Something About Informational Hygiene.

I know many people today, due to a development of translation tools, browse all kinds of Russian media and Telegram Channels. It is normal, what is not normal is what I stress constantly and it is the fact that majority of Russian media and TG channels are working against Russian. It comes with the territory and overwhelming majority of those people such as Rybar, Podolyaka, Alekhin, Romanov, all kinds of other "military experts" are either direct intel or shadow assets of 404. Many are nothing more than shysters who collect donations "for the front" and then enrich themselves and those who cover their asses at a middle level of Russia's media-political class. 

Here is a freshest example:

MOSCOW, Feb 27 — RIA Novosti. The Tverskoy Court of Moscow sent the founder of the Readovka publication, Alexei Kostylev, to a pre-trial detention center on suspicion of embezzling more than one billion rubles from the Ministry of Defense, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the courtroom. "The petition of the investigation to satisfy, elect Kostylev a measure of restraint in the form of detention for a period until April 25," Judge Anna Bazhenova announced the decision. He is charged with non-fulfillment of obligations under state contracts. According to the investigation, Kostylev signed a contract for several billion rubles for the supply of UAVs.

Here is some interesting bit of this dude's background: 

The biography of Alexei Kostylev began on April 27, 1985 in the city of Roslavl, Smolensk region. After school, the young man received a higher education at the philological faculty of Smolensk State University, tried his hand at poetry, and was a member of literary communities. He moved to St. Petersburg for a while, but then returned to his hometown.

Get it? He obviously possesses all kinds of "qualifications" to report on ... criminal chronicles, lingerie of celebrities, cool gadgets and movies. But, look at this!  

In April 2022, the editors of Readovka announced that they would not publish Dmitry Peskov's comments, calling them "demotivating and do not reflect the real picture of what is happening now in Ukraine and Russia," and called on other media to do the same.

Russian justice system works slowly but relentlessly and about a year ago (give and take) the laws on discrediting of Russian Armed Forces started to be applied. And this all is a mounting evidence that a strategic decision has been made in regards to the fate of 404 but those so called "independent" media (aka voenkurwy) who for four years have been engaged openly in VSU/GUR/SBU propaganda and who have been trying to reach out to Western audiences such as DDG inviting a scumbag and military amateur Rybar, because their audience asked for him. Well, Rybar is a shadow asset of 404 and is no military expert since has no clue about warfare, he hasn't been taught that while getting his diploma of military interpreter. And the list goes on, and on, and on. And so, number of those people already received the status of "foreign agent", one, such as ugly psycho Montyan, got slapped with the status of "terrorist and extremist" and is now spending her days mostly in court's hearings. And it seems that Kremlin had enough of these scumbags. 

There is enough material to charge them with a variety of crimes and, many, being thieves, will not be charged with infocrimes, nope, like Al Capone they will be imprisoned based on tax and other economic crimes, which is enough to get them behind bars for a long time. Russian state and judicial systems are very humane, and often give you one or two chances to recover and do the right thing. But at some point of time even this system has enough and throws the book at you. But keep in mind, the number of real military professionals with serious tactical and operational experience, senior officers, with extremely serious academic background is very small in media sphere, including TG channels. The rest of it is primarily pseudo-military BS and outright 404 propaganda, which was pushed early in SMO by Russian media. Ranging from Solovyov, to Skabeeva to other "talk shows", to RT filled with military frauds. Now they feel the pinch. Good. Info hygiene is critical in times of war and especially without knowing the actual background of all those "alternative media" filled with clueless bimbos and ass-holes who wouldn't know shit from shinola but who are "military experts" all the same. Today, another one bites the dust. More is coming.   

Ain't This Ironic, Eh?

 Yes, this is what normal civilized people do. 

HELSINKI, February 27. /TASS/. Russian icebreakers are providing assistance to several cargo ships stuck in the ice in the Gulf of Finland and in the territorial waters of Finland. This was reported by the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency. According to the agency, Finnish ships "are being assisted in the framework of international cooperation with Russian icebreakers" in accordance with the usual winter practice of navigation. Also, at the specific request of the agency, the Russian icebreaker can provide assistance to a cargo ship in the territorial waters of Finland.

Yes, this was supposed to be Europe of normal people. Not anymore. Western ruling class has something else in store for Europeans. Here is the news of a similar nature but ... 

The icebreaker “Neuwerk” was moved from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea to clear a channel to the frozen LNG terminal in the port of Mukran. Now, the “Neuwerk” has broken down due to a technical defect, causing the critical bottleneck to reappear. As a result, the LNG tanker “Minerva Amorgos” is still unable to dock at the terminal, as the channel to the port of Mukran remains impassable due to a thick layer of ice. The LNG tanker has been waiting in the ice-free zone in front of the LNG terminal for more than a week. 

Here is the map of Baltic Sea's ice situation from a few days ago. 

