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Andrei saying that Russia decided to fundamentally break off relations with USA a long time ago gives me a great sense of confidence about what is about to occur.
I think this whole episode is Russia creating a fait a complis for the Americans. Russia knew from the start US could never agree to the conditions put forth. The process has ruptured NATO – fatally in my opinion. Europe now really sees US interests and knows they are not European interests (NS2, financial sanctions) It has killed Bidens presidency, destroyed the pivot to China (US troops are now going to Europe, bogged down trying to save face waiting for an invasion that isn’t going to happen) and we haven’t even got to ‘military technical measures’ yet. Russia really taking the lead here. RF/China/Iran axis are going to stretch America thin, spread them like cheap butter. Next 12 months going to be REAL interesting.
The Russian-American Rupture is confirmed per Mr. Martynov. The western Europe Gov and US Gov Rupture event seems to be in the pipeline…. pun not intended.
Bingo. Cheers.
Beautifully thought and written, Boris.
I have posted here before the geo-political Trend is Ruptures – “break offs” & “separation” – between the New World and the Classical World (i.e. what others allowed to be called ‘old world.’)
I believe this Rupture is really between the USA and Russia (not between western Europe and Russia) – it is therefore in line with the Trend and a natural event. All the same, this will mortify( and open the eyes) of many people in western Europe.
Would you like to elaborate on what is about to occur?
I like Andrie’s background music…Is it the music of Steve Roach?….I am a big fan of Steve Roach…
Is it the music of Steve Roach?
No, it is the music of my old friend Anton Ovcharenko, doing his thing on Korg M1 and Roland D50 circa 1992. These are bits and pieces of him and me playing with multi-track reel-to-reel TASCAM (8-track) and other equipment in studio while recording his amazing music he created and played. I converted one of the cassettes from those sessions to MP3.
Great stuff AM! I still have an old Korg Poly-Moog with patch bays and a pitch bending wheel. I find it indispensible. The D50 has a place in the heart too. The Ophelias song I sent you, ‘Mr. Rabbit’ and the rest of the album it was on was all done on a Tascam 8 track. They were the tools of the trade! This is cool.
Bones
Great stuff AM! I still have an old Korg Poly-Moog with patch bays and a pitch bending wheel. I find it indispensible. The D50 has a place in the heart too. The Ophelias song I sent you, ‘Mr. Rabbit’ and the rest of the album it was on was all done on a Tascam 8 track. They were the tools of the trade! This is cool.
I know, nowadays they even emulate old analogue synths which always sounded great. Some essential sounds and moods from 1970s and 80s. But Korg M1 was magic when came out. Still is.
The synth I use and love is the Roland GR-55, but it is only really useful for guitarists.
Is there such a thing out there as a small, keyboard based, simple and CHEAP synth out there?
This I don’t know. I cannot play (I have Yamaha-DCX 239 to play WITH) but my dreams and love are with older and new professional workstations such as Korg Kronos, which are musical and studio monsters. I should have listened to my mom and learned to play. I can play The House of the Rising Sun, though))) I guess I have a keyboard player trapped in the body of geopolitical writer. LOL.
TASCAM (8-track) …. damn…brings back good memories :)
(Now I have a mission. To dig one of those and bring it back to life.)
Model 38.
https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/z/O3gAAOSwYM5c5-Ra/$_86.JPG
I envy you with all my heart! No digital audio compressor can come close to that analog magnetic sound magic.
You have a good ear!
Russia acquiring Western Ukraine would be like Russia acquiring the hospital Willowbrook in America….ok some of you know that this is a very vicious nasty joke….just did it to make a point…..
What is the end game for Ukraine, Poland next say after 10 years? It will be 2032.
There is a stunning article by Scott Ritter at Consortium News.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/02/americas-putin-psychosis/
Just … stunning …
Fred… Thanks for the link to the best article I have read in a long time. It is truly stunning and should be read by all.
Kudos to you for the post!!!
Excellent article, well worth the read.
Apologies to Andrei Martynov – for butting in with another article like that.
I didn’t mean to be rude or disrespectful – just got carried away.
Very good video, fascinating – I learnt a lot – as with all of your posts & videos.
Feel privileged to get the benefit of such insight & expertise.
Patrick Armstrong pointed this out (that USAmericans always focus obsessively and exclusively on the one guy) back in March of last year. His article was first published on SCF but it can also be found on his blog (Russia Observer).
Thanks for the link. I read the article and found difficult to believe such amateurism from the US part.
