By Batiushka for The Saker
(With Apologies to Charles Dickens)
Moscow and Washington
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
The opening words of ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
It is the best of times. That which some in Moscow and in the Orthodox Christian world in general have been awaiting for a thousand years is coming to pass. Just as it has been prophesied again and again down the centuries: the West and its ruthless Imperialism are collapsing in the face of the resistance of the long-suffering and long-exploited Rest. This struggle is being led by Russia. What a time to be alive. We did not think we would live to see it. After the disaster of the Western and Russophobic ideology of Parliamentary Democracy, which was imposed by Great Britain and others on the old Russian Empire in February 1917, and then, as a prime example to the West of blowback, those incompetents passed power into the hands of the equally Western and Russophobic ideology of Marxism, which began genociding its subject peoples in October 1917.
It is the worst of times. Nobody likes this Washington-imposed war. People are dying, people are being mutilated both in their bodies and in their souls, people are being exploited and manipulated. Still worse is our pain for the Western peoples, on whom their wealthy elites are about to threaten with death by hunger and death by freezing, with all the civil strife that is hanging over them like black Doomsday.
It is the age of wisdom. Some in Moscow and elsewhere know that this is an existential war not just for the Russian Federation, but for the whole world. Either we will have a One World Dictatorship imposed on us by the Western elites, or else we will have Freedom and Peace, Justice and Prosperity.
It is the age of foolishness. The gerontocracy in Washington has imposed a choice. From 330 million Americans, all they could find as candidates to be US President, him who has charge of the nuclear button, is two very elderly men, an ill-reputed, viagra-charged businessman-clown and an ill-reputed double-dealer of dubious personal morality, clearly suffering from the onset of dementia.
It is the epoch of belief. There are those in Moscow and elsewhere who believe that the values of traditional faiths can vanquish the great Satan and his depravity.
It is the epoch of incredulity. There are those in Washington and elsewhere who are unwilling or unable to believe that the Western world is utterly corrupted and are so deluded that they are convinced of their own lies.
It is the season of Light. At last in Moscow and elsewhere the possibility of freedom and new life for the peoples of the once-enslaved world dawns.
It is the season of Darkness. The CIA-controlled Western media, fed from the judases in Washington, is striving to spread the darkness of its tentacular lies all over the world.
It is the spring of hope. On 24 February 2022 (new style), 105 years to the day after it was enslaved by the West (old style), Moscow proclaimed the springtime of liberation for the Ukraine, physical liberation for Russian-speakers, and spiritual liberation of the whole country from the twin yoke of Militarism and Nazism.
It is the winter of despair. Only a few weeks away from the first cold nights, nobody in Washington or in the Western European world with a mind that still works is looking forward to this winter. Hunger and cold, bankruptcy and unemployment, with ensuing mass civil disobedience, beckon to the Western peoples. Can you hear the demons laughing? They are laughing at you, the naïve, gullible, hoodwinked, zombified Western masses, gaslit by your narcissistic, egomaniac elite.
Hope
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done…
From the closing paragraph of ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
If we can win against the Mordor of the Collective West and its weapons of destruction, sanction and propagandisation, all three of which the Allies are wearing down in the Ukraine, then nothing from the above prophecy is beyond us.
There are those who can see the struggles to be truly free, triumphs and defeats, through long years to come. There are those who can see the evil of this time of 2022, and of the previous time, the thousand years which preceded it, of which the present is only the logical result. There are those who can see that here at last is the chance for the Western elites to make amends for their millennial crimes towards the rest of the world, first of all to their own peoples, then to the peoples of Eastern Europe and Russia, of the Middle East, and North Africa, of Central and South America, of North America, of Central and Southern Africa, of Asia and Oceania. This repentance, in mind and heart and deed, would indeed be a far, far better thing that the Western world could do than anything it has ever done before.
12 August 2022
The 1980s called. They want their computer back.
I skimmed through the report on Russian electronics used in recovered weapons, published by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on August 8, 2022.
My conclusion is, that the weapons analyzed are based on 1990s technology.
On page 8 the report list seven main Western components used in three Russian weapons systems. I randomly chose two of these.
1) The ADSP-2185L microprocessor used in the R168 Akveduk radio station is a 1990s technology digital signal processor from Analog Devices. The manufacturer lists its key features as 80K bytes of on-chip RAM, 30 ns instruction cycle time, and 33 MIPS sustained performance.
2) The S29AL032D used in the 9M549 guided rocket for the 300 mm Smerch launcher is a standard 32 megabit flash memory chip in a TSOP package. Its data sheet from Infineon states that it is manufactured on 200-nm process technology. According to Wikipedia the 180 nm process node was state of the art in 1999. Wikichip notes, that at the the time there were 29 companies producing chips with comparable technology.