Here is a maneuver by forces by Russia. 

A heavy freeze in the Gulf of Finland forces Russia to move two icebreakers, among them the nuclear-powered Sibir, away from Arctic waters. On February 12, the Sibir entered Norwegian waters and subsequently sailed southwards on a course for St. Petersburg. In its wake followed the diesel-engined icebreaker Murmansk. It is freezing cold midwinter and the sea ice lies thick and heavy over Arctic waters. Ships are struggling to reach their destinations along Russia’s northernmost coasts. Nevertheless, Russia is redirecting a powerful nuclear icebreaker from the Arctic to the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland. Only a few days ago, the icebreaker was busy with icebreaking in the Gulf of Ob and Kara Sea. For most of January it was engaged in escorting a convoy of vessels to and from the east Arctic settlement of Pevek. On February 18, the Sibir arrived in St. Petersburg, where it immediately engaged in assisting ice-trapped vessels.

This is a great point for Russia's ice-breakers ship-builders and only buttresses Russia's "more is better" ice-breaking ideology. That is why coming of this:

Creates a panic today: 

NATO's falling behind in the race to build icebreakers, critical tools for a war in the Arctic. 

And for those who still need a reminder:

Speaking at the 6th International Arctic Forum, Likhachev said: "The volume of cargo has already amounted to tens of millions of tonnes with last year's record of nearly 38 million tonnes. Our northern deposits developers tell us to be prepared for hundreds of millions of tonnes ... now we need 11 icebreakers, which we already have (including eight nuclear icebreakers). We must move on to the next stage and plan 100 and 150 million tonnes and 15 to 17 icebreakers instead of 10 or 11. Therefore, we must construct them."

Do you see the pattern emerging? Recall--ah, hypersonic weapons are overrated. Ah, global warning will melt the ice soon. Ah ... That's what happens when your societies are run by lawyers, politicians with "degrees" in journalism and political "science", you know, by those know-it-alls who are dumb as stumps and have "egos larger than cathedral"(c). Hey, look at this guy. 

Yes, this is American general. And here is another clown:

You cannot explain to him what REAL integrated and networked air defense is. Remember closing sequence of first Matrix? It is all about OODA loop and the speed of decisions, their frequency which defines how you defeat an enemy. 

But yes, Ben Hodges needs to stay the hell away from AC in any transportation, because ... well, you know. 

These guys are constantly on prowl ... Boo! 

"history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce"(c) Karl Marx. 

I Reiterate.

Amrit wrote excellent post on China in previous discussion board, but here is OPEC data which shows one of a number of vulnerabilities for China's massive industry. And that has a direct impact on China's posture. 

It also explains why Europe is not a superpower combined, forget about viewed separately as nations, and why energy is foundation of everything. Thermodynamics is at play here. Hence a precarious position of China. 

1 to 30, Heraclitus And War.

When the idea is right--you cannot buy the empire. 

Say It Ain't So.

 And then they began to suspect that something is wrong. 

Ukraine has been putting up valiant resistance, but its determination cannot disguise the fact that it is losing the war. Russia controls a large swath of Ukrainian territory, and Kyiv has little chance of dislodging it, as Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive in 2023 demonstrated. To be sure, recent Russian gains have come very slowly and at significant cost; over the last three years, Russia has taken a mere one percent of additional Ukrainian territory. But that does not change the reality that Russia now holds almost a fifth of the land within Ukraine’s 1991 borders—or that Russia’s greater resources and population mean that Moscow can fight on for years to come. Overcoming those Russian advantages and clawing back lost land on the battlefield would require time and investment that Ukraine doesn’t have. Current circumstances are therefore pushing Kyiv toward a compromise peace—one that will necessarily include the surrender of Ukrainian territory.

Maybe it has to be reminded that it is NOT Ukraine, it is NATO, and it is not losing but already lost the war, which has never been about territorial conquest. It was about elimination of the threat--a euphemism for, however horrendous, physical extermination of 404 mobilizational potential, that is to say--male population which could be used further as a cannon fodder in West's desperate attempts to "defeat" Russia. 

Of course, we cannot overlook the fact that Russia not only will finish liberation of her occupied territories, but Russian troops are very deep in Kharkov, Sumy and Dnepropetrovsk oblasts of 404. And that 404 is ...

Yep, highway to hell. So, the only thing left for the West is terrorism and sabotage. Such as yet another attempt to put IED under the car of one Russian military official. FSB was there to do what FSB does. 

This will continue but there are institutions and protocols in place which will continue to deal with this issue. Per my today's video, which should be up shortly, there will be some unpleasant things in it, but then again--consider my social circle which includes many senior officers of Russian military whose professional opinions I know very well and what I say in my video re: China it is not only the opinion of WaPo opinion piece but of many Russian top level military professionals. But then again, I write about it for many years. 

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