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“Well, hello. It’s me again.
I love it!
Andrei….is one of the Russian who would you like to talk over the lunch…and have shot or two of Stolychniya vodka….
The Russians I know mostly prefer Standard, except for one Russian couple who has found an inexpensive vodka made in Italy that they claim is even better. I should try it; gonna be tough getting Standard again in The Empire after I finish this bottle.
Do not despair! Turn to your Northern neighbours in Canada, as we are pretty much a mirror reflection of Russia.
A firm in Calgary, Alberta Distillers Ltd, produces vodka under the name Alberta Pure Vodka. In 2016 it was the recipient of the double gold medal at the San Francisco world spirits competition, so you know it’s going to be pretty good.
While our prime minister is one of the world’s leading idiots, he has not yet damaged our alcohol liquor industry.
I’m sure if you contact a firm which specialises in exporting our alcoholic beverages you will find a company quite happy to look after your needs.
And I say the above in the knowledge of the excellence of your Standard, which was the favourite of a friend of mine who was in the Russian Special Forces. It was the only thing he would drink, which is how I found out about it.
Baikal is a good option too
Looks like you are still reading the ancient anti-Soviet propaganda…😋
I’ve been on record for years … (and it’s true)
Andrei is the man! Martyanov and the Saker blog are the bomb for me. I used to read everything about the current situation but now I don’t need to do that. These two look at all the same stuff and analyze it for you and they don’t waste time. Concise, quick and to the point. Others stretch out five minutes of news into at least 30 minutes and every other sentence has you shaking your head about what side are they actually on. Andrei calls it like he sees it and lets the chips fall where they may.
Me too. It’s the headline of the best daily news. Who needs to see the bullshit media having Mr. Martyanov? Infinitely more genuine, sincere and real.
Congratulations.
I make a point of commenting on the State Department YT channel every day. They claim, today, that they are trying to reflect what the American people want. Go look at them, see my comment. Add yours.
I just read that Ukraine has banned “War And Peace” by Leo Tolstoy. My understanding is that they have not banned “Mein Kampf”.
Stupidity verging on insanity.
Nikolai Gogol, the father of the grotesque and absurd, was a bona fide Ukrainian.
One gets the impression that the whole Dnieper area was a swirl of fantastical stories and wraiths rising up in the mists . . .
There is a lot of interesting information in this Wiki entry that feels relevant to the current political but also cultural and psycho-social situation–
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol
“Nikolai Gogol, the father of the grotesque and absurd, was a bona fide Ukrainian.”
Mr. Gogol was/is not the father of the grotesque and absurd, the fathers and the mothers of the grotesque and absurd were The Russian Empire, some immigrants from which aided, and their progeny increased and continue to increase, already existing levels of the grotesque and absurd in “The United States of America”.
Mr. Gogol was a commentator on the grotesque and absurd in the Russian Empire, Mr. Bulgakov also pursuing that role in respect of “The Soviet Union”
The present “Ukrainian” regime holds that both Mr. Gogol and Mr. Bulgakov were Ukrainian and Wikipedia being flexible to change reflects that, whilst some others suggest that the “modern intellectual” father of the grotesque and absurd in Ukraine was Mr. Dmytro Dontsov.
Apparently the pre-mastication practices of the Readers Digest continue to aid discovery in “The United States of America” by resorting to reliance upon interpretation instead of reliance on source data.
Hey, Mr. Bumble,
(Removed by the moderator because insulting fellow commenters is not permitted no matter how clever you think you’re being.)
Regarding “reliance upon interpretation instead of reliance on source data”—I have read many of the works of Gospodin Gogol (hint: “source data”), and I see no reason to adjust my views.
Have YOU actually read “Evenings on a Farm Near Dykanka”?
