The Great Russian Restoration: The Ukraine Debacle
It is the opinion of most patriotic voices in Russian alt-media (remember, hardcore Russian patriots are still not allowed on mainstream media in Russia) that while the special operation in Ukraine is all well and good, there is no good explanation for why Ukraine was lost in the first place. How could the Kremlin let a country split evenly between a pro-Russia and pro-West vote for multiple election cycles suddenly, almost overnight, be turned into a hostile, armed to the teeth Israel on the border of the greater Slavic world?
It may be hard to believe, but Russian used to be the unopposed majority language in Ukraine. Not only did most people speak Russian, but most city people didn’t know Ukrainian or thought it was simply a quaint provincial dialect of country bumpkins. The number of Ukrainian speakers declines even more when you factor in that many so-called Ukrainian-speakers were actually “surzhik” speakers — which is a Russian/Ukrainian mixed vernacular. Me, a Russian-speaker, I can easily understand surzhik without skipping a beat. But propa’ Western Ukrainian, well, I have to really concentrate and hold my breath while I listen to make any sense of it.
Multiple polls in Ukraine showed a majority favorable opinion of Russians and a shared sentiment of belonging to one civilization. Even now, the numbers aren’t bad, but we will have to see how many Ukrainians harden or drift towards more anti-Russian positions as a result of a protracted conflict on their territory.
So where are we now? Well, tens of thousands of Ukrainians, who by all rights ought to be pointing their rifles at NATO, are now hunkered down in Donbass instead, and about to be shelled repeatedly into surrender or oblivion by the Russian forces.
Even before the first shot was fired, the situation that had developed in Ukraine following the coup d’etat of 2014 can only be characterized as a complete, abject and miserable failure of Russian foreign policy. And it only got worse year after year following the seizure of power and the beginning of the anti-terrorist operation in the Donbass. Here, the failure is inexcusable, but easily explainable. The Kremlin, in its hard-boiled cynicism, thought that they could just bribe politicians and oligarchs in Ukraine to keep the situation from getting too out of control. They never switched strategies and they never really did anything to neutralize the West’s far more effective color revolution + mass propaganda strategy. Incompetent corrupt fools like Victor Medvechuk were tasked with keeping a Russian toehold in Ukraine.
You must have heard about Medvechuk, yes? He was paraded around in chains recently by the Ukrainian secret police and plastered all over social media:
He was no doubt captured days after the beginning of the operation and only recently brought out by the SBU as a propaganda piece and a bargaining chip in prisoner negotiations.
Now, Victor’s been around for awhile, serving under Leonid Kuchma, who everyone knows was an ardent supporter of Russia and then Victor Yanukovich, another ardent Russian nationalist and die-hard patriot. SARCASM ALERT — SARCASM DETECTED.
I should warn you, I can’t help but slather the sarcasm onto my commentary when it comes to the “pro-Russia” faction in Ukraine, so keep an eye out for it as we move along. But sarcasm aside for now, let me state things plainly: this guy was your typical sleazy Eastern European political apparatchik and a deal-fixer who may or may not have been close to Putin (his daughter was baptized by Putin, making her his goddaughter, but so what). Most importantly, he was paid millions to be of use to Russia in Ukraine. He used to be a part of Yanukovich’s operation and he eventually bankrolled and ran the post-Yanukovich “Opposition Party — For Life” bloc, which eventually put up Yuriy Boyko as their “pro-Russia” candidate in the latest elections that Zelensky handily won.
Now, this was well and truly a big-brain move. Medvechuk and friends chose a man who had been around the cesspit that was Ukrainian politics for almost two decades — a man with several corruption and embezzlement scandals under his belt from his time managing the quasi-state oil company Naftogaz and the Fuel and Energy Ministry of Ukraine and a physiognomy that just screams SLEAZY in all-caps to represent them and the pro-Russia position in Ukraine.
10/10 optics, what else can I say?
