As regulars here will know, WWIII fatigue is a thing and the remedy is to simply do the things I keep mentioning on this blog, as well as the linked to post above.
Nevertheless it’s always good to know what is about to happen around you, so an occasional review of the situation is worth doing.
Cocaine Clown and Ukraine are done. It doesn’t matter how much laundering money or cocaine mountains the West sends to Ukraine, Russia has absolutely depleted Ukraine of every armament and even more importantly of fighting men. some 500k escaped the country before the war, and about 100k are reportedly AWOL. So the front line is basically going to be a ghost town soon and the weapons the West is sending are getting trashed by the Russians who are years ahead with electronic warfare tech.
We are fast approaching a point where Russia taking its time and letting the USA and Europe self-rain their very economies and military hardware will have reached peak efficiency. If NATO is allowed to survive in some fashion, then they will eventually re-arm and come at Russia again. The extremely patient way in which Russia (and China) are prosecuting their war efforts is strategically extremely sound. Their hope must be that with impending, or even actual economic collapse, the parasites running the USA and by extension NATO, will have all their control structures begin to disintegrate. Taking Italy or Greece, or Spain as examples, as the people become further pissed off and more violent immigrants are important, eventually, something will give. Riots, breakdown of civil society and the formation of separatist movements, in short, what the Americans have tried to produce from Egypt to Kazakhstan and are currently trying in Moldavia, Romania and other places, will begin to happen in reverse, but probably without any or much of a push from foreign powers. People are really starting to have enough now. And when that dam breaks, it is very likely that “Yankee go home” will become a slogan again throughout Europe.
Historically Italy has never had an issue with Russia. But Italy has some 150 Yankee military bases on our territory and our political class are all appendages of Biden’s impending colostomy bag. But daily assaults on women and a few on minor girls too are starting to get the people riled up. As are the continually rising food prices. Unfortunately, there is still a rather latent fear in the people, mostly driven by the women of this country who have nevertheless been a little more resistant to the generic feminism fostered on the Anglos, but in this case, while many Anglo women are starting to realise that feminism has absolutely wrecked women’s lives far more than any possible patriarchy ever did, the eye-ties women are still stuck on something agin to second-wave feminism. The shift to third wave rabid and fourth wave utterly insane feminism/transgender/globohomo -ism is a step too far though and one can begin to see the confusion in their eyes. Some double-down while rejecting the more insane aspects. Others begin to realise that if they want out of the nightmare they need a man with his own set of balls and prepared to fight for his family, and when they look around and see the mostly emasculated fields of metrosexuals they helped create, they begin to despair.
I was talking to a colleague a few days ago, and he told me how in his work, all the reliable people are over 50. GenX are the only ones that are still capable of producing excellent work on time and in budget, and who will go the extra mile late at night when needed. I find that some of the Anglo boomers are actually very reliable for their age and can be counted on, but I tend to agree that overall the millennials have always been mostly useless, and the zoomers are the hope, but I am not sure on their numbers yet. Some are full blown zealots that make one proud and I certainly have met several of those and they are loyal and helpful as well as reliable, so my hope is with them. The lazy or weaker ones I think mostly just lack a teacher. It brings back the memory of a post I wrote several years ago to a friend, who has since passed away (God rest your soul Ian), who lamented the lack of leaders. I explained then that it was not that GenX wasn’t capable. It was that we are a small cohort of survivors who are still not in power in any meaningful way. Zoomers who are willing to listen to GenXers who still have a fire burning inside, can gain a lot from such interactions. And given the emails I get, perhaps I should put together a short book in the spirit of St. Bernard, a kind of small guidebook to navigating globohomo as a man in the wastelands.
A survival guide of sorts for our times. I did a humorous version of this with the RPG, but a more serious work might be in order. Let me know what you think of it.
But I digress. The fact is if Russia does not secure its position, the parasites running the USA (and by extension NATO) will eventually attack again. Europe needs a Pax Russiana. And this cannot happen while Europe is littered with American military bases. So the economy of Europe and the USA needs to collapse first. the chaos that ensues will allow for a very small period during which a certain level of independence can be achieved by various European nations or even forming of new ones. I for one have not yet given up on the idea of having a proper resurgence of the Most Serene Republic of Venice.
Russia invading Europe militarily is not viable, reasonable or tenable, so that will not happen, but the puppet-masters of the USA and NATO know that if they do not drag Russia into a perennial war, they are doomed.
