Some Good Humor...

Very good in its direct style. Paige Spiranac is one of the most stunningly beautiful young women in the world, but now she became a geopolitical meme)).

This is really good: Damn Russians use secrecy as a weapon... Oh, no!

It's understandable that the Ukrainians and their Western bosses are upset: last year every week they publicly announced what they were going to do: attack in the direction of Crimea to cut the Russian troops in two slices, recover Artemivsk (Bakhmut), occupy the other side of Dnieper close to Kherson. It was honest information, not a trap, they really tried to do everything they said. The Russians could have reciprocated, they think by being so kind eto inform them of their intentions. But no, they're mean, they keep their mouths shut. It's like war is a secret business. Oh wait, wait, wars, before the Ukrainian originality, war indeed have always been a secret business. In the past, they didn't warn Napoleon's armies that they were planning to burn down Moscow: they let them advance on the great city without so much as a yellow alert. The orange and red alerts only flashed when Napoleon and his warriors were so close to the city that they could warm themselves in the flames. Later, they failed to warn the German high command that they would not abandon Leningrad or Stalingrad.  As a result, Goebbels' propaganda machine repeatedly announced the capture of the two cities while the fighting continued in the urban centre of both of them.All to make Goebbels go green of anger, of course. And to make him say: "This was it, this was it" just to recognise later: "There are still skirmishes, but well, at some point they'll give up". 

Read the whole thing. Interestingly, Bernhard also posted today in the same vein:

I find it amusing how little western media have learned from their own reporting on the war in Ukraine. Two years ago a mystic 'Ghost of Kiev' was allegedly shooting down Russian aircraft left and right. The ghost turned out to be a fake character. The Ukrainian air force had never had such successes. Two years on it is still the same story. The Ukrainian government claims something and western media print it as if it had really happened. When the claim is debunked, often sooner than later, its simply vanishes from the headlines.

This is because average Western media personality not only has no integrity, due to most of them, top-bottom, being paid shills for the "current thing", but 99% of those "experts" are dumb as fuck. So it is an explosive mix of human venality and being professional ass-holes with professional and academic efficiency of the high-school paper level editor. Or, for that matter, equivalent of Al Bundy's famous "four touch downs". In high school football.

Read My Lips(c).

In response to all those laments about Russia doing, or not doing, this and that and whatever is the emotional dish du jour for valiant armchair strategists such as myself. So, read my lips:

                   Russia owes nothing to anyone. Period. 

Get used to living with this idea, because Russia is not into the business of sorting out everyone's shit. Main purpose of Russia as a state (nation, civilization, collective, community--underline whatever you want) is to provide safe and prosperous lives for Russia's 146 (some say it is now more than 149) million of Russia's citizens. Per Belarus, Belarus IS a part of a unified state, so just leave it alone and let the thing play out. I will repeat what I said many times already--Belarus' main anti-Russian element is Lukashenko. Live with it. Why and how? Look at Ukraine. Lukashenko must go, Belarus may stay. Simple as that. I don't know how else to convey this simple truth. You can take one out of kolkhoz (state farm), you cannot take kolkhoz out of one. Lukashenko is former kolkhoz director with a world view and psychology appropriate for this level of management. Whole Belarus' "economic socialist miracle" was financed for decades by Russia and financing counts in, probably, more than $100 billion. Russia doesn't want to pay for some petty autocrat's career anymore, and rightly so. Enough is enough. 

Now that I pointed out obvious international law and geopolitical difference between Ukraine and Belarus, Russia MUST absolutely, and I think that was done already, tell Lukashenko to get lost, after his pathetic ass will be saved. People still, it seems, cannot get a huge distinction  between real intellect and being a cunning primitive crook such as Lukashenko. Now to the most important part. Empires shine, if they don't--they fail. I already stated this not for once, I will repeat it again--for New Yorker or Chicagoan who would visit Moscow or St. Petersburg for the first time, the whole experience could be a life-changing event, because the grandeur, opulence and the glitz of these cities, as well as of many other places in Russia can create a cultural shock. Especially if this person read and watched US media. NYC or Chicago look like a county fair trying to compete with Hermitage and Louvre in value of their art collections. Simple as that. 

