I’m thinking Vlad is probably already having nightmares about getting Khrushchev’d by his oligarch vozhds.
In case no one’s noticed, after two years he still hasn’t managed to close escrow on Ukraine’s money-laundering op (to add to Moscow’s) and his backers are getting antsy. Mostly because due to the cost of this “adventure”, the natives are getting restless.
In Russia, “The peasants are revolting” has always had two distinctly different meanings, only one of which the ruling class likes.
Truth. Polish Home Army forgot, except for Holy Cross Brygada that fought westward and escaped the Bear. Otherwise it becomes:
“Da, thank you for help against Nazi. Now, your soldiers onto the trains. Your officers? Come with us, we take walk in forest.”
Based on what I have learned over the past handful of years, I have come to doubt the entire Cold War premise. I think US vs USSR is no different than Rep vs Dem. It was all a show for the little people. Same as it is now. Trump tried to expose it. He was making progress. They couldn’t allow that.
Speaking as a cold warrior who lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis and a number of other events, you couldn’t be more wrong.
That said, the most relentless enemies America has ever had are the communists in our own State Department.
March 20, 2024 at 1:40 pm
WayneM
I would have guessed it was the CIA, Bren… but good point…
March 20, 2024 at 10:45 pm
Bren
Find Stefan Molyneux’s video on McCarthy. The hearings got the reputation they did because the State Department goons McCarthy reported his findings to alerted the spies before his people could roll them up, because they, themselves, were reporting to the Kremlin.
In Vietnam, our people were dying because the State Department moles were leaking our battle plans to the Communist Chinese so quickly, that the enemy often had them before our own ground commanders.
We found out when the USSR fell and the GRU archives were opened up by the anti-communists, that virtually everybody McCarthy accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union was, indeed, on their payroll. As well as those he was reporting to.
Our issue is that, by the end of the ’60s, our institutes of higher learning had been completely conquered, and the fresh crop of diplomats were arriving pre-converted to the communist cause.
I could go on at length, but I’m starting to get a little angry just remembering this shit, so I’m going to stop here.
March 20, 2024 at 2:08 am
warhorse
careful, they’ll find Anatoly and decide his whole family is “oppressed” and try to “liberate” him whether he likes it or not. and every toilet they can steal while they’re at it.
or they’ll pick an old helicopter that doesn’t fly, and hasn’t for 20 years, and attack it with a drone, to point fingers at ukraine.they’ll even film the attack from multiple angles and in HD, so you get the full effect of the false flag.
I don’t know what it is like for the Russian people now but I suspect like us that are not of the privileged groups we now have. In 2008 we were on a Mediterranean cruise on a Russian run ship and populated with Russians. They ate huge amounts of bread and took any left on the tables when finished eating. When the cruse finished, every roll of toilet paper disappeared out of every available restroom I checked on the way out.
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cultured titties… I think so.
Is “bazooms” the name of the currency?
ROFLOL!!
And yes, Sam’s bazooms could get a rise out of a brick.
If they get much bigger, Zed might have to re-name the ranch. There are worse problems to have…
I’m thinking Vlad is probably already having nightmares about getting Khrushchev’d by his oligarch vozhds.
In case no one’s noticed, after two years he still hasn’t managed to close escrow on Ukraine’s money-laundering op (to add to Moscow’s) and his backers are getting antsy. Mostly because due to the cost of this “adventure”, the natives are getting restless.
In Russia, “The peasants are revolting” has always had two distinctly different meanings, only one of which the ruling class likes.
clear ether
eon
Never get in bed with the Russian bear.
Remember, the enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy, no more no less.
We forgot that in WWII, and it got us 40 years of cold war and tens of thousands dead in proxy wars.
Truth. Polish Home Army forgot, except for Holy Cross Brygada that fought westward and escaped the Bear. Otherwise it becomes:
“Da, thank you for help against Nazi. Now, your soldiers onto the trains. Your officers? Come with us, we take walk in forest.”
Based on what I have learned over the past handful of years, I have come to doubt the entire Cold War premise. I think US vs USSR is no different than Rep vs Dem. It was all a show for the little people. Same as it is now. Trump tried to expose it. He was making progress. They couldn’t allow that.
Speaking as a cold warrior who lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis and a number of other events, you couldn’t be more wrong.
That said, the most relentless enemies America has ever had are the communists in our own State Department.
I would have guessed it was the CIA, Bren… but good point…
Find Stefan Molyneux’s video on McCarthy. The hearings got the reputation they did because the State Department goons McCarthy reported his findings to alerted the spies before his people could roll them up, because they, themselves, were reporting to the Kremlin.
In Vietnam, our people were dying because the State Department moles were leaking our battle plans to the Communist Chinese so quickly, that the enemy often had them before our own ground commanders.
We found out when the USSR fell and the GRU archives were opened up by the anti-communists, that virtually everybody McCarthy accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union was, indeed, on their payroll. As well as those he was reporting to.
Our issue is that, by the end of the ’60s, our institutes of higher learning had been completely conquered, and the fresh crop of diplomats were arriving pre-converted to the communist cause.
I could go on at length, but I’m starting to get a little angry just remembering this shit, so I’m going to stop here.
careful, they’ll find Anatoly and decide his whole family is “oppressed” and try to “liberate” him whether he likes it or not. and every toilet they can steal while they’re at it.
or they’ll pick an old helicopter that doesn’t fly, and hasn’t for 20 years, and attack it with a drone, to point fingers at ukraine.they’ll even film the attack from multiple angles and in HD, so you get the full effect of the false flag.
I don’t know what it is like for the Russian people now but I suspect like us that are not of the privileged groups we now have. In 2008 we were on a Mediterranean cruise on a Russian run ship and populated with Russians. They ate huge amounts of bread and took any left on the tables when finished eating. When the cruse finished, every roll of toilet paper disappeared out of every available restroom I checked on the way out.
LOL. As another old cold warrior, and having interactions with Russians as well as in the DDR, totally believable.
“Yes, it is everyone’s duty now to complain. But it doesn’t make more shoes.”
– Katya Orlova character in Le Carre’s “The Russia House”
Something to anticipate when robbing the Bear:
https://schnitzelrepublic.blogspot.com/2024/03/what-i-anticipate.html
Nice, Sam – the world could use a couple Black Swans right about now…