Larry Is Meeting Some ...

 ... interesting people in Moscow). Somebody raised here the question why often Larry's and other CIA people (like Ray McGovern) get to Moscow on invitations by Mr. Malofeev. OK, legit question--Malofeev is a billionaire and the owner of such TV station as Tsargrad. He is a somewhat confused individual with strong pro-Russian Orthodox and even monarchist tendencies. There is a lot to be admired about Malofeev's but there are also questions about his sometimes peculiar stances on a number of issues--rumor has it he provided a cover for former Maidan "sotnik" and the so called "expert" (in reality nobody) Yuri Podolyaka who has to be by now behind bars for outright pro-404 propaganda. If true, that, together with sometimes downright ridiculous reporting by Tsargrad, must be considered in otherwise decent status of Malofeev. But we will file this for a later time. Meanwhile.

I have had an interesting series of meetings since arriving in Moscow last Wednesday. I am getting the chance to have in-depth chats with a variety of military and political leaders. I attended a dinner tonight with Lt. General Apti Alaudinov, who played a major role in destroying the Ukrainian force that invaded Kursk last year. The operation led by General Apty Alaudinov involved Russian forces using a gas pipeline as a clandestine route to recapture the town of Sudzha in the Kursk region in March 2025. The operation began when Russian special forces, studying the map and the Ukrainian gas shutdown, identified a strategic tunnel created by Ukraine at the gas pipeline, the main route used for Russian gas transit to Europe. They then undertook a meticulous plan to infiltrate the area through this pipeline, which involved digging a tunnel and preparing it for an assault.

A very important point, which Alautdinov makes--he, as well as overwhelming majority of Russians hate war. Read it on Larry's blog. 

Apti Alautdinov...

 ... explains some realities of this whole Kursk NATO FUBAR. 

Last figure I saw was 14, 200--a full blown US division with three BCT (Brigade Combat Teams) gone. I stress, Russians are extremely conservative in their VSU losses count. Now we have a cauldron forming, and Sumy and surroundings are without electricity and newly arriving reserves of VSU are being pulverized even before they reach the border. 

And then, there is a rather interesting article about fates of the United States by Russian thinker (he has a graduate degree in Physics, if anybody wonders) Timofei Sergeitsev with a shocking title: Russia Will Have To Take Away US Nuclear Weapons. One may debate merits of this piece, but Sergeitsev, paradoxically, makes an interesting case of WHY the US Armed Forces will not save the US, unlike it happened with Russia in 2000. Remarkably, very similar idea was floated by Colonel Larry Wilkerson (you can find this video of his on You Tube). 

Военные — те, кто воюет и умирает на поле боя, а не просто числится военнослужащим в мирное время — единственная каста, которая может править. Такова древняя традиция, но такова и современная ситуация, поскольку власть требует неограниченной ответственности, когда в залог отдается жизнь, а не уставный капитал. США — общество, где власть узурпировали торговцы. А они в принципе избегают ответственности, даже ограниченной, стремятся к перенесению максимума рисков, убытков и издержек на других. В СССР власть в ХХ веке присвоили священнослужители безбожной религии — веры в коммунизм. Этот перекос политической системы привел ее к разрушению. Перекос политической системы США также ведет их внутренний кризис к точке невозврата. Военное сообщество США развращено притоком внешних ресурсов, логикой грабежа. Строить государство — систему воспроизводства власти с опорой на внутренний, собственный ресурс — оно не готово. Два века торговое сообщество США покупало услуги собственных военных, фактически сделав из них наемников. Но на это внутреннее наемничество остается все меньше средств. А также наемники не имеют и не могут иметь политической квалификации.

Translation: The military — those who fight and die on the battlefield, and are not simply listed as military personnel in peacetime — are the only caste that can rule. This is an ancient tradition, but this is also the modern situation, since power requires unlimited responsibility, when life is pledged as collateral, not authorized capital. The United States is a society where traders have usurped power. And they, in principle, avoid responsibility, even limited, and strive to transfer the maximum risks, losses, and costs to others. In the USSR, power in the twentieth century was appropriated by the clergy of a godless religion — the faith in communism. This imbalance of the political system led to its destruction. The imbalance of the US political system is also leading its internal crisis to the point of no return. The US military community is corrupted by the influx of external resources, the logic of robbery. It is not ready to build a state — a system for reproducing power based on internal, its own resource. For two centuries, the US trading community bought the services of its own military, essentially turning them into mercenaries. But there are fewer and fewer resources left for this internal mercenary activity. And mercenaries do not have and cannot have political qualifications.

The fact that this piece was published by Ria is telling. I meanwhile simply beg--get me into this "what could have been" for a day. Let me marvel and rest.

I need a full-length movie about this world;)) Amazing.

Thanks To Larch...

 ... for pointing and translating General Alautdinov's statement from his TG channel. 

⚡️ Over the past 24 hours, in the area of ​​Martynovka and the Sudzhansky direction, the AKHMAT special forces, together with the fighters of the 2nd special forces brigade and the Special Operations Forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense, destroyed: 1 tank, 7 BTR-BMP units, 13 armored combat vehicles (of various brands and manufacturers), 1 truck, 1 minibus, 9 pickups, a D-30 gun. And for dessert: a Plastun SIGINT station and a huge number of fascists.

The hunt was successful. I hope the expired one and his gang realized the failure of the blitzkrieg. And so the guys are ready to chop dill (ukarop) tirelessly. For the sake of such a topic, even without a meal and rest. And this is only for us. Imagine how many fascists were burned throughout the Kursk sector. We have never had such a number of destroyed enemies in a day in the entire SVO. Luckily, you are not sitting in holes from where each of you had to be dug out separately. With this action, you yourself decided the issue of accelerating your complete destruction. The piglet herding continues until your complete end. The smell of fried food is still everywhere 😂.

@AptiAlaudinovAKHMAT

AKHMAT POWER - RUSSIA POWER - ALLAH IS GREAT!

Here is what legendary commander talks about--this pretty much sums up all of NATO "strategy" from the beginning of SMO. 

You literally cannot illustrate it better than this. Yes, as US Army Field Manual 3-0 says in regards to Russia (page 6-3):

Understand the psychological and cognitive issues among competing friendly forces, aggressor forces, the local population, and other actors in an operational environment.

Boy, they think they can understand--no, they cannot; to understand they will need to discard most of their war experiences and learn--an impossible task for people poisoned by Hollywood and exceptionalism.  They and their direct and indirect assets through a medium of 404's psyops orgs failed miserably, again. What they achieved--they fucking really pissed Russians off across all walks of life and Russians now demand heads of all those "military bloggers" and "analysts" in Russia, while accomplishing what was expected--finishing off what's left of those "invaders" and rigging for taking parts of Sumy region for buffer zone. What outcome did they expect? Ah, yes, PR and some teeny-weeny nuclear terrorism at Zaporozhye NPP. Luckily, the fire is extinguished and there is no danger. How's those cognitive effects going for NATO?