Mr. Bumble;
Regarding “Mr. Gogol was a commentator on the grotesque and absurd in the Russian Empire,”
I recommend to you and others who share the opinion that the only target of Gogol’s mordant wit and his appetite for the grotesque was the “Russian Empire” the film “Viy,” based on a story by Gogol that in turn is based on local Ukrainian peasant folklore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YmQn6q36HQ
(start watching at ca. 12:00 if you are short of time)
As for Mr. Dmytro Dontsov (1883 — 1973) as the true father of the grotesque, that sounds to me like a joke.
Perhaps as the cossack who founded integral nationalism he was the personification of the grotesque?
This is suggested by his Wiki bio. He died in Montreal, Canada—certainly sounds like someone who might have been on the best of terms with the diaspora Ukrainian nationalists Chrystia Freeland and her dad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmytro_Dontsov
http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/D/O/DontsovDmytro.htm
Honestly I can’t think of any reason whatsoever to bring up the political theorist Dontsov in the context of my comments concerning the brilliant Ukrainian-Russian fantasist Nikolai Gogol and, seemingly, in order to diss Gogol (and me!). Aside from being a completely different type of literary and philosophical animal, Dontsov, born in the city of Melitopol in 1883, seems to have come from a totally different milieu and era than Gogol, born 80 years earlier in Velyki Sorochyntsi, in the deep Ukrainian countryside. Dontsov hated the Russians straightforwardly, whereas Gogol had a far more complex relationship with Russian culture (hey! that is why I mentioned him in the first place!). Go figure. (But, It’s always worthwhile to learn something new.)
Yes Andrei our government is doing everything they can to destroy our nation, and it appears the entirety of Europe.
A high ranking source has told Izvestiya that in any future negotiations Russia will not discuss the status of Kherson or Zaporozhye Oblasts. Poor Ukraine is shrinking at a great rate!
I really enjoy the insight provided.. I had hoped to visit St.Petersburg this year. Guess it is on hold for the moment. Sochi as well. Thank you for everything you do. I was in Cuba recently and many Russians there on vacation. If you are listening Sting, I can assure that the Russians love their children, too.
Shoigu says that Russia now controls all residential areas in Severodonetsk.
Yes and an olive green Chechen Land Cruiser with Kadyrov 95 numberplates drove around the place to prove it, see on his Telegram.
Andrei it is not necessary to be defensive about being in the Soviet Coast Guard. My reading of Russian naval history during WWII was entirely involved in defending their coasts.
A small anecdote, my uncle, born in 1909, was in the US Coast Guard at the outbreak of WWII and he was was quickly assigned to a US navy destroyer patrolling the Alaskan and Aleutian waters. It turned out he was the only person on board with experience in handling a ship in the face of a once in a decade North Pacific south-westerly storm. He ended up piloting the ship for 28 hours without rest. None of the naval academy officers had any experience in handling such a situation.
A good message from Dmitry Medvedev:
People often ask me why my Telegram posts are so harsh.
The answer is that I hate them. They are bastards and scum. They want us, Russia, dead. And as long as I am alive, I will do everything I can to make them disappear.
@medvedev_telegram Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia
I’m not sure what to make of Dmitry Medvedev. I remember seeing a good Russian movie about the Georgian 2008 war called “August 2008”. In the movie the actor playing Medvedev was the main person pushing to send the troops to Georgia after the attack on the Russian peacekeepers.I know many people saw him as pro-Western. But I’m not so sure about that. It may be that he was just going along with the Russian governments position until this crisis starting happening.Now things have changed and he is showing his real feelings.To back that up,I can say I was reading a converstion on a Russian social media site a few days ago. One of the commenters was talking about something Medvedev had said against the West. And the person he was talking to said he wasn’t surprised about that .And he said to the other person “don’t you remember he was the one who wanted to take Tbilisi in 2008 until Putin talked him out of it”. So I’m thinking we may have misjudged him.
AUGUST 8th english trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9N4BbUmUe4
I read some Russian side too a couple of days ago which convinced me about a lot of things, that Putin and KGB really played along for many years, trying to look as weak and corrupt as possible, while the real work was going on in the dark.