Back in the day, when tensions with Russia were not as high, I remember what a big scandal it was when then President Yanukovich stepped in and quashed the anti-corruption investigation of his minister and close ally Boyko. Most Ukrainians were somewhat united in their exasperation at the never-ending corruption surrounding literally all of the post-Soviet Ukrainian administrations and the nonstop looting that was going on at the time. The constant corruption was one of the driving forces of the Orange Revolution and the ascent of Viktor Yushenko and his pro-NATO, anti-Russia government and then again with Euromaidan and the calls for Yanukovich to step down. At the time, the main narrative that fueled these color revolutions was the anti-corruption platform. This was popular at the time. The pro-Western faction managed to conflate being “pro-Russia” (or at least not being explicitly anti-Russian) with being corrupt. Being pro-West and Liberal came to mean standing for a corruption-less Ukraine free of the control of Russian oligarchs and the communist-era leftover nomenklatura.
So, to reiterate and make my point clear: the “pro-Russian” politicians were not really pro-Russian, but were, at a minimum, willing to not rock the boat with Russia. The pro-Westerners successfully created the association of “pro-Russia = pro-corruption” and used this propaganda to rally Ukrainians at the polls and on the level of street politics. The “pro-Russians” were indeed corrupt. But we all know that the West is not any less corrupt and that the people in the pro-West camp looted the country as thoroughly if not more than the “pro-Russian” people.
By the way, to my eternal shame, in my youthful NPC naiveté, I even wore one of those orange hats that they handed out at the maidan to show my support for the good Victor against the bad one. Orange man good, I suppose.
But patriotic circles in Russia are not exactly heart-broken by the news that Medvechuk was taken captive by Zelensky. The general sentiment appears to be that Zelensky has done Russia a favor by getting rid of an incompetent oligarch that lost millions of Russian rubles and an entire country through his counter-productive efforts. But, the nonchalance of the Russian public notwithstanding, his arrest is sort of, kind of a big deal. After all, Medvechuk is a billionaire that ran several TV stations that criticized the Kiev government up until Zelensky banned them following his patron and master Igor Kholomoisky’s direct orders that he do so, effectively granting Kholomoisky a monopoly over all media in Ukraine. It is worth pointing out that despite this party supposedly being “pro-Russian” they condemned the Russian special operation in Ukraine in early March. Some pundits have argued that this was simply to outmaneuver the Kiev government and another example of the much-vaunted hyper-dimensional 5D chess that we’ve heard so much about in recent years on display yet again. But either way, it did literally nothing but score another propaganda blow against Russia before Zelensky’s regime dissolved and disbanded the party in the Rada anyway. One could argue that there was nothing that they could do. I would agree that doing literally nothing at all would have done more to help and promote Russia and Russians’ interest in Ukraine.
As an aside, the “pro-Russia” faction in Ukraine did in fact have many shady dealings with the West. The only difference was that they seemed to prefer making deals and rubbing shoulders with Republicans, not Democrats. At this point, everyone knows that prominent Democrat politicians have been looting the Ukraine with the help of their pro-West allies in the government. It is funny to think that the roles used to be reversed once upon a time.
Russia’s own, personal efforts in Ukraine, however, were just as poor, if not worse than the non-existent efforts of the so-called “pro-Russia” parties in Ukraine. This is quite clear when we look at, say, the virtually non-existent propaganda effort used to deal with the ever-deepening crisis that resulted from Euromaidan.
Question: what was the Russian message to the Ukrainian people over these difficult years? Does anyone know?
I suppose the most logical and easiest message to send would be “we’re one people of one blood and our future belongs together, one way or another.” But, apart from Putin’s occasional video-message appeals which state just that, this hasn’t been the position of the Russian government and her official spokespeople. They’ve instead insisted on constantly referring to Ukraine as a “buffer state” and opining about the sanctity of arbitrarily drawn squiggly lines on the map.
Heart-warming stuff.
