Did he just say “you in the west are just trying to buy time for the azov forces caught in the so called cauldron”. No deal? That’s how it sounded to me.
Wasn’t an Easter cease fire firmly rejected by NATO in 1999?
Indeed it was.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — The Yugoslav leadership Tuesday declared a unilateral cease-fire in their battle against rebels in Kosovo to mark Orthodox Easter, hours after the most intensive night of NATO air raids across Yugoslavia. Western officials quickly rejected the offer.
It looks loke the education of Mr. Medvedev is complete. This doesn’t seem to be the same man who was allegedly was altanticist. before Maidan. Alot of people were calling to get rid of him. Mr. Putin understood that Mr. Medvedev understood what needs to be done. This is encouraging.
He supported NATOs destruction of Libya and botched the S300 delivery to Iran. I’m sure I am forgetting one more thing, but those alone more than justify the criticism he was getting.
Muamar Gaddafi dug his own grave by cozying up to the West. He took billions to the West, agreed to take the blame for the Lockerbie plane bombing and even paid restitutions and generally believed that the Zionist fascists of the EU would genuinely welcome him and his country into their LGBT fold.
Instead of taking his money to Russia and trying to buy security that way (like Venezuelan government did) he took his billions to Sarkozy who stole every single dollar or euro.
Medvedev was very decisive on 080808 when he ordered the troops into South Ossetia.
Medvedev was pro-Atlantic, but he’s listening to Putin. The atlantists are getting a 2nd chance. The wisdom of Russia and China is based on the millenary Confucius, Taoism, Sun Tzu. Part of the West is children. Can anyone give me an explanation, why the west was as it appears in the video below? Game Over West.
Correct. There are people who believe in some idea/concept which can be futile have their own mind so are able to adjust/update their views as situation changes.
Then there are people who just follow – without an ability to think for themselves.
You can convince /or facts can convince/ the first group. Even by 180 degrees if the new information is foundational.
As the sitting Czech president once said: “Only idiots do not change their mind.”
Which group Medvedev sits one cannot say. But Putin has such an authority precisely for not being ideological – hence he is respected by most of the people who “think” in Russia. Even if not liked or agreed with. This is important, as people who fought him yesterday will have no reservations to fully support him tomorrow, should the situation warrant it. Someone with an ideological agenda would never be able to acquire such level of a support, no matter the cause.
The West was clearly subverted from within. Yuri Bezmenov explained it very well. Feminism, racism, environmentalism, these were all contrived concepts which were wielded against the west very much as a weapon.
Who is to blame is a good question. On the one hand our ‘elites’ in the west supported it. Who came up with the ideas, and who implemented them, is another.
Living in the West, I understand that in my society, the politicians are just actors, or comedians as the case may be, playing roles on the stage. These roles can be switched rather easily. All it takes is feeding a new script into the teleprompter. When the parties change from power to opposition, they largely just switch scripts. A bold plan for the future suddenly becomes an inflationary swindle, and vice-versa.
Of course, I live in a society where the ‘content of the character’ of the politicians is collectively pretty much zero. They just talk to their consultants and find out what phrase this week is the best way to gain money and power, then they go out and say it. They just do whatever the modern Rasputin’s advise them to do.
Well, you just described what Democracy turns into eventually – as Plato did two millenia ago.
It is the nature of the Beast. It will inevitably degrade into an oligarchy of the unscrupulous with a front face of Democracy. A politician to be successful in such a system does not need an opinion, or an idea. That is actually detrimental. One needs good acting skills and to have their spine removed. That is effectively prerequisite for success. Should someone with a spine and own agenda manage to convince enough people to be elected, that person will be dutifully destroyed. If necessary by physical means.
That said, the system CAN work pretty good even in such conditions. But it CANNOT work well if these conditiones are combined with the oligarchs being besed externally/being international. This is because oligarchy works ONLY if the interests of them are reasonably aligned with the interests of the state they control. And that is not the case in most of West anymore. Hence the core issue of politicians acting systematically against the interests of the states they govern.
I wonder whether he’s truly abandoned delusions that Russia can be ‘accepted by the west’ or that he’s playing politics his eyes on maybe getting back into Presidency? I won’t trust him either way. He has done his part and its time he leaves to others.
Has the UN $ecretary ever initiated an Easter truce in Donbas since 2014? Has the German chancellor’s office ever insisted in Ukraine’s fulfillment of the UN Security Council’s sanctioned Minsk agreements?
The Western hypocrites try to make themselves look like angels on the outside, while inside they are full of all filth and corruption.
They want to use Easter to make themselves look like holy men, even as doves of peace. It is a trick to get Russia to drop its vigilance so that they can flood weapons into the Ukraine.
It is like an animal that ‘plays dead’ to gain an advantage in combat. The other animal loses its vigilance and the ‘dead’ animal then springs back to life and attacks it at the throat.
There is no tactic that is ‘beneath’ the West. They will quite happily defile Easter to advance their attack on Russia. The lesson is clear: ‘Never, ever take the West at face value. It is always scheming to deceive and to exploit’.
‘Look at how holy we are, we want peace! Quick, flood weapons into the Ukraine while the Russians are not looking!’
“For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.” 1 Thess. 5:3
Did I miss President Brain Dead ordering an Easter Pause for shipping weapons to Ukraine?
American honoring the Holy Week by not shipping any weapons to anywhere in the world during this holy time?
I’m guessing those workers were kept busy and didn’t even get Catholic Easter as a day off?
There is no dungeon of hypocrisy low enough for these Western denizens of the Empire of Lies.
Many here and elsewhere seem to feel that Russia is losing the PR war. I beg to differ. They have taken the high ground. This latest pot shot by Medvedev was done with ease, with humor, with aristocratic disdain, with aplomb.
It’s cool, actually. Who’d have thunk it of Russian politicians.
(This is no longer Soviet Union Russia.)
In fact, he and Putin should be sporting ‘shades’ at this point and having some of these clips put out on MTV as rap songs!!
It was so funny that test: Russia showing it can nuke satellites and end the ”controll’ and internet and everything if they push too hard. because of the Kruger effect that may happen.
Before, Russia tested its own internet, cutting itself from the global one so in case…
When I listen to the interviews and statements of V. Putin, S. Lavrov, D. Medvedev, I realize that NATO has the greatest possible misfortune, because at the moment these people are leading the Russian Federation, who are exceptional people and leaders, and NATO these days lacks quality people, because those who lead NATO countries in this moment cannot be called neither quality people nor true leaders.
I recently saw an interview of Chris Hedges in which he was asked how it is possible that the United States has engaged in a string of military and foreign policy debacles going back many decades. His answer: Ineptitude. In a single word, he summed up the skill level of US leadership for the past 60 years (at least).
They wouldn’t keep doing it if there wasn’t a payoff and in fact there are many. Military complex, various industries including especially energy, political donations, financial complex and insider trading tips, etc. They are making bank on this which explains both the inability to “win” in the military sense and the duration of the “effort” in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc.
Ukraine is just the latest excuse, the military industry is in hog heaven, energy is cashing in on higher prices (note no change in supply or demand in the US), the financial complex is riding the waves and shorting the future, etc., etc.
That payoff only lasts as long as the petrodollar is the global reserve.
They have been taking the money, producing high maintenance overly complicated systems to milk even more money, forcing allies to equip themselves with them, and when push comes to shove those same boondoggles will not be able to defend the very thing that sustains them.
The 7 deadly sins in action.
The people who go up to the top are there not because they are brilliant thinkers, but because they are born into wealth, had made the right connections, and know whom to suck up to. Many are also sociopaths who have switched off their ability to empathise.
And then there’s the money printing. When your budget is endless, you can keep making mistakes and noone will pull away your funding or fire you.
Sun Tsu actually said, “He who knows himself better than the adversary will win a hundred battles.”. He was a proponent of winning without fighting. He also said, “If you know your adversary and know yourself better he shall be defeated before even setting foot on the battlefield.”
I think he is also reffering quietly to the new ‘satan’ ICM hypersonic missile, as tested yesterday.
Also, I strongly agree with Ion: Russia is fielding world class comunicators and the impression is that they are united and determined. Unlike the conflicting jibberish we were given an example of from Russias ‘western partners’ in the clip.
Very nice comment from Dmitry Medvedev, who is the former Prime Minister, and President, of Russia.
He defends Russia’s military moves in Kievan Russ. The rational he gives is-
1. “To prevent a possible attack by enemies on Russia.”
2. “and save people in the Donbas.”
Medvedev is, of course, completely correct. Additionally, it does no harm to quote Sun Tsu.
No criticism of Medvedev, or the charismatic President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, is implied; by this reminder. However, the Actual Reason for the Russian Nation’s response to the Military (American/NATO/NAZI/Zionist), and propaganda terror from the imperialist ‘West,’ and in this case, terror from (rapidly increasing numbers of foreign Nukes, Tanks, and Soldiers on its borders, is quite clear, if often left unsaid.
The shooting WAR, the violent beginning of WW III, began in Dallas, Vietnam, Georgia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Syria, (did I mention Syria? – where the Russians rescued that old Nation, and stopped, for a time, Eretz Israel), and skipping a few other confrontations, to the Current Front Lines-in 2022, where some 200,000 Russians are resisting some 600,000 Zio/Ukie Nazi/American/Anglo/French/German/NATO imperialist forces.
The Power Elite of Russia did not and do not wish for this war. It has been forced upon them. They have been forced, dragged, kicking and screaming, sweet talking their Rothschild Banker “Partners,” to do the right, the necessary thing, to defend themselves.
