The Kremlin is burning?

[Roman Alymov]

10 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Its going to Ukraine?

Be patient, please.

[mkenny]

31 minutes ago, JWB said:

Nope, never ever said such a thing.

I beg to differ Skippy.  

[Stuart Galbraith]

36 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

Be patient, please.

Nicely handled. 

 

 

[Stargrunt6]

Oh snap, Red Storm Rising's about to be real. Russia's tanker shadow fleet.

https://www.realclearworld.com/2025/03/28/russias_shadow_fleet_a_masterclass_in_sanctions_evasion_1100573.html?utm_source=rcp-today&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mailchimp-newsletter&mc_cid=8e505618a5

 

[JWB]

https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1905610472457396376

A Russian officer, in a plea to Putin, gripes that their commanders force them to buy gear, fix equipment, and even purchase lumber for bunkers out of their own pockets. Anyone who resists gets tossed into a forest pit for days without food for “re-education.”

[Roman Alymov]

17 minutes ago, JWB said:

A Russian officer, in a plea to Putin, gripes that their commanders force them to buy gear, fix equipment, and even purchase lumber for bunkers out of their own pockets. 

So he plea for what? Most of, if not all, of Russian Army soldiers are using own salary and crowdfunded money to buy gear (from closing to termal imaging devices), fix equipment, buy construction materials and tools to construct bunkers, buy drones and spare parts for them, EW equipment, SUVs and cars, spare parts for trucks and when possible for armor, hydraulic liquid for artillery, encrypted radios and satellite communication terminals (StarLink and local Russian types) and so on - i could, i think, write pages and pages on what people are buying.  Even hunting shots and shotguns to deal with drones are private. It is more easy to say what IS NOT bought privately: military-type ammo and veapons, as it is prohibited by law.  And i think i have described this situation many times here.....

[JWB]

5 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

So he plea for what?

More money?

[Stuart Galbraith]

More Donkeys.

[Roman Alymov]

Just now, JWB said:

More money?

He will not get anything above what is due (but it is quite possible he will get less, as there is constant problem with bureoucracy). Do you know, for example, that untill very recently, Russian Army soldiers and officers operating outside of official "SVO zone" (it means in "old regions" and Crimea) were not recieving "wartime salary" and bonuses (meaning they were getting about 1/4 of what is payed for "frontline army"), while carrying the same expences, facing drone and missile strikes, direct encounters with enemy forces and so on? Also, as they are not officially taking part in combat operations, their families were not to receive compensations in case of them being KIA. Newertheless, they are fighting the same way as all others do (contrary to Western propaganda about "Putin's mercenaries only fightingh  for money").

    At the same time, no surprise "collective Putin" aka "appeasement of the West party" is hated in Army, and that is why our leadership is shit scared of new waves of mobilisation (as it would add extra hundreds of thousands to this army of well-armed angry men with combat experience and organisation).

[Roman Alymov]

P.S. 

Igor Strelkov on possible rotation at the front 

(The president recently stated that the Ministry of Defense is studying the issue of rotation of military personnel who went to the front first. Is it real? We publish Igor Ivanovich's comment on this already painful but unsolvable problem)

Of course, Mr Putin and our entire wonderful team will be guided by real needs. And they are such that the staffing of army front-line units is very low. Accordingly, people should not be released from the front, so that it does not become even lower. Therefore, there is no question of any rotation that the Ministry of Defense is thinking about.

In order to carry out a full-fledged rotation, it is necessary to carry out a new mobilization. But our country's leadership does not want to take this unpopular measure and will not do so in the near future. And it will not go until the moment when the situation at the front again requires several hundred thousand mobilized. 

Then we will mobilize, but even then there will be no rotation for the simple reason that new people will be needed to plug new holes. Therefore, we can safely answer that the leadership understands the problems of the mobilized, but it will not replace them, because there is no one and there is no one.

https://t.me/i_strelkov_2023/1434

[urbanoid]

nothing to see here

Btw who is searching the searchers?

https://x.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1905653107549258121

 

 

[Pavel Novak]

11 hours ago, urbanoid said:

nothing to see here

Btw who is searching the searchers?

https://x.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1905653107549258121

 

 

Humiliating. And such a difference to Zelensky.

[Roman Alymov]

12 hours ago, Pavel Novak said:

Humiliating. And such a difference to Zelensky.

What exactly is humiliating? Numerous times i have said "appeasement of the West" party is scared, most and foremost, of Russians around them (and especially of Army as by definition the most patriotic part of them), and only then are affraid of their Western "parthners". Video of honorary guards searched is now all across pro-Russian channels (for example https://t.me/donbass_skripnik/21320 ), but do you know that, for example, all vehicles on Red Square parade are searched beforehand with sniffer dogs? Photos dated 2011, girl in blue cammo is "sniffer dog operator", civilians are FSO ("secret service"), green are military

more here ФСО на параде: фотохроника одной спецоперации - ЯПлакалъ

 

[Mike1158]

The dog is thinking, "I fancy some nut casserole, who goes first"?