Medvedev was one of their card, looking soft and liberal. Later I read articles from Medvedev’s hand, really competent analysis and stuff, and realized he had tricked us all in the period. They are not pretending anymore, but says today what they really mean.
I lost the link, but the developments should document what I refer to here.
Do not look for conspiracies.
There is a way simpler explanation:
Medvedev and Putin (and Co) were allways on one page on the objectives but Medvedev still believed there was a chance for the West to “find its way” before it is too late. In that scenario what we see now would be Medvedev /also/ finally giving up on the “sane” elements in the West ever prevailing.
Meaning, he likely hated the same people he proclaims to hate today. But he avoided voicing that as a general stament, seeking to not undermine the efforts of the “sane” people who were forced to fight the crazies.
Then there was still a hope for sane to prevail, so it made sense to moderate responses to the vomit
of the crazies – they WANTED to provoke a reaction. Not reacting was the best way to fight them in-the-Western-public-space and thus support the sane “allies”. Also, worst case, supporting /by not weakening/ the sane forces in the West was a good way to prevent the crazies opening the hostilities before Russia was ready.
What we see today is Russia HAS LEFT left the Western Public Battlespace and as such no longer has a reason to “support” the sane voices in the West. Those voices lost and in that they became the collateral damage in the ongoing conflict. This is why all the discussion about “Russial losing the information war” (In The West) is completely missing the point. They are no longer a participant in that conflict. They consciously left the battlefield. Those who “fight there for Russia”, as per the official narrative, are the left-overs of the “local” sane people. And Russia is not helping them – not even publically in suporting their messaging or negating the Western main narrative. They just no longer care about that battlefield.
Well, I hope Russia retains a soft spot for those in the West who never drank the russophobic Kool-Aid and never touched a blue-yellow flag (or pet rock, for that matter—don’t laugh, I have seen these with my own eyes).
I think Russia had expected Europe to fight a bit more for their own survival. Not this suicidal lay flat down sell out of everything and on top jump into the WWIII on the Nazi side again. They must really have lined their pockets with dollares. Whatever, Medvedev is an intelligent player on the Kremlin team.
(Natural News)
– Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, told AiF.ru in a recent interview that Western pharmaceutical companies are behind the spread of many dangerous diseases, including the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19).
Implication here is West is run by a genocidal nazi elite
https://linkezeitung.de/2022/06/07/us-general-stephen-twitty-die-verluste-der-afu-koennten-200-000-soldaten-erreichen/
usa general cant find 200,000 ukie soldiers and wonders where they might have dissapeared to.
In a couple of years MSM will start talking about the 6 million. Same procedure every year James.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is still missing a wall from his house..
Military Summary Channel is reporting that Russia has crossed the Severodonetsk River and taken the town of Tatyanovka on the WEST side of the river and that therefore the Battle Of Slavyansk has begun.
Actually, the river is called Siverskyi Donets.
If you’ll want to look that up on Google Maps, search for “Tetyanivka, Oblast Donezk, Ukraine”.
I just want to stress that Russia crossing the Siverskyi Donets River and taking Tetyanivka (thus achieving a bridgehead on the west side of the river) is monumental. It is the beginning of the end for Ukraine in The Donbass. It is historic!
I believe Siverskyi Donets means Western Donets (River):
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donets#/media/Fil:Seversky_Donets.png
From my observations as an armchair General, 15 years service, Mr Martyanov appears more equipped to serve as US Defence Secretary than Lloyd Austin.
It follows then that pitting Russian Defence Secretary Shoigu against Lloyd Austin and Sergei Lavrov with Tony Blinken is a great American tragedy. Exceptionally Stupid!
Neither American could command a DPR/LPR militia.
