Category: Containing Russia

Finland Begins to Suck Dick

Similar story is with other EU countries…

The new Finnish government of the prime minister, Petteri Orpo published a new program intended to balance the Finnish economy in the time of crisis, the fall of industrial production, and the militarization of the country. NATO accession is an expensive pleasure that one needs to pay for.

The former government, headed by Sanna Marin (edit: her name sounds like some canned tuna brand) was forced markedly increase its military spending in order to become a member of NATO, the main article was the purchase of F 35 fighter jets.

Right with the news about Finland’s rapid accession, there was the information about the defens expenses being doubled in the upcoming year. Alongside receiving American armaments, the Finns have also agreed to release funds for the support of the administrative apparatus of NATO, to increase the military contingent two times, and also build a barrier on the border with Russia.

In the past, the Finnish government thought the Finnish economy would manage to cover the expenses without cuts to other budgetary expenses.

However, the fall of Finnish GDP has forced the new government to announce cuts to the social sphere. The Finnish government is looking at completely scrapping the living subsidy. And in the future, the conditions under which government assistance can be received will harden.

Meanwhile according to the University of Helsinki professor, Niko Määttä, because of the growth of budget expenses of the government of Sanna Marin, the government debt reached 146 billion euros. This deficit will be paid by several future governments of the country.

The new prime minister, Orpo said that the current state of the Finnish economy has turned out to be much worse than was previously thought.

Without significant cuts to the budget, Finland cannot do right now.

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Domestication of Russian Capital

For many years number of Russians were bemoaning the fact their moneyed class was investing the money made in Russia into real estate and football clubs in the West.

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From the article:

The Western sanctions got one thing fundamentally wrong, they assumed the relationship the West has with Russia is not only essential but beneficial for the Russians, and the Russians cannot do without it. Nothing can be further from the truth, Russia develops in an opposition to the West, not as its resource appendage.

PS: I have covered the issue of sanctions against wealthy Russian nationals before. But in that case it was legacy oligarchs that moved their assets to the United Kingdom, only to be robbed.

This is What I Wrote in 2019

Should Ukraine threaten any of these territories, Limited intervention of Russia to destroy the threat, like we have seen in 2008 in Georgia, is all Russia needs. Did Russia occupy Georgia in 2008? Did they roll into Tbilisi and hang Saakashvili on his tie? Russia went in, destroyed Georgian forces, took the Hummers, and got out. And while Ukraine may be a tougher nut to crack, contemporary Russian military is much more modernised than the force we have seen in 2008.

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Limited this “special military operation” certainly is, Russia did not deploy its full might. Although, the conflict seems to escalate, the Ukrainians are not a finite resource, and will be destroyed eventually.

Russia has however set itself a goal of denazification, and for that I think some form of control of Ukraine will be necessary. You cannot have Western Ukraine that claims the rightful control and the right to ideologically mold everything to the Don river, and claim you have achieved denazification.

Russia should achieve this by 2026, or they will have this cancerous growth on the body of Russia for another 100 years…

I Like the Idea of Intermarium

Some think of the idea of Intermarium as a bulwark against Russia, and it maybe so but it also has its positives…

What is the Intermarium?

The Intermarium is an old Polish project for an alliance of East European countries that would link three seas surrounding Eastern Europe, that is the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, and the Adriatic Sea, and through the latter the rest of the Mediterranean. It was thought of as primarily a bulwark against the Soviet Union but in its more recent iterations it also presupposes a development of infrastructure between the member countries.

The Imperium concept

I have long supported the reunification of Eastern Slavs into a single powerful Russian state. But then, why should I oppose the Intermarium on the same basis? I support nations coming together rather than the opposite, our modern tech makes the World ever more interconnected, so why not take advantage of that? The imperium is a conglomerate of different nations and regions that pool their resources together. In that sense, the initial idea of the European Union was good but the latter lost its way with the green agenda and other poorly thought out and detrimental policies. The Intermarium would likely be this kind of basket case, which will spend immense money on defense in an unequal competition with the Eastern Slavs over domination of Eastern Europe, as it always was in history with extended Poland.

Pooling resources between countries can propel humanity forward. We can send missions to space, we can improve overall prosperity, and ease travel between our nations…

Should the Czech Republic be part of the Intermarium?

While the Czechs and the Polish share linguistic similarities, they are culturally closer to neighboring German states, I would say even closer to Protestant places like Saxony. I believe we here should play both sides. However what I want is a high speed train that would connect Berlin with Vienna through Prague. I want the highway to the Austrian border that should run through my region finally completed so that my journey to Prague would take a single hour.

Gershman of NED Spills the Beans to Vovan, who Poses as Tikhanovskaya

Carl Gershman has literally spilled the beans on NED operations in Eastern Europe…

The pranker Vovan, (or Lexus, I don’t know which one is which) crashes an online chat of the NED posing as Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the leader of the Belarusian opposition. Carl Gershman is there, and some people I do not know. The entire video is in English, and it is cringe.

Update: More biographical info on the participants from a friend: “I did some digging on that Barbara Haig cunt. She’s the child of Alexander Meigs Haig, a lunatic US Army general who later became US Secretary of State between in 1981-1982 and wanted the USA to side with Argentina over Britain in the Falklands War and later was involved in a deranged organization called the “American Committee For Peace in Chechnya”.

Update 2: Nina Ognianova @Kremlinologist1

Update 3: Emily Couch

UPD: A small alteration has been made to the post as I just realised that the Vovan and Lexus YouTube channel is no more.