The Missing Ingredient: [A soup is not a soup, if it is missing a Key Ingredient:]
We Americans are missing. We citizenry are AWOL. On November 22, 1963, Our last Constitutional President, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in a MOSSAD/CIA/MI6 Coup D’état. His brother Robert Kennedy, was next assassinated, along with Martin L. King, Malcolm X, & the musical Lennon.
The missing ingredient, is our American Republic. Without it, we may not put an end to WW III, (as Kennedy & Khrushchev delayed, but could not prevent). With our Republic, we Americans may, with the Russian people, the Chinese, and the rest of the Nations, initiate an extended era of Peace and Prosperity. We Americans are the missing ingredient in the soup of Peace, Prosperity, with some LIBERTY thrown in for additional flavor.
We have a responsibility to regain our Honor, our History, and our Sovereignty.
Durruti: An excellent response which is full of heart, if I read your post as you intend. The freedom which you call upon the American people to recover, so that they may add their own vital ingredient to the soup of world freedom is actually being well tended. However it is well hidden in the underground, where people are going through their own personal spiritual awakening and beginning to master the arts of connecting their hearts to a living earth and all that is. Along with this quiet awakening in the background the purging of the dominating evil is now before us, and in not too distant a time the real American ingredient can begin to emerge. In the meantime it may look as if there is nothing of merit left in the Western peoples, but timing is of the essence. The Empire which replaced the people’s republic needs to rot some more yet. In the meantime Russia leads the way.
It is so pleasing to me to read of an American writing of “responsibility to regain our sovereignty.” That regaining is a momentous task which has many features which take time and commitment to bring to bear.
Clearly it must be an ongoing evolutionary process. Step by step. Thank you for your post. It helped me.
Yes, but more importantly, long time since the coup that replaced Roosevelt and Wallace with cryptonazi fascists that betrayed at Potsdam the Peace established at Yalta and started, with esteemed Churchill, the second phase of W2, aka W3. Dulles boys ought to have gone to prisons for conspiracy and treason, instead they were made to seem heroic… It’s all there if we dare to see. Remember Groves said in March of 44 “the bomb is for Russia”…how did he know FDR would be dead?
Your comment is stated extremely well and I am in total agreement. My fervent hope is the missing ingredient will be added.
America is enthralled by the Narrative Matrix controlled by Plutocratic and Military Institutions who’ve created an illusion of democracy as Caitlin Johnstone has written. We are our worst enemy. Europeans are in the same fix.
Some are becoming aware of the psychological manipulation operations of the Empire of Hate and Lies. I’m one, I’m noticing others and our numbers are increasing worldwide.
One issue we can all unite on and fight for is freedom for Julian Assange. He opened many eyes.
Put your faith in Jesus. Assange is shady. He’s ever released anything that’s harmed Israel. Said 9/11 went down as the media said it did. Who knows if he is where they say he is. I personally think it’s pretty funny he’s managed to pump out all those kids with his privately educated pretty lawyer chic. They are now married I believe. Just your average high security Belmarsh prisoner. Watch these to get up to speed on Assange:
If you question the 911 narrative, you are considered a conspiracy nut, ridiculed and disregarded.
If you do not question the 911 narrative, you are a deepstate good, a CIA shill, and you get ignored and ridiculed.
There really is no way to win, is there?
I’d be interested to hear your views on Craig Murray if you know much about him. I Have campaigned for Assange’s freedom & am hoping to leverage our imminent election just before his appeal deadline to raise the importance of his unjust incarceration. I really loathe video as a format for serious discovery but I’ll try to watch your links.
many thanks to Saker, Nightvision, Amarynth & co for a truly invaluable font of reality amongst a desert of deception!
We are being assaulted by the Bolsheviks in seemingly every area of life. Cancel culture, BLM, Critical race theory – these things are employed to divide a citizenry, and it’s working. People are afraid to speak up.
Most of the people I know have no idea the US overthrew the elected Ukrainian govt in 2014. No idea about Victoria Nulands intercepted phone call. They certainly have no idea that this coup was all about economic deals offered by Europe and Russia, and when Ukraine took Russia’s deal, the game was on.
Had I asked them last year where the Donbas was, none would have known.
It has spilled over into our military. An actual stated enemy of the US military is climate change. WTF? The US Military is currently fighting itself over Diversity, looking everywhere for white supremacists, and ensuring the proper genders are in leadership positions. The Bolsheviks are behind this.
Meanwhile we have absolutely battle hardened Russians with incredible military hardware as potential combatants. God help us if it ever comes to that.
One big hurdle to Americans ever organizing against US foreign policy is the fact that feds will infiltrate such activity.
It will take something else. Wish I knew the answer, but I am hopeful that one day we can live in peace with Russia.
The thing that is wrong with this take is the attribution of the problems to “Bolsheviks”…. They aren’t Bolsheviks in any way shape or form, that is in fact an insidious lie of people who are in fact fighting* Bolsheviks.
Now who in history fought the bolsheviks, and who were also famous for blaming the enemy for their own attacks?
Hint: it’s the same people who’s intelligence officers were recruited en masse to the CIA and they then shot Kennedy and did all the evil stuff we don’t like here on this forum…
The people destroying the Republic aren’t bolsheviks, communists, socialists, or leftists of any kind.
***They are nazis, and their like.***
American conservatives who accept the mainstream media narrative talking point that:
That is NOT how it works. When American conservatives who are on the path toward truth and who want to understand the madness going on right now allow themselves to accept this false assumption, they exit the path toward truth and embark on a path back to the animal farm… If you look at the right things its obvious/common sense, it is just not obvious unless you actually look.
The Republic was hijacked by quasi-nazis or actual nazis or both when they shot JFK and the others mentioned in the 1960’s. Since then, that clan has ruled the roost ever since.
From the perspective of an American, we want our Republic back.
From a Human perspective, these neocons/nazis need to be stopped as they threaten Human existence.
From a From the perspective of ‘who can beat these nazis in charge of the Empire?’….
So far to date, and on a global scale, NOBODY has outdone the communists in fighting back the nazis and their ilk.
They fought the nazis with us in WW2. The Cold War was a war of aggression by a nazi-influenced USA against a defensive USSR, and later RF.
Propagating the lie that “the Republic is being destroyed from within by communists” HELPS the nazis win, and PREVENTS US FROM SAVING the Republic from them.
The Republic is being destroyed from within by nazis, banks, speculators, oligarchs, tycoons, billionaires, spooks, pedofiles, war criminals, etc. That is the reality of the situation. Point your fingers in the right direction.
Those lost angry for people are only following the democrats because republicans are so mean to them. They are the plebs of your republic sir, it is your job to look out for them too – not to point your finger at them and call them your enemy. They are your neighbor, the bastards who stole the Republic are your enemy. Don’t peddle their lies.
Now please help me inform the other American conservatives who are finally starting to wake up.
There are others with more knowledge than me on the relationship of zionism and the quasi-nazism I’m talking about. I don’t even know which label(s) to use anymore…But yes, ‘jewish nazis’ isn’t that crazy of an idea when you look at the current situation in Ukraine.
I don’t know all the details/history of it all, but the kind of problems our Republic is having are the kind that come from the greed-fueled speculation casino people call “capitalism”. To be fair, it isn’t the failure of markets but the failure of the laws governing our financial system/debt, the tax code(s), and most of all of the spirit of goodness in the hearts of the people.
In the most basic human sense, casually and habitually championing “capitalism” is implicitly a form of anti-poor sentiment, which is used to manufacture hatred of “communists/socialists” so that a stock of useful idiots is available to send to wars against left-leaning countries, and also to tamp down working class labor movements. This way the ultra rich stay in power and can keep stealing other counties’ wealth, natural resources, and labor.
That whole thing is the ghost of McCarthyism and was a pile of dung from day 1.
The look on the face of American WW2 vets in Russia sitting with USSR vets on victory day to me is more convincing than the lies Truman’s propaganda department whipped up way back then…
I’m not saying that the communists are angels, or that communist economics is better than market economics, I’m not an economist and that is over my head, frankly. But I know communists are most often communists because they care about people, they are making what they feel like is the most morally sound choice available.. They have fought the good fight against the tyranny of the wealthy and monarchs with profound success, and they deserve respect. They ought to be allies with the Liberal Republic who itself has a fundamentally anti-colonial, anti-imperial self-identity.
In hind sight, our Republic has been on the wrong path since we started hanging out with the colonial powers. Since WW2, we have aligned with the colonial powers we used to see as rivals. And paid the price for it too.
We have lost our sovereignty, our prosperity, our freedom. They are working on taking our guns and finishing off the beautiful lie that is/was our national identity. Their dirty tricks and clever lies have brought our country to its knees.
I love the United States, my country. I love the United States for the beautiful lie everyone is led to believe this country is all about. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” That grand idea of a Republic of free men, the so-called experiment.
As you continue your research, prepare for some pain as you discover the ugly truth of the United States. When the constitution was signed, 5% could vote, 20% were human property, and the war to exterminate the natives for their land had already begun in earnest. The natives, the Indians we call them… they read our constitution in a different light than most Americans do. As do Black Americans. Their perspectives must be embraced ***in full***, ***taken as your own***, as they are indeed all-American perspectives. Primary colors in the American Perspective spectrum, in fact. Further still, the real concept of America can’t be understood without them. Most Americans have never sailed these conceptual waters, and have thus not discovered the true depth of Americanism, and they have as a consequence a cheapened, less rich self identity.
We have no king, no language of our own.
Money will not do as a substitute.
It is admirable to be religious, but in a Republic the laws are the consent of the governed and ought to be secular, and so the good will being alive and well in the spirit of the people is essential.
The beautiful lie that hides our sins CAN BE MANIFESTED in real life if we can find in ourselves the strength to defeat our own hubris/ego and learn the ugly truth, and most importantly to learn the wisdom and lessons there are to learn from the study of our sins, as it is none other than the lack of this wisdom which has caused these sins to have come to pass in the first place.
