Russians With Attitude
17.02.202516:47
Last night, the Kiev regime went for what looks like an extremely desperate gambit; as usual, the tactic they chose is schizophrenic.
A swarm of Ukrainian drones hit the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station, operated by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). Now, you might assume that this attack fits neatly into the series of strikes the Ukrainian military executed against Russian oil and gas infrastructure earlier — but actually it's a little more interesting than that.
The pumping station is an element of an energy network that connects the oil fields of western Kazakhstan to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, from where it is exported to the world. About 90% of the oil the CPC pumped last year came from Kazakhstan. Now, Chevron, Shell and other Western companies are partners in CPC — a lot of the Kazakh oil coming through the stations and pipelines is American-owned. About 25% of CPC is owned by American companies, and, last year, they accounted for 40% of the oil that passed through the CPC system.
This goes even beyond a “false flag” attack — this is a direct and deliberate assault on American economic interests (they have been very active in the Central Asian energy sector for decades).
Bombing what is basically American energy infrastructure in a region that has been strategically important to the US for three and a half decades and will remain such even after a hypothetical full pivot to the Pacific region... Bold strategy.
Is it a threat to the Trump administration? Is it an all-too blatant attempt to somehow blame Russia for economic damage to American companies? Are they just really goddamn stupid?
Whatever their reasons, the cretins in Kiev seem determined to right a wrong and convince America to send its future military aid warhead-first.
A swarm of Ukrainian drones hit the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station, operated by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). Now, you might assume that this attack fits neatly into the series of strikes the Ukrainian military executed against Russian oil and gas infrastructure earlier — but actually it's a little more interesting than that.
The pumping station is an element of an energy network that connects the oil fields of western Kazakhstan to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, from where it is exported to the world. About 90% of the oil the CPC pumped last year came from Kazakhstan. Now, Chevron, Shell and other Western companies are partners in CPC — a lot of the Kazakh oil coming through the stations and pipelines is American-owned. About 25% of CPC is owned by American companies, and, last year, they accounted for 40% of the oil that passed through the CPC system.
This goes even beyond a “false flag” attack — this is a direct and deliberate assault on American economic interests (they have been very active in the Central Asian energy sector for decades).
Bombing what is basically American energy infrastructure in a region that has been strategically important to the US for three and a half decades and will remain such even after a hypothetical full pivot to the Pacific region... Bold strategy.
Is it a threat to the Trump administration? Is it an all-too blatant attempt to somehow blame Russia for economic damage to American companies? Are they just really goddamn stupid?
Whatever their reasons, the cretins in Kiev seem determined to right a wrong and convince America to send its future military aid warhead-first.
30.01.202516:14
Chasov Yar and Toretsk falling, along with the loss of the M04 interchange, are shaping a new pocket for Konstantinovka, one of the last cities before Kramatorsk.
Looking at the full situation along the line of contact, Pokrovsk and Konstantinovka will be in their own salients in the near future. Our advances near Terny and south of Kupyansk are not far from Liman now. Combined, the battle for the Slavyansk-Konstantinovka "Banana of Doom" from the south, east and north are drawing nearer.
Looking at the full situation along the line of contact, Pokrovsk and Konstantinovka will be in their own salients in the near future. Our advances near Terny and south of Kupyansk are not far from Liman now. Combined, the battle for the Slavyansk-Konstantinovka "Banana of Doom" from the south, east and north are drawing nearer.
11.01.202523:16
Let's talk about ethnic lobby groups in Russia and how their interests clash and affect the country's politics. You may have heard about the tragic Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 crash. What does it mean for the future of Russo-Azeri relations and what does it have to do with the feudal-like structure of the Chechen Republic?
Russia has had a long-standing military alliance with Armenia. Millions of Armenians live here, some of them serve in the Russian government and hold positions of power. However, Russia decided not to intervene in the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh on Armenia's behalf. How exactly did this come about?
There is a political party called LDPR, which was led by the late Vladimir Zhirinovsky. He had a dying wish that his trusted right-hand man, a young Russian politician Vasily Vlasov, would become his successor. However, this is not what happened. Vlasov was expelled from the party due to the takeover of a small yet powerful group within LDPR.
All of these events start making sense when you connect the dots. In our podcast, we explore all about the obscure but extremely influential ethnic lobby groups in Russian politics:
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Russia has had a long-standing military alliance with Armenia. Millions of Armenians live here, some of them serve in the Russian government and hold positions of power. However, Russia decided not to intervene in the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh on Armenia's behalf. How exactly did this come about?
There is a political party called LDPR, which was led by the late Vladimir Zhirinovsky. He had a dying wish that his trusted right-hand man, a young Russian politician Vasily Vlasov, would become his successor. However, this is not what happened. Vlasov was expelled from the party due to the takeover of a small yet powerful group within LDPR.
All of these events start making sense when you connect the dots. In our podcast, we explore all about the obscure but extremely influential ethnic lobby groups in Russian politics:
On Patreon, Gumroad and Boosty
27.12.202410:00
The FSB prevented a terrorist attack in Moscow. Islamists from the banned organization in Russia Vilayat Khorasan had been planning to carry out an explosion at a police station in the capital.