Russians, for the last 30 years, were humiliated, thrown out of newly "independent" countries of former USSR, were abused, taken as slaves, accused of being drunks and backward, of being freeloaders and being impediment to a development of former Soviet Republics towards European (or American) levels of consumption and "enlightenment", same goes for former Warsaw block countries. Russians said: "fine". Today, European cities look like shitholes compared to many Russian cities, Russia is safe and Russians, majority of them, never lived as good as they do today. And former empire shines and not only through its glitz, public safety and standard of living. Russia simply doesn't need freeloaders anymore. Belarus was a freeloader for 30 some years and it was Lukashenko who made Belarus into a freeloader. Well, this time is over. For him, anyway, and if anyone thinks that Belarus is a viable economic entity without Russia, they should take a look at a much larger Ukraine. 

So, the point is simple--form a line trying to get in, guys, and nobody cares if the latest polls, such as in Ukraine, show a "softening" of the attitudes towards Russia. Sure, they show--living in a shithole changes attitudes fairly fast, but the Rubicon has been crossed and Russia asks today a question: "why do I need you?" Just ask those seasonal workers from Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other former "sufferers" from Russia's civilizating yoke who try, in millions, to get to Russia today, from their national and very "free" (from real economy, education or healthcare) countries to get any job to send money back to their "independent" nations. Let's say this, Belarus got lucky, but as Ukrainians, Belorussians better have a good case to present to Russia on why they are so crucial for her. It is better be a damn solid case, accompanied by a sincere apology. Maybe then Russians will reconsider. After all, they are the ones populating this ever-guilty and ever-backward Russia. Indeed, what can possibly these Russians offer when compared to a blessed West. 

I heard Paris smells like urine. San-Francisco, meanwhile, smells like shit and so, yes, I am sure there are many toilet bowls and strawberry fields which need tending by members of the future brave new world of a disintegrating West. The future of the West, from Los Angeles to Paris, increasingly smells like an excrement.      

Russian Army Invades Italy.

And makes a dash to Bergamo. No, really, Russian contingent of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces (RHBZ) deploys to one of the hardest hit regions of Italy, around the city of Bergamo.   

Russian Vesti (Russia 1) reporters are also at hand to document this act of aggression. 

Russia also registered today first two deaths from Covid-19: 73 and 81 year old patients, both with a host of chronic illnesses, which, of course, is a very small consolation for their relatives. But it is what it is, we all are at risk one way or another. 

Today, also, in the act of unheard of militancy, Russian insidiousness and lack of democracy, Russians conducted another anti-American provocation and operation of influence and, through Russia's Ambassador to the United States  Anatoly Antonov offered (if needed) aid to the United States in containing Covid-19 pandemic (in Russian). I think US Intelligence Community headed by the US Congress Select Committee On Intelligence  must immediately commence a thorough investigation of this atrocious Russian interference with American democracy. Declarations such as this:

«Простые американцы должны знать – Россия при необходимости будет готова помочь и США, как не раз предлагала содействие в тушении пожаров в Калифорнии»

Translation: "Simple Americans must know--if necessary, Russia will be ready to help the United States, the same as Russia, not for once, offered help in extinguishing fires in California". 

