The Kremlin is burning?

[X-Files]

On 6/23/2023 at 11:13 PM, X-Files said:

BLUF:  Wagner's dead-man-walking Prigozhin goes full retard and challenges Putin to a naked olive-oil slathered cage match. 

 

Wagner out of war, says Russian official following reports Prigozhin flown to Moscow

 

 

Edited June 30, 2023 by X-Files

[shep854]

11 hours ago, rmgill said:

Thats why you have telescopic stocks. Get with the US civilian testing regime. 

When doing (admittedly informal) research for the length of the fixed stock of the WWSD polymer AR15 receiver, it was found that most competitors actually set their stock lengths to the same as the M16A1.

[JWB]

Mounting Death Toll: Russian Bank VP Dies After Mysteriously Falling From 11th-floor Moscow Apartment Window (msn.com)

[JWB]

Cyberattack knocks out satellite communications for Russian military (msn.com)

[shep854]

23 minutes ago, JWB said:

Cyberattack knocks out satellite communications for Russian military (msn.com)

I would be greatly surprised if this was the first attempt.  

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

[DB]

On 6/30/2023 at 1:04 PM, shep854 said:

When doing (admittedly informal) research for the length of the fixed stock of the WWSD polymer AR15 receiver, it was found that most competitors actually set their stock lengths to the same as the M16A1.

One might almost think that the army had produced a design that was based on anthropometric data or something.

[Markus Becker]

Kristina Baikova, the vice president of Loko Bank, fell from her 11th floor apartment on Khodynsky Boulevard on June 23 - the latest victim among leading business figures in Russia who have suffered mysterious deaths.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/russian-bank-kristina-baikova-falls-death-moscow-apartment/

A great loss for mankind indeed.

 

Edited July 1, 2023 by Markus Becker

[Stuart Galbraith]

1 hour ago, Markus Becker said:

Kristina Baikova, the vice president of Loko Bank, fell from her 11th floor apartment on Khodynsky Boulevard on June 23 - the latest victim among leading business figures in Russia who have suffered mysterious deaths.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/russian-bank-kristina-baikova-falls-death-moscow-apartment/

A great loss for mankind indeed.

 

Indeed, if they all looked like that, I'd become a Conservative.

 

The vilification of the Musicians has begun.

 

[Roman Alymov]

From https://t.me/MedvedevVesti/14679

"To be honest, I didn't think I'd ever see this in my lifetime.
Russian Russian schoolchildren at graduation  prom with imperial flags, chanting "Russians, go ahead."

And they sing along to the Shaman with Wagner flags.
In general, it is worth admitting that over the past year and a half, the prestige of military profession in Russia has increased many times.

The Russian warrior is now a more attractive image among young people than before, a similar to "navy seal" in USA. Yes, we don't have a film about Gostomel, like "Black Hawk". But we have real heroes of Gostomel.

The Internet and Telegram have formed this fashionable image of a Russian warrior among young people. Not a reflective whiner, and not an obedient, silly poster soldier. No.

Young people see a completely different image. A Russian fighter today is a stronger and bolder person, he is such a new ushkuinik*, a new pioneer, a daredevil, a professional warrior who values his work and loves his Homeland.
This is the image of a courageous older brother.

The late Vladlen Tatarsky communicated a lot with young people. I believed in it, I was convinced that they were different and that they were capable of building a new Russia. And the video is proof of that.

And more. It is not necessary to take away the image of a warrior-hero from Russian youth. He is multifaceted.
PMCs fighters are one of the components of the image.
A fighter who has shed blood for his homeland cannot be responsible for the actions of his command and remains a hero."

* - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushkuyniks

 

[JWB]

 

[seahawk]

13 hours ago, Roman Alymov said:

From https://t.me/MedvedevVesti/14679

"To be honest, I didn't think I'd ever see this in my lifetime.
Russian Russian schoolchildren at graduation  prom with imperial flags, chanting "Russians, go ahead."

And they sing along to the Shaman with Wagner flags.
In general, it is worth admitting that over the past year and a half, the prestige of military profession in Russia has increased many times.

The Russian warrior is now a more attractive image among young people than before, a similar to "navy seal" in USA. Yes, we don't have a film about Gostomel, like "Black Hawk". But we have real heroes of Gostomel.

The Internet and Telegram have formed this fashionable image of a Russian warrior among young people. Not a reflective whiner, and not an obedient, silly poster soldier. No.

Young people see a completely different image. A Russian fighter today is a stronger and bolder person, he is such a new ushkuinik*, a new pioneer, a daredevil, a professional warrior who values his work and loves his Homeland.
This is the image of a courageous older brother.