What we have here and remember these two US Jokers/Stooges are glorified Salesmen, one selling Raytheon weapon systems, the other, a Neocon wet dream, represent America on the international stage, are Commanders-in-Chief, the best and brightest.
Is it any wonder then that Russia are done talking? Actions speak louder than words and America has shown a belligerent teenager’s disrespect to a Superpower?
Now that Russia have the bull by the horns it must press home its Security requirements as far up Uncle Sam’s behind as it feels necessary, all the way to Washington if need be. You must never forget that if the shoes were on the other foot and America-Europe controlled the energy and agriculture markets, many Russians would be dying of hypothermia and hunger this winter.
In the US and in the “West” military equipment is made by private companies, and the major emphasis is money and profit, whereas, the Russian military equipment is made also by private companies, but the emphasis is ‘my country’ – Rodina.
This is also my wish, that Russia will use the opportunity to squeeze the exceptional billion the whole way back to Washington DC, and dont forget a KInzhal in the City of London.
Love Andrei!
Typical Slavic dry sense of expression and humor. 😁
Thanks to the Saker for bringing him to my virtual life!
Guess what, most of us westerners hate the ruling “elites” of the West just as much as Mr Medvedev. How to get these billionaire and trillionaire bastards off our backs, that’s the problem.
I am sorry that Andrei felt it necessary to justify his expertise. It speaks for itself. He should ot wste time worrying about idiotic western critics – idiotic chickenhawks to a man.
Amb. Sullivan is a Trump holdover that the Biden regime never bothered to replace. Interesting.
I remember that a lot of ambassadorships were left vacant by Obama and Trump filled them. This was a big one.
re T62s…..any weaponry going to LNR DPR is going to be useful The defence of these territories still has to be worked out?? Donbass at frontline of the new borders as first line …Russian forces must be there somewhere two….second layer …fall back. ..or fully intergrated with Donbass forces . multi layered.. new bases….air defences …supply lines established and protected?????
This is going to be interesting…to persuade Nato ..and remaining and reorganised ukr forces. for Russia to convince them to not have a go or else we will immediately escalate to those decision making centres …..Rus still got to have massive leverage and not to just deal with a crumbling Nato. We hope it will be finished off…Eu to crumble back to just economic sense not develop .an EU army…..Rus message has to be absolutely clear.
https://i.redd.it/0jnt3ae7cdfz.jpg
Great account of Martyanov’s professionalism, ethos and courage, in an age of historical denial for monetary profit.
Scott Ritter delivers a similar account of his own credo.
5-23-2022 Scott Ritter discusses the responses he’s received from his recent analysis:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UnZU4n9lurg
When Putin talks about professionalism, that’s what he means. Professionals can disagree and not make it personal. They are all retired professionals. That’s a big difference but that makes them all OSINT. (Include Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Global Research, Schiller Institute and many others)
Let’s not deny that they have connections. experience, insider knowledge, and some constraints from their prior life, but it’s the morals and ethics of professionalism that took them out of systems that tried to define their right and wrong for them, and never allowed them to think for themselves.
“I selected an enormous Marine Corps emblem to be tattooed across my chest. It required several sittings and hurt me like the devil, but the finished product was worth the pain. I blazed triumphantly forth, a Marine from throat to waist. The emblem is still with me. Nothing on earth but skinning will remove it.”
Smedley Butler
https://www.azquotes.com/author/2273-Smedley_Butler
“Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen! “Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — For our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimmage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen. (After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits.” …”
― Smedley D. Butler, War Is A Racket!: And Other Essential Reading
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/115545.Smedley_D_Butler
“To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. 1. We must take the profit out of war. 2. We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. 3. We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.”
― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier
Free book
http://gutenbergcanada.ca/ebooks/butlersd-warisaracket/butlersd-warisaracket-00-h.html
Imo, there will always be professional angels of death, but when they see the errors of the profiteers ways, they can choose another path, on the truthful side of what is a deceitful profession, of necessity.