Page 35 of the report shows the design of the Zarya computer of the Iskander 9M727 cruise missile. Closeup photos show three different versions of the Texas Instruments TMS320 signal processor, with copyright markings from 1986, 1988, and 1990.
Weapons systems and aviation often rely on archaic computer technology. The Boeing 737 MAX likewise uses computer designs from the 1980s. A processor of a modern smartphone has more more intelligence than is needed in any smart weapon. In fact, the a $100 smartphone is likely to contain more precessing power and memory than all the smart munitions fired by Russia at Ukraina combined.
The leading edge 10 nm and 7 nm semiconductor fabrication technologies are only needed for the latest mobile consumer products. Military and space technology is more likely to be produced by older 200 nm fabs. Russia has the technology and capacity to mass produce 65 nm chips domestically. One of the largest uses is credit and debit cards. The chips for the Mir payment cards are produced in Russia using a 65 nm process.
Sanctioning Russia’s semiconductor use will have no effect on the current war. As RUSI notes:
If this report is to have any effect, it will likely be more sanctions on China. In the long term, it will only accelerate the process of dedollarization.
You might want to take a look at the components of US weapons, beginning by the famous AMRAAM.
Look into it, and you will see lots of components coming from.. … China of course :-)
With all the American/Israeli tech and a budget 1200% larger than Russia’s, how come they’re lagging years behind in advanced weapon systems?
You can manufacture a screw (or lightbulb, or chip ) but you still require skilled folks to turn that screw.
Bring me the head of Elon Musk!
See the wages that some CEO’s are earning. Than you’ll understand, my friend.
The more integrated silicon, the more prone to radiation induced failures. The ionising radiation creates electron-hole pairs and changes semiconductor parameters which may among other effects result in unspecified behavior of the software.
I think as of 2019, highest integration available in rad-hard version was 110nm. Not sure if situation changed since then.
which is why the robots for Fukushima, lasted only two hours, even when very heavily shielded. The radiation of course was extremally high at above 250 sieverts an hour
Hope! Nil desperandum! Rien n’est perdu !
Brilliant!
Heart warming article.
No mention of the Zionist plague on this earth though.
Evil does not repent. It must be contained until it dies.
I lived in the Bavarian Bible Belt from 1971 to 1975 as a teenager. Mind you, WWII had only ended 26 years earlier. Every man and woman over the age of 50 had been a bona fide, card-carrying Nazi and every man over 55 had been a soldier in the war. My teachers, the bus driver, the mayor, the policemen, my friends’ parents, the nice lady who brought me beer, the other nice lady who sold me warm Leberkaesesemmel.
I had always been taught Nazis were evil, and here these perfectly normal people were doing perfectly normal things. It took me a long time to realize the overwhelming number of people who were Nazis did it because they went along to get along. I knew if the core evil were not contained it would happen again in Germany and elsewhere.
It breaks my heart we have not learned the true meaning of “never again”. It means never again commit yourself to evil just to maintain your social position.
(removed, mod) Most people supported Hitler and the Nazis because the degenerate joys were destroying German society and culture. Hitler did a lot to advance German society and the German economy. Francisco Franco saved Spain from the vile leftists as well! Jews destroy everything they touch.
Many of your brothers in Christ, from the Protestant Christian side is praising God all the same as you are, for the collapse of the apostate West and its hegemonic rule. 💪🙏
I have the years, experience and hope to yearn for the same….
The West is morally & fiscally spent & the power baton passing to Russia. Sadly the death throes of this dying empire will cause much pain and suffering for humanity.
These western elites cannot and will never repent! They are soulless, the pride and evil in them are too big. Their crimes are too numerous and too serious. They are Satanists, worship Baal and hate God Their hearts have been hardened because they are in abomination before the Almighty.
In a few days I’m 60 years old and young. I lived a nice life in The Netherlands, growing up in a time my country had both health and wealth. After my architecture studies at the university of applied sciences, I had a great career in ICT and management. Until in 2001 everything changed and there was a beginning of insight into how the world and above all how I myself was put together. I thought in 2012 that my transformation back to myself was ready. However, only now in 2022 will I learn that the world is really completely different and that my whole life was build on lies. What I learned at school was alot of lies. What I saw in the news was almost all lies. The Empire of Lies is a very good description. My wonderful life was build upon the horrible lives of others elsewhere. The golden age of the VOC was bad, but even nowadays my country steals, enslaves, murders and so on. This is hard to comprehend. Yes, this has to come to an end. I’m glad it’s happening. At the same time I have children and grandchildren. I find it difficult for them, because the time ahead will be hard. Realizing again that elsewhere in the world there are so many people who are having a hard time, probably heavier than what is about to happen here. There’s not much you can do about it other than be honest, appreciate what you do have, and live moderately with others. Rebuilding from there, with universal moral values that need to be re-established in a better culture. I hope that I can also experience that in the future.