It was the same group that claimed responsibility for the Crocus terrorist attack.
During the arrest, armed terrorists offered resistance and were eliminated with return fire.
It was the same group that claimed responsibility for the Crocus terrorist attack.
During the arrest, armed terrorists offered resistance and were eliminated with return fire.
17.12.202423:09
Our friends Alex and Jay, an American and a Scotsman currently serving in the Russian army, came back for a second conversation. We talked about what happened to them since our last talk (it involves fires, theft and FPV drones), what the Donbass is actually like nowadays, Russell "Texas" Bentley, their opinions on Western volunteers fighting on the other side, and whether energy drinks negatively impact your libido.
Go listen now, the episode is free! No need to sign up etc.
Alex and Jay both lost some of their equipment since we last spoke. Gear is very precious in a war zone, and we thought we'd support our friends by doing a little fundraiser for them so they can get some new mostly peaceful stuff. Please consider sending some of your crypto to the wallets below, dear whales and HODLers. 100% of the money will be sent to Alex and Jay and of course we'll show you the receipts.
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Go listen now, the episode is free! No need to sign up etc.
Alex and Jay both lost some of their equipment since we last spoke. Gear is very precious in a war zone, and we thought we'd support our friends by doing a little fundraiser for them so they can get some new mostly peaceful stuff. Please consider sending some of your crypto to the wallets below, dear whales and HODLers. 100% of the money will be sent to Alex and Jay and of course we'll show you the receipts.
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Медиа контентке кире албай жатабыз
04.12.202422:35
Deep down, every Ukrainian nationalist, even the fiercest one, knows that there is no threat of actual “genocide” even if the Russian army captures the entirety of the Ukrainian territory. Obviously not in the sense of physical extermination -- but not even in the “cultural genocide” sense of Ukrainian culture being rooted out. That is not how the Russian state operates, and not how the Soviet state operated: on the contrary.
What is now called “Ukrainian culture” would be the half-forgotten regional identity of some hillbillies in Western Ukraine if not for the titanic efforts of the Soviet government to “ukrainize” (that is literally what the Communists called it) New Russia and Little Russia. It took not just effort, but outright violence to force this identity upon people, and even then, it was still completely fluid and mostly meaningless until the 2014 coup. Even right now there are soldiers from the Donbass who consider themselves “Ukrainians” (the way you can be both Texan and American, for example -- those are not contradictory identities).
Here's a visual representation of how many books were printed in Russian vs Ukrainian in Soviet Ukraine. Black is Ukrainian, red is Russian. As you can see, Ukrainian literature really takes off during Stalin's “Ukrainization” and then collapses as soon as Soviet censorship is lifted and the free market starts deciding what language people want to read books in.
And that is what Ukrainian nationalists are so scared of. They know that there would be no repressive measures against any “Ukrainian” cultural institutions, that the “language” would remain elective in the schools, that Moscow would allocate federal funding for the preservation of “Ukrainian culture”, as it does with dozens if not hundreds of micro-ethnicities of the Russian Federation that would have long assimilated without a trace if they were not kept around by affirmative action life support. They are scared of the possibility that it would not be enough, and that, without the massive, concentrated effort of an entire state, everyone would just abandon “Ukrainian identity” in favor of just being a normal Russian almost immediately (as it happened in Crimea).
And they are right to be scared of that. Their histrionic, psychotic accusations of “genocide” are just the realization that their grift could be up quite soon, and that their death cult might disappear on its own without anyone actually lifting a finger to make it disappear. The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
What is now called “Ukrainian culture” would be the half-forgotten regional identity of some hillbillies in Western Ukraine if not for the titanic efforts of the Soviet government to “ukrainize” (that is literally what the Communists called it) New Russia and Little Russia. It took not just effort, but outright violence to force this identity upon people, and even then, it was still completely fluid and mostly meaningless until the 2014 coup. Even right now there are soldiers from the Donbass who consider themselves “Ukrainians” (the way you can be both Texan and American, for example -- those are not contradictory identities).
Here's a visual representation of how many books were printed in Russian vs Ukrainian in Soviet Ukraine. Black is Ukrainian, red is Russian. As you can see, Ukrainian literature really takes off during Stalin's “Ukrainization” and then collapses as soon as Soviet censorship is lifted and the free market starts deciding what language people want to read books in.
And that is what Ukrainian nationalists are so scared of. They know that there would be no repressive measures against any “Ukrainian” cultural institutions, that the “language” would remain elective in the schools, that Moscow would allocate federal funding for the preservation of “Ukrainian culture”, as it does with dozens if not hundreds of micro-ethnicities of the Russian Federation that would have long assimilated without a trace if they were not kept around by affirmative action life support. They are scared of the possibility that it would not be enough, and that, without the massive, concentrated effort of an entire state, everyone would just abandon “Ukrainian identity” in favor of just being a normal Russian almost immediately (as it happened in Crimea).
