The instinct of self-preservation in Europe is gone. "Elites" are having issues with coping with reality, while population is docile and brainwashed. Today this insanity is driven by Germany, which is mentally disturbed nation and will elect again in the Western lands people who will ensure that Germany ceases to exist as a viable state. Berlin is long overdue for stone rearrangement. This time, though, Russians are not coming. Not a single ruble will be spent on aid to Europe after dust settles.
Meanwhile Poles are surprised (Germans are not surprised--they only care about their stomach, most of them anyway) that explosion on the railway in Augsburg, after all, was not Putin and Petrov and Boshirov.
Nope, these were two 404 nationals. There is plenty more where it all came from. Europe, enjoy--you will become 404 soon. With all what it entails.
While Germany is an extreme case, it has to be remembered and I repeat it again: Europe is an existential enemy of Russia and Russian people, period. Some few manifestations of common sense or even Russophilia here and there are ABSOLUTELY not indicative of the overall attitude of not just political top but European people as a whole towards Russia and Russians. Considering the level of conformity and cowardice of Europeans the only thing which may (not guaranteed though) make them to revolt is the collapse of their welfare states--not moral or spiritual considerations. Europe learned absolutely nothing from two world wars and should be left alone to rot under the Damocles Sword of Russia's nuclear and conventional deterrent. For those who still believe fairy tales of Russia as part of European culture I remind you--8 years ago:
Today, those white segments are even smaller. Much-much smaller. Russia is NOT Europe, not THIS Europe anyway.
Translation:MOSCOW, May 11 – RIA Novosti.The head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, did not rule out contacts with the CIA director in the near future.“It cannot be ruled out,” he said, answering a corresponding question for the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin,” a fragment of which was published by Pavel Zarubin on his Telegram channel.Naryshkin and CIA Director William Burns held personal talks in Ankara in November 2022.In January, in an interview with RIA Novosti, the head of the SVR noted the benefits of contacts between the intelligence services.He explained that such dialogue can prevent dangerous events in conditions where the situation in the world may reach a very risky point.At the same time, Naryshkin emphasized that he and Burns had reached a mutual agreement not to allow leaks about the negotiations between them.
As I repeat ad nauseam--Russia will talk only with the US. EU is irrelevant here. The contacts, in this case, will be initially through intelligence orgs of Russia and the US. US desperately needs some sort of arrangements which may give it a sort of off-ramp, albeit even this is too late. But against the background of action on Kharkov axis, which is most likely one of several offensives along the whole frontline, the US finally figured out that it doesn't matter what she or her euro-chihuahuas do, the outcome is going to be the same--merely resign to reality and listen to conditions Russia will impose. VSU is currently on the run in Kharkov area, but most likely the objective is to move frontline further South-West. Nobody is going to be taking Kharkov--it will fall itself as a ripe fruit falls from the tree. Keep an eye on the South, towards Odessa.
Per Mishustin's Cabinet--practically same team. Per Defense, Foreign, Internal, Justice and Emercom Ministers and Director of FSB--these positions are prerogative of the President and he appoints those after consultations with Federation Council which will start on 13th. Now, poor Lavrov, he is like, Vladimir Vladimirovich, please, pretty pretty please, I am 74 and want to retire because I cannot stand those imbeciles from EU. We'll see about that. Lavrov is indispensable--a towering figure in world's diplomacy. Albeit Nebenzya or Ryabkov can fit the bill.
The "pendulum" of justice only begins to swing and the amplitude will only increase. In layman's terms that means that many US citizens (and there are many of them involved with 404 "structures") will be charged with terrorism in absentia and they better start thinking about plastic surgeries and other ways of changing identity because Russia does not forgive terrorism and deals with those who sponsor or carry it out in a very distinct way. Here how it is formulated:
The committee’s specialists have been working “in cooperation with other intelligence services and financial intelligence,” Petrenko noted. The scrutiny currently revolves around “checking sources of income and further movement of funds in the amount of several million US dollars,” and examining the potential involvement of “specific individuals from among government officials, people with civic and commercial organizations of Western countries,” the spokeswoman stated.