Ritter’s analyses are always spot on. The focus on one man of course carries over (perhaps originates?) into our domestic politics, which is so personality driven. Perhaps yesterday’s announcement of the Washington Football Team’s rebranding as the “Commanders” (as if DC is capable of commanding much of anything these days) is indicative of that as well.
One can understand how a media-stultified American public can regard competitor/enemy states in terms of personified supervillains straight out of superhero comic books, “professional wrestling,” and UFC goons. (RT panders to an American readership by constantly promoting this latter group, by the way.) It’s truly frightening that American “leadership” thinks in terms that are not one whit more subtle or mature.
Scott Ritter has written many interesting pieces, and a few of them may even have impacted policies as much as an alternative, out of the bureaucratic machine of the state, can be given attention in those rares circumstances where previous policies are briefly and limitedly, put into question by political players themselves.
However, this time, the use of the OODA cycle is a bit of an overkill, when comparing those who act upon reality versus those who act on the perceptions generated by the media. That is probably why the Orient step was so narrowly presented.
And thanks once more to Andrei Martyanov.
yes. thanks for it
I stopped reading at “Russia’s SEIZURE of crimea in 2014.”
Of course he’s right that people who are considered “experts” are doing nothing more than parroting what the banking/warbucks cabal tells them to.
Só tenho uma coisa a sugerir para todos:
Rezem, façam oração, o que aparentemente está pela frente não será fácil de encarar.
Google translation,MOD:
I only have one thing to suggest to everyone:
Pray, pray, what apparently lies ahead will not be easy to face.
If Russia turns away from Europe, the only relationships will be bilateral, like the one between Russia and Hungary. There will be a few of these, maybe a half dozen.
All the EU structures like OSCE can go to hell.
Naturally, Russia will have to watch what the US will do and what NATO may attempt to do.
But economically, Russia is turning to Asia and the Middle East and Africa. It is also beginning to move some of its technological and industrial assets to Southern Siberia, new cities Shoigu is overseeing. They may eventually move the government toward the center of the country.
These moves by Russia will ripple negative waves through Europe. It will add weight to the dead weight of East Europe, a burden to the West European economies. Ukraine of course is the biggest dead weight. The US will own it totally.
Perhaps in time – some even many of the countries in Europe will themselves turn away from “the West” with all that entails, the changes we have seen in society over the last 30 years & especially the last 10 – “the madness”, all of it.
Maybe it is possible?
Italy, Greece, France, Austria, maybe even Germany – with its desire to trade with China?
I believe Putin has a soft spot for Italy – although the US has nukes there I think.
And there’s the Balkans of course …
Compared to Russia – the US especially looks like it is on the verge of some form of collapse. At least looking at it from the outside. The place looks completely crazy.
Perhaps Russia with its “conservative values” – ie it has remained “normal” amongst all the collective madness – and stepped away from the nasty 90’s thanks to Putin & his crew – may itself become a kind of rallying point for the future Europe?
If anything like that happens, it will be the end of the NATO doctrine – Russians out, Americans in, Germany down.
But – can the Europeans dump the “men-with-beards-dressed-up-as-women” syndrome?
Or is that here to stay?
Amongst other characteristics..
Russia is earning huge amounts of respect on the world stage for its actions. Everyone is watching.
The US & NATO are being shown up as liars & untrustworthy.
On the World Stage.
What is afoot here is possibly a bigger world change – realignment – Civilisational change – than the collapse of the USSR itself.
A once in 500 years event.
How will the pieces settle?
And will it usher in a period of peace & prosperity?
“What is afoot here is possibly a bigger world change – realignment – Civilisational change – than the collapse of the USSR itself.”
Binary thinking in a lateral world is always limiting and precludes perception of lateral processes of transcendence, hence the encouragement of and immersion within, binary thinking by the opponents.
Binary thinkers tend to perceive a moment in a lateral process and conflate it with a whole process – namely that the “Soviet Union” collapsed or that “We won the Cold War”, or that “The Cold War finished”.
From October 1956 onwards, but with increasing trajectories/velocities from 1969 onwards, an increasing sum of some cooperating lateral thinkers perceived, designed, implemented and modulated strategies to encourage/facilitate interacting lateral processes to transcend both “The Soviet Union” and “The United States of America”, which were mutually sustaining coercive social relations which could not be transcended in isolation, but necessarily in parallel at varying velocities through/by various trajectories/vectors by facilitating the complicity of opponents, and increasingly through time received the cooperation of others who increasingly perceived that such cooperation would be of benefit to all/most including their descendents, transcending their current/previous experience of cooperation by various forms of coercion.