Or this barely veiled threat to American national security when stating that Russian Covid-19 test kits are top notch and already have proven themselves in China, Iran and, now, Italy, are absolutely inadmissible. This is atrocious, where are Malcolm Nance or Adam Schiff, or specialist in Russian genetics and bodily fluids Mr. Clapper, when you need them? Where is everybody?  Who can stop this Russian aggression? But never mind, it doesn't really matter because there are always sanctions the United States can impose on Russia for conducting herself in such an aggressive, democracy-threatening manner. So, as you can see, Russian invasion is in progress and NATO does nothing. What's next, Russians sending toys and food for women and children? Ah, wait--Syria, forgot completely. While combined West tries to support peaceful humanitarian jihadists and other democratic head-choppers, Russians assault Syrian civilian population with doctors, food, clothing, clean water and other typically Russian tools of aggression and subversion.  Look at that, Russian agents are already deep in Italy. So, ladies and gentlemen, the Russians Are Coming! Run for your life!

It Would Produce A Shock In The West.

But in Russia, finally, another huge step is made away from globalism. For decades in Russia it was known to everyone that without ethnic Russians (Russkie, as opposed to Rossyane--merely Russia's citizens) there would be no Russia. It, finally, will be reflected in the Constitution. The Amendment by Putin and supported by Committee of Duma sounds like this:

"Государственным языком Российской Федерации на всей ее территории является русский язык как язык государствообразующего народа"

Translation: The State language  on all territory of Russian Federation is Russian (Russkii) language, the language of the State-founding people.  

For the first time, Russians (Russkie, not Rossiyane) are called what they really were and are in Russia's history--a state-founding people. This is huge. Russia has something like 100+ ethnicities populating it, but largest by far (around 80%) are Russians (Russkie), people of Russian ethnicity and culture. Well, Ravil Gainuddin, Russia's Chief Mufti, was against this amendment, but before he expressed his displeasure, he should have asked himself who, for a millennium held Russia together and how Russian state came into existence. Many ethnicities under Russia were not only preserved but were given an unprecedented access to education, healthcare, social status. Gainutdin, being Tatar has to recall how many Tatars, or Bashkirs advanced to the highest positions in historic Russia's institutes of power, science, culture and other crucial fields. Same goes for many peoples of Caucasus. Enough to recall Yunus Bek Evkurov, today a Deputy Minister of Defense of Russian Federation, he is Ingush. Scores of Azerbaijanis, Avars, Armenians, Jews and others live in Russia and their rights and cultures are reliably defended. Islam, in Russia, is declared one of the major religions. 

Basically, Putin did what was supposed to be done long ago--he fixed a historical position of Russkie of which everyone in Russia is well aware and, bar some few crazy exceptions, not only are content with it but want it to remain so for as long as possible. In the end, it is simply a norm in Russia for centuries to do STEM, as one example, in Russian language. I would say, explaining Riemann folds or partial derivatives is done better in Russian language than in, say, language of Russian North's native peoples--it is just a hard cold fact. I can only imagine how such an amendment which puts White European stock people as American state-founding people whose language is English would be met in the United States. As we all know today, the United States was "founded" by people of color, who were mostly gay or transgender, spoke a variety of languages (not English), while white European population of the United States contributed almost nothing to this country, right? Can you imagine designating Swedish people and their language as the foundation of Sweden? Impossible. But Russians, being backward barbaric people decided to do this using outdated, useless and intolerant method of putting interests of the overwhelming majority of people, including huge number of non-Russians, above aspirations of a minority which tries to call white black, wet-dry, and a sunny day an overcast.   

UPDATE: Ravil Gainutdin, actually already issued a statement (and I give him a benefit of a doubt here) that his "disagreement" was not with the principle but with formulation. He emphatically stressed the necessity to point out the state-founding character of Russian people and language and quoted his version of an amendment:

«Выражая волю многонационального народа Российской Федерации и русского народа»

Translation: Expressing will of multi-national people of Russian Federation and Russian people.  
We'll see, as you might expect Russian "liberda" and svidomy Sumerians from Ukraine are going apoplectic from all that. Good. 

The Train Has Left The Station.