In Russia there is such saying: to lose shores. Many Kool Aid drinkers from the West lost the sight of the reality and thought that they can finance terrorism in Russia nowadays and get away with it. Wrong assumption. But then again, they all have been wrong all the time in the last 10 years. Nowadays, Russia justifiably views the combined West as an existential threat and the time of cooperation is behind all of us. In the eyes of the law in Russia there is no difference between terrorist from ISIS, US or France. The fact that someone can finance a bloody murder of hundreds of innocent civilians from a fancy office or while being driven in limo as opposed from some cave in Afghanistan now makes no difference whatsoever. They will be hunted down and eliminated as a threat.
To illustrate to what low the United States stoops nowadays, here is the piece of news:
Translation:MOSCOW, April 9 – RIA Novosti.American PMCs began recruiting members of Mexican and Colombian drug cartels serving sentences in the United States to participate in the conflict in Ukraine, the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reported.The department noted that Washington is increasingly desperate to turn the situation around in this theater of military operations, replenishing the ranks of demoralized Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers with a “multinational rabble with a penchant for armed violence.”
Correct, armed violence, real war? Not so much. Poor kids, I mean American PMCs, they now recruit militarily useless cannon fodder which may now see the real war for a very short time, before being killed. God forbids those amateurs, good only for killing civilians and shooting at each-other, encounter Russian storm-troopers from such formations as Slavyanka or Akhmat, among many others, not to speak of special battalions of Russian marines or paratroopers--they will shit their pants. Evidently American PMCs don't want to fight them. Of course, these are not peasants from Afghanistan or Iraqi militias, this is a whole other level, if not universe, of warfare and American PMCs are good only for attacking defenseless civilians--such as a bunch of thugs from the US trying to assault a village in Belgorod Oblast. So, the stage is being set.
Here is Colonel Jacques Baud and Nima talking about real war.
Translation:It was important for Westerners to promote the topic of the upcoming Ukrainian counteroffensive in the global information space.The obviously overestimated importance attached to it is a kind of element of a psychic attack before a fight.In addition, the constant exaggeration of this topic allowed the Euro-Atlantic totalitarian liberal elite to justify the supply of weapons to Kyiv and ensure the unity of the NATO countries, many of which are already pretty tired of Ukraine and its president.At the same time, behind the scenes, many Western military analysts express serious doubts about the success of the Ukrainian adventure.Without going into details, I will say that the tasks announced by the Kiev regime are assessed as unattainable.The West, which is directly involved in the Ukrainian conflict, is well aware of the real capabilities and potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including in terms of the counteroffensive.Authoritative representatives of the American and European intelligence services and military departments do not rule out that the counteroffensive could lead to directly opposite results.The death of a significant number of NATO-trained military personnel and the destruction of equipment will undermine the combat capability of the Ukrainian army.This, in turn, will negatively affect the sustainability of the Zelensky regime.According to a number of Western assessments, the Ukrainian statehood itself may ultimately be under threat.
Naryshkin, being a chief spy of Russia is very measured in his statement, which is a feature of Russia's national security apparatus top officials. But West's assessments Naryshkin is talking about are absolutely irrelevant for the astonishing scale of slaughter of NATO proxies to which no person in Washington in decision making circles was ready for from the start of SMO. The issue is systemic and I cannot emphasize enough a dismay with which I react now to a recognition of a stunning, much worse than I assumed even two years ago, scale of incompetence of Western militaries who discredited themselves not just through amateur-level planning abilities, or lack thereof, but getting involved directly into what amounts to a war crime by throwing Ukie cannon fodder to be slaughtered on the scale NO US or NATO general ever saw or can comprehend. The whole world sees it now.