Women and girls, as policy makers, very often lack the background to get a lot of this stuff. Maybe they are better off, because it is confusing. Not to mention girly men.
Consummate Professional and angels of death have experience.
HISTORY
Stand on Guard for Whom? – Canada and NATO
https://theanalysis.news/stand-on-guard-for-whom-canada-and-nato/
They are like military families that play together more than pray together.
https://theanalysis.news/stand-on-guard-for-whom-canada-and-nato/
“Women and girls, as policy makers, very often lack the background to get a lot of this stuff. Maybe they are better off, because it is confusing. Not to mention girly men.”
Yep.
Easily confused “girls” like
Catherine the Great
Elizabeth I of England
Queen Victoria
Maria-Theresa
Queen Isabella of Spain
Margaret Thatcher
Boadacea
Too bad an interesting post was reduced by this silly gratuitous shot at women.
Great retort and true too, and probably many more Joanne de Arc ? Women are no less brave than men, and often even more vicious, We have had women in Danish forces since early 80 ties, I have met some seriously frightening examples, professional and very, very proficient. The worst you could do was make a “try” on them.
Point taken, and you make it well. There’s Indira Gandhi as well. When I think of gender and war, I think mostly about censorship issues, because so rarely do I get to speak my mind on these issues. These days direct acquaintance with war on the battlefield is usually reserved for the male gender of the lower classes, or members of the lower.classes of citizen armies. It’s a good list, but most are members of royalty and royalty has always been traditionally militaristic, by upbringing and training.
Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson served as a hospital orderly for 2 years then joined the RFC in World War One, but crashed his plane in a training accident and ended up in hospital himself as a patient at the wars end, so he never saw the battlefield.
“As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.”
Lester B. Pearson
https://www.azquotes.com/author/11458-Lester_B_Pearson
“A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is only one hospital, a single station; there are hundreds of thousands in Germany, hundreds of thousands in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4116.Erich_Maria_Remarque?page=2
Nowadays mortality and injury are defined by the ‘golden hour’ so that injury among western combatants far exceeds death in the old wars to end all wars.
So when I say “better off, because it is confusing”, I mean the injuries, which few can understand without direct exposure, and if western armies have lower mortality with more injuries, the less advantaged armies have more mortality with less injury. But they all have both, and some of the blast injuries, characterized as shell shock and maybe PTSD, are a product of conventional war and advanced conventional munitions, much like the character of the two main world wars.
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.”
Speech in Ottawa (10 January 1946), published in Eisenhower Speaks : Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches (1948) edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower
There are those that understand war by experience and there are those that understand war by reading, logic, history, documentaries and study. That’s my method, and it’s more like the scarecrow, the cowardly lion and the tin man, than the Wizard of Oz, or maybe a bit like Dorothy.
For every Eisenhower and Pearson, there have to be a lot of Pattons and Rommels. Our world war combatants were mostly male and many times cannon fodder, but with smart weapons, we might think that mortality is less for us, but death and injury are still the name of the game, and hell.
When our Canadian soldiers went as trainers to Ukraine, I never gave it much thought, but as it turns out, anybody can be trained in the basics.
This story of Sun Tzu is in the Introduction to the book, the Art of War:
“Ssu-ma Ch’ien gives the following biography of Sun Tzŭ: [1]
Sun Tzŭ Wu was a native of the Ch’i State. His Art of War brought him to the notice of Ho Lu, [2] King of Wu. Ho Lu said to him:
“I have carefully perused your 13 chapters. May I submit your theory of managing soldiers to a slight test?”
Sun Tzŭ replied: “You may.”
Ho Lu asked: “May the test be applied to women?”
The answer was again in the affirmative, so arrangements were made to bring 180 ladies out of the Palace. Sun Tzŭ divided them into two companies, and placed one of the King’s favourite concubines at the head of each. He then bade them all take spears in their hands, and addressed them thus: “I presume you know the difference between front and back, right hand and left hand?”
