regional government there of course, ya dummy.

Surprising? Why? That’s just how Russia has been fighting this war, which we covered it a paragraph above. The local government is now tasked with setting up defenses.

Meanwhile, every major oligarch is being tasked with raising their own private army.

This is because the Kremlin is telling them, “hey, we aren’t going to nationalize you, so if you want to defend your ill-gotten gains, you’re going to have to raise your own damn army lol. lmao even.”

It is almost as if the Kremlin were playing along with NATO’s plans to dismember Russia by arming various private armies that will then war over Russia. You might even be “lucky” enough to see the collapse of Russia in real time and a period of warlordism and strife begin anew at the rate that this thing is unravelling.

The situation is spiraling out of control so rapidly that it is giving me whiplash. Seems we’re very close to the start of the end now.

And let me drop something else on you for good measure.

I am officially issuing an ultimatum.

If I do not get another 30 paid subs from now until June, I am going to shut the blog down. That is, I will keep posting, but only for my paywall optimates. The vermin free-loading scum masses will be cast out and kept out for good. You do not deserve to read my writing. Besides, you have no discernment and so, what difference is it to you whether I write more or not? Pearls and turds taste just about the same to you, so enjoy your slop from June onwards! Ha! One thing is for damn sure - I am not going to be filling your trough for free any longer.

I’m going full “dark clown mode” here, ladies and gentlemen.

This is a hold-up and I am holding the whole Russian blogosphere hostage. Either you give me my $1000 dollars a month or things get messy. So what’s it going to be?

Hand over the dough.

Do it!

I’m not bluffing!

You have less than 30 days left!

(any support you can give would be kindly appreciated)