The manifestation of the beautiful lie is both the perfect punishment for the historical villains of society and the perfect reward for all the good souls lost in the good fight. And it is what our Republic is supposed to be.
If conservatives just knew that the commies/the left aren’t their real enemies and both of their enemies are the same people, the people who hijacked the Republic and who Russia is now fighting in Ukraine and elsewhere, then we might just be able to save the Republic after all.
Quote: it isn’t the failure of markets but the failure of the laws governing our financial system.
I concur with much of what you’ve written. I just want to make a simple comment.
From the perspective of living in the vassal state called Australia, many here marvel in horror at the “set-up” you’ve got going in the USA.
One tiny tiny example of the corruption:
“Antoinette” Pelosi (and hubby) have accumulated 100 million + dollars while in office . . . how is that possibly legal? If the US had “enforced laws governing the financial system”, maybe Pelosi would have learnt her appetites could be satiated from her salary and the pleasureof servingthecommunity. I like Dylan’s line: money doesn’t talk it swears.
So with the “dog-eat-dog scenario” that totally saturates ALL structures in the US, it’s practically impossible to see how true-reform can happen from within.
All I know as an American citizen and veteran is that our society is practically if not already destroyed by division, sowed by a media that gaslights the public into believing they represent the majority.
Not many of us agree with pitting the races against each other.
Not many of us agree that young children shouldn’t be taught sexual deviancy in elementary school.
Not many of us agree that children should have gender reassignment procedures without parental consent
Not many of us agree there are more than 2 sexes.
None of us understand US foreign policy – why we chose to push Russia into a corner. Our society is for the most part brainwashed into thinking all things Russian=evil. It’s unreal to watch this evolution. I’m a stranger in a strange land.
In the end, I don’t care what they are called, Marxists, Communists, whatever. It’s semantics at this point, because it has severely weakened, if not already destroyed our society. Whoever they are, they have an outsized influence on US foreign policy. They are in charge right now.
There are schemers and traitors on both Right and Left, and I hate them both equally, and wish them neutralised. It is definitely not a Republican or Democrat thing…it is a traitor/criminal thing and I tar and feather them both and so should all of us.
If it were soccer, Medvedev would not get to kick a penalty shot, nor a foul shot. (I imagine the penalty shot over the horizontal post and the foul shot hitting the barrier.)
1) This type of remark is out place for someone in his position. A Generalissimo can make it. Putin has that kind of power but does not speak like one, does he?
2) The questions at 40 seconds are silly, like advising us to read Sun Tzu. True enough on Sun Tzu (I’d quote a Russian). What’s his position now? He is the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. The best service he can do in this position is to be circumspect and just offer his advice to his president (can’t have two). When he was president, he was more circumspect.
I think he is encouraged to speack more and more, to be more visible and maybe with a purpose, as nobody starts doing these statements out of the blue, he really is speacking as somebody with a very proeminent position.
This is also a strategy in PR: when you want to transmit some messages that may be too much spoken by the CEo you let another one, or instead of President it is somebody fromt he inner circle. medvedev positions lately suggests he is the inner circle. I have a theory that he was playing a role as a ”mole” or something, sidelined, but was actually along all the time in inner circle, just to find out the empire’s plans?
It is obvious they tried a Coup. They do it all the time: in Romania (we didn’t had a revolution, security, generals and other close people of Ceausescu betrayed them), Maidan Ukraine – success. they tried it in Turkey, failed, Belarus, failed, They tried it now in Russia and it may be the reason some troups stayed for a while close to Kyiv. Also so many epurations in a way or another, probably many agents. US said it clear in so many ways they wanted a regime change so the people of Russia can be ”free”. They hope to see Russia split in many parts and disarmed, only with National Guard.
They will not be able to do it, of course, only from inside Russia can be destroyed, actually any country.
US is also auto-sabotaging as it was taken by the deep state.
So, I really hope Russia will always have rulers that love the country and that are supported and the people to be vigilent of some try to change power, we (Romanians) were manipualted, only later we saw who actually took the power and what they’ve done with our country – everything looted, operated by others, mass migration more than countries at war, lands bought by others, industries destroyed, educational system, health system, in clinical death. Second highest corruption after Ukraine in Europe.
I studied history and all countries and Empires perished when they had a few weak, spoiled rulers, that destroyed it all. Nepotism, yes mens around them. Henric IV was the last real King France had, the rest were just controlled by Ministers, Cardinals, mistresses and favourits. Ludovic XVI thought he is so much loved couldn’t believed the people wanted to cull him! Ludovic XIV only spent what Mazarin left him: lots of money, nobels defeated permanently and made ”courtiers”, a stable and very rich country. he spent too much left it broken, some bad wars, and then next ones destroyed more and more till we saw what came: Revolution and Therror after.
All felt because of bad rulers.
So I wish Russia will always have capable and patriotic rulers. They never wanted to let a country become too rich and independent. They alwasy attacked a country when was readu to be 100% self sufficient. This is why it was Russia and China’s time now, to be attacked. As Mr Biden famously said a year ago: During my mandate, i will not allow China to become the 1st economy in the World”. it was buhuhu, instead of talking about making America strong, you talk about not allowing another country to grow? This is a Mob speach, who is he to NOT ALLOW one country to develop, Mafia does this kind of things :)
“I think he is encouraged to speack more and more, to be more visible and maybe with a purpose, as nobody starts doing these statements out of the blue, he really is speacking as somebody with a very proeminent position.”
It doesn’t have a good effect, bad PR. Europeans mocked him, even also in Ukraine. I just read on Putin’s successor were he to die in office. It’s Mikhail Mishustin (link). I don’t see Medvedev in the succession line anymore.
Interesting article, than you! Two points I wish to add:
1. The fact the same persons that say ”Putin crazy” ”Russia bad” ”Empire of Hate and lies good” are mocking Mr. medvedev means absolutelly nothing. We see what President US has and what gaffes he makes but they never mock him do they? So what these MSM are saying is irrelevant. The ones that don’t buy their lies don’t buy anything they say, or take the exactly opposite.
It is pretty infantile to mock – this is the only thing left for them, to mock so weak they are.
2. I am not sure it was chosen the sucessor. In one interview a year ago, at the end, Mr. Putin said that this will come… in many years and that he or she must love Russia etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6pJd6O_NT0
What is annoying in this interview is that Western journalists always treated Mr. Putin like he is a villan, accused of things they did lying, based on 0 proof, while with other leaders they are so soft :). Also Mr. Biden is not capable to have this kind of interviews not even to respond journalists without scripts. It was funny when he said that question (from a journalist that was lately thrown away was not in the script, why he is asked such a thing). Lol while Mr. Putin is capable in answering everything. And they say he is the one with problems when is exactly the other way around :) I watched many interviews of Mr. Putin, over the years he was 100% true to the same messages, same things, maybe spoken in another way but the core messages were always the same ones. He is one of the most intelligent and capable leaders that ever existed. And so nice in these times some other countries (not Wester countries) also have great leaders! We live very interesting times!
Of course the sucessor will be chosen by the whole inner circle, not just by Mr. Putin, he didn’t do all this alone, he is just the most visible. All this meaning all the strategy, increade GDP 4 times, strategical allies etc everything he did to rebuild Russia. Was not alone and of course they have plan A, plan B, plan C, etc…plan Z. I hope this inner circle to remain strong.
Perhaps the “special” military operation was his idea?
Is putin just the public face of Medvedev?
When one thinks about it
The only other time a similar event like this occurred was when Medvedev was president
The Georgia War
Putin has tended to be fat more cautious
Is Medvedev the real hawk?
Okay. Maybe others in the power circle are happy about that. Putin’s teddy bear side may feel good about that. I think others may be looking at it kind of like me, snickering maybe, wondering if he is burning his chances, etc. If the others see it like you, maybe it’s like his ticket (being “wide awake”) to power again. Yeltsin did great in choosing Putin, what a masterful move from Yeltsin! Somebody praise him for that (it’s time). I don’t know why Putin chose Medvedev. Will he make the key move well in the future, like Yeltsin did? We don’t know. I see Medvedev “missing” all the time. He does not convince me that he is “awake” like you say. To speak like this, he has the “teddy bear’s” full support.
Medvedev has certainly dropped some clangers, but he sorted Georgia in 2008. The Ukraine SMO is existential for Russia and those not on side will likely perish. Medvedev now knows what has to be done.
Seems like it is now the reverse
Security council had grown tired of putins methods
Talk of partners etc and wanted to throw down
Putin perhaps knew the folly of it but buckled to the pressure
Putin is of humble origins
The current circus is the musing of aristocrats in both Russia and west
Reminiscent of WW1
This is the geopolitics of the aristocratic class
Putin is most definitely not an aristocrat,seems to have more in common with soviet leaders
The current methods are tzarist in tone
Putin is preparing this ever since he came into power and prepared all, including BRICS. Of course he did not and could not do this alone. Is a whole group of people and advisors and waht can we see in russia: Lavrov is there eversince… I cannot remember! Stability, ladership for the people. This system today, they change and the next one destroy what the predecesor did and no one has enough time to rebuild the country, reconstruct.
Only when is a long leadership (leadership I say) only then the countries rebuilt, population grow etc all good in a nation, long time projects.
Maybe some wanted Mr. Putin to act faster, but he waited for the perfect moment, he and the group. When had all the support and supplies and military capabilities and all, treates, all.