The girls replied: Yes.
Sun Tzŭ went on: “When I say “Eyes front,” you must look straight ahead. When I say “Left turn,” you must face towards your left hand. When I say “Right turn,” you must face towards your right hand. When I say “About turn,” you must face right round towards your back.”
Again the girls assented. The words of command having been thus explained, he set up the halberds and battle-axes in order to begin the drill. Then, to the sound of drums, he gave the order “Right turn.” But the girls only burst out laughing. Sun Tzŭ said: “If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then the general is to blame.”
So he started drilling them again, and this time gave the order “Left turn,” whereupon the girls once more burst into fits of laughter. Sun Tzŭ: “If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders are clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers.”
So saying, he ordered the leaders of the two companies to be beheaded. Now the king of Wu was watching the scene from the top of a raised pavilion; and when he saw that his favourite concubines were about to be executed, he was greatly alarmed and hurriedly sent down the following message: “We are now quite satisfied as to our general’s ability to handle troops. If we are bereft of these two concubines, our meat and drink will lose their savor. It is our wish that they shall not be beheaded.”
Sun Tzŭ replied: “Having once received His Majesty’s commission to be the general of his forces, there are certain commands of His Majesty which, acting in that capacity, I am unable to accept.”
Accordingly, he had the two leaders beheaded, and straightway installed the pair next in order as leaders in their place. When this had been done, the drum was sounded for the drill once more; and the girls went through all the evolutions, turning to the right or to the left, marching ahead or wheeling back, kneeling or standing, with perfect accuracy and precision, not venturing to utter a sound. Then Sun Tzŭ sent a messenger to the King saying: “Your soldiers, Sire, are now properly drilled and disciplined, and ready for your majesty’s inspection. They can be put to any use that their sovereign may desire; bid them go through fire and water, and they will not disobey.”
But the King replied: “Let our general cease drilling and return to camp. As for us, We have no wish to come down and inspect the troops.”
Thereupon Sun Tzŭ said: “The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.”
After that, Ho Lu saw that Sun Tzŭ was one who knew how to handle an army, and finally appointed him general. In the west, he defeated the Ch’u State and forced his way into Ying, the capital; to the north he put fear into the States of Ch’i and Chin, and spread his fame abroad amongst the feudal princes. And Sun Tzŭ shared in the might of the King.”
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/132/132-h/132-h.htm
It was Dimitri Medvedev’s quoting Sun Tzu that led me back to the book translation at Gutenberg. Medvedev was speculating, as perhaps formerly having Atlanticist sympathies, but even his eyes are turning east.
When Putin’s armies went to Kyiv, they might have found some sympathizers, as a reconnaissance in force, except for the exact nature of military discipline, no matter what the gender.
When Putin talks about Russian values around gender, they are mostly Christian values, but under the Soviet system, an atheistic system, some women made top soldiers as snipers, not as cannon fodder.
Woody Guthrie – Miss Pavlichenko
https://youtu.be/SHKjOl9ocR0
So why is win-win a no-no?
Why now, when I search female snipers, I get mostly female Ukrainian snipers? There’s propaganda in search.
Were the more than three hundred Nazis killed by Pavlichenko a product of win-win, with gender equality? It’s painfully obvious that the Nazis didn’t win.
Why is ‘Win-Win’ a No-No?
https://raymcgovern.com/2022/05/27/why-is-win-win-a-no-no/
Military training is by bullying at the beginning. Basic training they call it. Gender identity actually has very little to do with it, on the most basic level. As Sun Tzu proposes, ANYBODY CAN BE TRAINED, and that includes the king’s concubines.
After that the psychology develops as every person fighting for the person next to them, like a form of tribalism, or gangsterism, but usually it begins with plain fear.
