A podcast with Mr. Slavsquat: [Boomermindset.exe, *hookah noises*, Liberals Run Ukraine But Bernie Bros Run Russia, Intelligence is Nowhere to Be Found in the Intelligence Agencies, etc.]
Yes I agree that the bloodletting and carnage is terrible and seems unstoppable and there is more the feeling of a civil war now. Why has it come to this? Was Russia asleep for 30 years? Maybe, but maybe the enemy has been just too clever, had a good head start and was heavily investing its dollars since even before WWII in the division of the brotherly peoples of Ukraine and Russia. We had Victoria Nuland boasting by 2013 that ´´we have already invested 5 billion dollars promoting democracy in Ukraine´´. What was that money spent on? What did she mean? I would suggest the main spend was probably on education. I think mostly it was spent on propaganda since 1991 (that´s over 30 years), sowing the seeds of a Russophobia and western liberalism cocktail and let´s call it a ´fascist´´ rather than ´´Nazi´´ feeling per se among younger people, instilling the idea of Ukrainian exceptionalism and the need to find other groups (preferably Moscals) to look down upon. This means that any Ukrainian now under 50 will likely have been exposed to textbooks at school (probably printed in Canada) and other materials (summer camps etc) which helped form at the very least a strong subliminally negative attitude to Russia and all things Russian. This is perhaps why they seem to have tolerated some of the more extreme Nazi enforcers and their activities since Maidan, why even the ordinary folk and students at Maidan itself were so eagerly performing the disgusting jumping ritual meant to symbolise stamping to death the Russian colarado insects, why Poroshenko was able to openly threaten destruction on the lives of Donbass citizens and boast about just pretending to implement the Minsk agreement, why the Odessa massacre was shamelessly celebrated.
In this context, denazification really means some sort of (what would seem impossible) attempt at deprogramming a few generations of Ukrainians
Here, a short sharp shock might have been preferable to the slow grinding campaign we now see, more like death by a thousand cuts, more painful and destructive for both sides.
I think the “unexplained” mentioned here can really be explained by looking at one paradigm: “Find out who you cannot criticize publicly, and you find out who is in charge.” It’s the ultimate third rail of voicing your opinion publicly. I really like your writings.
This is beautiful. Although, I'm afraid, it's not just the boomers. Is intercultural dialogue even possible? Russia seems to be close enough to the West in its Jesus worship to kill itself, yet distant enough to make any coöperation between the healthy elements of both nations inconceivable.
31:00 I'm surprised you said "ethhnonationalism unites the Ukraine and Russia" - not because it's incorrect, but because the caveat is that the word _nationalism_ has been massively demonised in the Russian language (almost worse than "racist" is in English).
Just these days I've been talking to a fellow under Sofa Legion Strategist's video on YouTube, and I tried to impress it upon him that nationalism fights mainly against monarchism, theocracy, liberalism and communism, and in the West is often considered adjacent to isolationism, autarchy and pacifism... It's useless. Nationalism = skinheads = Nazi. Brain damage cannot be healed. (I'm a Nazi myself, but that's beside the point. Although I did bring up that Nazism united Germany and Austria without a shot fired!)
P.S. Another, much deeper thing is that the Russians inherently blame the West for being cruel and belligerent - even though the reality is such that England sacrificed her empire and her very own race to save the Russians and stick it to Hitler. I've been talking to another commenter on this issue - bringing up facts such as the increase in the population of India and Iraq under English and American rule, comparing it to Poland and Belorussia under Hitler... To no avail. (Ironically, I hate the British exactly for this, for saving the non-Whites from Hitler's reborn Europe's wrath.)
I think you’re being a little too harsh here and I’m not a fan of boomers.
While guests on solovyov will have strange rambling, theories and pseudo intellectualism sometime there are still people that have a pretty good grasp on things like Sergey Mikheyev that are on the mainstream. Furthermore I find lots of people have a good grasp on the immigrant/lgbt issues in the west which is pretty important for the future of the Russia. Understanding of subversion is lacking unfortunately.
The Nazi stuff is cringe but I find people have backed away from it and there does seem to be self awareness. It’s unfortunate a certain ethnic group at the top isn’t named but I find people are pretty aware of it in comment sections.
As for being welcomed with flowers I believe the expectation was that Ukrainians were very cynical, brooding people like the Russians and events like the Odessa trade union fire were subconsciously making people sympathetic to the Motherland. I still believe this is true on some level. The miscalculation is the fact they assumed actual hot tempered Slavs were in charge of Ukraine and they would meet them head on in a blaze of glory and after a couple sleepless nights and tempers turning into fear people would negotiate. Instead we got the stereotypical scenario of what happens when you go against one of the chosen; whining, scheming, lies, hate and worship of death.
Correct on the bit where is said that the Boomer hating is mostly about people who don't derive their opinions by diligently scouring the Internet, but lazily still rely on TV and other official narrative channels. The two population sets largely overlap.
You talk about a guy Siganoff (?) at about the 45min mark, where can we find what he has to say? Does he have an outlet? Was it Katyusha that you mentioned? Can you give us a link?