Maybe Mr. Putin has already chose a succesor, or even more. But yes, lately Mr. Medvedev is so proeminent and present and such a patriot. Even if he was for nato side at one point, one can change his mind when realising there is no way you can collaborate with some. And that diplomacy doesnt work with people that lie all the time. I am sure Mr. Elțîn totally regretted his openess towards the West. he had a dream, believed it is possible, was deluded and totally regretfull as I saw. And he chose the best for his country, he knew it, what is best and also for sure supported him.
People that are well intended learn from mistakes, some others… not a chance because their intentions are Evil from the very beginning.
When groups of really smart people all have similar analysis and vision( like a group for master strategists or grand master chess players), it’s possible that the plan is obvious to everyone. There is a clear trail of logic that could be used by everyone in that group to come to the same sets of conclusions. It’s possible that there is one main basic plan that will be carried out by anyone of them as it is there time to contribute. Long deep vision becomes obvious when everyone is seeing similar things. It is likely this is less Putin’s idea plan than a grand gestalt plan or all of their master strategists. Likely most of them can play any role as it is needed.
It was what Mr Putin also said in one of hiw interviews: that Russia ignored insecure borders with germany and with other countries in the past and they had the troups in Moscow. And that he will never allow this to happen again: to ignore a threat, for the sake of ”being the good guy” because this strategy ws proved to be almost fatal for Russia
” Valeria on April 21, 2022 · at 5:25 pm EST/EDT
It was what Mr Putin also said in one of hiw interviews: that Russia ignored insecure borders with germany and with other countries in the past and they had the troups in Moscow. ”
The Soviets would never have a border with Germany if they didnt invade Poland.
If Soviet did not invade Poland, I am pretty sure Germany would have taken all of it themselves, ending with the same result: A shared Soviet/German border.
He Soviet union never invaded Poland proper, they only liberated the Russian/Belarus territories taken by Poland after the WWI. It is tiring to hear this mantra over and over. Change the vinyl.
When I was young and daft I took it for granted that females (is this word appropriate? ) were the ‘gentler’ sex. Now I’m middle-aged and only half-daft I know this to be completely false. You’d be lucky to see more than one or two women in any Cabinet. maybe one in ten in Parliament in the 80’s/90’s. Now it’s 60/40 only in favour of men and the women at the top are equally psychotic and rabidly frenzied as any man.
Herpes Hillary stands out, then Pelosi, Nikki Randhawa Haley, Madness Albright (burn in hell ), Thatcher (ditto ), Truss, Baerbock, Yellen (hobbit dwarf screeching and walking out of every forum Russia appear ), Nuland, Von der Lugen – add your own from hundreds.
Russia have really really spooked America, Yellen’s behaviour is a huge Tell. If you’re looking around the poker table for the patsy and can’t find him, it’s you.
It seems clear to me that the present Russian administration has a clear understanding of who their enemies are. And considering that it includes also all the major western institutions, it seems to me that a clear, decisive decoupling is going to happen. There is no more “trust”, and without it, it is impossible to lay the foundation of anything.
”Possible attack…”? The assaults on Donbas were already ongoing for nearly a decade!!!
Indonesia Stand With Russian Federation and Her People, Slava Russia, Slava Chechen, Slava People in Zone B! GOD Bless The Saker.on April 21, 2022 · at 10:21 pm EST/EDT
God knows what happened to Mr. Bear, but at least now it is clear that people in the government are fully aligned with Mr. Putin, well they have to.
Your speech in (clip above) has also reached us and translations have appeared on our social, news and political online sites. Those responses you read here however, in Saker, don’t bother with them. These are infantile, third rate minds who, like white people from the West and their Anglophile stooges, two of who you cite in the beginning, conduct themselves in acts and in words without culture, manners, learning, and civilisation.
We call them, even today 4,000 years later, yangren 洋人. Recall how Yang Jiechi 杨洁篪, speaking in Chinese, addressed Jake Sullivan and Antony Blinken in Alaska, March 2021: “you yangren…!”. Yes, with an exclamation. These western people never caught on that remark, not Sullivan nor Blinken, much less their hangers-on and their Press stooges.
I say without culture and civilization because such people, including the Blinkens and those you find here, are much the same, having much spittle and much to say and knowing so little. Here, some make fun of your citation of Master Sun 孫子. But they wouldn’t be able to write their mother’s name in Chinese much less able to recite the first lines of the book: 孫子曰兵者國之大事. 死生之地存亡之道不可不察也.
War is serious business. One must think long and hard about it. But look at how with a cavalier attitude the West treats it, even the readers here. Willy-nilly they strike, grind bodies into fodder, after which they clap their hands, dust of their clothes and then proceed to the next. But, the world is not blind to their ways (and they will be punished). Only, please, consider Master Sun’s core advice: Wait, wait, wait. Prepare, prepare, prepare. Once ready, as you are, crush them. Also understand the evils of war which the West don’t because only then you can come out on top: 故不盡知用兵之害者則不能盡知用兵之利也
The days you face the West reminds of the situation when Han Wudi 孝武皇帝 finally took action against the Xiongnu/Hun coalition of barbarian tribes. His predecessors had waited two hundred years before striking, circa 200BCE. There were three stages in the waiting: build up your economy, build up your alliances, build up your military. Standing army went from 400,000 to 700,000 and that was in a Chinese population, 2000 years ago of just 20 odd million. The equal of your mechanized brigades, the calvarymen alone was 250,000. Imagine getting food to 250,000 horses alone, always on the move, covering the breadth of Russia today in a time before motor engines and aircraft.
When in 250 BCE Qin Shihuang 秦始皇 finally strike, completed by Han Wudi circa 100 BCE, little was left of the Xiongnu/Hun. They never recovered and no nation-state exist in their name today. I regret to report, though, it was our efforts that resulted in them to retreat to the Caucasus, rebuilding in numbers and alliances after which they turned to Russia and eastern Europe, crossing the Volga at the fall of the Roman empire. Even so, those were acts in the dying throes of a dying tribe.
I shall, with great humbleness, leave you with these words from Master Sun (the Chinese speak of him as though he lived yesterday. So too of Kong Zi, Meng Zi, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, et al, — such is the hallmark of a great civilization and culture that I, too, see in Russia.) The words are these: 夫兵久而國利者未之有也 善用兵者役不再籍糧不三載.
If your Chinese language is bad or rusty, Maria Zakharova might help. In any case, actual, truthful translations are impossible because the wisdom of the Chinese language is only meant for Chinese, produced in a Chinese cultural context. Only take the seeds of ideas in those lines, therefore.
Here I must explain: For example, when Yang called Blinken ‘yangren’ 洋人, the translator used the term ‘westerner’. She knew instinctively, I am sure of that, what yangren means among the Chinese. The term ‘westerner’ may be polite but inaccurate because there are two elements contained therein but missing in translation: (a) a faraway place in the west, denoted by an ocean of water 氵and (b) and the script 羊, which is symbol for sheep. Strung together, 洋 ‘yang’ speaks of an excluded people living faraway among sheep. What does that tell you, Americans as goatherds, living in tents, with much empty chatter among the like of Blinken and Sullivan? Are they not, as Yanks say, no big deal?
Similarly this line: 夫兵久而國利者未之有也. Master Sun’s suggestion: Finish the war quickly. The rest of the Sun Tzu chapter explains and argues why.
Our best wishes go with the people of Russia! We wait for you in Beijing, in our Motherland! Long live!
I think Russia is slowly winning the information war.
At first it seemed like they were totally outmatched by all the shrieking shills in the west, but more and more people are tired of their constant lies.
More and more people are becoming aware that the calm, almost quiet statements from Russia are always the truth as they see it.
No false narrative, no false promises.
Just quiet solemn statements of facts.
You may not like what they say, but you can trust it a whole lot more than anything the western press is screaming at the top of their lungs.
I wish the subtitles were not in white outline in black – very difficult to read. In fact I can’t read them. It just seems sad that the translators go to such trouble to do these translations and then someone uses white instead of blue or red – and makes it impossible for some people to read it.
Putin could end this on his terms in 2 days: simply deliver nuke ICBM’s to Tehran aimed at Israel.
Within an hour mossad stooges would torture Zionazi Zelenski into ending conflict.
After all, this is a kosher operation from the get go, so bringing the issue to Israel is how it must be settled.
-I was in the Marines, 83-87 and thanks to alt news I know that Ukraine was overthrown by us and the subsequent attacks on Russians in eastern Ukraine was at the behest of Kiev.
The bad guys are the US! not Russia.
Did he just say “you in the west are just trying to buy time for the azov forces caught in the so called cauldron”. No deal? That’s how it sounded to me.
Pretty much. The Russian brass verified it as well.
Yes Pretty much!
Wasn’t an Easter cease fire firmly rejected by NATO in 1999?
Indeed it was.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — The Yugoslav leadership Tuesday declared a unilateral cease-fire in their battle against rebels in Kosovo to mark Orthodox Easter, hours after the most intensive night of NATO air raids across Yugoslavia. Western officials quickly rejected the offer.
It looks loke the education of Mr. Medvedev is complete. This doesn’t seem to be the same man who was allegedly was altanticist. before Maidan. Alot of people were calling to get rid of him. Mr. Putin understood that Mr. Medvedev understood what needs to be done. This is encouraging.
He supported NATOs destruction of Libya and botched the S300 delivery to Iran. I’m sure I am forgetting one more thing, but those alone more than justify the criticism he was getting.
Yes, this will will always be be a stain on his resumee.
Muamar Gaddafi dug his own grave by cozying up to the West. He took billions to the West, agreed to take the blame for the Lockerbie plane bombing and even paid restitutions and generally believed that the Zionist fascists of the EU would genuinely welcome him and his country into their LGBT fold.
Instead of taking his money to Russia and trying to buy security that way (like Venezuelan government did) he took his billions to Sarkozy who stole every single dollar or euro.
Medvedev was very decisive on 080808 when he ordered the troops into South Ossetia.