SVR or Service of the External Intelligence or Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia through its representative colonel-general Matveev issued some interesting statements.
Translation:MOSCOW, August 16 - RIA Novosti. Western curators have practically written off the Kyiv regime and are already planning the partition of Ukraine, Foreign Intelligence Service spokesman Colonel-General Vladimir Matveev said at the Moscow Conference on International Security.
“Obviously, the West is not concerned about the fate of the Kyiv regime. As can be seen from the information received by the SVR, Western curators have almost written it off and are in full swing developing plans for the division and occupation of at least part of the Ukrainian lands,” he said.
However, according to the general, much more is at stake than Ukraine: for Washington and its allies, it is about the fate of the colonial system of world domination.
Among many things Matveev articulated, one stands out especially and this is about US detachment from reality and dogmatic approach to its, now former, colonial possessions, which today are reduced to Europe. That explains the cognitive dissonance in the US which increasingly creates chaos in desperate attempts to preserve already lost global dominance. As Matveev says (in Russian) such an approach is risible but also--dangerous. As he underscored:"The West is getting weaker, it stumbles but still thinks itself as mighty...", which is absolutely true when one looks not only at what the combined West does but also who is at the helm. So, a very interesting set of statements from SVR.
In related news, Army 2022 exhibition has opened in Russia. I cannot access the site of this exhibition--forbidden, of course--but Reuters reacts like this, LOL:
Sure, sure, Russia is about to lose in Ukraine and run out of ammo. But truth is, Putin did state that a lot of Russian weapons will be offered for international sales which means to underscore his earlier, February this year, statement that Russia will unveil soon some weapon systems which are revolutionary. But one photo from allegedly Army 2022 is interesting.
The boat in the rear is pr. 955 A (Borei-A class), but in the front is this much talked about, I guess, Husky-class platform which could be used both for new generation SSGNs and SSBNs. Looks cool.
Translation:PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, November 27 - RIA Novosti. There will be no "Russian invasion" of Ukraine, the allegations about it are a malicious propaganda action by the US State Department, said Sergei Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.
"I must reassure everyone: nothing like this will happen," Naryshkin said in an interview with Sergei Brilev on the Vesti on Saturday program on the Russia 1 TV channel, answering a question about the statements of the American side about the alleged Russian invasion of Ukraine.
"In general, everything that is happening now around this topic is, of course, such a malicious propaganda action by the US State Department ... The State Department is pumping these fakes, this lie to its allies, and the leaders of the media, and the leaders of political science centers of the United States of America. so that they multiplied and multiplied and multiplied this lie. And they inflated a rather big bubble around it ."
Well, we need to take into consideration this simple fact that lying and propaganda are the only tools in the toll-box of what passes in the US for "diplomacy". But we have been over it so many times by now, that it is not necessary to repeat it. In the same time US media outlets such as Bloomberg continue to publish all kinds of contrived "analysis" such as:
But then again, these are US media and their minions in Russia who lie for paycheck. Remarkably, yet another "intellectual" from Valdai Forum appeared on RT with his view on the "events" around 404. His name is Ivan Timofeev--you can read his bio here. And while Timofeev agrees that Ukrainian Army will be obliterated very fast if Russia really decides to get involved big time and then, as in following the rigid Cost-Benefits analysis procedure, Timofeev demonstrates and proves my thesis that in terms of serious geopolitics involving power element only outstanding diplomats capable to have a good grasp of the military events "on the ground" should be allowed to state their opinions. Providing lip service to already well-established fact that VSU as a force wouldn't last past first salvos and pincer movements by Russian Army is not enough when speaking on such matters. Timofeev states: First, such a military conflict is unlikely to culminate in any
intelligible agreement. A victory over the armed forces of Ukraine will
not by itself lead to a fast peace. The option of “two Ukrainian states” would allow Russia
to squeeze nationalists out by sending them West. Under a “one Ukraine”
scenario, this would be impossible, given all the ensuing consequences.