Yes I agree that the bloodletting and carnage is terrible and seems unstoppable and there is more the feeling of a civil war now. Why has it come to this? Was Russia asleep for 30 years? Maybe, but maybe the enemy has been just too clever, had a good head start and was heavily investing its dollars since even before WWII in the division of the brotherly peoples of Ukraine and Russia. We had Victoria Nuland boasting by 2013 that ´´we have already invested 5 billion dollars promoting democracy in Ukraine´´. What was that money spent on? What did she mean? I would suggest the main spend was probably on education. I think mostly it was spent on propaganda since 1991 (that´s over 30 years), sowing the seeds of a Russophobia and western liberalism cocktail and let´s call it a ´fascist´´ rather than ´´Nazi´´ feeling per se among younger people, instilling the idea of Ukrainian exceptionalism and the need to find other groups (preferably Moscals) to look down upon. This means that any Ukrainian now under 50 will likely have been exposed to textbooks at school (probably printed in Canada) and other materials (summer camps etc) which helped form at the very least a strong subliminally negative attitude to Russia and all things Russian. This is perhaps why they seem to have tolerated some of the more extreme Nazi enforcers and their activities since Maidan, why even the ordinary folk and students at Maidan itself were so eagerly performing the disgusting jumping ritual meant to symbolise stamping to death the Russian colarado insects, why Poroshenko was able to openly threaten destruction on the lives of Donbass citizens and boast about just pretending to implement the Minsk agreement, why the Odessa massacre was shamelessly celebrated.
In this context, denazification really means some sort of (what would seem impossible) attempt at deprogramming a few generations of Ukrainians
Here, a short sharp shock might have been preferable to the slow grinding campaign we now see, more like death by a thousand cuts, more painful and destructive for both sides.
I think the “unexplained” mentioned here can really be explained by looking at one paradigm: “Find out who you cannot criticize publicly, and you find out who is in charge.” It’s the ultimate third rail of voicing your opinion publicly. I really like your writings.
This is beautiful. Although, I'm afraid, it's not just the boomers. Is intercultural dialogue even possible? Russia seems to be close enough to the West in its Jesus worship to kill itself, yet distant enough to make any coöperation between the healthy elements of both nations inconceivable.
31:00 I'm surprised you said "ethhnonationalism unites the Ukraine and Russia" - not because it's incorrect, but because the caveat is that the word _nationalism_ has been massively demonised in the Russian language (almost worse than "racist" is in English).
Just these days I've been talking to a fellow under Sofa Legion Strategist's video on YouTube, and I tried to impress it upon him that nationalism fights mainly against monarchism, theocracy, liberalism and communism, and in the West is often considered adjacent to isolationism, autarchy and pacifism... It's useless. Nationalism = skinheads = Nazi. Brain damage cannot be healed. (I'm a Nazi myself, but that's beside the point. Although I did bring up that Nazism united Germany and Austria without a shot fired!)
P.S. Another, much deeper thing is that the Russians inherently blame the West for being cruel and belligerent - even though the reality is such that England sacrificed her empire and her very own race to save the Russians and stick it to Hitler. I've been talking to another commenter on this issue - bringing up facts such as the increase in the population of India and Iraq under English and American rule, comparing it to Poland and Belorussia under Hitler... To no avail. (Ironically, I hate the British exactly for this, for saving the non-Whites from Hitler's reborn Europe's wrath.)
Is there some rationale for the repetition of hookah noises? What's the concept there? Annoying doesn't do it justice.
For a westerner to be on the right means either to be a maga/Trump normie, or antivax, anti immigration in Europe
Or to be Based and admire the Austrian painter.
I guess none of these apply to a Russian. We need to find more things in common
I think you’re being a little too harsh here and I’m not a fan of boomers.
While guests on solovyov will have strange rambling, theories and pseudo intellectualism sometime there are still people that have a pretty good grasp on things like Sergey Mikheyev that are on the mainstream. Furthermore I find lots of people have a good grasp on the immigrant/lgbt issues in the west which is pretty important for the future of the Russia. Understanding of subversion is lacking unfortunately.
The Nazi stuff is cringe but I find people have backed away from it and there does seem to be self awareness. It’s unfortunate a certain ethnic group at the top isn’t named but I find people are pretty aware of it in comment sections.
As for being welcomed with flowers I believe the expectation was that Ukrainians were very cynical, brooding people like the Russians and events like the Odessa trade union fire were subconsciously making people sympathetic to the Motherland. I still believe this is true on some level. The miscalculation is the fact they assumed actual hot tempered Slavs were in charge of Ukraine and they would meet them head on in a blaze of glory and after a couple sleepless nights and tempers turning into fear people would negotiate. Instead we got the stereotypical scenario of what happens when you go against one of the chosen; whining, scheming, lies, hate and worship of death.
Correct on the bit where is said that the Boomer hating is mostly about people who don't derive their opinions by diligently scouring the Internet, but lazily still rely on TV and other official narrative channels. The two population sets largely overlap.
You talk about a guy Siganoff (?) at about the 45min mark, where can we find what he has to say? Does he have an outlet? Was it Katyusha that you mentioned? Can you give us a link?
Sad, really sad