And they are right to be scared of that. Their histrionic, psychotic accusations of “genocide” are just the realization that their grift could be up quite soon, and that their death cult might disappear on its own without anyone actually lifting a finger to make it disappear. The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
17.02.202509:42
'Six days after cutting themselves off from the Russian grid, the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) set a new electricity price record yesterday: €269 per MWh—up 333% in a week (from €62). This time last year it was €85' - Brian McDonald
So basically Russia was subsidizing electricity for the Baltic nations until last week?
So basically Russia was subsidizing electricity for the Baltic nations until last week?
29.01.202521:37
I have polished and compiled all episodes of our Donbass War series. The 8.5-hour "Spirit of 2014" has finally arrived and it is available for free.
Eleven years ago, the Russian Spring rolled through eastern and southern Ukraine, leading to the reunification of Crimea with Russia. The new government in Kiev, having just taken power through the Euromaidan, decided to crush the pro-Russian protests by force, leading to the War in the Donbass.
Few remember those events in detail - the spring of 2014 is covered in a thick veil of propaganda and mythology. We have scoured long-forgotten blogs, defunct news websites, talked to participants and checked out many other archival sources, all with one goal: reconstructing a detailed chronology of those events — the Spirit of 2014!
The summer of 2014 brought fire and steel. Low-level civil conflict turned into combined arms warfare, protestors with hunting rifles turned into mechanized battalions. Both Kiev and the Donbass put their energy into creating war-ready armies, which would soon clash on battlefields that had last heard the thunder of artillery in World War 2.
We also discussed the heroes of the Donbass Revolution; both the famous and the forgotten ones – where they came from, what they contributed and what became of them. The Donbass War, like so many revolutions, devoured its own children, and too many heroes of the Russian Spring found an early grave. To remember the Donbass War is to remember its warriors – and to be a warrior, as we know, is to live eternally.
A 8.5-hour podcast is available for free to everyone. Just click to listen to the entire thing. If someone wants to download it and store it on a flash drive or put it in a time capsule, we have no objections.
Eleven years ago, the Russian Spring rolled through eastern and southern Ukraine, leading to the reunification of Crimea with Russia. The new government in Kiev, having just taken power through the Euromaidan, decided to crush the pro-Russian protests by force, leading to the War in the Donbass.
Few remember those events in detail - the spring of 2014 is covered in a thick veil of propaganda and mythology. We have scoured long-forgotten blogs, defunct news websites, talked to participants and checked out many other archival sources, all with one goal: reconstructing a detailed chronology of those events — the Spirit of 2014!
The summer of 2014 brought fire and steel. Low-level civil conflict turned into combined arms warfare, protestors with hunting rifles turned into mechanized battalions. Both Kiev and the Donbass put their energy into creating war-ready armies, which would soon clash on battlefields that had last heard the thunder of artillery in World War 2.
We also discussed the heroes of the Donbass Revolution; both the famous and the forgotten ones – where they came from, what they contributed and what became of them. The Donbass War, like so many revolutions, devoured its own children, and too many heroes of the Russian Spring found an early grave. To remember the Donbass War is to remember its warriors – and to be a warrior, as we know, is to live eternally.
A 8.5-hour podcast is available for free to everyone. Just click to listen to the entire thing. If someone wants to download it and store it on a flash drive or put it in a time capsule, we have no objections.
Медиа контентке кире албай жатабыз
10.01.202515:51
There is an aspect to the war that is not talked about very much. The Ukrainians don't like to brag about it, the Russians don't like to admit it. It's one of the few asymmetric (para)military capabilities in the arsenal of the Kiev regime that is genuinely worrisome...
We have covered that topic a few times before, but a new, egregious case has just come to light. I am talking about the scam call centers, which have escalated to total blackmail terrorism. Dozens of elderly and teenagers have been scammed & blackmailed through various means by Ukrainian call centers to “donate” their life savings, or commit petty acts of vandalism & arson. There was a particularly large wave of these acts in late December.
You are all aware of how phone scams work. They've become a fact of modern life. And many, many people fall into these traps. The arsenal of scams ranges from the classic "Hey it's the police we need your help" and "it's your grandson, please, I need money for bail" to long-term, complicated blackmail and entrapment schemes.
The Ukraine, and the city of Dnepropetrovsk in particular, have been a gigantic hive of these scam call centers for decades. In peacetime, they were happy to just scam Russian boomers out of money. In wartime, this entire criminal endeavor has been taken over by Ukrainian intelligence. The SBU provides resources, lists of targets, technology, etc to the scammers, and in return they fulfill quotas of certain missions. During last year's Presidential election in Russia, there were a handful of attacks against polling stations. Victims of these Ukrainian scams (usually they first scam people out of money, and then they blackmail them into committing crimes to “get their money back” -- of course, they never do, but desparation makes people behave in very stupid ways) would try to set ballots on fire or pour ink on them, etc.
In late December, a new wave swept Russia, this time it was mostly attacks against banks and ATMs. The perpetrators/victims were mostly the elderly, who are, for obvious reasons, more likely to fall for these tricks.
The young guy in the photo is Pyotr Vetchinkin. He was a first-year student at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He became a victim of identity theft through a Ukrainian call center. They took out several loans on his name. They sent out letters to various people in his life claiming he was a member of an extremist organization. They threatened to murder his family. All to blackmail him into committing acts of terrorism.