I don't know why "one Ukraine scenario" even enters considerations here? I have no rational explanation to why Timofeev even discusses that. In the end, leave it to Poland, Hungary and Romania to deal with Western Ukraine. That, BTW, may become what would put the final nail into NATO's coffin. But he continues:
1. Timofeev needs to get down from his Ivory Tower and look around, especially in terms of what Russia was doing for the last 7 years which was, hm, getting ready to "a sharp change" in every single respect. From economy to politics, to what have you and, the issue which immediately pops up here is...
2. Can Mr. Timofeev tell us HOW this "sharp change" in providing Ukraine with "modern weapons" and not limiting funds will manifest itself?
I omit here the fact that the issue of Russia's national security doesn't fit into the traditional framework of cost-benefits analysis because military threats to nation is not the matter humanities-educated (even from MGIMO) diplomat can fully grasp. For starters:
a) WHAT "modern weapons" Timofeev is talking about? What can possibly NATO provide 404 with that can qualitatively change the balance in region, without it being, even if such transfer will ever happen, annihilated on arrival? Ukraine is already supplied by NATO with small arms and weapons of Javelin variety, plus some basic battlefield equipment ranging from anti-battery radar to nigh-vision goggles and communications. It will continue no matter what. Does Mr. Timofeev expect the US (and NATO) to supply 404 with Patriot PAC3 air defense complexes or, maybe, THAAD or maybe F-35. Not that they would make much difference if Russia seriously gets involved.
b) Even if to imagine that US Congress and POTUS give the green light to whatever weapons Mr. Timofeev have in mind, has it occurred to him that if Russia gets "all in" the first thing which will be done will be a naval blockade which will prevent any deliveries by sea of anything.
c) Who will operate those weapons? NATO troops?
And on, and on, and on--we all can be in this "peeling off layers" mode for a long time. But Timofeev fails to mention the main issue here which many of us, ranging from Andrei Raevsky to Dmitri Orlov, to Patrick Armstrong, to Alexander Mercouris to you name it write for years (I mean Anglo-sphere)--Russia DOES NOT want Ukraine no matter if 404 already formed some political nation, which it did, I write in this blog about it for years, or not--this is not the main reason, the main reason is that apart from security pain in the ass, 404 is nothing but the drain of Russia's resources, which otherwise could be directed towards Russia and Russians' needs. Even if to imagine that Russia indeed "gets in", Russia's main concern will be not West's position--no one exercises any illusions on this position in Kremlin, and that is what only matters in the end--but the fact that Russia will have to deal with largely hostile, humiliated (even more--military defeats are extremely painful) and effectively destitute population of what--20-25 million? Who needs that? As they say on Russian streets today--one has to deserve Russian occupation.
If, however, things will get really bad for Russia's security, the decision on Russian side will be based not on "Cost-Benefit analysis" but on Russia's national security imperatives, West's objections, sanctions and other threats notwithstanding. In other words, Russia will do it in the time and place of her choosing. In the end, Timofeev forgets the main reason for this hysteria in the West--increasingly obvious economic, social and military demise. This is the key factor in all this media activity. Finally, he should admit, as I do all the time, that Russia's Military-Political leadership knows more, much more, than any of us does and we have all reasons to believe that they know what they are doing.
This week I gave interview to Mike Welch of Global Research News. We discussed my latest book and you can listen to my Runglish by following this link.
I don't say anything particularly new there, most of my readers heard and read it before, but as Pet Goat succinctly responded to one guest who was irritated by pessimistic comments about the fate of the combined West:
I couldn't have said it better myself. In the end, many people see it today, many more will see it tomorrow. But modern combined West and modern Russia are incompatible in principle and that is the problem for the West, because it is existential. But that requires a separate discussion which present Western "elites" try to avoid by all means. In doing so they doom themselves to what many of us see is coming. In fact, it is already here.