Medvedev was pro-Atlantic, but he’s listening to Putin. The atlantists are getting a 2nd chance. The wisdom of Russia and China is based on the millenary Confucius, Taoism, Sun Tzu. Part of the West is children. Can anyone give me an explanation, why the west was as it appears in the video below? Game Over West.
https://youtu.be/AwmNPBGvC3M
Correct. There are people who believe in some idea/concept which can be futile have their own mind so are able to adjust/update their views as situation changes.
Then there are people who just follow – without an ability to think for themselves.
You can convince /or facts can convince/ the first group. Even by 180 degrees if the new information is foundational.
As the sitting Czech president once said: “Only idiots do not change their mind.”
Which group Medvedev sits one cannot say. But Putin has such an authority precisely for not being ideological – hence he is respected by most of the people who “think” in Russia. Even if not liked or agreed with. This is important, as people who fought him yesterday will have no reservations to fully support him tomorrow, should the situation warrant it. Someone with an ideological agenda would never be able to acquire such level of a support, no matter the cause.
The West was clearly subverted from within. Yuri Bezmenov explained it very well. Feminism, racism, environmentalism, these were all contrived concepts which were wielded against the west very much as a weapon.
Who is to blame is a good question. On the one hand our ‘elites’ in the west supported it. Who came up with the ideas, and who implemented them, is another.
Living in the West, I understand that in my society, the politicians are just actors, or comedians as the case may be, playing roles on the stage. These roles can be switched rather easily. All it takes is feeding a new script into the teleprompter. When the parties change from power to opposition, they largely just switch scripts. A bold plan for the future suddenly becomes an inflationary swindle, and vice-versa.
Of course, I live in a society where the ‘content of the character’ of the politicians is collectively pretty much zero. They just talk to their consultants and find out what phrase this week is the best way to gain money and power, then they go out and say it. They just do whatever the modern Rasputin’s advise them to do.
Totally agreed. Sadly, I live in the same society :(
Well, you just described what Democracy turns into eventually – as Plato did two millenia ago.
It is the nature of the Beast. It will inevitably degrade into an oligarchy of the unscrupulous with a front face of Democracy. A politician to be successful in such a system does not need an opinion, or an idea. That is actually detrimental. One needs good acting skills and to have their spine removed. That is effectively prerequisite for success. Should someone with a spine and own agenda manage to convince enough people to be elected, that person will be dutifully destroyed. If necessary by physical means.
That said, the system CAN work pretty good even in such conditions. But it CANNOT work well if these conditiones are combined with the oligarchs being besed externally/being international. This is because oligarchy works ONLY if the interests of them are reasonably aligned with the interests of the state they control. And that is not the case in most of West anymore. Hence the core issue of politicians acting systematically against the interests of the states they govern.
I wonder whether he’s truly abandoned delusions that Russia can be ‘accepted by the west’ or that he’s playing politics his eyes on maybe getting back into Presidency? I won’t trust him either way. He has done his part and its time he leaves to others.
Has the UN $ecretary ever initiated an Easter truce in Donbas since 2014? Has the German chancellor’s office ever insisted in Ukraine’s fulfillment of the UN Security Council’s sanctioned Minsk agreements?
Nein und nein.
Fluck the UN, fluck Merkel und Scholz und Baerbitch.
100 points for “Baerbitch”!
Don’t forget the cookie monster woman thing.
The Western hypocrites try to make themselves look like angels on the outside, while inside they are full of all filth and corruption.
They want to use Easter to make themselves look like holy men, even as doves of peace. It is a trick to get Russia to drop its vigilance so that they can flood weapons into the Ukraine.
It is like an animal that ‘plays dead’ to gain an advantage in combat. The other animal loses its vigilance and the ‘dead’ animal then springs back to life and attacks it at the throat.
There is no tactic that is ‘beneath’ the West. They will quite happily defile Easter to advance their attack on Russia. The lesson is clear: ‘Never, ever take the West at face value. It is always scheming to deceive and to exploit’.
‘Look at how holy we are, we want peace! Quick, flood weapons into the Ukraine while the Russians are not looking!’
Great comment!
“For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.” 1 Thess. 5:3
Did I miss President Brain Dead ordering an Easter Pause for shipping weapons to Ukraine?
American honoring the Holy Week by not shipping any weapons to anywhere in the world during this holy time?
I’m guessing those workers were kept busy and didn’t even get Catholic Easter as a day off?
Look for false flag attacks by Ukronazis on churches over Easter. The RF warned of this.
If they do this, rockets will fly to the command center. All good.
There is no dungeon of hypocrisy low enough for these Western denizens of the Empire of Lies.
Many here and elsewhere seem to feel that Russia is losing the PR war. I beg to differ. They have taken the high ground. This latest pot shot by Medvedev was done with ease, with humor, with aristocratic disdain, with aplomb.
It’s cool, actually. Who’d have thunk it of Russian politicians.
(This is no longer Soviet Union Russia.)
In fact, he and Putin should be sporting ‘shades’ at this point and having some of these clips put out on MTV as rap songs!!
Some western media crying about space warfare, https://www.inverse.com/science/why-did-russia-blow-up-its-own-satellite
Last month, Russia had launched a military satellite, which can destroy other satellites, if I am not mistaken.
It was so funny that test: Russia showing it can nuke satellites and end the ”controll’ and internet and everything if they push too hard. because of the Kruger effect that may happen.
Before, Russia tested its own internet, cutting itself from the global one so in case…
When I listen to the interviews and statements of V. Putin, S. Lavrov, D. Medvedev, I realize that NATO has the greatest possible misfortune, because at the moment these people are leading the Russian Federation, who are exceptional people and leaders, and NATO these days lacks quality people, because those who lead NATO countries in this moment cannot be called neither quality people nor true leaders.
you missed …General Shoigu…
I recently saw an interview of Chris Hedges in which he was asked how it is possible that the United States has engaged in a string of military and foreign policy debacles going back many decades. His answer: Ineptitude. In a single word, he summed up the skill level of US leadership for the past 60 years (at least).
They wouldn’t keep doing it if there wasn’t a payoff and in fact there are many. Military complex, various industries including especially energy, political donations, financial complex and insider trading tips, etc. They are making bank on this which explains both the inability to “win” in the military sense and the duration of the “effort” in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc.
Ukraine is just the latest excuse, the military industry is in hog heaven, energy is cashing in on higher prices (note no change in supply or demand in the US), the financial complex is riding the waves and shorting the future, etc., etc.
That payoff only lasts as long as the petrodollar is the global reserve.
They have been taking the money, producing high maintenance overly complicated systems to milk even more money, forcing allies to equip themselves with them, and when push comes to shove those same boondoggles will not be able to defend the very thing that sustains them.
The 7 deadly sins in action.
These Western / NATO leaders can scarely be described as “people”; they are monsters.
The people who go up to the top are there not because they are brilliant thinkers, but because they are born into wealth, had made the right connections, and know whom to suck up to. Many are also sociopaths who have switched off their ability to empathise.
And then there’s the money printing. When your budget is endless, you can keep making mistakes and noone will pull away your funding or fire you.
Wow… we do truly live in interesting times.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu
Russia definitely knows the enemy. No quarter given.
Sun Tsu actually said, “He who knows himself better than the adversary will win a hundred battles.”. He was a proponent of winning without fighting. He also said, “If you know your adversary and know yourself better he shall be defeated before even setting foot on the battlefield.”
Smart guy, Sun Tsu.
I think he is also reffering quietly to the new ‘satan’ ICM hypersonic missile, as tested yesterday.
Also, I strongly agree with Ion: Russia is fielding world class comunicators and the impression is that they are united and determined. Unlike the conflicting jibberish we were given an example of from Russias ‘western partners’ in the clip.
Very nice comment from Dmitry Medvedev, who is the former Prime Minister, and President, of Russia.
He defends Russia’s military moves in Kievan Russ. The rational he gives is-
1. “To prevent a possible attack by enemies on Russia.”
2. “and save people in the Donbas.”
Medvedev is, of course, completely correct. Additionally, it does no harm to quote Sun Tsu.
No criticism of Medvedev, or the charismatic President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, is implied; by this reminder. However, the Actual Reason for the Russian Nation’s response to the Military (American/NATO/NAZI/Zionist), and propaganda terror from the imperialist ‘West,’ and in this case, terror from (rapidly increasing numbers of foreign Nukes, Tanks, and Soldiers on its borders, is quite clear, if often left unsaid.
The shooting WAR, the violent beginning of WW III, began in Dallas, Vietnam, Georgia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Syria, (did I mention Syria? – where the Russians rescued that old Nation, and stopped, for a time, Eretz Israel), and skipping a few other confrontations, to the Current Front Lines-in 2022, where some 200,000 Russians are resisting some 600,000 Zio/Ukie Nazi/American/Anglo/French/German/NATO imperialist forces.
The Power Elite of Russia did not and do not wish for this war. It has been forced upon them. They have been forced, dragged, kicking and screaming, sweet talking their Rothschild Banker “Partners,” to do the right, the necessary thing, to defend themselves.
The Missing Ingredient: [A soup is not a soup, if it is missing a Key Ingredient:]
We Americans are missing. We citizenry are AWOL. On November 22, 1963, Our last Constitutional President, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in a MOSSAD/CIA/MI6 Coup D’état. His brother Robert Kennedy, was next assassinated, along with Martin L. King, Malcolm X, & the musical Lennon.
The missing ingredient, is our American Republic. Without it, we may not put an end to WW III, (as Kennedy & Khrushchev delayed, but could not prevent). With our Republic, we Americans may, with the Russian people, the Chinese, and the rest of the Nations, initiate an extended era of Peace and Prosperity. We Americans are the missing ingredient in the soup of Peace, Prosperity, with some LIBERTY thrown in for additional flavor.
