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Re: Interesting Articles
« Reply #50 on: May 04, 2024, 05:25:03 PM »

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The pending collapse.


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« Reply #51 on: May 06, 2024, 12:30:05 PM »
Putin’s inauguration on Tuesday for a fifth term will not only mark his 25-year-long grip on power but also showcase Russia’s shift into what pro-Kremlin commentators call a “revolutionary power,” set on upending the global order, making its own rules, and demanding that totalitarian autocracy be respected as a legitimate alternative to democracy in a world redivided by big powers into spheres of influence.

“In Russian families, many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had seven or eight children, and even more. Let’s preserve and revive these wonderful traditions,” Putin said in a November speech dedicated to “a thousand-year, eternal Russia.”

The emphasis is on a special and powerful state dominated by Putin, on centuries-old Russian self-reliance and stoicism, and the sacrifice of individual rights to the regime. Men give their lives in war or work. Women should give their bodies by birthing children.
Russia’s elite, meanwhile, has hardened against the West, according to one billionaire living outside Russia.

“Everyone is very anti-West; that’s all you hear,” the billionaire said. “Anti-West, anti-West, anti-West. And it will increase, the longer this war goes on — and it could go on for 10 years or more.”

Many liberals, including Kagarlitsky and Gallyamov, doubt that Putin and his hard-liners can succeed. “Societies never get de-modernized,” Kagarlitsky said.

Gallyamov said that many Russians are “really afraid” and will eventually repudiate Putin’s rule, just as Germany rejected the Nazis.

“The general Russian population is tired of his militarism, of the war, of this patriotic, anti-Western hysteria,” Gallyamov said. “They drastically want just normalization.”

Perhaps the fatigue is murmured too softly for the Kremlin to hear. On the overnight train, the woman was careful to steer clear of politics, a subject she dreads. And yet her despair spilled out.

“I just wish there was an end to these troubled times,” she said, in a low, bitter voice.

There’s a dystopian edge to the new Russia. Peace activists, young and old, are behind bars, while convicted murderers, rapists and other violent criminals have been set free — pardoned by Putin to fight in Ukraine. Some are returning from war and committing horrific crimes.

“The country is turning into an absolutely totalitarian state. There is complete lawlessness,” Alibekov said. “There is no democracy. There are rich people and slaves, that’s all.” On Feb. 20, police dragged him off a train, and he was detained, awaiting trial for allegedly assaulting police.

 “Moscow must become a mecca of morons,” he said. “That’s the plan.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/putin-values-russian-society-conservatism/

These excerpts are from a much longer article.
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Re: Interesting Articles
« Reply #52 on: May 06, 2024, 12:52:05 PM »

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse.
Disappearance, or possible murder, of a witness to the secret Tver mansion.


The email trail and party trail of $vetlana.
Her previous husband warned Timur that her $50,000/month living expenses might be too much for him.



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Re: Interesting Articles
« Reply #53 on: May 06, 2024, 01:01:02 PM »
"...as Russia is becoming more like America...
America is becoming more like Russia..."

The President's Analyst 1968

great film about future relations between USofA and Rush-see-ya!!!!
but a comedy
the reality is gonna be more of a tragedy though...

The world will have to go through a period of great darkness, before it can ever hope to see the light again

when this all goes down...
normally, I couldn't stop myself from sayin, "see, I told ya so", cuz I'm an ass...

but i'm gonna already be dead by then....
one of the lucky "BOOMERS" who came in after the last big war, and left just before the next big one....

so imagine WWII but with mini tactical nukes and AI and engineered bio-weapons and ultra toxins
with an economy that runs completely off a new digital crypto-currency issued by the government
that can track every cent of everyone every second....

before all that...
money maker fer ya'll in Ukraine is the Scandium mine near Dnipro....
why?
scandium polynitride explosive lens technology used in "mikro-nukes"
this is the only potential source Russians have access to....

scandium polynitride will revolutionize the design of nuclear primaries, which haven't changed all that much since the 1950s

in fact just mentioning scandium polynitride will trigger a DHS monitoring report


so imagine, if you could export 10 tons of scandium oxide per yr.....
and swap it for oil brokered in hong kong or dubai...


if, insteada Russia, you exported to America...
America could fabricate enough micro-nukes to arm a long range version of "Iron Dome" technology anti-missile system
to completely form a protective ring around the United States, and get a 98% shoot-down rate of incoming Russian or Chinese Ballistic Missiles

The USA's ABM system of the 1960s was exclusively a nuclear armed system
The USA however, has moved away from tactical nuclear weapons
but the Russians HAVE NOT
there is a massive imbalance of power in Russia's favor
with tactical nuclear weapons
and chemical weapons
and biologoical weapons

they outnumber the USA 10-1 in tactical nukes
they produce vats of Binary Novichok every month, that can be easily processed into safe munitions for use by untrained mobiks
russian binary gas shells mix two ingredients in-flight to make Novichok
and explodes in a mist above the enemy

100 kg of Novichok will kill 50% of people within 1 sq km
The USA has no chemical weapons, and destoyed their stockpile

the smallest Russian Tactical Nuclear warhead, is just 6 inches in diameter and weighs less than 40 kg
they have about 200 of this type alone that have been adapted to various missile systems and even artillery