Thanks, Niccos. Good luck to you.
Thanks and well said Nicco.
I felt your guilt for time too. All living in West or who benefited from them are summarily conflicted. Harold Pinter was talking about the USA but this imho encapsulated the combined West:
Some of artists who most fascinated me were Dutch. Many became mad for a reason! Empires who by definition torment other peoples are themselves afflicted with terrible shadows as punishment. The Dutch between the rule of the Venetians and the current Anglo Saxons terribly oppressed many! And as you note, still do as a junior member of combined West. Artists such as Hieronymus Bosch sensed and recorded these eras for posterity.
“There’s not much you can do about it other than be honest, appreciate what you do have, and live moderately with others.”
That’s my approach too. There’s a lot we can do to give back. This forum and sharing the Truth is one. Work on succouring the many poor around us, especially since the mass immiseration of last 2.5 years, and not be a miser. Maintain a good example for next generation who will continue the good fight. At the least to show good cheer and smile, that helps too. And above all pray
“There’s not much you can do about it other than be honest, appreciate what you do have, and live moderately with others.”
Sure you can Sir. Acknowledge this fact and let your children and grand children know their prosperity was built on the destruction of someone else’s. The zero sum game
You’re just taking the easy way out
Being honest is just that. Although I can’t shovel the truth down their throats.
Thanks for your kind words. And the link. The guilt I feel about the past is not personal, but living a full life not knowing somehow does. As if I should have known the past better. I think history as a school subject is not appreciated enough in the Netherlands. I dropped it as soon as I could and preferred beta courses.
I dunno but I cannot help thinking as I read some of this that some of these authors are desperate to show that they want Russia to out Fascist the Fascist west (or maybe they are monarchists?)- like it’s a challenge or something. It’s like they have to spasmodically bring up Marx just so they can then imbue Marxism with everything they dislike, whether there is any kind of connection or not. It’s weird. Hope this stuff is not representative.
As to the rest- Yes.
Slovakia is going to send its MiG-29s to Ukraine. I have noticed a near absence of reports of Ukrainian fighters being shot down in the last 1.5 – 2 weeks. So I think the supply of Ukrainian fighters was finally exhausted, and that is probably why NATO is pressuring other countries to give theirs to Ukraine.
“Slovak media report that in the near future Bratislava will transfer MiG-29 fighters to Kyiv. The exact number is not called. In total, Slovakia has 11 machines of this type. It is also noted that the “gift” is not gratuitous – the Slovaks plan to receive compensation with money from the EU or new equipment from NATO.”
So, the honey barrel of Ukraine is all over? Next is just business going on?
Batiushka, you say that “This struggle is being led by Russia”. But behind the strong military russian arm is something else. The patience Made in China, and the silence and hope of the others small countries. Everyone wants to see America getting a bloody nose. That’s all, pal.
I always feel sad when I think of the violent murder of the Romanov family, the destabilisation of Mother Russian and the slaughter of the Russian people at the hands of the Bolshevik monsters. I hope to meet them all those innocent victims of demons in heaven one day. Peace in Christ.
It always grieves me as well. Britain likes to portray Nicholas as some sort of evil tyrant, which unfortunately the stupid/gullible/niave/ignorant people believe and some try to espouse here. It’s rank hypocrisy when you compare the Russian royal family with the degeneracy of the British royal family.
You may be interested in the following:
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/07/30/russia-from-the-right-an-interview-with-alexander-porozhnyakov-of-the-tsars-cross-movement/
Russia From the Right: An Interview With Alexander Porozhnyakov of the “Tsar’s Cross” Movement
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a31028924/windsors-romanovs-relationship-last-gathering-true-story/
Could the British Royal Family Have Saved the Romanovs?
“In the early part of his reign, despite family ties Nicolas thought of England as Russia’s sworn enemy.”
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3084&context=etd
Diary of Nicholas II, 1917-1918, an annotated translation
https://orthochristian.com/114282.html
Memorial cross in honor of Royal Martyrs erected on Isle of Wight (+ VIDEO)
“As the 100th anniversary of the July 17, 1918 martyrdom of Tsar Nicholas II and his family and their faithful servants draws near, their holy memory is being honored throughout Russia, and in other Orthodox countries such as Serbia.