Once in a while. She should. After all, Metamucil was invented primarily for people of a fairly advanced age, one of the defining features of which is slowing down of digestive processes which make it difficult to go potty. Hillary is in this age category, which is a primary user of this fiber supplement. Metamucil introduces fiber which helps to, you know, go. The point here, however, is not chronic or occasional constipation we all experienced in our lives, but the fact that if this constipation could be blamed on Russia and Putin. The reason this digestive issue is important, the same as Russian hand in Hillary Clinton's losing last presidential elections, because Russian interference into Hillary's world, ranging from, most likely, instigating Hillary's constipation to helping to out her hubby's closest pedophile buddy, now suicided Mr. Epstein, opens a wide range of applications. If phenomena ranging from constipation to losing in Vegas' casino could be explained by Russian interference, then anything could be explained by this. Remember Hurricane Katrina and devastation it brought? Russians. Remember Hitler? He was Russian, in fact, Putin is Hitler 2.0. Remember hubby Bill's not resisting a blow job in Oval Office? Was arranged by Russians. Maybe even personally by Putin. And Hillary, apart from inventing this method of tracing a causality, surely, uses this method of explanation in full.
You see, Russians and Putin are omnipotent. They literally can run US politics and undermine American democracy on a whim. Obviously Tulsi Gabbard--the only Democratic candidate with a brain--seems like a totally reasonable point of application of Russian interference. But, I think, Hillary Clinton underestimated the power of Russian interference in American democracy. I think this interference is much older and much more insidious and profound than Russians getting behind Tulsi Gabbard in next elections, or Russian controlling current POTUS. I think this Russian evil plan goes back to much earlier times, in fact to Hillary very own hubby's tenure in the White House. It was namely then that Russian launched their macabre plan of turning US political elites into a collection of sociopaths afflicted with mental constipation for which no Metamucil for mind has been invented yet. This, inevitably, led to the United States becoming ungovernable and non-agreement capable. This also brought about the ongoing implosion of many American institutions, some of which were loved globally, like Hollywood, when it was making actual movies, not second-rate Public Service Announcements, as it does today, or like ever-extolled freedom of speech, which is being suppressed today by internet monopolies and those very same US media who are into constructing narratives, not reporting the real news. I will abstain from getting into the real US economy.
Unlike intestinal constipation which could allow a person to eventually enjoy a relieving bowel movement, a mental one cannot be purged by fiber supplements to a diet. Even excessive amount of fruits and vegetables is not going to have a desired effect. To relieve one's mind from mental constipation one has to work hard not only intellectually but emotionally too, trying to not only become an educated person with wide horizons and critical thinking, but also one with integrity, honesty and self-awareness. But that is precisely what those damn Russkies denied US Democratic Party and its top in a masterpiece of an operation of influence. Take it from Hillary, she knows what she is talking about--after all, she is Clinton. Moreover, I think she herself is a Russian operation and possibly an SVR sleeper-agent. Consider this: if Russians wanted to destroy the United States from the inside, how could they approach the implementation of this plan? No better tool for this job could ever exist than DNC, US main-stream media and decrepit US humanities "education". Hillary is a blood and flesh of this system, in fact--she could serve as a poster child for it. And she proved it beyond a reasonable doubt when, escaping enemy fire, she, as a Secretary of State promoted, together with her POTUS, a mediocre Chicago lawyer, a mindless aggressive foreign policy which resulted today in the United States being in a state of geopolitical impotence and retreat, if to politely describe a collapse of Pax Americana. In fact, Hillary is an author of this policy, which also helped to finally mobilize Russia. It played directly into Russian hands! Oh, boy!