Even I, an ardent pro-Russia shill, just assumed that Russia had abandoned and written off Ukraine because of the messaging coming out from within the Presidential Administration. The intervention took me completely by surprise — and not just me. Dmitri Peskov, the official Kremlin spokesperson, was totally blindsided by the announcement. Literally two hours before the announcement by Putin, he was still talking about Minsk II i.e., saying the Kremlin would simply engage in more negotiations. Even the FSB chief was taken by surprise and had to be dressed down personally by Putin on stage and asked point blank if he supported the operation or not.
In between the stuttering and frantic gulping he manages to say that he more or less supports the recognition of the LNR and DNR. With administrators like these, Russia doesn’t even need enemies.
It’s worth pointing out that nobody in the patriot camp in Russia likes Peskov or understands why he still has his job — not even, apparently, Putin himself. In an interview with Megyn Kelly, Putin told said that he himself doesn’t understand why Peskov says some of the crap that he does.
But back to Ukraine.
Hell, I personally knew a few pro-Russia journalists in Kiev. I asked them if they had any help or support or even had any contact with anyone in the Russian government. Protection, money, support, a Christmas card? The answer was always a resounding, “sadly, no.” This was a conversation among friends, not an official interview, mind you. No 5D black ops chess here — they were no doubt telling the sad truth. Pro-Russian Ukrainians had very good reason to feel completely and totally abandoned by Russia for many years.
And even now, the Kremlin and its loathsome PR spokespeople claim that they are only in Ukraine temporarily, to conduct a de-nazification campaign. Not only is this claim bizarre, but what’s worse, people think they might actually mean it. So, after smashing the Ukrainian army and the volunteer battalions, they intend to do what — pull out?
Why then should anyone in Ukraine support the Russian army? So that they can receive a bullet to the head for being collaborators once they’re gone? No wonder Ukrainians are hunkering down and keeping quiet. Why support a military that won’t be there to protect you once they’ve won? After all, genius strategic feint or not, Kiev and the environs around it were abandoned. What will happen to the people there who came out waving Russian flags? A war is a great time for neighbors who envied (and stole) the roses from your garden to accuse you of being a collaborator. Don’t think that people aren’t reporting on each other right now — that’s what neighbors are best at the world over. Look at your own neighbors — can you honestly say that you can trust the Joneses to not rat you out if the secret police come knocking at some point in the near future? Were you paying attention during COVID and the hunt for the Trump Insurrectionists?
And on the Russian home-front?
Well, the patriotic block is sweating bullets that the Kremlin might actually go ahead and negotiate with Zelensky. They needn’t worry so much — Zelensky’s handlers want war down to the last Slav, so there’s no real prospects for a meaningful ceasefire. But still — it is hard to mobilize a society with such mixed messages coming from near the top. And a general mobilization might not only be desirable, but necessary in the coming months.
The point I’m driving at here is rather simple: Russia needs a new strategy and new people handling her interests in Ukraine and the near abroad. No more lazy half-measures, but smart, comprehensive propaganda and political efforts. Funding and support and protection for actual, genuine pro-Russians — it’s not hard to figure out. Most importantly, there needs to be a consistent and simple message presented to the Ukrainians. Putin himself said it well on several occasions: “we are brotherly peoples with a shared past and future.” I would add, “We will not abandon you,” for good measure.
Why Putin’s own government struggles to follow his lead is, frankly, infuriating to say the least.
Looking forward to reading more from Mr. Slavski –
Think of some things that are attractive about joining Russia, which is an undemocratic country.
Now name some things that are attractive about joining the Western bloc (be it NATO, EU, etc.).
There is no comparison.
Russia loses.
That’s why countries run away from Russia, not toward it.
Russia has a lot of supporters in the West, but notice that they stay in the West. They don’t move to Russia.
Nationalist people tend to have a dim view of immigration. Why abandon the land that your ancestors bled for?
Why did hundreds of millions leave Europe and Asia for America? Huh?
“Think of some things that are attractive about joining Russia, which is an undemocratic country.”
Er, it not being a democracy is the attraction.
*Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews.* – Pound.
“Now name some things that are attractive about joining the Western bloc (be it NATO, EU, etc.).”
Can’t think of any, personally. I suppose it’s looking promising if you are a pedophile. I know for a fact the mass rape and sexual torture of little white girls by Pakistanis is filmed and shared with their cousins in the old country, so I suppose that is an attraction for them to come join us. But I already mentioned pedophiles.
“Russia has a lot of supporters in the West, but notice that they stay in the West. They don’t move to Russia.”
That’s just like when they used to mock the old communists with, ‘well go and live in Russia then!’.
That would be clever if it was possible to uproot yourself, your family, friends and community to Russia. And if it was possible to take all your fellow countrymen, who you care for, the land itself, and it’s history with you.
If that was reasonable it would be a good point, and we could forgive the fact we don’t speak the language.
The following “analysis” that just got approved at Unz Review may seem emotionally cold/heartless, but I assure you that this does not represent my true universally altruistic nature. In reality, I would like to see every nation on Earth preserve their race and culture by practicing ethno-nationalism, even Israel, and to apply eugenics/transhumanism to augment themselves. And I would like each of these nations to live in peace with each other, even to consider each other sincere friends and help each other out for a relatively equal mutual rise – aside from a positive value given to universal altruism, ensuring mutual relatively equal rise would help keep international peace by preventing any one nation from feeling too threatened and invoking a fear-based hostile response. However, this may all just be wishful thinking. Anyway, here is my rather “unpleasant” post at Unz Review:
My hypothesis is that Russia cannot defeat the Ashkenazim. While Ashkenazi and Russian conventional weapons are relatively at the same technological level, the Ashkenazim possess a much larger force of international Gentile soldiers, they possess much more conventional weapons, and they possess the means to manufacture much more conventional weapons than Russia. The Ashkenazim seem to be calling Russia’s bluff regarding the use of nuclear weapons, and it may even be the case that the Ashkenazim, out of a Group Selected Religious/Spiritual/Monumentalism view, are willing to sacrifice themselves in a nuclear war as long as they can be relatively sure they will kill all the Gentiles along with them. There may be a subjective feeling of Honor among the Ashkenazim to choose to die and take their enemies with them than to remain alive where they have failed to enslave or kill off all the Gentiles.
Now, the question is, do the Russians have the same Group Selected traits that will motivate them to be willing to sacrifice themselves provided that they take the Ashkenazim with them? My understanding is that they don’t. Dr. Michael Anthony Woodley of Menie has shown that due to years of dysgenics and mutational load, Russia comprises a very strong level of relatively Individually Selected/R-Selected Atheistic/Nihilistic Neurotic Non-Industrious Low-Intelligent Psychopaths. Thus, I conjecture that Russia will not launch a nuclear attack. Russians in Ukraine will be attacked by a virtually endless supply of soldiers and conventional weapons, resulting in the elimination of all Russians there. However, it will not end there. The Ashkenazim, being extremely Group Selected/Ethnocentric, will now want to aggressively end the lives of all Russians in Russia as well. Russia will face a constant bombardment with conventional weapons until all Russians have lost their lives. Of course, during the process, the Ashkenazi males will rape as many Russian females that they perceive as attractive as they can.
With the Russians out of the way, the Ashkenazim will take ownership of Russia, which means an abundant source of land and natural resources. Maybe Russia will be made part of Israel, which was their plan during the Bolshevik Revolution. Russia can be completely seeded with Hasidic/Haredi Ashkenazi families who, due to their extremely high eugenic birthrate, will quickly saturate all of Russia with genetically advanced Ashkenazi people. Subjectively speaking, the will of Mother Nature and G-d will be carried out, their plan being for the Ashkenazim to replace all Gentiles in the Darwinian struggle for survival and dominance. Just like the Homo Sapiens replaced the Neanderthals, the Ashkenazim will replace the Gentiles.