We have a responsibility to regain our Honor, our History, and our Sovereignty.
Freedom is not free! It must be Paid for!
Dr. Peter J. Antonsen — nom de guerre, Durruti
Durruti: An excellent response which is full of heart, if I read your post as you intend. The freedom which you call upon the American people to recover, so that they may add their own vital ingredient to the soup of world freedom is actually being well tended. However it is well hidden in the underground, where people are going through their own personal spiritual awakening and beginning to master the arts of connecting their hearts to a living earth and all that is. Along with this quiet awakening in the background the purging of the dominating evil is now before us, and in not too distant a time the real American ingredient can begin to emerge. In the meantime it may look as if there is nothing of merit left in the Western peoples, but timing is of the essence. The Empire which replaced the people’s republic needs to rot some more yet. In the meantime Russia leads the way.
It is so pleasing to me to read of an American writing of “responsibility to regain our sovereignty.” That regaining is a momentous task which has many features which take time and commitment to bring to bear.
Clearly it must be an ongoing evolutionary process. Step by step. Thank you for your post. It helped me.
It’s been a long, long time since Eisenhower, and Marshall, and MacArthur, and Truman.
Yes, but more importantly, long time since the coup that replaced Roosevelt and Wallace with cryptonazi fascists that betrayed at Potsdam the Peace established at Yalta and started, with esteemed Churchill, the second phase of W2, aka W3. Dulles boys ought to have gone to prisons for conspiracy and treason, instead they were made to seem heroic… It’s all there if we dare to see. Remember Groves said in March of 44 “the bomb is for Russia”…how did he know FDR would be dead?
Fat Man was named after Churchill.
Please research the Tyler Kent affair. Roosevelt was no saint!
Your comment is stated extremely well and I am in total agreement. My fervent hope is the missing ingredient will be added.
America is enthralled by the Narrative Matrix controlled by Plutocratic and Military Institutions who’ve created an illusion of democracy as Caitlin Johnstone has written. We are our worst enemy. Europeans are in the same fix.
Some are becoming aware of the psychological manipulation operations of the Empire of Hate and Lies. I’m one, I’m noticing others and our numbers are increasing worldwide.
One issue we can all unite on and fight for is freedom for Julian Assange. He opened many eyes.
Put your faith in Jesus. Assange is shady. He’s ever released anything that’s harmed Israel. Said 9/11 went down as the media said it did. Who knows if he is where they say he is. I personally think it’s pretty funny he’s managed to pump out all those kids with his privately educated pretty lawyer chic. They are now married I believe. Just your average high security Belmarsh prisoner. Watch these to get up to speed on Assange:
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_search.php?ref=240&part=1&search=wiki
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_search.php?ref=247&part=1&search=wiki
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_search.php?ref=270&part=1&search=wiki
If you question the 911 narrative, you are considered a conspiracy nut, ridiculed and disregarded.
If you do not question the 911 narrative, you are a deepstate good, a CIA shill, and you get ignored and ridiculed.
There really is no way to win, is there?
I’d be interested to hear your views on Craig Murray if you know much about him. I Have campaigned for Assange’s freedom & am hoping to leverage our imminent election just before his appeal deadline to raise the importance of his unjust incarceration. I really loathe video as a format for serious discovery but I’ll try to watch your links.
many thanks to Saker, Nightvision, Amarynth & co for a truly invaluable font of reality amongst a desert of deception!
Dr A, as a fellow American, I share your hopes.
We are being assaulted by the Bolsheviks in seemingly every area of life. Cancel culture, BLM, Critical race theory – these things are employed to divide a citizenry, and it’s working. People are afraid to speak up.
Most of the people I know have no idea the US overthrew the elected Ukrainian govt in 2014. No idea about Victoria Nulands intercepted phone call. They certainly have no idea that this coup was all about economic deals offered by Europe and Russia, and when Ukraine took Russia’s deal, the game was on.
Had I asked them last year where the Donbas was, none would have known.
It has spilled over into our military. An actual stated enemy of the US military is climate change. WTF? The US Military is currently fighting itself over Diversity, looking everywhere for white supremacists, and ensuring the proper genders are in leadership positions. The Bolsheviks are behind this.
Meanwhile we have absolutely battle hardened Russians with incredible military hardware as potential combatants. God help us if it ever comes to that.
One big hurdle to Americans ever organizing against US foreign policy is the fact that feds will infiltrate such activity.
It will take something else. Wish I knew the answer, but I am hopeful that one day we can live in peace with Russia.
The thing that is wrong with this take is the attribution of the problems to “Bolsheviks”…. They aren’t Bolsheviks in any way shape or form, that is in fact an insidious lie of people who are in fact fighting* Bolsheviks.
Now who in history fought the bolsheviks, and who were also famous for blaming the enemy for their own attacks?
Hint: it’s the same people who’s intelligence officers were recruited en masse to the CIA and they then shot Kennedy and did all the evil stuff we don’t like here on this forum…
The people destroying the Republic aren’t bolsheviks, communists, socialists, or leftists of any kind.
***They are nazis, and their like.***
American conservatives who accept the mainstream media narrative talking point that:
Radica- SJW-bourgeois-liberal-progressive freaks = communists = socialists = “the left” = democrats….
That is NOT how it works. When American conservatives who are on the path toward truth and who want to understand the madness going on right now allow themselves to accept this false assumption, they exit the path toward truth and embark on a path back to the animal farm… If you look at the right things its obvious/common sense, it is just not obvious unless you actually look.
The Republic was hijacked by quasi-nazis or actual nazis or both when they shot JFK and the others mentioned in the 1960’s. Since then, that clan has ruled the roost ever since.
From the perspective of an American, we want our Republic back.
From a Human perspective, these neocons/nazis need to be stopped as they threaten Human existence.
From a From the perspective of ‘who can beat these nazis in charge of the Empire?’….
So far to date, and on a global scale, NOBODY has outdone the communists in fighting back the nazis and their ilk.
They fought the nazis with us in WW2. The Cold War was a war of aggression by a nazi-influenced USA against a defensive USSR, and later RF.
Propagating the lie that “the Republic is being destroyed from within by communists” HELPS the nazis win, and PREVENTS US FROM SAVING the Republic from them.
The Republic is being destroyed from within by nazis, banks, speculators, oligarchs, tycoons, billionaires, spooks, pedofiles, war criminals, etc. That is the reality of the situation. Point your fingers in the right direction.
Those lost angry for people are only following the democrats because republicans are so mean to them. They are the plebs of your republic sir, it is your job to look out for them too – not to point your finger at them and call them your enemy. They are your neighbor, the bastards who stole the Republic are your enemy. Don’t peddle their lies.
Now please help me inform the other American conservatives who are finally starting to wake up.
Neocons are primarily Jewish. Nazis?
There are others with more knowledge than me on the relationship of zionism and the quasi-nazism I’m talking about. I don’t even know which label(s) to use anymore…But yes, ‘jewish nazis’ isn’t that crazy of an idea when you look at the current situation in Ukraine.
I don’t know all the details/history of it all, but the kind of problems our Republic is having are the kind that come from the greed-fueled speculation casino people call “capitalism”. To be fair, it isn’t the failure of markets but the failure of the laws governing our financial system/debt, the tax code(s), and most of all of the spirit of goodness in the hearts of the people.
In the most basic human sense, casually and habitually championing “capitalism” is implicitly a form of anti-poor sentiment, which is used to manufacture hatred of “communists/socialists” so that a stock of useful idiots is available to send to wars against left-leaning countries, and also to tamp down working class labor movements. This way the ultra rich stay in power and can keep stealing other counties’ wealth, natural resources, and labor.
That whole thing is the ghost of McCarthyism and was a pile of dung from day 1.
The look on the face of American WW2 vets in Russia sitting with USSR vets on victory day to me is more convincing than the lies Truman’s propaganda department whipped up way back then…
I’m not saying that the communists are angels, or that communist economics is better than market economics, I’m not an economist and that is over my head, frankly. But I know communists are most often communists because they care about people, they are making what they feel like is the most morally sound choice available.. They have fought the good fight against the tyranny of the wealthy and monarchs with profound success, and they deserve respect. They ought to be allies with the Liberal Republic who itself has a fundamentally anti-colonial, anti-imperial self-identity.
In hind sight, our Republic has been on the wrong path since we started hanging out with the colonial powers. Since WW2, we have aligned with the colonial powers we used to see as rivals. And paid the price for it too.
We have lost our sovereignty, our prosperity, our freedom. They are working on taking our guns and finishing off the beautiful lie that is/was our national identity. Their dirty tricks and clever lies have brought our country to its knees.
I love the United States, my country. I love the United States for the beautiful lie everyone is led to believe this country is all about. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” That grand idea of a Republic of free men, the so-called experiment.
As you continue your research, prepare for some pain as you discover the ugly truth of the United States. When the constitution was signed, 5% could vote, 20% were human property, and the war to exterminate the natives for their land had already begun in earnest. The natives, the Indians we call them… they read our constitution in a different light than most Americans do. As do Black Americans. Their perspectives must be embraced ***in full***, ***taken as your own***, as they are indeed all-American perspectives. Primary colors in the American Perspective spectrum, in fact. Further still, the real concept of America can’t be understood without them. Most Americans have never sailed these conceptual waters, and have thus not discovered the true depth of Americanism, and they have as a consequence a cheapened, less rich self identity.
We have no king, no language of our own.
Money will not do as a substitute.
It is admirable to be religious, but in a Republic the laws are the consent of the governed and ought to be secular, and so the good will being alive and well in the spirit of the people is essential.