He did not commit any crime. That's not who he was. He did not give in to the blackmail. But he was overwhelmed by the fear and the shame and the despair.
And on December 21st, he killed himself.
An entire sphere of crime, a criminal enterprise with thousands of employees -- all in the service of psychotic SBU terrorists who, if their own resources aren't enough, also have access to whatever the CIA and MI6 give them. People who speak like us, think like us, grew up on the same media as us, and use that intimate connection to hurt innocent people in the worst way possible.
What's to be done about this?
I believe that every call center that can be identified -- whether it's one of the large operations in Dnepropetrovsk with hundreds of employees or a smaller one run from an apartment -- is a legitimate military target, and deserves a visit by your friendly neighborhood cruise missile. Or ten.
I believe that there needs to be a cost associated with this behavior. Humanitarian concerns need to take a step back, and cities to which call center activity can be tracked should have no electricity.
I believe that this is just another data point among hundreds, among thousands, proving just how depraved our enemy is, and that he has no limits -- no limits AT ALL, and, thus, cannot be reasoned or negotiated with until total submission is achieved. They must cry blood.
We have covered that topic a few times before, but a new, egregious case has just come to light. I am talking about the scam call centers, which have escalated to total blackmail terrorism. Dozens of elderly and teenagers have been scammed & blackmailed through various means by Ukrainian call centers to “donate” their life savings, or commit petty acts of vandalism & arson. There was a particularly large wave of these acts in late December.
You are all aware of how phone scams work. They've become a fact of modern life. And many, many people fall into these traps. The arsenal of scams ranges from the classic "Hey it's the police we need your help" and "it's your grandson, please, I need money for bail" to long-term, complicated blackmail and entrapment schemes.
The Ukraine, and the city of Dnepropetrovsk in particular, have been a gigantic hive of these scam call centers for decades. In peacetime, they were happy to just scam Russian boomers out of money. In wartime, this entire criminal endeavor has been taken over by Ukrainian intelligence. The SBU provides resources, lists of targets, technology, etc to the scammers, and in return they fulfill quotas of certain missions. During last year's Presidential election in Russia, there were a handful of attacks against polling stations. Victims of these Ukrainian scams (usually they first scam people out of money, and then they blackmail them into committing crimes to “get their money back” -- of course, they never do, but desparation makes people behave in very stupid ways) would try to set ballots on fire or pour ink on them, etc.
In late December, a new wave swept Russia, this time it was mostly attacks against banks and ATMs. The perpetrators/victims were mostly the elderly, who are, for obvious reasons, more likely to fall for these tricks.
The young guy in the photo is Pyotr Vetchinkin. He was a first-year student at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He became a victim of identity theft through a Ukrainian call center. They took out several loans on his name. They sent out letters to various people in his life claiming he was a member of an extremist organization. They threatened to murder his family. All to blackmail him into committing acts of terrorism.
He did not commit any crime. That's not who he was. He did not give in to the blackmail. But he was overwhelmed by the fear and the shame and the despair.
And on December 21st, he killed himself.
An entire sphere of crime, a criminal enterprise with thousands of employees -- all in the service of psychotic SBU terrorists who, if their own resources aren't enough, also have access to whatever the CIA and MI6 give them. People who speak like us, think like us, grew up on the same media as us, and use that intimate connection to hurt innocent people in the worst way possible.
What's to be done about this?
I believe that every call center that can be identified -- whether it's one of the large operations in Dnepropetrovsk with hundreds of employees or a smaller one run from an apartment -- is a legitimate military target, and deserves a visit by your friendly neighborhood cruise missile. Or ten.
I believe that there needs to be a cost associated with this behavior. Humanitarian concerns need to take a step back, and cities to which call center activity can be tracked should have no electricity.
I believe that this is just another data point among hundreds, among thousands, proving just how depraved our enemy is, and that he has no limits -- no limits AT ALL, and, thus, cannot be reasoned or negotiated with until total submission is achieved. They must cry blood.
27.12.202408:02
Anapa beach. Volunteers fighting the aftermath of the oil spill.
10.12.202418:52
The Syrian Arab Republic is no more. Bashar al-Assad has left the country. How did this happen, and why? What does the future of Syria look like now, and what about the Russian military bases?
Let's take one last look at Syria before it collapses into one of those forever hellholes.
30 minutes on Youtube
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Let's take one last look at Syria before it collapses into one of those forever hellholes.
30 minutes on Youtube
Full unabridged podcast is available for RWA members on Patreon, Gumroad or Boosty
04.12.202420:13
New pod. I promise we were just going to talk about the news. I don't know why it turned into an episode on the history of Soviet-Syrian relations, the Assad dynasty and the Syrian Civil War. We also discuss how Prigozhin's success in Syria caused intense jealousy among the Russian military leadership and led to a smoldering conflict that ultimately led to his demise.
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Become a free or paid subscriber on Patreon to listen to our URGENT BROADCAST right now.
The episode is also available on Gumroad, Boosty and Youtube.