On a final note, given the fact that the entire Russian population is going to experience extreme levels of physical and emotional pain at the hands of the Ashkenazim, the Russian government can preemptively provide the entire Russian population with painless suicide methods, such as suicide drugs, guns for everyone so they can end their lives via gunshot to the head, gas-based suicide products such as the gas coffin just invented in Switzerland, free plane rides for all so they can sky-dive without a parachute, preparation of buildings, high bridges, hills, and mountains that Russians can jump off of, and so forth. The remaining short time of existence that Russians have can be used to as quickly as possible prepare for a preemptive painless death.
@Sanjay
“Interesting”. Have you any ratbag ideas about your own country in which I presume you reside?
With a median IQ of 80, half of the population choosing to openly defecate on public streets, and gang rape being considered a national pro-family value sporting event, I would say that my nation of India is already destroyed. However, I was born in the USA, the son of a product of the India-to-USA “brain drain.”
Someone much wiser than me said the best thing to do is threaten to nuke the Holy Land. According to him, this place is so important to NWO/Jewish supremacist types, this threat will back them off.
As to taking ownership of Russia, you forget these guys have took over Russia, twice in the last hundred odd years, and both times the Russians clawed it back from them.
Also I don’t think whites will *on mass* accept to be cannon fodder for Jews. Then you’ve got Jewish hubris and the way they always, always overplay their hand. Our current Jewish overlords are not on the level of the Jews who wrestled control of the West from a Godless, demoralised white elite.
They were decadent obviously as well, although nowhere near as decadent as we all are now.
I also not sure the Russians will go for mass suicide, however painlessly it is. It is going slowly, but they are going back to their ancient Christian faith. The Russians have went through hard times before, without God they might all kill themselves, but not with Him.
Mr. Sanjay- Your reasoning, its bases, and the logic syllogisms are not following and contribute to the overall collapse of your conclusion/resolve that Russia will be the ultimate loser and disposed.
1. While Ashkenazi and Russian conventional weapons are relatively at the same technological level, the Ashkenazim possess a much larger force of international Gentile soldiers, they possess much more conventional weapons, and they possess the means to manufacture much more conventional weapons than Russia.
Your Ashkenazi reference is vague and not defined. Do you mean the ex-Christian West? Are they under absolute command, equivalent to a national force military? Western militaries are pimped out by Globalist Jews as mercenaries like Hessian soldiers were during the American Revolution. Western soldiers and their citizenry are too ignorant and stupidly resistant to the truth, that Zionists/NATO/JUSA are using Ukraine as proxies for war against Russia. The Western economies are in ever increasing crisis of inflation and staple insufficiency. The citizenry will tolerate this increasing or enduring. The dollar and euro are evaporation, based on nothing. Destination: Argentina than Venezoouela. Hello Weimar.
Your point here operates in a vacuum. Since there is no oxygen, this engine will stall and quit.
2. The Ashkenazim seem to be calling Russia’s bluff regarding the use of nuclear weapons, and it may even be the case that the Ashkenazim, out of a Group Selected Religious/Spiritual/Monumentalism view, are willing to sacrifice themselves in a nuclear war as long as they can be relatively sure they will kill all the Gentiles along with them. There may be a subjective feeling of Honor among the Ashkenazim to choose to die and take their enemies with them than to remain alive where they have failed to enslave or kill off all the Gentiles.
Your reference term “The Ashkenazim” is too abstract, not delineated, or proportioned. It is now a useless noun that is meaningless. “Group Selected Religious/Spiritual/Monumentalism” is an abstract prop with no context, meaning, or reference, perhaps or not some part of Dr. KM’s work. That alone is a DOA for this part of your thesis. The chain of evidence and logic is broken. The rest of this passage is drivel, preoection, conjecture, and-sadly-sloppy work that cannot be supported within the confines of your missive. And that leads to dismissal, like a court case with inadequate presentation of fact, evidence, logic, circumstance, and very poor preparation or organization.