Their memory was also honored in England over the weekend, when a memorial cross dedicated to the last Russian imperial family, along with St. Elizabeth the Grand Duchess and sister to the last Tsarina Alexandra was unveiled on Saturday in the town of East Cowes on the Isle of Wight, reports RIA-Novosti.”
Well then, I shall pray for your hope. This is a new thought indeed, that the west could repent. I think only at the bottom of its collapse would it find that morality. I hope it comes to pass.
“here at last is the chance for the Western elites to make amends for their millennial crimes towards the rest of the world, first of all to their own peoples”
I wouldn’t hold my breath. Here in the US they’re hiring 87,000 new IRS agents and the advertised job requirements include a willingness to use deadly force on their fellow Americans. Looks like they plan on playing out their dream of a tyrannical dictatorship to the bitter end. So don’t count on that much deserved apology from these people. They will not stop until they are stopped by a stronger force.
You probably know this joke:
“I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me
Than a full-frontal lobotomy.”
Without dreams we get insane, but back to reality.
As you see in the back mirror the last 40 years and in the developments today and what is planned only 8 years ahead by the Global Elite and in Russian Finance too, it goes only one way and toward only one goal:
George Orwell: ‘If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot(QR code) stamping on a human face—for ever.’
I feel sorry for you guys, your hope the sheeple will wake up and do something, is and will always be in vain no matter how much you pull in the guitar strings.
There is no hope, only soup kitchens with Chinese charity noodles.
Nancy Pelosi criticised for including son in Taiwan delegation
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3188767/us-house-speaker-draws-criticism-including-son-taiwan
Biden’s son and Pelosi’s son benefit financially from Washington corruption.
Perhaps what marks the descent into terminal decline for any supposedly democratic system of government is the emergence of familial networks of corruption and malfeasance within the governing class. Then ahgain it might just be the failure of the voters to toss out the garbage before they develop into a class.
Repentance etc is NOT on Mr. Globo-Homo’s radar screen. Nor on Mr. Satan’s. They will simply go back to where they came from: HELL
Batiushka, you ask Trump or Biden . . . . . well I know who I would be wanting. It would be the one whose sons appear to be God fearing Christians, NOT the one whose son takes selfies & videos of himself smoking crack cocaine while playing with a hand gun. Or the picture of him holding hands with a VERY young girl (below 9 -10 yo) in a red bikini.
I really don’t understand this all encompassing hatred of Trump. Is he a seasoned politician, behaving perfectly like what we think politicians should act like ?? NO . . . . and that’s the point. Where has voting in politicians who give us the ‘same old, same old’ got us ?? In a REAL MESS, that’s where. And with them leaving office way richer than when they came in And if we don’t change course REAL QUICK we are uckfared . . . big time !! It may already be too late. But I have listened to a lot of Trumps speeches at campaign stops, etc, etc. He is passionate about America & about the rule of law. Did he get the swamp drained first time ’round ?? No & it’s because, in the main, he was too trusting – he took advice on who to hire, who would be best for this position or that. He didn’t realise that just about EVERYONE in DC wasn’t working in Americas best interests – they were working to line their own pockets or to advance the Globalist communist agenda.
Give me Trump any day of the week.
Thank you as ever!
Some in the comment thread believe that all countries captured in the “West”s net have lived luxurious lives based on the pain and enslavement of others. This is not so. Some countries like mine, Greece, have been simply captive since WW2 (in our caee, in fact since the murder of Kapodistrias), have received no benefit, had to rebuild themselves – which we did with humility and pride in our endeavour, yet have received externally imposed setback after setback. Now with our present puppet government we find ourselves designated “enemies of Russia”, a real humiliation for the Greek people who well understand that our future depends on Russia triumphing.
The “Europe” and “west” that benefitted are those in the north and west of Europe – ie nazis, those who fought with the nazis and those who secretly supported nazis – and across the seas, the Echelon. Mainly “protestant” secular. The rest of the countries are just caught in the geographic net , viewed by the self-anointed with varying degrees of contempt .
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English language historians and “analysts” always start their histories and descriptions of modern Greece as a country irredeemably backward and doomed because it (we) rejected the Enlightenment.
It never occurs to them that this was a choice, both an instinctive and simultaneously reasoned rejection; nor that their Enlightenment (endarkenment) was a trap set to destroy them.
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To Tsigantes
RE: “Now with our present puppet government we find ourselves designated “enemies of Russia”, a real humiliation for the Greek people who well understand that our future depends on Russia triumphing.”
Bravo to you for both your superior thinking and your ability to take a stand and state this out loud for all to read. Good job.