12.02.202523:34
The reason why European leaders are so butthurt over Trump is that USGOV has stopped pretending that Europe is a meaningful participant in current geopolitical affairs, that their opinion matters, that anyone cares about them, etc. For decades, the US vassals demanded a certain decorum in how they are being treated, at least publicly, as an article of the feudal contract, and Trump is just not going along with the ritualistic speech laws. This is perfectly in line with what I said earlier about the US shifting to consolidating their core imperial possessions. The new US admin is not entertaining the role-playing part anymore and putting their serfs in their place. This is much more annoying and humiliating to the Brussels satraps than any real shift in US foreign policy, which is not as extreme as they are pretending. But they are feeling "disrespected"
08.01.202523:29
SITREP and chill (free episode). The AFU's latest Kursk gambit, frontline updates, a bit on Trump's arctic ventures and the (in)famous Yakut knife fight.
The DEEP DIVE into the Azeri plane crash, ethnic lobbies in Russia, the Chechen question and the ideology of Pan-Turkism is dropping very soon!
Go listen now on Patreon, Gumroad or Spotify.
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The DEEP DIVE into the Azeri plane crash, ethnic lobbies in Russia, the Chechen question and the ideology of Pan-Turkism is dropping very soon!
Go listen now on Patreon, Gumroad or Spotify.
On youtube
26.12.202420:48
Embraer's crash story is just too perfect for our enemies. An Azeri plane was flying from Baku to Grozny, in the midst of the Ukrainian drone attack on Grozny. The plane then got hit, and the pilot said it was due to a bird, as it's been recorded on a black box. However, according to availble evidence, it was probably due to projectiles. The plane was then denied GPS and advised to go over the Caspian sea to Aktau in Kazakhstan. It crashed there, with about the half of the people dying. Most of them are Azeri citizens.
Azerbaijan is in a state of identity crisis, stuck between Iran, Russia, and Turkey. Turkey has an interest in consuming Azerbaijan, while Iran is weaker than ever. Relations between Russia and Azerbaijan were strong, but there is now a scandal over the plane crash.
The Pan-Turkic project includes both Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. The plane took off from the former and crashed in the latter, and an investigation is currently taking place in Kazakhstan. Azerbaijani officials are now getting convinced that Russian air defense was responsible for damaging the plane.
Overall, It seems that Turkey strikes another victory, right after their conquest of Syria. I don't claim to know why the plane crashed either way. But the cui bono analysis gets my spidey sense tingling.
Azerbaijan is in a state of identity crisis, stuck between Iran, Russia, and Turkey. Turkey has an interest in consuming Azerbaijan, while Iran is weaker than ever. Relations between Russia and Azerbaijan were strong, but there is now a scandal over the plane crash.
The Pan-Turkic project includes both Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. The plane took off from the former and crashed in the latter, and an investigation is currently taking place in Kazakhstan. Azerbaijani officials are now getting convinced that Russian air defense was responsible for damaging the plane.
Overall, It seems that Turkey strikes another victory, right after their conquest of Syria. I don't claim to know why the plane crashed either way. But the cui bono analysis gets my spidey sense tingling.
10.12.202414:21
A convoy of former SAA soldiers, filmed by Russian soldiers in northeast Syria. They threw away their weapons and equipment, abandoned their posts and are wandering towards the Iraqi border.
It is impossible to translate the level of contempt and the harshness of the profanities in the comments the Russian soldier gives, but I tried:
"These are all those faggots who laid down their weapons, and just, just THOUSANDS, thousands, fucking faggots, fucking Syrians, fucking bastards. How much have we driven? There's much more than a thousand here… Fucking hell, these fucking faggots, running the fuck away… And we're supposed to suffer here for these faggots… Just look, fucking hell, goddamn bastards… They could have been defending their homeland… What assholes… How many of them are there, maybe five thousand here? The column doesn’t end, these scumbags… Fuck, they threw away their weapons… Threw away their balls… They're all bitches. Just look, the convoy doesn’t fucking end… Holy shit, fucking scum..."
It is impossible to translate the level of contempt and the harshness of the profanities in the comments the Russian soldier gives, but I tried:
"These are all those faggots who laid down their weapons, and just, just THOUSANDS, thousands, fucking faggots, fucking Syrians, fucking bastards. How much have we driven? There's much more than a thousand here… Fucking hell, these fucking faggots, running the fuck away… And we're supposed to suffer here for these faggots… Just look, fucking hell, goddamn bastards… They could have been defending their homeland… What assholes… How many of them are there, maybe five thousand here? The column doesn’t end, these scumbags… Fuck, they threw away their weapons… Threw away their balls… They're all bitches. Just look, the convoy doesn’t fucking end… Holy shit, fucking scum..."
Медиа контентке кире албай жатабыз
04.12.202413:57
Ukraine will never join NATO. It will remain a buffer zone and a military training ground for both West and Russia. This much is clear.
The main goal of the Trump administration is to shift focus away from the Ukrainian conflict, while also ensuring that Russia limits its involvement in Syria and does not support Iran against the US in the event of a war. So what are the American options for resolving the Ukrainian conflict?