3. Now, the question is, do the Russians have the same Group Selected traits that will motivate them to be willing to sacrifice themselves provided that they take the Ashkenazim with them? My understanding is that they don’t. Dr. Michael Anthony Woodley of Menie has shown that due to years of dysgenics and mutational load, Russia comprises a very strong level of relatively Individually Selected/R-Selected Atheistic/Nihilistic Neurotic Non-Industrious Low-Intelligent Psychopaths. Thus, I conjecture that Russia will not launch a nuclear attack. Russians in Ukraine will be attacked by a virtually endless supply of soldiers and conventional weapons, resulting in the elimination of all Russians there. However, it will not end there. The Ashkenazim, being extremely Group Selected/Ethnocentric, will now want to aggressively end the lives of all Russians in Russia as well. Russia will face a constant bombardment with conventional weapons until all Russians have lost their lives. Of course, during the process, the Ashkenazi males will rape as many Russian females that they perceive as attractive as they can.
3. This couched faux academic fluff and esoteric terms and references tossed off like dripping hummus from a pita sandwich is your inadvertent suicide of intent. I hope it is accidental or unconscious. You simply have to make sense on a concrete, empirical level.
I’ve said this so many times before: an abstraction has to have a real, i.e., concrete connection to a phenomenon, person, singular or plural items. There is no “infinite number of Ukraine soldiers to field against Russia, because this is not a video game. Read my comments of my characterization of the Russian people, where they are now, where they were after Glasnost, Tartar occupation, Bolshevik/Zionist takeover and degradation. THEY ARE WHAT THE WEST ONCE WAS AND PRIDED ITSELF UPON. It is at once obvious to me that you are a person or “decepticon” of little useful, practical experience, from which would emit some patina of wisdom and expansion where terms and description are perceptively ambiguous. There are air conditioned control rooms with the power plant flow paths and process indicators, all nicely illuminated. You are looking at these and telling us conditions and aspects of all the machinery out there in the plant. That is not useful and has a low interval of confidence. You haven’t graduated and you haven’t the experience to understand the symbols, lights, graphs, and representations-because they are not real.
The rest of your comment is nonsense gobbledygook, and a descent into inanity. Russia now possesses nuclear weapons that are advanced to the point of being either unstoppable after detection, or unable to be detected. Their collective payload is many times that of the West and NATO. Though controlled by Zionists International, that control is not absolute. Russia and China both know that the West is an Israeli colony. Both have connections to Tel Aviv. Therefore, if such a situation should arrive where the laughing of Western nuclear missiles were imminent, a simple phone call to Tel Aviv to stop same would, I am sure quell that fever.
It is clear from study, reflection, and inductive and detective reasoning that China and Russia are their own NATO. Any serious deterioration that you mentioned superficially would be a precipitous event for Chinese involvement. They are simply too inter-dependent, complimentary and symbiotically and profoundly connected and integrated.
The TREND is that Russia consolidates control over Ukraine, divides it into sections pro-Russia, and “other”. NATO is shakier and shakier. A war machine must have an economic base to support it. That is diminishing. In Europe, rapidly. In five years, China and India will be purchasing the amount of gas, oil and coal that is being sent to “unfriendly” countries now. That means that Russia can shut of ALL energy, metals-rare earth and otherwise-and collapse the economies of Europe, which will experience widespread rebellion from a starving, penurious, and impoverished population. The most violent will be the lowest immigrunt classes. Regardless of what puppet like Ursula von der Lunatic say, there is no spare energy for Europe outside of Russia.
In 5 years, most diplomats believe that China will supplant America’s influence in Latin America. In Her own backyard. Canada is one big brothel now, so they will be bought by who has the money. And it isn’t America.
The Ruble has been heading for a gold backed currency status since Putin became President. That will mean practically no inflation for the Ruble. India is allowing Russia to invest in its country and vice versa. These three nations comprise a huge population, meaning production and consumption. The rest of the World’s countries can predict who the winners are going to be. The Middle East countries have already decided. Bye bye American Pie. Take your Chevy and shove it.