In any business (I underscore it--business) dealings between people two major factors (and requirements) come into play, same, as a matter of fact, is true for dealings between nations, trust and fair trade. When conducting any business interaction I have to be completely sure that my counterpart is both an honest man, who doesn't plan to cheat me, and has something of equal (or near equal) value in exchange to the value I offer him (or her). The third factor which stands alone is doing due diligence when deciding who to deal with. It is simple, really, and doesn't require any special abilities. Well, evidently France's President Emmanuel Macron never heard of such basic requirements. While visiting Warsaw two days ago, Macron arrived to this conclusion:

While Moscow's misrepresenting of facts needs to be kept in mind, Macron stressed that Russia is part of Europe geographically and should not be isolated as the EU looks toward the future following Britain's departure last week. “I am convinced that we can build an architecture of stability, of peace, of trust in Europe only if we talk with Russia” but “not yield things to Russia, not forget what it did or what it does, but demand a deescalation,” Macron said. “I think it a major error to distance ourselves from a part of Europe that we don't feel comfortable about,” Macron said.

What Macron fails to understand here is that Russians, initially, viewed Europe as an entity which satisfied those two major requirements for fair business. Boy, were Russians wrong! Only when Russians returned to necessary practice of doing due diligence did they recognize how wrong they were. I think EU taking a very active part in unleashing the bloody mess in Ukraine, while prior to it sponsoring destruction of Libya and helping to unleash hell in Syria, had something to do with that. Plus who can forget Europeans exhibiting levels of hatered towards Serbs or even Russian Troops fighting Jihad Internationale in Caucasus not seen since, well, Goebbels. Russians remember all that. Since then, in reality much earlier, Russians precisely want to, paraphrasing Macron, "distance themselves from a part of Europe Russians don't feel comfortable about." In fact, Russians are truly grateful for Europe deciding to distance itself from Russia and that is where the whole "business dealings" paradigm shifts. Europe is not a reliable partner, period. It will betray Russia because it cannot fail to do so because Russian and European cultural genetic codes differ dramatically, even when on the surface they seem to be the same. 

For starters, Russians know extremely well what are the facts behind WW II, who and how started it. Russians know it extremely well because they finished that war as victors in it and had a good insight into causes and driving forces of that war. This insight comes with the territory for Victorious nations. That is why Russians most likely will not invite Poland to the celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Victory this year. France, however, is invited and Macron already confirmed his presence in Moscow on May 9. But France, as represented by her President, is not trying to be nice to Russia. Absolutely not, France, Germany or, for that matter, Spain know that Russians are not Europeans per definition of Europeanessness as it is accepted in Europe proper. Russians are rowdy, their men love women and their women love men, Russians still exhibit signs of utter cultural backwardness by being patriotic, loving math and physics over gender studies, they laugh (or feel sorry) at Greta Thunberg and when in Europe, for some reason, can beat the shit out of third world immigrants instead of trying to culturally enrich themselves by allowing those immigrants to rape Russian women or rob themselves. In general, those backward, KGB-loving Russians have no place in Europe and, that is the funny part, Russians are perfectly fine with that. Russians also love guns, they love to own them, shoot them and most of those Russkies are drafted into the Army which turns their toxic masculinity to 11.

But for Macron, expressing what amounts to a trivial geopolitical common sense, is all about France:

1. Not willing to become American lunch;

2. France's always acute fear of Germans combined with phantom pains of European superpowerdom and desire to speak on behalf of all Europe.

