Author: insomniacresurrected

Zrada: Dozhd’ Closes in Latvia

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The trigger to ban TV Rain came last week when Alexei Korostelyov, a news anchor, asked Russians drafted into the army and their relatives to send information about their often dire living conditions. The grim news from the front has been an important topic for independent outlets like TV Rain, which have reported on men being press-ganged into fighting, forced to buy basic equipment and slaughtered en masse in artillery strikes.

But Korostelyov provoked an outcry by saying TV Rain hoped “we have been able to help many servicemen with things like equipment and basic comforts” — a sign taken in Latvia that even exiled Russians supported the war effort.

Dzyadko said Korostelyov’s comments “do not reflect the position of the channel,” which he said TV Rain had proved by firing him.

Though the channel quickly apologised and fired Korostelyov, the incident capped tensions that had been evident since the channel started broadcasting in Latvia. TV Rain was under investigation for two incidents apparently demonstrating its support for Russia — calling Russia’s armed forces “our army” and showing a map of Russia with the Crimean peninsula, which Putin annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

I was laughing my tits off when reading the above.

Zrada

Russian Oil Sells for $79 in Asia

So, my initial reaction in a conversation to EU’s newly rolled out policy of price caps on Russian oil was this:

The Russians will sell the oil to the Indians for $75 and then will ship the oil to Europe at market prices and will pocket the difference…

Sheeit, I am a prophet, look at what is happening:

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Price controls are the stupidest policy in the history of economics…

Financial Times Names Zelensky: Man of the Year

I wish anyone who expresses fawning over Zelensky on the grounds of liberal democracy to live in a liberal democracy of the kind they have in Ukraine. But perhaps these people want us to live in Ukrainian democracy, they just can’t do it yet.

I am not sure the Ukrainians show any particular resilience, what Zelensky has done is use Russia’s initial weak charge in Ukraine to present the latter as a sign of weakness, and to sell the Ukrainian public a vision of peremoha. This is quite frankly criminal and will cost Ukraine dearly.

Ursula’s 100,000 Dead Ukrainian Officers

I had to save this magic moment on my YouTube channel:

Ursula can be forgiven for thinking everyone in the Ukrainian military is an officer but is this a slip? Now, Ursula is being briefed by intelligence services on Ukrainian casualties, so the figure may be true. Nevertheless, the above quickly went viral and the European Commission, from what I have heard, deleted the above from any public press release.

But then, why is Ursula mentioning the same as Russian sources?

Ukraine Ain’t Gonna Win This Fight

While the mainstream media are full of victory dances over Ukraine’s territorial gains, and claims of Russian weakness, feeding copious amounts of hopium to idiots, whose minds are already fried by years of incessant Russophobic propaganda, there are those that look at things through a more sober lens:

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In the absence of a critical root-and-branch analysis of Russia’s national power and strategic interests, American senior military leaders and their political bosses viewed Russia through a narrowly focused lens that magnified U.S. and Ukrainian strengths but ignored Russia’s strategic advantages—geographic depth, almost limitless natural resources, high social cohesion, and the military-industrial capacity to rapidly scale up its military power.

And…

…the Biden administration repeatedly commits the unpardonable sin in a democratic society of refusing to tell the American people the truth: contrary to the Western media’s popular “Ukrainian victory” narrative, which blocks any information that contradicts it, Ukraine is not winning and will not win this war.

Yesterday, I wrote a comment in Czech on Facebook, asking whether anyone still believes in Ukrainian victory. To my surprise, many do…

I really suggest you read that American Conservative article because it is a really good analysis of Russia’s strategy in Ukraine.