“A once in 500 years event.”
An ongoing lateral process not to be conflated as a moment in time – a constant process of civilisational change through varying trajectories and varying velocities, transcending those attempting to hold back time by framing them in moments, including beginnings and ends including The end of History.
@NotEuclid
Can you please say that in English LOL 😄
Thank you, Andrei Martyanov!
That’s the real difference in modern warfare, isn’t it (sensor fusion) … now that a microprocessor is the size of a grain of sand, it’s all a matter of software. And in contrast to 7 or 8 years ago, the Ukrops can no longer fire a bunch of missiles into the LDNR and move off to another position. The answer could well be on its way while the missiles and artillery are still in mid-flight.
@ FredFromDredd on February 02, 2022 · at 8:10 pm EST/EDT
Thanks, Fred from that scoop.
Scott Ritter should be our Secretary of State, but as he said, thinkers like him have been relegated “to the trash bin of relevancy.” I am glad the Russians are in control of the OODA Loop cycle, which can provide us an off-ramp from this conundrum.
@ Mr. Martyanov
As usual, grateful for your insights.
Between your video and Scott Ritter’s article, a clear picture appears of the US as blinded by their arrogance and self-serving policies, which leads them to throw blows in the air for domestic consumption, in full and total ignorance of Russian foreign policy objectives. “Know your enemy…” goes Sun Tzu’s quote.
The other side of that picture is that Russia’s moves are coldly and completely calculated, creating reactions they add to the Big Picture of their confrontation with the West. Putin had already warned Biden directly over the phone, if the US pushed sanctions, he was ready to cut relations, so the decision to cut relations been there for a long time.
Ukraine already declared Minsk II null and void, Russia is about to debate the recognition, and why not, the assimilation of LDNR as a “protectorate” of Russia. That could be the pretext Ukraine is waiting to launch their provocation/false flag. In the meantime, the US is moving more potential corpses to Europe and Ukraine. I sincerely hope the Russians will not have the need to teach them the meaning of horror.
Lone Wolf
404 delenda est!
Biden the narcissist, cut from the same cloth as his old boss Obama, surround themselves with Yes men & women who spend their day blowing smoke up their ass. Whether Republican or Democrat the same old tried, tested and failed policies emerge. Has gotten to a stage now where Russia know their every move, like in Kazakhstan.
Let’s be serious, even under the safe passage agreed with the Taliban, the US (& British ) couldn’t evacuate their people from Kabul airport in a week, whereas in just double that time, Russia paratroopers/CSTO storm into Kazakhstan, hastily thwart a planned American Colour Revolution (probably a year in the planning ), secure strategic State assets and are back home slippers and pipe before Biden changes diapers.
(Removed for language,MOD)
Still, I was impressed with the photography that captured the intensity of Obama & Hillary in the War Room when they sent in the Seals to Pakistan to kill Osama Bin Laden for the 6th time.
@Andrei Martyanov
Thank you for taking time to do video blog. It is so much more informative when you can express thoughts in voice, with all subtle emotional content that written format filters out.
From the first moment of announcing non-ultimatum, it was clear that Russia expected nothing but rejection. The balance of power is shifting in Russian favor for years and finaly reached point where Anglos 5-eyed zombie Empire can be confronted and defeated.
Apart from being polite to give enemy last chance to come to its senses, non-ultimatum is a message to Anglos EU vasals not to interfere in imminent clash. As they are not the issue.
It seams, message has been fully received and understood. Empire’s 5th collumn in EU will have hard time to explain why it is necessary to pay heavy price for Anglos shenanigans. We have to wait to see, will they succeed in real life, as MSM/net will be 100% biased in Anglos favour.
Old euphemism for situations like this is “The gloves are off”.
>The Decision to break of with the (far) west in a fundamental way has been already made.
No surprise. This move saves Russia.
He puts it in a nutshell and lve his sense of humor. Thank you Saker. A good day to all.
I’m surprised to hear about the extent of Russophobia in the general Ukrainian population. It just shows the power of propaganda. After all Germans were once Nazis. So does Martynov think that there’s nothing that can be done about that and it should just be an accepted fact of life? And so all those Ukrainians who left for Russia and took up Russian citizenship should forget their homeland and accept that ZioNazis should rule the land of their ancestors well into an indefinite future. Hmm …
Yeah…the situation is not as black and white as has been painted…There are many layers to this, of which the propaganda tool is just one…another is that the Ukrainians faced the same ‘urgency to find a better alternative’ as the legitimate elected government of Yanukovich was known to be corrupt and so the Ukrainians were seduced by all the promises of a better life…and then intimidated at the Maidan…(which i liken to the Nazis takeover in Germany)…then there is the fact that a whole new generation has been born, seduced by the propaganda from the CIA as well as a spirit of feeling that the Ukraine is an independent sovereign state (as opposed to the older generation of Ukrainians who continue to view their country as an appendage of Russia and still have total respect for Russia).