Of course, France's nuclear arsenal counts heavily towards resolving France's fears of German resurgence, at least for now, but it counts for absolutely nothing when France will face what the United States has in store for EU. United States needs EU dissolved and will eat each European nation after that separately. Macron figured that out and so did some Europeans. So, now they try to woo Russia as some kind of counter-balance to Europe's defender and upholder of European democracy across the Atlantic. The problem with this arrangement is that Russia doesn't want to deal with this anymore. Make no mistake, Russia can:

But she shouldn't. Moreover, there is this teeny-weeny factor of Trump and his "deep state" advisors still willing to "talk to Putin". That smells of conflict of interests. This is really a funny situation few could have predicted in 2014, but it is what it is--in the end, even if one is a scumbag in business relations, this scumbag still could be of interest if he has something of value. The ONLY value of Europe for Russia is as market, period. Russia needs to sell her hydrocarbons, and increasingly high value added finished goods to Europe. This trend will continue. While oil and other minerals constitute a bulk of Russia exports, take a look at some really interesting items which Russia exported in 2018. 

As you can see, finished goods and food are by no means unnoticeable in Russia's exports and their share will only continue to grow. I omit here internal Russian market which changes the economic outlook dramatically, when included into considerations, because Russia produces a bulk of finished goods for internal use. That means, of course, that EU is a competitor, not really a partner. Especially now, when Russia rolled out half-a-trillion dollars for National Projects which are Russia's projects, not EU's. Certainly, EU could have had a share, should it have been sovereign and friendlier to Russia political organization, but not anymore. You think Macron doesn't know it? Oh, yes, he does. He also knows (after all, Airbus HQs are in Toulouse), that not only Russians are moving away from Safran SAM-146 jet engines, but continue to manufacture SSJ-100s now planned with fully Russian-made engines. And, of course, guess what MC-21 and perspective CR-929 are for Airbus business? Right, direct and stiff competition. So much to take in for Europe. Plus, if someone failed to notice, some piece of really interesting news:

Power plant engineers have loaded 18 mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies in Unit 4 at the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Distinct from traditional nuclear fuel with enriched uranium, MOX fuel pellets are based on the mix of nuclear fuel cycle derivatives, such as plutonium oxide bred in commercial reactors and uranium oxide derived by defluorination of depleted uranium hexafluoride—the so-called secondary tailings of uranium enrichment facilities.Beloyarsk Unit 4 (Figure 1) is a BN-800 design, the world’s most powerful fast neutron reactor. It was a POWER Top Plant in 2016. Rosenergoatom and TVEL (the power generation and nuclear fuel divisions of Rosatom State Corp., respectively) plan to load another batch of 180 MOX fuel assemblies later this year. The group has committed to replacing all remaining uranium-based fuel assemblies with MOX fuel by the end of 2021. If completed as planned, it will be the first time a Russian fast neutron reactor operates with a full load of MOX fuel.

I guess this is not a good news for French nuclear power industry, which, inevitably, also will be sabotaged by "climate activists", while Rosatom already has almost 70% of international market to itself. So, when one begins to review one after another European purely economic perspectives--they do not look that bright. And then, of course, there is an issue of EU's military-industrial complex which was pretty much driven into the ground by US "defense" arrangements with Europe through NATO. And here is the catch for EU, Russia and the United States are bound to some sort of settlement inevitably, because Russia is a major external geopolitical factor in American departure from unipolarity. Not to mention the fact that both are the only military powers capable to annihilate human civilization (forget each-other) completely out of own resources. That is what matters here. EU in all that is NOT a factor and will continue to be such no matter how Vladimir Putin's calls for New Yalta Conference will be responded too.

In the end, what can Europe offer Russia but her market? Technologies? Ahh, tired myth of those Russkies capable to only produce crude weapons--many in Europe still believe in that. Some cannot still conceive that Russia produces world-class own diagnostic medical equipment, electronics, processors etc. They will have to learn to live with that. And while at it, some breaking news from free United Kingdom--UK decided to lift some sanctions from Russia since UK needs Russian pipes, aluminum and you name it. And the main question which arises in the midst of this rat race is: what about Skripals, what about LGBT, what about "democracy", and what about those "principles" which guided suicidal EU (and American) policies domestically and especially against Russia? I'll open a secret--there never were any principles and the only thing Europe loves is power--this power today is in Russia's corner. Because of that many will gravitate to this power, which is not only in massive military capability but, and you may have guessed it already, I will quote incomparable Correli Barnett, yet again: 

EU was too late to the accelerating train of history, which left the station, leaving Europeans and their Brussels bureaucracy and "elites", those who can still think, to contemplate Old Europe's fate as an object good only for being used as a relatively senior card in a huge geopolitical game and no amount of appeals to those who hold all the trump (pun is intended) cards will change the outcome. Damn, Russia again will have to deal with Anglos as was the case in 1945(/sarc). 