Here in Canada an expat Russian and his wife of Lithuanian descent told me Russia is a country of bullies and will under no circumstances ever return there period.
There was also an Evangelical Minister from Croatia, Rev. Kuzmic, who said, the problem with Eastern Europe and its collapse was they simply turned from Red to Pink.
yeah, keeping up with the Joneses, we were warned your enemies will be those of your own household- Christ Jesus.
Lastly, to be able to dance and sit at the same table and drink some schnapps!? .. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/russia/before-obamas-neocon-war-on-russia/
90% of “Neo-cons” are Jewish Americans, and they are devoted to Israel and American wars.
People like Victoria Nuland.
They also like Zelensky and the Ukraine war.
So does Israel.
And yet Israel is not supporting Ukraine.
Russia has even warned Israel not to help Ukraine:
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220422-russia-warns-israel-against-supplying-ukraine-with-defensive-gear/
In other words, a country (Israel) that very much wants the Ukraine war will not help Ukraine, unlike Christian European countries that are helping Ukraine.
Israel wants wars, but does not want to get its hands dirty. They leave it to other to shed blood and treasure.
Note that no one is criticizing Israel for staying out of Ukraine.
https://www.rt.com/news/554639-biden-madeleine-albright-eulogy/
Read this carefully. THIS is what the JUSA was, is, and will be for a long time to come. Make your choices where you want to live. Just like your ancestors did.
@Gerry
“There was also an Evangelical Minister from Croatia, Rev. Kuzmic, who said, the problem with Eastern Europe and its collapse was they simply turned from Red to Pink.”
That’s not the problem in Eastern Europe in general. It’s the opposite: that weak/corrupt governments have allowed their resources to be grabbed by “westerners” or “locals”, leveraged by Western Finance, while, consequently, “patriotism” has become an empty shell. Russia is no exception. The Planned Economy, autarky, forced alliances under “Soviet” hegemony at least secured national independence free of creeping Western cultural subversion and Color Revolutions.
Apparently all the options that can be concocted by fertile minds don’t cut it and reality delivers far fewer, They would have been better to have stayed as they were and have to gradually REFORMED their way into a better life for their (in most cases) wretched citizenry.
This is what happens when opinions are based on shallow, incomplete, or misinformation. It does take time and effort to delve, dig, and dive for truth and verifiable information. What you are saying is contrary to various in depth reports that include eyewitnesses in professional capacities, large numbers of testimonies, observable phenomenon, and data.
@PPM
“…opinions are based on shallow, incomplete, or misinformation. It does take time and effort to delve, dig, and dive for truth and verifiable information. What you are saying is contrary to various in depth reports that include eyewitnesses in professional capacities, large numbers of testimonies, observable phenomenon, and data.”
You’ve generalized your “argument” out of existence and produced mere humbug.
My goodness. What nihilism. What is corruption and what is real politick? I see pictures of villages, apartment blocks, schools, dogs. No one is starving. I hope Putin succeeds and kicks out the traitors and nay-sayers.
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Rolo, at the end of the comments, of your April 14 essay involving Tsiganov and his media endeavor KATYUSHA , I ventured three interrelated reasons why he may have chosen that specific name.
Did his reasons for his choice of branding ever arise during your personal talks ? If not, do you agree with my possible three reasons or any one of them ?
Also, thanks for your continuing, unique reporting here.