There's a realist option. To prolong the Ukrainian conflict, which would not allow Russia to exert substantial force anywhere else, but at the same time it would ensure that Russia gains more new territory and the AFU loses some of the limited human resources they have available. In the short term, this would allow US to do Israel's bidding in the Near East mostly undisturbed. However, in the long term, Ukraine would no longer be a deterrent for Russia in Europe, and US-EU relations would become increasingly strained. This could lead to further escalation until a THD is achieved.
But Americans are behaviourists to the bone. They view people and countries as Pavlov's dogs, always using the carrot and stick approach. Their preferred option is to attempt to freeze the conflict in Ukraine, partly through a backroom deal with Putin. This could involve lifting some sanctions, encouraging Russia to sign a ceasefire, and in return, expecting Putin to abandon his support for Syria and Iran. This would be advantageous for the United States as it would ensure that the AFU remains a capable fighting force in case of future conflict with Russia. Additionally, if Russia were to attempt to project its power in the Near East, Ukrainian forces could be activated to counteract Russian activity abroad.
The bottom line is that they really don't want Russia to assist Syria/Iran and would prefer to keep Putin occupied, either militarily or diplomatically.
The main goal of the Trump administration is to shift focus away from the Ukrainian conflict, while also ensuring that Russia limits its involvement in Syria and does not support Iran against the US in the event of a war. So what are the American options for resolving the Ukrainian conflict?
There's a realist option. To prolong the Ukrainian conflict, which would not allow Russia to exert substantial force anywhere else, but at the same time it would ensure that Russia gains more new territory and the AFU loses some of the limited human resources they have available. In the short term, this would allow US to do Israel's bidding in the Near East mostly undisturbed. However, in the long term, Ukraine would no longer be a deterrent for Russia in Europe, and US-EU relations would become increasingly strained. This could lead to further escalation until a THD is achieved.
But Americans are behaviourists to the bone. They view people and countries as Pavlov's dogs, always using the carrot and stick approach. Their preferred option is to attempt to freeze the conflict in Ukraine, partly through a backroom deal with Putin. This could involve lifting some sanctions, encouraging Russia to sign a ceasefire, and in return, expecting Putin to abandon his support for Syria and Iran. This would be advantageous for the United States as it would ensure that the AFU remains a capable fighting force in case of future conflict with Russia. Additionally, if Russia were to attempt to project its power in the Near East, Ukrainian forces could be activated to counteract Russian activity abroad.
The bottom line is that they really don't want Russia to assist Syria/Iran and would prefer to keep Putin occupied, either militarily or diplomatically.
12.02.202519:07
Russian stock market SOARING after Putin-Trump phone call!
22.01.202518:58
It wasn't easy for me to research and record this episode. Combing through the testimony of dozens of Russians who were violently purged, expropriated, raped, murdered, enslaved... It really hammers home just how terrible the Russian 90s were and how evil and disgusting Yeltsin's comprador prostitute regime was. The story of Russians in Chechnya after 1991 is just bleak and depressing with virtually no redeeming aspects at all. Redemption came in the shape of the Russian sword, but even the soldiers were eventually stabbed in the back and betrayed at Khasavyurt... It's not hard to understand why Putin rode into power easily on the promise to end Chechen terrorism & replace the plutocratic Yeltsin regime with something dignified.
Here's one of the many accounts of survivors who were lucky to escape. The story of refugee Nina Baranova:
It was in May 1993. Our neighbor Sakhrutdin barged into our apartment with a rifle. He brazenly walked through the rooms and said: "Leave this, leave this, and leave that. Take the rest. You have three days to pack." Arguing was pointless. We were far from the first to be kicked out like this, and more likely among the last.
The problems had started back in 1990, when the first “happy letters” appeared in mailboxes — anonymous threats demanding that we leave peacefully. By 1991, Russian girls began disappearing in broad daylight. Then Russian boys started being beaten on the streets, followed by outright murders. In 1992, they began evicting wealthier residents from their apartments. Then they moved on to the middle class. By 1993, life had become unbearable.
My son Dmitry was beaten in broad daylight by a group of Chechens. When he came home, he was a bloody, dirty mess. They had damaged his auditory nerve, leaving him deaf. The only thing keeping us there was the hope of selling our apartment. But no one wanted to buy it, not even for a pittance. The most common graffiti on the walls back then was: “Don’t buy apartments from Russians; they’ll be ours soon anyway.” Six months later, the most popular Chechen slogan became: “Russians, don’t leave; we need slaves.”
Thank God, we managed to escape in time. Three days after Sakhrutdin’s visit, we were already packing the container. We couldn’t understand why Sakhrutdin was watching the process so closely. Then I heard our Chechen neighbor, Khava, calling out: “Nina, come here for a moment, I need help.” If I hadn’t gone to her, I wouldn’t be alive today.
“See that bread truck?” Khava said to me. “You only have a few hours left to live. As soon as you leave the city, they’ll kill you and take your belongings.”