[Pavel Novak]

14 hours ago, Roman Alymov said:

What exactly is humiliating? Numerous times i have said "appeasement of the West" party is scared, most and foremost, of Russians around them (and especially of Army as by definition the most patriotic part of them), and only then are affraid of their Western "parthners". Video of honorary guards searched is now all across pro-Russian channels (for example https://t.me/donbass_skripnik/21320 ), but do you know that, for example, all vehicles on Red Square parade are searched beforehand with sniffer dogs? Photos dated 2011, girl in blue cammo is "sniffer dog operator", civilians are FSO ("secret service"), green are military

more here ФСО на параде: фотохроника одной спецоперации - ЯПлакалъ

 

Then why you still support this ruling elite?

 

[Roman Alymov]

4 minutes ago, Pavel Novak said:

Then why you still support this ruling elite?

 

  Well, seems like you have missed my point above, so let me explain.

       First, about 30 years ago we had the elite and entire state machine  created (initially, with significant local support) with two main purposes in mind: prevention of both "Communust revanche" and "Russian nationalists coming to power". After first few years of intense and chaotic looting in early half of 1990th, new "Democrats", former Comsomol and Communist Party officials, found themself superrich owners of billions worth of property (chuncs of massive USSR industry) , and on another side of the spectrum former USSR middle class members who were the main "infantry" of "reforms" collapsed into extreme poverty and became politically passive, busy with every day process of making ends meet. So West became the only reliable source of power in Russian Federation - and it was West who finalized construction of Russian rooling. But West was unwilling to control situation with boots on the ground - and local elites were forced ito finding some sort of local leadership who would be competent and personally uncorrupt enough to make sure it will be no social explosion taht could threaten their assets and very life. After some oeriod of internal competition between candidates like Nemtsov & Co, modest grayish second-tier official was APPOINTED as this caretaker, with conscent of all sides including West - and it was the person who is now portrayed by Western media as sort of Dark Master of The World, new coming of Hitler etc.

   De-facto we have entire political and exonomic system of Russian Federation (not Russia) constructed around this class of people known as "collective Putin". It is not just couple of dozens of top officials with palaces in London, but few millions of people, down to street cleaning manager who is hiring illigal migrants from Central Asia instead of locals, take half of their selary and after few years buy flat in Bulgaria. And removing all this West-oriented structure rapidly is only possibe with full-swing civil war all across Russia. Nobody (especially pro-Russians, who are intending to stay here, unlike opponents who would prefer to flee to London, Israel or Italy) wants to have this sort of full-scale civil war. Instead of it, we have gradual changes as result of relatively small-scale civil war (with foreign intervention) in part of Russia known as Ukraine.

     And the wery fact Western media have now noticed decades old practice of checking troops by security service propr to parades is sideeffect of this changes.  See above, for decades people were searched in full view of Western media cameras (i hope you undestand this pictures are taken on central street of Moscowm under balconies full of Western TV crews)  - but West was ok with that: it was the process of safeguarding their colonial administrators, nothing to see, and if locals feel humiliated - it is their problem. 

  Now exactly the same process is paraded around - see, how humiliated are the Russians etc. What happened? As for me, the answer is simple: Western politicians (and media servicing them) are now experiencing some problems controlling their puppets in Kremlin. And taking into consideration it is the same puppets who were in 2011 when this photos were taken (except few personalities who left, like new proud Israel citizen Anatoly Chubais and others) - then it is obvious the problem/change is in the West.....

 

[Stefan Kotsch]

1 hour ago, Pavel Novak said:

Then why you still support this ruling elite?

Roman does not understand what the question means. 

[JWB]

So much for Trump as Putin's puppet.

[JWB]

https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1906242551822114916

Russian propagandist Solovyov suddenly realized that Putin's "demilitarization" of Ukraine has backfired and worked in reverse. "We are fighting with legendary weapons, while they have modern ones." Legendary weapons — are those the donkeys?

[JWB]

https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1906314502431281613

"We killed our own vehicle industry. All the screwdriver assembly has collapsed in the last 2 years. Russia has completely switched to importing Chinese cars."

Russian "Z-bloggers" complain that Russia has ruined its automobile industry with its own hands, which "China took advantage of in a difficult moment for Russia."

[RETAC21]

1 hour ago, JWB said:

So much for Trump as Putin's puppet.

Look for the US in the charts: https://energyandcleanair.org/january-2025-monthly-analysis-of-russian-fossil-fuel-exports-and-sanctions/

Nothingburger

[Stuart Galbraith]

2 hours ago, JWB said:

So much for Trump as Putin's puppet.