So, Russians Are Also Humans.

Would you believe that? I didn't know that I am human until I stumbled upon Vzglyad's article on this issue this morning. I thought they exaggerated and I followed the whole thing to the source--namely Die Tageszeitung, and lo and behold, Andreas Ruttenauer of this newspaper after visiting World Cup in Russia did arrive to this controversial conclusion that:

           Russen und Russinnen sind also auch Menschen

Yes, yes, we Russians, are also people--not horses, not sheep, not fish, not even cockroaches--but humans, granted, genetically inferior in accordance to America's former top spy. Can you imagine that? What a relief. So, I am very pleased with the fact that Herr Ruttenauer--a fine product of contemporary German so called "culture" and its media--finally figured that out. I will go even further and will disclose to an incisive and wonderful representative of famed school of German journalism that Russians also drive cars, dress well and, generally, call things the way they see them and, unlike fine German intellectual class--Russians call rape a rape, sodomy a sodomy and they do not use political correctness. In fact, Russians, for some unknown reason, have no use for it at all. 

So, may I, as finally identified as a human, however genetically inferior untermensch, propose to Herr Ruttenauer that average Russian today is on the order of magnitude freer than any German and for all Russia's real problems--things like mass rapes with blaming victims for being raped are not possible in Russia. In Germany, however, it is rather normal occurrence and German media go out of their way to hide that thus promoting a culture of degeneracy and crime. After all, German men, with active participation of its media, were completely emasculated and Germany is being turned into multi-cultural cloaca, one can only expect to see anti-rape fashion growing there. It is impossible to imagine such a "progressive" trend in this backward Russia where women still remain women and do expect their men to defend them, until law enforcement arrives. Indeed, life expectancy for rapists in Russian prisons drops precipitously compared to other felons. For some reasons Russians are having old fashioned sexual relations between man and a woman, don't appreciate "sexual education" for children and resist European "culture" with all their means. Maybe this is why they are still human, right? As Margarita Simonyan suggested to this high moral ground German journalist--why wouldn't he try to replace word Russians in his article with Jews? I think Ruttenauer should try it and see what happens. 

What Did I Say?

Remember me pointing out not for once that West's so called "elites'" feelings towards Russians is, and I quote (myself):

West's hatred towards Russia is not just ideological and cultural--it is racial.

Now the truth begins to slowly emerge. Former US "intelligence" big honcho James Clapper in his interview to NBC says it all:

"If you put that in context with everything else we knew the Russians were doing to interfere with the election, and just the historical practices of the Russians, who typically, almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor, whatever, which is a typical Russian technique. So we were concerned."  

Ah, those Russian untermensch, how could they point out, out of their own "historical practices", among which were such things as liberation of Auschwitz, the fact that among typical Clapper's and his ilk "techniques" are killing with impunity of millions of innocent civilians, destroying nations, co-opting, penetrating, gaining....wait, these are Russian genetic traits. So, there you are, we finally arrived to what I warned about. I know there were some German POW camps in and around Phoenix, AZ in the immediate aftermath of WW II. I think, Mr.Clapper should look very attentively into the possibility of turning those into the concentration camps for untermensch, I mean Russians, whose genetic composition is a clear and present danger to the American "democracy".  So, there you are, boys and girls--the "best" what US "intelligence" could produce, and this are also views of very many in US "elites".  In the end, preserving of precious bodily fluids is so important.