Russia has the world's most advanced BIO-WAR technology, no one else comes close
they take huge risks that no SANE country would ever take
and in doing so, they've killed gazillions of their own people
and devastated hundreds of thousands of sq km all over the FSU

i've been to the wastelands...
Chernobil, sure...I'm a BIG 'Zone Freak" The Chernobil Exclusion Zone

I saw the most beautiful white caspian cobra on Vozrozhdeniya Island
I approached slowly...it had no fear of man....
and we looked each other eye-to-eye

this is where the Soviets built their secret Bio-weapons labs
which now lay abandoned...
the locals are afraid to go there, cuz EVERYTHING there is dead
animals...people...
and the gov is quiet....
but this is fer real

it's cuz of the anthrax!!!
I went in a full bio-hazard suit, with respirator and heavy gloves to guard against skin penetration
and I went all around the base and dug samples
on the north part of the base, is a big pit where they buried all the anthrax and smallpox
you can see it has a lighter color than the background

digg down at least two feet and drop a sample into a sealable air-tight tube
check yur phone's GPS against yur map
and follow the grid

then resist the temptation to phuque around and explore and GTF outta there ASAP!!

OK...

you can also add this, to my discovery that the Crimean Canal System was transporting radioactive contamination through the Dnipro to Crimean agriculture

did you know there's a mini-mart in Chernobil now???
you can buy souvineer stamps inside
zone freaks all meet up there....
and you can leave messages there

there's a lot to explore in the zone
you could easily get lost in there

sure was fun dredging for Uranium blobs with a portable gold dredge in the Pripyat river at night...
could get 100 grams per day....and worth $10 gram to the secret Chinese buyers in Kyiv's black market
so you're talkin $1000 per man. per day (or night)

unfortutately,
yes, it's sad...
but all the guys I hired to dredge for me, all of them died of what are believed to have been radiation induced cancers
I may have even owed some of them money...
who can say, really??

it's thee fate of all the chernobil liquisators to be liquidated
that's why I'm glad I'm just a simple merchant
buying for one price
and selling for another...

« Last Edit: May 06, 2024, 02:36:32 PM by krimster2 »

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Re: Interesting Articles
« Reply #54 on: October 13, 2024, 01:48:58 PM »
The hero of one of my favorite books, “Resurrection,” by Leo Tolstoy, says, “Yes, the only suitable place for an honest man in Russia at the present time is prison.”

It sounds fine, but it was wrong then, and it’s even more wrong now.

There are a lot of honest people in Russia—tens of millions. There are far more than is commonly believed.

The authorities, however, who were repugnant then and are even more so now, are afraid not of honest people but of those who are not afraid of them. Or let me be more precise: those who may be afraid but overcome their fear.

Whatever way you look at it, nine years, especially in “strict” conditions, is an extremely long sentence. In Russia, the average punishment for murder is seven years.

A prisoner sentenced to an extra term of nine years is going to be upset, to say the least. When I got back to the prison, everyone—who of course already knew about the sentence—furtively gave me a particular kind of look. How was I taking it? What was the expression on my face? It is, after all, intriguing to see someone’s reaction when they have just been told they will be serving the longest sentence of anyone in the entire prison complex. And that they are going to be sent somewhere especially grim and usually reserved for murderers. Nobody is going to come over and ask how I feel, but everyone is curious to see how this plays out. It’s an occasion when a person might hang themselves or slash their wrists.

The U.S.S.R. lasted seventy years. The repressive regimes in North Korea and Cuba survive to this day. China, with a whole bunch of political prisoners, has lasted so long that those prisoners grow old and die in prison. The Chinese regime does not relent. It releases no one, despite all the international pressure. The truth of the matter is that we underestimate just how resilient autocracies are in the modern world. With very, very rare exceptions, they are protected from external invasion by the U.N., by international law, by the rights of sovereignty. Russia, which right now is waging a classic war of aggression against Ukraine (which has increased tenfold the predictions of the regime’s imminent collapse), is additionally protected by its membership in the U.N. Security Council and its nuclear weapons.

Economic collapse and impoverishment await us most likely. But it is far from obvious that the regime will come crashing down in such a way that its falling debris breaks open the doors of its prisons.

Full article:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/21/alexei-navalny-patriot-memoir
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Re: Interesting Articles
« Reply #55 on: October 13, 2024, 03:16:02 PM »
How long will it be, before an American Navalny writes his version of his imprisonment

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Re: Interesting Articles
« Reply #56 on: October 14, 2024, 02:40:01 AM »
How long will it be, before an American Navalny writes his version of his imprisonment

Or a Dutch Navalny???

Who knows what volumes our Shadow may write there ;D
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Re: Interesting Articles
« Reply #57 on: October 14, 2024, 02:54:20 AM »
Here's an article on the current conscription situation in Russia:

http://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/10/01/russias-autumn-conscription-how-many-of-the-133000-draftees-will-end-up-in-ukraine

Appears that a lot of Russian Conscripts soon find themselves at the front whether they like it or not. Doubt many live long.
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