So what to do? I think they will try their damnedest to have European boots on the ground in Ukraine. But I don’t think the actual soldiers will go for it. And this begins to threaten things like military coups. Not really, because the higher ups in the military are all well-selected for arse-licking and boot kissing, but all it takes is a popular captain or colonel and things can change rapidly. Also, at least in Italy, the chances of one Italian soldier shooting on another Italian soldier are close to nil in the greater scheme of things.
So, if you are in Europe, prepare for very harsh economic realities, and concomitant rise in crime of all kinds. If you survive this period, which can last several years, your nation state may have changed considerably.
Any politician that wants to survive will have to make a calculated risk on where and when to “flip” and the first order of business will have to be to stop and indeed reverse immigration of illegals with absolute enforcement and not mere words. Whoever does that will have the popular vote even if they wanted to hang him from a lamppost a week earlier.
The difficulty of that will be to survive the economic backlash. But the reality is that if a politician did that and asked for it, he would get economic help from Russia, China and Iran, almost immediately I think. The main issue with such a move is timing, and being able to survive the personal media onslaught, which would be relentless and possibly also the kind of “accident” that happens to inconvenient people. That said, I believe there are ways that an astute survivor could go about this. primarily by canvassing quietly among the armed forces as to who is willing to support him, because as we have seen by now, words mean nothing when compared to force.
So, we are definitely about to enter interesting times even if we don’t have another bio-engineered pandemic, activation of all the injected zombies by 5G capable lamp-posts and possible fake alien invasions.
Stock up on foodstuff and ammunition boys and girls, it’s going to be a wild ride.
What is actually happening in Russia
There has been quite a bit of talk by the usual talking heads from the mass media (who one must ignore totally and forever) but also by several “respected” alternative media channels as to what the changes in Russian military and security heads actually mean.
I have not bothered to comment because it is quite clear most of these people haven’t got a clue and are guesstimating by consuming all sorts of voluminous data points before they come to conclusions that begin to approach the usual “2+2 = purple” results.
The only one that has actually done some decent legwork and presented his case properly is Edward Slavsquat, here, though I don’t read him much and several of his other takes were meh, as far as I am concerned, but this one was decent.
If you want to avoid a long (but good) read, let me give you the TL;DR version:
Putin is simply doing what he has done his entire career. For the first 20 years or more it was mostly a game of avoiding pit traps, dead ends, and enemies, steadily and very patiently climbing the ladder of power until he managed to get to the top, then the change to a swift reduction in those enemies was executed at lightning speed in political terms, which is still a game of patience and careful calculation in real-time.
Once he had removed the worst threats he then set about improving things on a grander level, and genuinely trying to make things better for the common man too. Which inevitably means rooting out corruption. And by “rooting out corruption” I don’t mean making everyone as clean as a disinfected whistle, I mean ensuring that the people put in positions of government power are first of all effective at their given tasks, whatever these are, and secondly that whatever they get up to, the damage/theft/problems they create are essentially minor or relatively irrelevant in the greater scheme of things.
Shoigu was a dinosaur with the flexibility and imagination of an oil tanker, and regardless of if he was personally deeply corrupt or not, various of his underlings obviously were enriching themselves at the expense of the citizenry, which is why they have been arrested. Even if Shoigu were himself perfectly innocent of any wrongdoing, his having permitted such things to happen under his rule, whether by participation, laziness or stupidity, is enough to ensure he is put out to pasture at the very least, which is what has happened.
Putin is not going to change tack either. He has put people in place around him that generally are capable of streamlining and increasing efficiency, and it is an interminable, truly endless process in politics, which is why I have always understood that being “the big boss”, the “leader” chieftain, etc. is really a vicious pain in the ass and it does not generally interest me, nor has it ever. HOWEVER, if you get a guy with the kind of Sigma traits Vladimir Putin clearly has to become invested in running a country, then what the man has done is pretty much a classic path you can expect.
It is rare for a man of that psychology to get interested in leadership in my experience, they tend to be far more prone to wanting to be left alone to do what they want, how they want, when they want. Piss one off enough by preventing him to live that way, however, and you are going to have a formidable enemy on your hands that will be relentless until you and your obstacles have been swept away.
Personally I think it’s more than that which drives Putin. Some peculiarity of character that has made the game of politics attractive and interesting to him, quite aside from the individual perks of power he may get out of it, as I’m certain these are not primary motivators for him. It is a good thing that at all levels of examination one cares to look at, as a general overview, he seems to be genuinely concerned with providing an overall better situation for his citizens. While this may not ultimately be his true driving force, it is at the very least an effect of his peculiar character. Which is a lot more that can be said for pretty much almost every single politician in the West.
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By G | 17 May 2024 | Posted in Russia and GAE, Social Commentary