I immediately went to my sister, who had a Chechen acquaintance in the village of Pervomayskoye named Said. He had already joined Dudayev’s forces by then but hadn’t completely lost his conscience. Said and his men escorted us to the Ossetian border. The bread truck followed us the whole way. When Sakhrutdin and his team realized they wouldn’t get anything, they opened fire on the truck bed. For several years after that, we slept on bullet-riddled beds.
The “best” of the Chechens walking around with weapons would say, “Leave peacefully.” The worst didn’t say anything — they just killed, raped, or enslaved. About a third of the men in the republic roamed with weapons in hand. Another third silently supported them. The rest sympathized with us, mostly urban Chechens, but what could they do when even the elders sat on benches smiling and saying, “Let more Russians leave.”
Here's one of the many accounts of survivors who were lucky to escape. The story of refugee Nina Baranova:
It was in May 1993. Our neighbor Sakhrutdin barged into our apartment with a rifle. He brazenly walked through the rooms and said: "Leave this, leave this, and leave that. Take the rest. You have three days to pack." Arguing was pointless. We were far from the first to be kicked out like this, and more likely among the last.
The problems had started back in 1990, when the first “happy letters” appeared in mailboxes — anonymous threats demanding that we leave peacefully. By 1991, Russian girls began disappearing in broad daylight. Then Russian boys started being beaten on the streets, followed by outright murders. In 1992, they began evicting wealthier residents from their apartments. Then they moved on to the middle class. By 1993, life had become unbearable.
My son Dmitry was beaten in broad daylight by a group of Chechens. When he came home, he was a bloody, dirty mess. They had damaged his auditory nerve, leaving him deaf. The only thing keeping us there was the hope of selling our apartment. But no one wanted to buy it, not even for a pittance. The most common graffiti on the walls back then was: “Don’t buy apartments from Russians; they’ll be ours soon anyway.” Six months later, the most popular Chechen slogan became: “Russians, don’t leave; we need slaves.”
Thank God, we managed to escape in time. Three days after Sakhrutdin’s visit, we were already packing the container. We couldn’t understand why Sakhrutdin was watching the process so closely. Then I heard our Chechen neighbor, Khava, calling out: “Nina, come here for a moment, I need help.” If I hadn’t gone to her, I wouldn’t be alive today.
“See that bread truck?” Khava said to me. “You only have a few hours left to live. As soon as you leave the city, they’ll kill you and take your belongings.”
I immediately went to my sister, who had a Chechen acquaintance in the village of Pervomayskoye named Said. He had already joined Dudayev’s forces by then but hadn’t completely lost his conscience. Said and his men escorted us to the Ossetian border. The bread truck followed us the whole way. When Sakhrutdin and his team realized they wouldn’t get anything, they opened fire on the truck bed. For several years after that, we slept on bullet-riddled beds.
The “best” of the Chechens walking around with weapons would say, “Leave peacefully.” The worst didn’t say anything — they just killed, raped, or enslaved. About a third of the men in the republic roamed with weapons in hand. Another third silently supported them. The rest sympathized with us, mostly urban Chechens, but what could they do when even the elders sat on benches smiling and saying, “Let more Russians leave.”
08.01.202522:31
On American expansionism.
The incoming administration seems to have a more realistic image of the state of American hegemonial decline and wants to take proactive steps to try to counteract and reverse it, breathing new life into the American Global Empire.
In this context, it makes perfect sense for the US to increase pressure on its vassals. I am not using the term in a pejorative sense. The US does not have “allies” in the traditional meaning of the word. It has vassals with different levels of feudal obligations and elite integration, and different tasks. Extracting more value from vassals -- whether through tariffs, increased NATO budgets, meddling in local politics or potential territorial concessions -- is an absolutely logical step in cementing and renewing America's position as overlord of its sphere.
There are three ways America's European vassals can react to this: look for protection outside of the sphere, try to make themselves more useful/necessary & advance integration, or take it on the face. Were we in, I don't know, the 19th century, Denmark would just ask Russia for military support in Greenland in exchange for mild economic concessions and never worry again. As it is, the Royal Danish Army does not have any artillery anymore because they gave it all away for the purpose of firing cluster ammunition at Russian children in Donetsk. They did not receive anything in return for that and it did not help any Danish purpose. They cannot defend themselves if push comes to shove and they can't ask anybody to help because most of their fellow vassals have done the same. The most likely option is that they'll just take it on the face. Not just for pragmatic reasons, but also because they genuinely enjoy being dommed geopolitically.
America has no obligation to treat its vassals better. I've seen Danish people complain on here about supporting the US after 9/11, participating in the American wars in the Middle East, etc. That's ridiculous. You know how a colony is rewarded for sending troops to its overlord's wars? It doesn't get beaten. That's the reward for a lackey. Any person who takes any of the NATO democracy liberalism pilpul seriously is just not a serious person, it was never real, it was always just voluntary submission to be absolved from existing in History.
The world that existed in 1991-2022 does not exist anymore. It's not coming back. You can just invade your neighbor. You can just fire missiles at international shipping lanes. You can just threaten to annex members of your military alliance. “You can just do things”, as the techbros like to say. The mirage of a post-historical order that only has to be policed from time to time but is never seriously challenged has disappeared. What did you think canceling the End of History meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?