The beautiful lie that hides our sins CAN BE MANIFESTED in real life if we can find in ourselves the strength to defeat our own hubris/ego and learn the ugly truth, and most importantly to learn the wisdom and lessons there are to learn from the study of our sins, as it is none other than the lack of this wisdom which has caused these sins to have come to pass in the first place.
The manifestation of the beautiful lie is both the perfect punishment for the historical villains of society and the perfect reward for all the good souls lost in the good fight. And it is what our Republic is supposed to be.
If conservatives just knew that the commies/the left aren’t their real enemies and both of their enemies are the same people, the people who hijacked the Republic and who Russia is now fighting in Ukraine and elsewhere, then we might just be able to save the Republic after all.
Quote: it isn’t the failure of markets but the failure of the laws governing our financial system.
I concur with much of what you’ve written. I just want to make a simple comment.
From the perspective of living in the vassal state called Australia, many here marvel in horror at the “set-up” you’ve got going in the USA.
One tiny tiny example of the corruption:
“Antoinette” Pelosi (and hubby) have accumulated 100 million + dollars while in office . . . how is that possibly legal? If the US had “enforced laws governing the financial system”, maybe Pelosi would have learnt her appetites could be satiated from her salary and the pleasureof servingthecommunity. I like Dylan’s line: money doesn’t talk it swears.
So with the “dog-eat-dog scenario” that totally saturates ALL structures in the US, it’s practically impossible to see how true-reform can happen from within.
Liz: That was a nice rejoinder . . . . makes good sense to me.
I appreciate your response.
All I know as an American citizen and veteran is that our society is practically if not already destroyed by division, sowed by a media that gaslights the public into believing they represent the majority.
Not many of us agree with pitting the races against each other.
Not many of us agree that young children shouldn’t be taught sexual deviancy in elementary school.
Not many of us agree that children should have gender reassignment procedures without parental consent
Not many of us agree there are more than 2 sexes.
None of us understand US foreign policy – why we chose to push Russia into a corner. Our society is for the most part brainwashed into thinking all things Russian=evil. It’s unreal to watch this evolution. I’m a stranger in a strange land.
In the end, I don’t care what they are called, Marxists, Communists, whatever. It’s semantics at this point, because it has severely weakened, if not already destroyed our society. Whoever they are, they have an outsized influence on US foreign policy. They are in charge right now.
what is their next move? I haven’t a clue.
Bravo,Liz. Quite right.
There are schemers and traitors on both Right and Left, and I hate them both equally, and wish them neutralised. It is definitely not a Republican or Democrat thing…it is a traitor/criminal thing and I tar and feather them both and so should all of us.
If it were soccer, Medvedev would not get to kick a penalty shot, nor a foul shot. (I imagine the penalty shot over the horizontal post and the foul shot hitting the barrier.)
1) This type of remark is out place for someone in his position. A Generalissimo can make it. Putin has that kind of power but does not speak like one, does he?
2) The questions at 40 seconds are silly, like advising us to read Sun Tzu. True enough on Sun Tzu (I’d quote a Russian). What’s his position now? He is the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. The best service he can do in this position is to be circumspect and just offer his advice to his president (can’t have two). When he was president, he was more circumspect.
I think he is encouraged to speack more and more, to be more visible and maybe with a purpose, as nobody starts doing these statements out of the blue, he really is speacking as somebody with a very proeminent position.
This is also a strategy in PR: when you want to transmit some messages that may be too much spoken by the CEo you let another one, or instead of President it is somebody fromt he inner circle. medvedev positions lately suggests he is the inner circle. I have a theory that he was playing a role as a ”mole” or something, sidelined, but was actually along all the time in inner circle, just to find out the empire’s plans?
It is obvious they tried a Coup. They do it all the time: in Romania (we didn’t had a revolution, security, generals and other close people of Ceausescu betrayed them), Maidan Ukraine – success. they tried it in Turkey, failed, Belarus, failed, They tried it now in Russia and it may be the reason some troups stayed for a while close to Kyiv. Also so many epurations in a way or another, probably many agents. US said it clear in so many ways they wanted a regime change so the people of Russia can be ”free”. They hope to see Russia split in many parts and disarmed, only with National Guard.
They will not be able to do it, of course, only from inside Russia can be destroyed, actually any country.
US is also auto-sabotaging as it was taken by the deep state.
So, I really hope Russia will always have rulers that love the country and that are supported and the people to be vigilent of some try to change power, we (Romanians) were manipualted, only later we saw who actually took the power and what they’ve done with our country – everything looted, operated by others, mass migration more than countries at war, lands bought by others, industries destroyed, educational system, health system, in clinical death. Second highest corruption after Ukraine in Europe.
I studied history and all countries and Empires perished when they had a few weak, spoiled rulers, that destroyed it all. Nepotism, yes mens around them. Henric IV was the last real King France had, the rest were just controlled by Ministers, Cardinals, mistresses and favourits. Ludovic XVI thought he is so much loved couldn’t believed the people wanted to cull him! Ludovic XIV only spent what Mazarin left him: lots of money, nobels defeated permanently and made ”courtiers”, a stable and very rich country. he spent too much left it broken, some bad wars, and then next ones destroyed more and more till we saw what came: Revolution and Therror after.
All felt because of bad rulers.
So I wish Russia will always have capable and patriotic rulers. They never wanted to let a country become too rich and independent. They alwasy attacked a country when was readu to be 100% self sufficient. This is why it was Russia and China’s time now, to be attacked. As Mr Biden famously said a year ago: During my mandate, i will not allow China to become the 1st economy in the World”. it was buhuhu, instead of talking about making America strong, you talk about not allowing another country to grow? This is a Mob speach, who is he to NOT ALLOW one country to develop, Mafia does this kind of things :)
“I think he is encouraged to speack more and more, to be more visible and maybe with a purpose, as nobody starts doing these statements out of the blue, he really is speacking as somebody with a very proeminent position.”
It doesn’t have a good effect, bad PR. Europeans mocked him, even also in Ukraine. I just read on Putin’s successor were he to die in office. It’s Mikhail Mishustin (link). I don’t see Medvedev in the succession line anymore.
What Happens In Russia If Vladimir Putin Dies In Office? (grunge.com)
https://www.grunge.com/784349/what-happens-in-russia-if-vladimir-putin-dies-in-office/
Interesting article, than you! Two points I wish to add:
1. The fact the same persons that say ”Putin crazy” ”Russia bad” ”Empire of Hate and lies good” are mocking Mr. medvedev means absolutelly nothing. We see what President US has and what gaffes he makes but they never mock him do they? So what these MSM are saying is irrelevant. The ones that don’t buy their lies don’t buy anything they say, or take the exactly opposite.
It is pretty infantile to mock – this is the only thing left for them, to mock so weak they are.
2. I am not sure it was chosen the sucessor. In one interview a year ago, at the end, Mr. Putin said that this will come… in many years and that he or she must love Russia etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6pJd6O_NT0
What is annoying in this interview is that Western journalists always treated Mr. Putin like he is a villan, accused of things they did lying, based on 0 proof, while with other leaders they are so soft :). Also Mr. Biden is not capable to have this kind of interviews not even to respond journalists without scripts. It was funny when he said that question (from a journalist that was lately thrown away was not in the script, why he is asked such a thing). Lol while Mr. Putin is capable in answering everything. And they say he is the one with problems when is exactly the other way around :) I watched many interviews of Mr. Putin, over the years he was 100% true to the same messages, same things, maybe spoken in another way but the core messages were always the same ones. He is one of the most intelligent and capable leaders that ever existed. And so nice in these times some other countries (not Wester countries) also have great leaders! We live very interesting times!
Of course the sucessor will be chosen by the whole inner circle, not just by Mr. Putin, he didn’t do all this alone, he is just the most visible. All this meaning all the strategy, increade GDP 4 times, strategical allies etc everything he did to rebuild Russia. Was not alone and of course they have plan A, plan B, plan C, etc…plan Z. I hope this inner circle to remain strong.
Perhaps the “special” military operation was his idea?
Is putin just the public face of Medvedev?
When one thinks about it
The only other time a similar event like this occurred was when Medvedev was president
The Georgia War
Putin has tended to be fat more cautious
Is Medvedev the real hawk?
Although I think your impression is wrong, I can’t blame you for it. He is speaking as if he were still in charge.
I think that Medvedev is speaking like a Russian who is now wide awake.
Okay. Maybe others in the power circle are happy about that. Putin’s teddy bear side may feel good about that. I think others may be looking at it kind of like me, snickering maybe, wondering if he is burning his chances, etc. If the others see it like you, maybe it’s like his ticket (being “wide awake”) to power again. Yeltsin did great in choosing Putin, what a masterful move from Yeltsin! Somebody praise him for that (it’s time). I don’t know why Putin chose Medvedev. Will he make the key move well in the future, like Yeltsin did? We don’t know. I see Medvedev “missing” all the time. He does not convince me that he is “awake” like you say. To speak like this, he has the “teddy bear’s” full support.
Medvedev has certainly dropped some clangers, but he sorted Georgia in 2008. The Ukraine SMO is existential for Russia and those not on side will likely perish. Medvedev now knows what has to be done.
As a president of the ruling party United Russia, he is in charge.
Neither are hawks; you’ll find those in the Communist Party and in my home, well just me really; the fools (family ) I live with are BBC spoon fed.
Medvedev is pupil to the Master. If he maintains this learning curve, who knows, Putin could give him his blessing in a decade or so.