However, there are signs that some of the attempts by the CIA to redesign the Ukrainian mindset, is backfiring. Stuff such as changing the calendar, initially caused bemusement, then amusement as they relaized they could now celebrate TWO sets of holidays …and now there is cynicism, as they realize they have been played…and much prefer their Orthodox traditions. The vast amount of marketing and commercialisation taking place, for stuff like Halloween, Santa Claus, does not generate a sustained enthusiasm when the majority is facing a collapse in real incomes, nor when it is a celebration of a non-Slavic tradition. The result is a renewed interest by the younger generation, in listening to their parents views…and IMO a return in the longer term, to the older traditional way of life, ie a rejection of the commercialism and embrace of the simpler values of helping each other.
I know many Ukrainians in London who are busy working and getting UK wages and sending funds back to their families. Its an approximate ratio of £1 earned in the UK gives 5x the purchasing value in Hrvina and it is not impossible that those Ukrainians who moved to Russia, do the same for their relatives remaining in the Ukraine.
The other main issue is that the Ukraine is a very mixed society. The real Nazis there are indeed mostly the Galicians from the western part but they have cross-infected the Banderistas (these mainly seek full independence from Russia as opposed to being pure racists)…so the russophobe virus has indeed spread but I see it as an ideological thing…once these individuals mature, they will understand better the mindset that their Grandparents had….
I see it as a long term issue. the Ukrainians have to go through the same process that Russians experienced from 1990…all the psychological pressures from moving from a totalitarian system, straight into a feudal casino-capitalism led Russians into a stronger embrace of entrepreneurial capitalism…and as can be seen Russians are actually better at managing capitalism that the Anglo sphere…and are on the way to benefit from the vast hitherto mostly dormant resources within the country. So i dont see the Ukraine singularly as a failed-state, but as a state undergoing a transition, where they first have to understand the nature of the external predators that entered their country. I think of it as a fantastic innoculation programme. Long term, the Ukraine will be as dynamic again as it once was, by being a reliable and friendly partner in the Russian Union State. The US tentacles are about to be severely cut at the roots, so these malevolent influences will eventually wither…
I can report that Ukrainians in Canada hate Russia and Russians, and in this politically correct antiracist society, racism toward Russia is not only tolerated, it is expected.
I met one such Canadian-Ukrainian at a Hannover Commercial Vehicle exhibition. He was promoting Russian trucks ;oP naturally when i discovered that he was Canadian i asked him what he hoped to get out of being in Hannover? It did not make sense to me for a Canadian operation to promote itself in Germany… he waved his hands in the direction of the trucks and said, “well we are selling all this stuff”…so i asked if he was Russian…He looked deeply offended and almost shouted: “No im of Ukrainian origin, and i despise the Russians”…so i asked him why then was he helping to sell Russian trucks? He had no answer…just looked miserable. I thought it best not to provoke him further !
The answer of course was obvious. He was promoting Kamaz Trucks, which are about the toughest and most reliable machines you can use in the harsh northern climate…lots of them running in Canada…
From what others have written on this and other websites it would seem to me that there is a silent majority of Ukrainians that could easily be swayed either way, and they don’t have a voice in the current situation of intimidation.
About Canadian Ukrainians it is understandable as these are the descendants of war criminals. Like Croatians in Australia.
Spot-On. the silent majority has to keep quiet as they might be attacked for their pro-Russian views by an out-of-control violent ‘Nazi’ Group. I personally know of one situation where a young girl was minding her own business in a cafe, when a group of youths passed by and taunted her…she then got up and ran away…the youths chased her into a building and she raced up the stairs to escape…the youths threw the girl off the roof down to her death…
Re the diaspora of Ukrainians…i feel sorry for the Argentinian and Brazilian girls who carry the German surnames of their grandfathers…it kind of marks them out like Lepers…
I’ve read this blog for years, and my respect and gratitude to Saker, and now Mr. Martyanov, just keeps on growing.
All my Highland clan have Gaelic names, except for the youngest member whom I successfully lobbied to be given a completely Russian name. In due course he’ll be sent to study in Russia with the aim of obtaining citizenship (in common with a great many Scots in the past. Apparently there are four hundred Russian surnames of Scottish origin).