One swallow doesnt make a summer. Give it a week he will be playing tongue hockey with him again.

[Pavel Novak]

6 hours ago, Roman Alymov said:

  Well, seems like you have missed my point above, so let me explain.

       First, about 30 years ago we had the elite and entire state machine  created (initially, with significant local support) with two main purposes in mind: prevention of both "Communust revanche" and "Russian nationalists coming to power". After first few years of intense and chaotic looting in early half of 1990th, new "Democrats", former Comsomol and Communist Party officials, found themself superrich owners of billions worth of property (chuncs of massive USSR industry) , and on another side of the spectrum former USSR middle class members who were the main "infantry" of "reforms" collapsed into extreme poverty and became politically passive, busy with every day process of making ends meet. So West became the only reliable source of power in Russian Federation - and it was West who finalized construction of Russian rooling. But West was unwilling to control situation with boots on the ground - and local elites were forced ito finding some sort of local leadership who would be competent and personally uncorrupt enough to make sure it will be no social explosion taht could threaten their assets and very life. After some oeriod of internal competition between candidates like Nemtsov & Co, modest grayish second-tier official was APPOINTED as this caretaker, with conscent of all sides including West - and it was the person who is now portrayed by Western media as sort of Dark Master of The World, new coming of Hitler etc.

   De-facto we have entire political and exonomic system of Russian Federation (not Russia) constructed around this class of people known as "collective Putin". It is not just couple of dozens of top officials with palaces in London, but few millions of people, down to street cleaning manager who is hiring illigal migrants from Central Asia instead of locals, take half of their selary and after few years buy flat in Bulgaria. And removing all this West-oriented structure rapidly is only possibe with full-swing civil war all across Russia. Nobody (especially pro-Russians, who are intending to stay here, unlike opponents who would prefer to flee to London, Israel or Italy) wants to have this sort of full-scale civil war. Instead of it, we have gradual changes as result of relatively small-scale civil war (with foreign intervention) in part of Russia known as Ukraine.

     And the wery fact Western media have now noticed decades old practice of checking troops by security service propr to parades is sideeffect of this changes.  See above, for decades people were searched in full view of Western media cameras (i hope you undestand this pictures are taken on central street of Moscowm under balconies full of Western TV crews)  - but West was ok with that: it was the process of safeguarding their colonial administrators, nothing to see, and if locals feel humiliated - it is their problem. 

  Now exactly the same process is paraded around - see, how humiliated are the Russians etc. What happened? As for me, the answer is simple: Western politicians (and media servicing them) are now experiencing some problems controlling their puppets in Kremlin. And taking into consideration it is the same puppets who were in 2011 when this photos were taken (except few personalities who left, like new proud Israel citizen Anatoly Chubais and others) - then it is obvious the problem/change is in the West.....

 

OK. I can understand your reasoning here that is in short by waging war against "West" that you eventually step by step destroy "the West party/influence/etc."

I am however disagreeing with you in how we come to this situation. You see "West" as entity which looted Russia. In a way it is not incorrect but at the same time you have wrote that this "West" did not have guts to place boots on the ground. And here I think lies problem in your understanding of West. In Soviet system most of economic activity was controlled by the state but in the "West" most of economy is controlled by wealthy who often goes against own state. And if these wealthy are strong enough in comparison to the state there are problems (see today's US and UK). Gorbachev weakened Soviet state, Yeltsin kill it. Russian state in 1990s was ideal prey for "western" entrepreneurs also because your domestic ones were even worse. But they were same type of people no matter their origin. When you call "West" as responsible for Russia's misery you are not honest because it was not western states who brought this misery but individual entrepreneurs from abroad and yours and primarily dysfunctional Russian state.

Problem is as I see it Russia has never get rid of these people. On the contrary they are the Russian state. Your whole economy, your whole system is based on relationship between mafiosi at the top (OK, West is heading in this direction too but Russia is already there). No law is above them, no ideology is binding them. And look again at Donetsk and Luhansk between 2014 and 2022 - total El Dorado, total exploitation, way worse than before when it was part of that supposedly "most corrupt" state of Ukraine.

Will this war somehow cleanse true Russia out of all evil and become pure and godly? If I could bet I would place my money that in 10 years it will be even worse.

[mkenny]

31 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

One swallow doesnt make a summer. Give it a week he will be playing tongue hockey with him again.

The Russians are scared Trump might turn on them and impose sanctions. They know that would be the end for them. Just like it was the end for them when Biden cut their economy in half back in 2022.....(muffled hysterical laughter)............

 

[yochlol]

27 minutes ago, mkenny said:

The Russians are scared Trump might turn on them and impose sanctions. They know that would be the end for them. Just like it was the end for them when Biden cut their economy in half back in 2022.....(muffled hysterical laughter)............

 

This and the push to Azov sea! How many days was it supposed to take again?