Security council advises, President makes the final call. Possible that they have been discussing their options since 2014…
Seems like it is now the reverse
Security council had grown tired of putins methods
Talk of partners etc and wanted to throw down
Putin perhaps knew the folly of it but buckled to the pressure
Putin is of humble origins
The current circus is the musing of aristocrats in both Russia and west
Reminiscent of WW1
This is the geopolitics of the aristocratic class
Putin is most definitely not an aristocrat,seems to have more in common with soviet leaders
The current methods are tzarist in tone
Putin is preparing this ever since he came into power and prepared all, including BRICS. Of course he did not and could not do this alone. Is a whole group of people and advisors and waht can we see in russia: Lavrov is there eversince… I cannot remember! Stability, ladership for the people. This system today, they change and the next one destroy what the predecesor did and no one has enough time to rebuild the country, reconstruct.
Only when is a long leadership (leadership I say) only then the countries rebuilt, population grow etc all good in a nation, long time projects.
Maybe some wanted Mr. Putin to act faster, but he waited for the perfect moment, he and the group. When had all the support and supplies and military capabilities and all, treates, all.
Maybe Mr. Putin has already chose a succesor, or even more. But yes, lately Mr. Medvedev is so proeminent and present and such a patriot. Even if he was for nato side at one point, one can change his mind when realising there is no way you can collaborate with some. And that diplomacy doesnt work with people that lie all the time. I am sure Mr. Elțîn totally regretted his openess towards the West. he had a dream, believed it is possible, was deluded and totally regretfull as I saw. And he chose the best for his country, he knew it, what is best and also for sure supported him.
People that are well intended learn from mistakes, some others… not a chance because their intentions are Evil from the very beginning.
When groups of really smart people all have similar analysis and vision( like a group for master strategists or grand master chess players), it’s possible that the plan is obvious to everyone. There is a clear trail of logic that could be used by everyone in that group to come to the same sets of conclusions. It’s possible that there is one main basic plan that will be carried out by anyone of them as it is there time to contribute. Long deep vision becomes obvious when everyone is seeing similar things. It is likely this is less Putin’s idea plan than a grand gestalt plan or all of their master strategists. Likely most of them can play any role as it is needed.
”Likely most of them can play any role as it is needed” – very important observation, I think you are right on thins!
Excellent explanation about Russia’s position on NATO expansion.
Powerful statement by Medvedev.
Stated Russian policy – never again allow the war to come to us, on our territory.
You get the war delivered in your theater.
Suck it up guys!
Not directly from Sun Tsu…
It was what Mr Putin also said in one of hiw interviews: that Russia ignored insecure borders with germany and with other countries in the past and they had the troups in Moscow. And that he will never allow this to happen again: to ignore a threat, for the sake of ”being the good guy” because this strategy ws proved to be almost fatal for Russia
” Valeria on April 21, 2022 · at 5:25 pm EST/EDT
It was what Mr Putin also said in one of hiw interviews: that Russia ignored insecure borders with germany and with other countries in the past and they had the troups in Moscow. ”
The Soviets would never have a border with Germany if they didnt invade Poland.
If Soviet did not invade Poland, I am pretty sure Germany would have taken all of it themselves, ending with the same result: A shared Soviet/German border.
He Soviet union never invaded Poland proper, they only liberated the Russian/Belarus territories taken by Poland after the WWI. It is tiring to hear this mantra over and over. Change the vinyl.
In other words, the war will be over when all threats have been declawed. It is going to be a lonvg haul.
When I was young and daft I took it for granted that females (is this word appropriate? ) were the ‘gentler’ sex. Now I’m middle-aged and only half-daft I know this to be completely false. You’d be lucky to see more than one or two women in any Cabinet. maybe one in ten in Parliament in the 80’s/90’s. Now it’s 60/40 only in favour of men and the women at the top are equally psychotic and rabidly frenzied as any man.
Herpes Hillary stands out, then Pelosi, Nikki Randhawa Haley, Madness Albright (burn in hell ), Thatcher (ditto ), Truss, Baerbock, Yellen (hobbit dwarf screeching and walking out of every forum Russia appear ), Nuland, Von der Lugen – add your own from hundreds.
Russia have really really spooked America, Yellen’s behaviour is a huge Tell. If you’re looking around the poker table for the patsy and can’t find him, it’s you.
Remember Blair’s Babes?….oh, and not-so-Pritti Patel.
It seems clear to me that the present Russian administration has a clear understanding of who their enemies are. And considering that it includes also all the major western institutions, it seems to me that a clear, decisive decoupling is going to happen. There is no more “trust”, and without it, it is impossible to lay the foundation of anything.
”Possible attack…”? The assaults on Donbas were already ongoing for nearly a decade!!!
God knows what happened to Mr. Bear, but at least now it is clear that people in the government are fully aligned with Mr. Putin, well they have to.
Dear Mr Medvedev,
Your speech in (clip above) has also reached us and translations have appeared on our social, news and political online sites. Those responses you read here however, in Saker, don’t bother with them. These are infantile, third rate minds who, like white people from the West and their Anglophile stooges, two of who you cite in the beginning, conduct themselves in acts and in words without culture, manners, learning, and civilisation.
We call them, even today 4,000 years later, yangren 洋人. Recall how Yang Jiechi 杨洁篪, speaking in Chinese, addressed Jake Sullivan and Antony Blinken in Alaska, March 2021: “you yangren…!”. Yes, with an exclamation. These western people never caught on that remark, not Sullivan nor Blinken, much less their hangers-on and their Press stooges.
I say without culture and civilization because such people, including the Blinkens and those you find here, are much the same, having much spittle and much to say and knowing so little. Here, some make fun of your citation of Master Sun 孫子. But they wouldn’t be able to write their mother’s name in Chinese much less able to recite the first lines of the book: 孫子曰兵者國之大事. 死生之地存亡之道不可不察也.
War is serious business. One must think long and hard about it. But look at how with a cavalier attitude the West treats it, even the readers here. Willy-nilly they strike, grind bodies into fodder, after which they clap their hands, dust of their clothes and then proceed to the next. But, the world is not blind to their ways (and they will be punished). Only, please, consider Master Sun’s core advice: Wait, wait, wait. Prepare, prepare, prepare. Once ready, as you are, crush them. Also understand the evils of war which the West don’t because only then you can come out on top: 故不盡知用兵之害者則不能盡知用兵之利也
The days you face the West reminds of the situation when Han Wudi 孝武皇帝 finally took action against the Xiongnu/Hun coalition of barbarian tribes. His predecessors had waited two hundred years before striking, circa 200BCE. There were three stages in the waiting: build up your economy, build up your alliances, build up your military. Standing army went from 400,000 to 700,000 and that was in a Chinese population, 2000 years ago of just 20 odd million. The equal of your mechanized brigades, the calvarymen alone was 250,000. Imagine getting food to 250,000 horses alone, always on the move, covering the breadth of Russia today in a time before motor engines and aircraft.
When in 250 BCE Qin Shihuang 秦始皇 finally strike, completed by Han Wudi circa 100 BCE, little was left of the Xiongnu/Hun. They never recovered and no nation-state exist in their name today. I regret to report, though, it was our efforts that resulted in them to retreat to the Caucasus, rebuilding in numbers and alliances after which they turned to Russia and eastern Europe, crossing the Volga at the fall of the Roman empire. Even so, those were acts in the dying throes of a dying tribe.
I shall, with great humbleness, leave you with these words from Master Sun (the Chinese speak of him as though he lived yesterday. So too of Kong Zi, Meng Zi, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, et al, — such is the hallmark of a great civilization and culture that I, too, see in Russia.) The words are these: 夫兵久而國利者未之有也 善用兵者役不再籍糧不三載.
If your Chinese language is bad or rusty, Maria Zakharova might help. In any case, actual, truthful translations are impossible because the wisdom of the Chinese language is only meant for Chinese, produced in a Chinese cultural context. Only take the seeds of ideas in those lines, therefore.
Here I must explain: For example, when Yang called Blinken ‘yangren’ 洋人, the translator used the term ‘westerner’. She knew instinctively, I am sure of that, what yangren means among the Chinese. The term ‘westerner’ may be polite but inaccurate because there are two elements contained therein but missing in translation: (a) a faraway place in the west, denoted by an ocean of water 氵and (b) and the script 羊, which is symbol for sheep. Strung together, 洋 ‘yang’ speaks of an excluded people living faraway among sheep. What does that tell you, Americans as goatherds, living in tents, with much empty chatter among the like of Blinken and Sullivan? Are they not, as Yanks say, no big deal?
Similarly this line: 夫兵久而國利者未之有也. Master Sun’s suggestion: Finish the war quickly. The rest of the Sun Tzu chapter explains and argues why.
Our best wishes go with the people of Russia! We wait for you in Beijing, in our Motherland! Long live!
Yours truly.
Thank you for the comment Yun Lin!
I think Russia is slowly winning the information war.
At first it seemed like they were totally outmatched by all the shrieking shills in the west, but more and more people are tired of their constant lies.
More and more people are becoming aware that the calm, almost quiet statements from Russia are always the truth as they see it.
No false narrative, no false promises.
Just quiet solemn statements of facts.
You may not like what they say, but you can trust it a whole lot more than anything the western press is screaming at the top of their lungs.
I wish the subtitles were not in white outline in black – very difficult to read. In fact I can’t read them. It just seems sad that the translators go to such trouble to do these translations and then someone uses white instead of blue or red – and makes it impossible for some people to read it.
Putin could end this on his terms in 2 days: simply deliver nuke ICBM’s to Tehran aimed at Israel.
Within an hour mossad stooges would torture Zionazi Zelenski into ending conflict.
After all, this is a kosher operation from the get go, so bringing the issue to Israel is how it must be settled.
-I was in the Marines, 83-87 and thanks to alt news I know that Ukraine was overthrown by us and the subsequent attacks on Russians in eastern Ukraine was at the behest of Kiev.
The bad guys are the US! not Russia.