When he’s older I’ll point to these two learned gentlemen (both named after our shared patron saint) and explain that it was mostly their wisdom, freely given, which led to him eventually finding a refuge, in the protective arms of Mother Russia.
Hi Saker,
I dont’know if it is discussed elsewhere in your site, but I learnt today that the German government banned Russia TV in Germany, including online access (!?)
Here is the link from a respectable Latin American news portal
https://www.eldestapeweb.com/internacionales/alemania/alemania-prohibio-la-cadena-rusa-rt-pero-el-canal-anuncio-que-seguira-transmitiendo-20222216100
Is this actually true? Any comments? It may go in line with the comments made by Martyanov that Putin is about to annonce something important.
Thanks
Hallo Andres,
ich lebe in Deutschland, bis jetzt ist TV-live auf der Website von RT Deutsch
zu erreichen
Danke
Andrei! Love your wit & humor! Thank you & God Bless.
Every communique from Lavrov and Russians of goodwill who are trying to warn us confirms that Russia is incapable of of the clever ‘disinfo’ campaign that the DC establishment accuses them of. You guys don’t understand sound bites. Let me try and tell me how close I am to summarizing this …
‘Russia is not going to invade Ukraine. Russia is saying that the following will trigger a military response. 1. the presence of U.S. manned missile bases on Ukraine (or any non-NATO former Soviet Republic), or 2. Ukraine (or any former Soviet Republic) joining NATO because this would provide the U.S. a legal bases to to install missile bases. We are not giving a legalistic definition of 1, U.S. manned offensive weaponry is unacceptable, we will tell you, you have been warned’
Keep it short and sweet. BTW I have had a lifetime struggler with getting bogged down into details. It takes enormous concentration on my part to summarize things. Less is more.
Smoothie,
I like cartoons too! I look forward to more interesting ones (like 2018) in upcoming Russian Federal Assembly.
What do you think of ongoing French negotiations with Russians? Can it be sincere? Or small-minded spite for AUKUS and a reelection stunt?
It appears Macron will soon head to Moscow for a summit. Scorpions will remain scorpions in nature. I had following memory of former betrayals by the Bankster boys of Mssr. Rothschild.
One of our knowledgeable commentators Cosimo, well versed in history of the world wars and in French shenanigans, reminded us of a 1935 dirty-trick by the French which contributed to the confusion leading up to WW2.. in short, they visited Moscow with an insincere peace proposal. And even then, it involved a Rothschild boy running for reelection, like Macron now..
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I would think Russians, adept at history, will recall the lesson. Fool me once, shame on you..
I like this guy gets to the point and cuts through the Hollywood crap!
When the punch comes down on your face, it doesn’t matter if you are living in your alternate reality, you will shit your pants and it wont smell of roses..
Thank you for saying “don’t despair” because I feel like there’s a fine line I’m walking whenever I take myself to listen to discussions of these matters.
OT (off topic OR on tangent) there are some things Mr Martyanov says that resonate personally; namely on Russia “giving up” on the West and the inability of western “elites” to understand geopolitics is about economic and military power.
How these resonate is that I am reminded I came to a decision to “give up” on the West as a result of the disgusting adventure in Libya (which also seemed to me a bitter lesson for RF in its relationships in the UN). Similarly, political existence, to me, simply seems to be about wealth and power and access (or access denial, if you will) to those things.
So I have a question.
Is there any philosophical enquiry comparing/contrasting/linking ideas of individual sovereignty to state sovereignty? I wonder if it would help explain the nature of Western ruling classes, who individually do not even regard access to wealth and power as something worth considering, therein lying the roots of their exceptionalism and obliviousness to realpolitik (and their continual murderous blundering).
I can understand how people’s spiritual beliefs and upbringings will define various sense of sovereignty. To ask of “philosophical enquiry” is probably not broad enough.
Genuine question, albeit something of a departure for me from the Marxian observation point from which I usually look at the world.
Off topic, I apologize, but, to me, “don’t despair” felt like the most serious of Mr Martyanov’s comments.
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Is there any philosophical enquiry comparing/contrasting/linking ideas of individual sovereignty to state sovereignty?
Yes, of course, plenty, both in philosophy classes and in political science (which Andrei dislikes so much).
There are also theological implications, so this could be taught in religion courses.
Take the time to look around, I am sure that nowadays you will find plenty.
Begin with the Ancients, from Plato to Augustine of Hippo.
Good luck!