It's not pleasant to be suddenly confronted with all of the above. It's not pleasant to have to admit to yourself that your existence was a coddled theme park that is existentially dependent on the relative position of someone else and how he feels about that relative position. America's vassals WILL have to confront this state of things and make hard decisions about their future. This means reckoning with their geopolitical impotence and either embracing dependency with open eyes or seeking pathways to autonomy that will inevitably involve risk, sacrifice, and a recalibration of their national priorities.
The era of coasting on borrowed security and ideological rhetoric is over. What lies ahead is a world where historical agency must be reclaimed or forever relinquished, and for many, the question may not be whether they are ready to make that leap, but whether they even remember how. America has now understood this -- and is mentally preparing to switch back to the cold logic that comes with actual History. The times, they are a-changin'.
The incoming administration seems to have a more realistic image of the state of American hegemonial decline and wants to take proactive steps to try to counteract and reverse it, breathing new life into the American Global Empire.
In this context, it makes perfect sense for the US to increase pressure on its vassals. I am not using the term in a pejorative sense. The US does not have “allies” in the traditional meaning of the word. It has vassals with different levels of feudal obligations and elite integration, and different tasks. Extracting more value from vassals -- whether through tariffs, increased NATO budgets, meddling in local politics or potential territorial concessions -- is an absolutely logical step in cementing and renewing America's position as overlord of its sphere.
There are three ways America's European vassals can react to this: look for protection outside of the sphere, try to make themselves more useful/necessary & advance integration, or take it on the face. Were we in, I don't know, the 19th century, Denmark would just ask Russia for military support in Greenland in exchange for mild economic concessions and never worry again. As it is, the Royal Danish Army does not have any artillery anymore because they gave it all away for the purpose of firing cluster ammunition at Russian children in Donetsk. They did not receive anything in return for that and it did not help any Danish purpose. They cannot defend themselves if push comes to shove and they can't ask anybody to help because most of their fellow vassals have done the same. The most likely option is that they'll just take it on the face. Not just for pragmatic reasons, but also because they genuinely enjoy being dommed geopolitically.
America has no obligation to treat its vassals better. I've seen Danish people complain on here about supporting the US after 9/11, participating in the American wars in the Middle East, etc. That's ridiculous. You know how a colony is rewarded for sending troops to its overlord's wars? It doesn't get beaten. That's the reward for a lackey. Any person who takes any of the NATO democracy liberalism pilpul seriously is just not a serious person, it was never real, it was always just voluntary submission to be absolved from existing in History.
The world that existed in 1991-2022 does not exist anymore. It's not coming back. You can just invade your neighbor. You can just fire missiles at international shipping lanes. You can just threaten to annex members of your military alliance. “You can just do things”, as the techbros like to say. The mirage of a post-historical order that only has to be policed from time to time but is never seriously challenged has disappeared. What did you think canceling the End of History meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?
It's not pleasant to be suddenly confronted with all of the above. It's not pleasant to have to admit to yourself that your existence was a coddled theme park that is existentially dependent on the relative position of someone else and how he feels about that relative position. America's vassals WILL have to confront this state of things and make hard decisions about their future. This means reckoning with their geopolitical impotence and either embracing dependency with open eyes or seeking pathways to autonomy that will inevitably involve risk, sacrifice, and a recalibration of their national priorities.
The era of coasting on borrowed security and ideological rhetoric is over. What lies ahead is a world where historical agency must be reclaimed or forever relinquished, and for many, the question may not be whether they are ready to make that leap, but whether they even remember how. America has now understood this -- and is mentally preparing to switch back to the cold logic that comes with actual History. The times, they are a-changin'.
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24.12.202417:32
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09.12.202419:59
Israel is dismantling every strategic deterrent Syria had so that the country can never again be a threat to Israeli interests in the region. They can bomb Syria with absolute impunity and they will keep doing so because there is literally nothing to stop them now even in theory.
When the Israelis are done, there won't be a single air defence system, ammunition depot or missile launch site left intact. Then they can stop caring about who comes to power in Syria because the country will be militarily neutered for decades if not forever
>the 82 IQ Sunni 'radicals' are starting to realize that they acted once more as useful idiots for Israeli interests and will get absolutely nothing in return for fighting Israel's enemies other than bombs dropping on their heads
When the Israelis are done, there won't be a single air defence system, ammunition depot or missile launch site left intact. Then they can stop caring about who comes to power in Syria because the country will be militarily neutered for decades if not forever
>the 82 IQ Sunni 'radicals' are starting to realize that they acted once more as useful idiots for Israeli interests and will get absolutely nothing in return for fighting Israel's enemies other than bombs dropping on their heads
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03.12.202416:08
We have absolutely no idea about events in South Korea.
Nevertheless, we want to remind you of two basic rules of every military coup:
1) Be happy!
2) Just be yourself!
RWA NEWS /sg/-edition dropping soon
Nevertheless, we want to remind you of two basic rules of every military coup:
1) Be happy!
2) Just be yourself!
RWA NEWS /sg/-edition dropping soon
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