A lot of people who live in the Donbass have spent a great amount of time in bunkers since 2014, due to shelling and mortar attacks, as well as drones and missiles from the Azov Battalions (modeled after Hitler’s SS). Preceding this, the Russian population-which is quite large-of Ukraine was suppressed, their language, culture, connection to their identities. Not a peep from the West-especially the “Christian Conservatives”, who are the most vociferous and vicious toward Russia. Good Republicans, pledged to do obeisance to Israel, The Holy Land, Rabbi Jesus. “I am an Israeli”, thundered many Baptist, Fundamentalist preachers in business suits with greasy hair, towering mansions, and scandals galore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo77sTGpngQ
https://odysee.com/Donbass_I’m_Alive:11f5099c66183471638a57a64798c5e24e1d8f54?src=embed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiBhSJMQmxk&list=PL9OaHF7r5vtq41zbNoDawlcZd4xPWWQjJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz4e-kKgIUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEE3f8vLtJA
The Fugs Gospel Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-29rv_P-Cgk
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That sentence summarizes everything. In this case, the word “Slav” is a substitute for the unmentionable word “Christian”. In polite (or cowed) society, the word Christian immediately brings up the collateral word “Jewish”), that is why other more inclusive terms are substituted.
Zelensky’s handlers, as well as Putin’s influencers are in their majority neither Christian or Muslim. Those are the people who, having created nothing, having done no real work (other than producing and shuffling mountains of paper), ended up with the wealth of the nation that had cost decades of the lives, blood, sweat and tears of millions of Slavs / Christians to build. These handlers had no hand on building the mines, the plants, the factories, the infrastructure… etc., that made the Soviet Union a self-sufficient world power. They are instead the political heirs of those who ran the terror machinery that made it all possible. No soon had the Soviet Union crumbled like a giant with feet of clay, when the international vultures swooped in and with the participation of their brethren already festering within for more than 200 years, made out with the gems of the nation. They had things well under control and all went according to plan. The same happened in Ukraine, except that since the breakup of the Soviet Union and independence this hapless land has produced no Putins, but only a succession of thieving Yeltsins. The vultures were not content with harvesting the golden eggs. Now, in their unfathomable greed, they decided to kill the goose. They are beginning to realize that the carcass is empty. Many have already fled to Israel.
The sentence that I was making reference to is:
Zelensky’s handlers want war down to the last Slav, …
It was left out by (I suppose) the software.
If Harvard, then headed by Larry Summers, were to offer an offspring or friend a total scholarship from Freshman to PhD, I would vehemently reject it. That powerful, talented super thief stole the Russian people blind for the second time since 1917; assisted by his Moscow born jewish Harvard colleague Shleifer and their corrupt, high living staff, funded by USAID in Moscow itself.
Yet, he is frequently asked for his opinion on American msm. Shame on the third oldest profession and their audiences.
Almost everything being written in English by pro-Russians about the war suggest a deeply non-european psychology and non-european, asiatic cultural values surrounding warfare. There is a lack of seriousness and purpose in Russian attitudes that is inscrutable to the Western European mind. No matter what our politics are, we believe if you are justified in fighting a war, you need to fight to win, no less against your own people in case of civil war, than you would against a foreigner.
If you want to understand Russians, look up the term “optimistic fatalism.” That’s the dominant theme in their psychology. Then look up “Russian carelessness.” Russians are careless in the sense that most of them are low on anxieties and are present-time oriented. They don’t analyze why things are the way they are or worry about the future. They just accept anything that happens with ease. Then read Aesop’s fable of the “The Fox And The Grapes.” Russians use “sour grapes” thinking to excuse failure and explain why there is no need for improvement or caring about anything. Finally, read Victor Davis Hanson’s “The Western Way Of War.” That book will help you put into words why every single one of us is so uneasy about the way Russians fight and talk about war. Our values about war say wars should be fought with decisive shock action and won quickly. Russian warfare culture is traditionally seen by Western military theorists as being influenced by asiatic cultures with a focus on skirmishing(like the ancient Persians) and a reluctance to enter decisive engagements. Obviously, the Western way of war is objectively more effective, but harder to do.
I can see in translation that Russians who do not write online in English are more diverse and more critical of the war strategy. I have been told by some Russians that most Russians online who comment in English are liberals of some sort by Russian standards, even if they support the war and do/don’t support Putin. This is consistent with most American Democrats and many liberals supporting the Iraq war at first, but not wanting to escalate or use maximum force. That kind of thinking is the current Russian government strategy and all Russian media and most Russians online are expressing support for this strategy.