VSU's Combat Training...

Sure looks more like a cannon fodder being primed for meat grinder. 

At this stage it is nothing more than war crime by Ze's regime and people who run it from Washington and London. But when did the military ethics really stop them? Boy, this guy really built back well.  

What a legacy. To kill what remained of the country in short four years. Per war crimes and ethics, and metaphysics of war--an excellent piece by Alexandr Rogers (in Russian).

Rogers Came Out Swinging

Those who read my books (and this blog) should remember my expression that warfare is a geopolitical tool of the first order. Before it was fashionable to talk about it I warned that the only true indicator of national power rests with its real economy and armed forces. Today, it seems pretty obvious, but 10 years ago...  Alexandr Rogers wrote, in his typical fashion, an excellent piece in Russian which is worthy of getting acquainted with even if by using Google Translate. He called his piece Farewell to the Arms after famous Hemingway's novel.

It is an excellent excurse into the fallacy of the Western liberal concept of peace...  for thee, but not for me. Some Rogers' expressions can be understood only by people with excellent command of Russian and with a good knowledge of modern Russian cultural milieu, e.g. "Netvoinyst" is literally a mocking term for "against the war" primarily Russian pro-western liberals (a euphemism for agents of influence and their stupid followers) and there are many those wonderfully succinct definitions which may require additional research.  But I thought I would bring his piece to your attention while wrapping up my mini-vacations. I understood that at this point I literally needed to do a mental flush for me to regain relevance and continue with this blog, videos and new book. 

In related news, check out Ireland--they literally have the legislature ready to pass which will criminalize even "hate thoughts". Penalty? Lengthy prison terms. Russia meanwhile brought to the attention of the UN an increasing French Russophobia (in Russian). And why I am not surprised. French "intellectuals" called Serbs animals in 1999 and it was French press which was dehumanizing them, now it is Russians' turn, but there is a substantial difference between Serbia of 1999 and Russia 2023. Do not expect Russians to retaliate on this level, they know what class is. But, there is nothing to talk about with Europe. I am on record and you can quote me. 

New New Europe?

While whole "civilized" world holds its breath waiting for new revelations of yet another perpetrator of pussy-grabbing or other cases of accidental fucking with post-coital results rejection among ever morally and spirituality minded, in a very Roman Polanski way, Hollywood, good ole' Bundeswehr decided to quench our sexual harassment stories' thirst by means of "leaking" some rather interesting views on the fate of EU to the pages of Der Spiegel (in German, obviously, at least for now).  RT immediately reacted with producing a synopsis of this study in English. It is a very fascinating view of the worst case scenarios for EU. One phrase from their report caught my eye:

A scenario called ‘Multipolar competition’ predicts extremism on the rise in Europe as some EU members appear to move closer to Russia’s “state capitalism model.” All scenarios, drawn by the German military’s Planning Department, are viewed as conceivable by 2040.

The immediate question here is this: could Russian "model", which still didn't completely emerge (it is in the process) be called "State Capitalism"? No doubt, Russian State made huge strides in addressing the results of robbery of Russia by internal and external thieves and returned large swath of national (strategic) natural resources and manufacturing back under state's control. Granted, not without private capital having sometimes a minority share in many of those enterprises. There is certainly something in the making and apart from Bundeswehr's contingency planning, one piece, remarkable in its coincidence, captured my imagination today. This one is from Aleksandr Rogers, a Russian journalist who made next observations yesterday. The piece is in Russian, from Journalist Pravda, but Google Translate will help those who are interested. The title of the piece is About Great Russian Smoke Curtain. There he makes several, rather fascinating but by no means far fetched, hypotheses based on facts that we all are witnessing, indeed, a massive operation by Siloviki in "emerging" Russia into the model which, no matter how one tries to interpret it, has very little to do with classic liberal (libertarian) "free" market economy and, for all intents and purposes it is working. Here is a phrase:

И не нужно забывать, что и Путин, и Иванов, и Нарышкин, и остальные члены так называемого «кооператива «Озеро» – это профессиональные разведчики, специалисты управления «С» КГБ СССР (линии «Л» и «Н»). Они обучены действовать нелегальными методами, запутывать противника и прикидываться не теми, кем являются на самом деле. Например, могут прикинуться олигархами или коррупционерами.

Here is a translation: 

And do not forget that Putin, Ivanov, and Naryshkin, and other members of the so called Cooperative "Ozero" (Lake)--are all professional spies, specialists from Directorate "S" KGB USSR (Lines "L" and "N"). They are taught to act undercover, confuse the enemy and to pretend themselves being somebody else. For example, they can pretend to be Oligarchs or corruptioneers. 

Judging by the enormous scale of the infrastructure project in Russia this very moment--one has to inevitably agree that Rogers has a point. It is especially striking on the 100th Anniversary of the October Revolution. I find it amusing since I can totally see (well they are here already) some major economic, scientific and cultural breakthroughs in Russia, made especially contrasting against the hell which is slowly unfolding in Europe. Yes, I also see Visegrad Group formalizing as an actual economic and even military block  relatively soon and they will decide themselves how they want to be oriented economically and, considering the number of Muslims and African population exploding in EU, militarily and culturally. After all, somehow Russia raised her standard of living dramatically in the last 10 years, even despite falling oil prices and sanctions. This is the cold hard fact of life which can not be denied and this was done by refusing to follow "free market" financial capitalism prescriptions. Hm, interesting....

Wink, wink, if you know what I mean.