About Air Defense of 404.

WSJ does not even understand that it provides a powerful evidence of a complete degeneration of the once best NATO's proxy in history. 

Yep, ancient Yak-52 trainers. Hey, why not, indeed)) Every little bit helps. Of course, this whole thing is down right ridiculous because of the immense intensity of Russia's combined (комбинированные) strikes conducted on a scale not seen in modern history which completely shut down air defense of 404. 

Meanwhile, Tucker calls out Konstantin Kisin who is nothing more than a stand-up clown and Zionist. 

Kisin, whose "expertise' is entertainment became a vocal "political commentator" and, you guessed it, passes in UK and elsewhere as Russia "expert" apart from being a supporter of Israel. He is nothing but a classic shill and propagandist with zero grasp of the complexities of the modern world, but here we are--he comments, you know and it sells among incompetents in the combined West. These types everywhere, the penetrated every media, intel and government orgs in the West and we can see what is happening.

Dmitry Orlov, meanwhile, wrote a significant note on egregore--no, this is not an esoteric BS, this is a legitimate cultural phenomenon. It is most likely, also, partially genetic. 

Rather, what took place in Alaska was an attempt at a transfusion of psychic energy from Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, Russia's leader for the last quarter of a century and standing alongside such great Russian leaders as Peter I (the Great), Ivan IV (the Awesome) and Joseph Stalin. Putin is not just respected and admired but loved by his people and his approval rating hovers around the 80% mark — something that is utterly unattainable for all Western leaders. The egregore of Russia's rulers, which has been alive, though not always well, for a thousand years, is alive and well now, perhaps the strongest it has ever been, embodied in the person of Vladimir Putin.

The egregore of the American president, on the other hand, is alive but quite far from well and fading fast. Not only is it weak, but it is being sucked dry by psychic energy leaches from the EU, NATO, the US deep state, the Zionist lobby and a wide assortment of other mental parasites. And so, in the interest of easing world tensions, Putin made a gracious offer to Trump to stand together, shake hands and have a friendly meeting where nothing was decided and no deals were signed, but a few possibly good ideas were floated in confidence. What Trump achieved along the way is a transfusion of psychic energy from Putin, his egregore gaining strength by the sheer fact of the two of them standing together at a symbolic altar on which was spelled "Alaska 2025" in huge letters. But the effect was fleeting and Trump's nostalgic fondling of the photo from that event (while bragging about it) is not going to change the fact that the American egregore is fading away and that with it Pax Americana is disappearing and being replaced by a gradually developing Pax Russica. 

Dmitry will elaborate on this later, but he does have a point. In the end, great Soviet thinker (persecuted) Vladimir Vernadsky was developing the concept of the noosphere. It is a very tentative issue but by far not all of it is esoteric. 

How To Use Demagoguery...

Konstantin Kisin is a British satirist of Russian-Jewish descent. He made his career by commenting on a hottest issue button for Europe--namely its turning into the Caliphate. There is no doubt, what's left of Western civilization is incompatible with Islam on a fundamental level, it is especially incompatible with political Islam which is expansionist aggressive ideology. Russia also has issues with political Islam and fought two wars with it in Chechnya. Russia also started implementing increasingly restrictive measures against Middle Asian guest workers and tightening immigration practices. Currently Russia finally launched a serious clampdown on "ethnic crime"--a euphemism for Middle Asia "immigrants". 

But here is the problem. Just listen to Kisin's "elaboration"--a classic trick of verbal assault of name-dropping (Tomas Sowell), intellectual constructs and then using the vehicle of justified Europe's desperation and impotence against criminal immigration policies and Arab-Africanization of its culture. And, as you may have guessed it, it was all about Israel and whitewashing wholesale crimes it commits against Palestinians. 

It is ALWAYS about context. It is always about designating something as HAMAS propaganda, ignoring facts of HAMAS being a creation of Mossad, or that no normal person ignores the fact that HAMAS assault on October 7 was about taking hostages, which is terrorism. But this is not the first time taking Israeli hostages, which is terrorism, happens. It is just that this time HAMAS achieved a very serious military success by killing a large number of senior and general officers of IDF--that IS NOT a terrorism, it is a military operation.

So, Kisin, using an emotional mix without context (a defining sign of demagoguery), wants to ignore the whole history of Israel and the way she expanded her territory by means of decades' long ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Framing this "viral response" merely as an abstract of "lenses" ignores a simple fact, take my example, that I have ZERO, nothing in common culturally, ideologically, philosophically with West's progressives, in fact--I reject their world view almost entirely, but it in no way means that I can ignore a wholesale atrocity Israel commits now in Gaza. Kisin's "viral response" is nothing short of a classic neocon demagoguery. But then again, isn't it always the case with stand up comics without background in anything serious who go into political commentary by means of, justly, mocking current West's cultural ersatz, and then connecting to a very specific geopolitical agenda. And I have news for Kisin--Likud is de facto a Zionist Lebensraum party and we all know what that means. 

So, my suggestion to Kisin is to drop his pseudo-scholastic BS and go and identify himself as Likudnik and Zionist. The rest, hey, there have been many people before Kisin, and will be many after him, who would continue to monetize their ability to verbalize abstract concepts, while having zero substantive background in anything other than performance arts. Just to give some examples:

Or this:      
 

Ah, yes. This is "HAMAS propaganda", right? This proverbial collateral damage, I guess. 

Or this.

I guess it would be a waste of time explaining to Kisin military-intelligence realities of this all, after all--he is just the stand up comic.