Hebrews 2:14-15 (KJV) 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
When Putin tried to to explain to western media, the passion and sanctity of his Russian culture, around gender identity, with respect to western gender identities, he immediately faced censorship and disdain. Even Elton John disdained him, despite Putin’s felicitations. I would suggest that that is more about power than gender. In our society gender issues of all kinds become all about power but we are played about gender when it comes to the powers that be. If it’s not about the powers of ethnic radical nationalism, it’s represented and misrepresented as being about gender empowerment. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, except for a higher faith, and love, as McGovern explains.
Sexual preferences are cultural and ethnic, and programmable.
The ancient Thebans and Spartans prove that. I am not endorsing it, but it is plain fact that military proficiency is one thing, and sexual preferences may be another. They may enhance military performance of degrade it. Sun Tzu would likely only approve it if it worked, whatever the gender. The kings concubines probably never made it into actual combat.
The general naïveté of women and other genders about war will probably always be, however and whatever western fantasies roll around with video games, and other social programs of war porn and other kinds of porn, but when class, culture, gender and ethnicity become barriers to understanding military affairs, maybe more ‘basic training’, Sun Tzu style?
I don’t think I could understand the failure of Ukrainian soldiers and people to understand their military fate against Russia, until I understood how western NATO military training played into the present Ukrainian military ideology, as well as their history in Galicia, Bandera and their history of radical nationalism.
Except peaceful societies are all the same. Even the males with no historical knowledge can be naïve. They will censor it all as too brutal.
If we could learn from history, we would be better off without war.
It’s a big search and opinions vary:
Search-
were the 300 spartans gay
https://worldhistory.us/ancient-history/ancient-greece/were-the-spartans-gay-homosexuality-in-sparta-ancient-greece.php
A contrarian opinion:
https://www.quora.com/Were-the-Spartans-gay
Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece – Wikipedia
Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece was regarded as contributing to morale. Although the primary example is the Sacred Band of Thebes, a unit said to have been formed of same-sex couples, the Spartan tradition of military heroism has also been explained in light of strong emotional bonds resulting from homosexual relationships.
The Thebans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes
Of course I am not necessarily endorsing such cultures, lifestyles and choices, or saying it is a good part of any formula for military proficiency. The sexual impulse is strong. A common western saying is that rape is a weapon of war. The offspring of such liaisons varied in success, probably in accordance to the political expediency of the day in such liaisons.
From comfort girls to sexual harassment in the Canadian Army, sad songs they mean so much.
Comfort women – Wikipedia
Comfort women or comfort girls were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. The term “comfort women” is a translation of the Japanese ianfu (慰安婦), which literally means “comforting, consoling woman.”. Estimates vary as to how many women were involved, with most historians settling …
Elton John – Sad Songs (Say So Much) – YouTube
https://youtu.be/X23v5_K7cXk
Putin’s profession of faith around Russian culture is likely heavily based on the values of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Romans 5:12 (KJV)
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Ezekiel 33:12 (KJV)
Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his [righteousness] in the day that he sinneth.
Ecclesiastes 7:20 (KJV)
For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
1 Corinthians 13:13 (KJV)
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.
The 300 Spartans could have been as gay as Christmas at Thermopylae, but too many archers and arrows and they went down. Sad songs.
All hope was gone but they ‘fixed’ the Persians until the rest of Greece got the rest of their city state armies together, as sure as Scott Ritter in the Gulf War. Sad songs they say so much.
A lot of it is like Data meeting the Borg Queen. At some point somebody is going to try to tell us that sex, evolution and reproduction may be obsolete, and gender is irrelevant.
Aldous Huxley, a secularist in his brave new world, hypothesized another formula for reproduction, in test tubes.
Like Gonzalo Lira says, he is from Missouri, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. says:
Kurt Vonnegut — ‘Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.’
Putin should get on that piano, and add Sad Songs to his repertoire, along with Blueberry Hill.
But he is raising no hand to Zelensky in a Nazi salute.