The late Vladlen Tatarsky communicated a lot with young people. I believed in it, I was convinced that they were different and that they were capable of building a new Russia. And the video is proof of that.

And more. It is not necessary to take away the image of a warrior-hero from Russian youth. He is multifaceted.
PMCs fighters are one of the components of the image.
A fighter who has shed blood for his homeland cannot be responsible for the actions of his command and remains a hero."

* - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushkuyniks

 

If only this new national spirit would sweep away the pro-West Elite and allow a new Russia to rise. A Russia that would break the last resistance in the former Ukraine and a Russia that would have a bright future as a leading nation on earth. Admired by most, feared by many.

[Stefan Kotsch]

Vor 13 Stunden sagte Seahawk:

Wenn dieser neue nationale Geist nur die pro-westliche Elite hinwegfegen und den Aufstieg eines neuen Russlands ermöglichen würde.

😎

in den Jahren 2000 und 2008:

 

Edited July 3, 2023 by Stefan Kotsch

[Stuart Galbraith]

In 2002 he was sniffing around NATO, trying to join it. In 2007 he was complaining about what a mortal threat was presented by NATO, after 5years earlier approving the Eastern Europan states joining it. Go figure.

Edited July 4, 2023 by Stuart Galbraith

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

[Roman Alymov]

From  https://t.me/Mikle1On/15366 (author is "guardian:m and usually loyal to officials, but now it seems like even he is sort of annoyed)

"In the Russian media, the question of the so-called "bawdy peace party" is increasingly being raised.
"Peace at any cost", that is, at the price of Russia's surrender, surprisingly united ideological opponents:

1. Followers of Ilyich (Lenin - RA), who still believe that "the revolutionary class cannot but wish defeat to its government";
2. "Export beetles", who are sure that war with the West is sacrilege, and submission to it is a blessing leading to prosperity.

Both of them do not see Russia on the globe at close range. The only difference is that the former dream of building a land republic of "free labor" in place of the Fatherland, and the latter - a society of non-capitalist stakeholders described by Schwab.

The unity of antagonistic class enemies is explained by their belonging to the same global project, where national power is replaced by supranational network structures of "professional revolutionaries", not chosen by anyone and accountable to no one.

None of them has ever been confused by the fact that uncontrolled unlimited power is guaranteed to lead to the degradation of both itself and the managed object. The collapse of the USSR 30 years ago and today's collapse of the collective West did not convince either one or the other. They understood nothing and learned nothing."

Edited July 5, 2023 by Roman Alymov

[urbanoid]

11 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

From  https://t.me/Mikle1On/15366 (author is "guardian:m and usually loyal to officials, but now it seems like even he is sort of annoyed)

"In the Russian media, the question of the so-called "bawdy world party" is increasingly being raised.
"Peace at any cost", that is, at the price of Russia's surrender, surprisingly united ideological opponents:

1. Followers of Ilyich (Lenin - RA), who still believe that "the revolutionary class cannot but wish defeat to its government";
2. "Export beetles", who are sure that war with the West is sacrilege, and submission to it is a blessing leading to prosperity.

Both of them do not see Russia on the globe at close range. The only difference is that the former dream of building a land republic of "free labor" in place of the Fatherland, and the latter - a society of non-capitalist stakeholders described by Schwab.

The unity of antagonistic class enemies is explained by their belonging to the same global project, where national power is replaced by supranational network structures of "professional revolutionaries", not chosen by anyone and accountable to no one.

None of them has ever been confused by the fact that uncontrolled unlimited power is guaranteed to lead to the degradation of both itself and the managed object. The collapse of the USSR 30 years ago and today's collapse of the collective West did not convince either one or the other. They understood nothing and learned nothing."

It isn't. Neither is the current course, apparently.

[JWB]

Renewed attention on two high-ranking generals in Russia’s military after the Wagner rebellion shows how the failed mutiny “worsened existing fault lines within Russia’s national security community,” the British Defense Ministry said. 

[JWB]

Putin Has Made Key Mistake With His Army Since Prigozhin's Mutiny (msn.com)

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

CNN reports Lukashenko as saying that Prighozin is now in St Petersburg.

[Josh]

I’m sure we’ll see the body when the deed is done, wherever he is.

[JWB]

Prigozhin “is in St. Petersburg. He is not on the territory of Belarus,” Lukashenko said in response to a question during a meeting with journalists Thursday, the state-owned BelTA news agency reported.

[Stuart Galbraith]

He's probably busy refining his Rasputin impersonation.

[urbanoid]

Nah, he's just having business meetings, probably to sell off his businesses to other oligarchs. Remember those photos of money (more than 100 mln USD in rubles) and weapons that were confiscated from his home and office? Apparently they were returned to him.

Russia truly is a state of mind.