So, is Hillary, then, a Russian agent? Judging by the way Russian economy grows (in Russian) as a result of reaction to Hillary's foreign policy which is still in place, by the way Russian Armed Forces reacted to it by returning Crimea home, or playing a decisive role in liberation of Syria from Jihadists (supported by Hillary), or by redefining modern warfare as a result of Hillary's tireless activity as an instigator of all kinds of regime changes, like this:
by overall reaction of Russians (and many Americans, actually) to seeing a US Presidential Candidate being nothing but a deranged sadistic sociopath--because of that, the United States, is in the greatly diminished position today and Hillary played a crucial role in this rather sad, for Beltway, state of the affairs. Thus, the conclusion is inevitable--she is a Russian asset, because no Russian spy or operation of influence could have dealt so much damage to the United States than Hillary and her...Russian handlers (wink, wink) did? I think Tulsi Gabbard should use this line, that DNC are Russian agents. In fact, I think CIA is a front for SVR and NSA is a subdivision of GRU. And why not? In the world of people with mental constipation anything is possible, and it is possible, when instead of brain one has a pile of stagnant shit. For everything else there is Metamucil (c).
Yes, yes, this very Sergei Naryshkin, the Director of SVR (Service of Foreign Intelligence) of Russia. His speech (in Russian) at Moscow International Security Conference on April 25, 2019 is rather remarkable. Here is the piece which speaks volumes:
Translation:Russia, who survived three devastating wars in the last 100 years, tirelessly keeps calling on other members of international community for cooperative search for the solutions to accumulated problems. Sadly, even in those spheres where such negotiations are being conducted, such as fight against terrorism or informational security, the Western partners continue to keep their fingers crossed behind backs (in Russian--keeping fig in pocket). This, of course, doesn't mean that we should interrupt all contacts and isolate either them or ourselves. Dialog needs to be continued, even if to prevent a final disintegration of the present international system, which still provides for some strategic stability. In the present, tensions filled, situation one should follow the path not of destruction but of strengthening of global and regional formats, along the way perfecting and transforming those to the benefit of the world and security on the whole planet. If the West, headed by the United States, lacks maturity and courage for moving in this direction, other centers of power will have to design such global future without them. Instead of outdated liberal universalism, new world order--just and stable--should come. This order must be created under such conditions and in such formats, which will allow coexistence of states and regional formations, each of them having the right for own unique development. I am positive that healthy forces in the West interested in elementary self-preservation will gravitate towards this process, with those forces understanding risks which arise for the international community. Will this (new) system provide genuine unity in diversity or will again become merely a cover for the power of the club for few selected, to a large degree depends on yours and our work.
It is a very interesting speech, which, considering who Naryshkin really is, his real weight, tells something of note. I would say decisions which made Russia turn on "Turbo" regime. It is especially remarkable when one considers that immediately after talking to Putin on the phone four days ago, Trump decided to raise tariffs on Chinese products. This attempt fizzled out--China remained unimpressed--and this means that there is a consensus between Russia and China on what to do both with the US and the West in general. It also means that the conditions for surrender are also mostly worked out--that is what Naryshkin articulated in his speech. But even more so was a direct informing of the combined West that Russia really doesn't need it anymore as she doesn't liberal model. I can already hear squealing of the pigs in Russia's liberal pigsty. As Meatloaf sang:
Can't you hear the choir now?
Listen to the animals sing!
Can't you hear the slaughterhouse bells?
In the land of the pigs the butcher is king!
In the land of the pigs the butcher is king!
The KGB is on the grass. The KGB is on the grass. Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs. Got to keep the loonies on the path.
The KGB is in the hall. The SVR are in my hall. The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day the paper boy brings more.
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
The GRU is in my head. The SSO is in my head You raise the blade, you make the change You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane. You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me.
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear You shout and no one seems to hear. And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
Senator: Russia has 'penetrated' Florida counties ahead of midterms
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Sara Sendek told
Yahoo News that the agency tasked with securing the nation’s elections
was unaware of a specific new breach by the Russians in Florida.
If anyone forgot the title of this Pink Floyd's masterpiece from the immortal The Dark Side of The Moon--it is Brain Damage.
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