The late Professor Stephen F. Cohen seemed to know some sad songs.
Putin era
In an article for The Nation, published in the March 3, 2014 issue, Cohen wrote that “media malpractice” had resulted in the “relentless demonization of Putin” who was not an “autocrat”. He wrote that the American media’s coverage of Russia was “less objective, less balanced, more conformist and scarcely less ideological” than it had been during the Cold War.[15] In a follow up interview with Newsweek magazine, Cohen said Putin was the “best potential partner we had anywhere in the world to pursue our national security”.[16] In a CNN interview around March 2014, he said Putin was not “anti-American”.[17]
I could do another study on Putin after the same fashion around his use of the word ‘Soviet’. It corroborates Cohen’s assertions in my view.
The real imperialism is the empire of lies.
They want to make it so that we can’t even say empire of lies any more, but Putin didn’t originate it. It came from the west, as he credits us, where we can’t even credit ourselves any more.
“Incidentally, US politicians, political scientists and journalists write and say that a veritable “empire of lies” has been created inside the United States in recent years. It is hard to disagree with this – it is really so. But one should not be modest about it: the United States is still a great country and a system-forming power. All its satellites not only humbly and obediently say yes to and parrot it at the slightest pretext but also imitate its behaviour and enthusiastically accept the rules it is offering them. Therefore, one can say with good reason and confidence that the whole so-called Western bloc formed by the United States in its own image and likeness is, in its entirety, the very same “empire of lies.”
Vladimir Putin
So it’s the censorship that gets me and in many ways my attitude is too bad. In other words, it is purely a psych job on me, and I am so psyched by the censorship, that I self-censor.
Maybe I can end with quotes from my favourite feminist.
“I don’t feel less because I’m in the presence of a beautiful person. I don’t go, oh, I’ll never be that beautiful! What a ridiculous attitude to take! ….When men look at sports, when they look at football, they don’t go, oh, I’ll never be that fast!, I’ll never be that strong!”
― Camille Paglia
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10733.Camille_Paglia?page=2
She also says that “Sex is power.” I don’t know if that applies to gender. But it can also be the failure of love in some measure.
“Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family–in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature.”
― Camille Paglia
“I don’t feel less because I’m in the presence of a beautiful person. I don’t go, oh, I’ll never be that beautiful! What a ridiculous attitude to take! ….When men look at sports, when they look at football, they don’t go, oh, I’ll never be that fast!, I’ll never be that strong!”
― Camille Paglia
“At some level, all love is combat, a wrestling with ghosts.”
― Camille Paglia
The ghostliness of the Holy Ghost is more than new western smart weapons.
“I view each world religion, including Judeo-Christianity and Islam, as a complex symbol system, a metaphysical lens through which we can see the vastness and sublimity of the universe. Knowledge of the Bible, one of the West’s foundational texts, is a dangerously waning among aspiring young artists and writers. When a society becomes all-consumed in the provincial minutiae of partisan politics, all perspective is lost.”
― Camille Paglia
Phoenix Ghosts are part drones, part missiles. How does that change combat?
https://thebulletin.org/2022/06/phoenix-ghosts-are-part-drones-part-missiles-how-does-that-change-combat/#post-heading
So I am ready to be censored on this, because of my gender sniping, but I am no Pavlichenko, when it comes to gender.
It’s more like Tiger by the Tail, if I take that approach. So I choose hit and miss, but in this age, and with ghost censorship, maybe we’re all ghosts.
Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – “I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail”
https://youtu.be/jBeOddejiGw
Amarynth likes the way Medvedev speaks, Martyanov also does. I say there is never a good time for hormonal leaders.
I agree.
Especially in those actually close to power (unlike, say, some media type or a low-level US congress critter).
Ill-considered words can come back to haunt one.
Best to maintain public probity at all times, like VVP, Lavrov, and Shoigu.
Medvedev, Patrushev and Glazyev belong to that school. :)