Okay, a quick summary first: one of the Russian athletes participating in the Winter Olympics has tested positive for Meldonium. On two different probes. There is no way to explain that away, Alexander Krushelnitsky did have Meldonium in his body. But he was also tested for the same substance just before leaving Russia for Japan (where the athletes were training) and he was clean then. So he must have ingested that during the past two weeks while already abroad. Wait, it gets better! The dosage detected is the equivalent of one dose only. Not only that, but Meldonium increases blood-flow and helps athletes who engage is extremely high intensity sports. Have you ever seen a curling match? Finally, to be effective Meldonium needs to be taken regularly, not just once.
Now let’s sum it up. A Russian athlete takes one singe dose of Meldonium even though he knows with absolute certainty that 1) this will detected (Meldonium is THE drug Russians athletes, including Maria Sharapova, have been accused of taking in the past) 2) that this will not help him at all 3) that no amount of Meldonium could help, even in theory, an athlete competing in curling (in fact, if anything, it could be harmful).
Needless to say, anybody and everybody involved in this issue in Russia understands: this is self-evidently a “provocation”. Even British newspapers realize the enormity of the nonsense the US press is now feeding its zombified readers and listeners (you know, the kind of folks who believe that magic bullets can zigzag or that 2 aircraft can bring about the collapse of 3 buildings).
While, in theory, a jealous team-member or some other person hating either Krushelnitsky or Russia could have given him that one single dose of this drug (any non-clear liquid would do as would any food), this seems to well-timed to be just case of personal revenge or malfeasance.
The sad reality is that Russia stupidly waltzed into a trap and now there will be hell to pay: good luck finding and proving that Krushelnitsky was given that chemical without his knowledge! In my opinion, it was a mistake to go Pyeonchang to begin with, but now the damage is done: Russia is the laughingstock of the AngloZionists who pulled of a very simple (all the Russian athletes drink the bottled drinks given to them the organizers, use the same dining halls, etc.) and very ugly (yes, Russians can be naive, very naive at times) trick. One small bottle liquid in a room and, TADAH!!, there you got it: the evil Russians are cheating and lying again! What else to expect for these semi-Mongolian orcs form Mordor?
When will we ever learn!?
In my many contacts with Russians I notice one recurrent feature: most of them simply do not understand that they are at war and that the war which is being waged against them has absolutely no rules. Whoever put that Meldonium into Krushelnitsky’s room or bottle or snack took a tiny risk and yet that resulted in yet another major PR blow delivered against Russia’s image and the against the morale of the poor Russian athletes who are already competing with an (illegally) reduced team and in terrible conditions (Hats off to whoever came up with that plan: it was nothing short of brilliant, very low risk and very high yield)
Have you heard anything about the conclusion of the expertise on the engine of the SU-25 recently shot down over Syria? I haven’t. How about the investigation of the downing of the MH-17? What about the bombing of the Russian airliner (Metrojet 9268) over Egypt? Again, maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see anything. So what about this drink, or toothpaste, of snack or whatever was used to give Krushelnitsky this one single dose of Meldonium, just enough to be detected – do you expect that we will find out who done it?
I don’t.
Yeah, I know. The Russian hockey team beat the USA 4-0. So what?! Was that really worth going to Pyeonchang?
I really don’t think so. The Olympics are a stupid, useless, corrupt waste of money, a disgusting display of crude nationalistic fervor which has nothing to do with real sports and Russia ought to be the first country to leave them, slamming the door loudly, and organize her own, real, sportive events. In fact, I believe that Russia is big, rich and diverse enough to pull out of all the zombifying and vulgar “entertainment” the West is so good at spreading worldwide (stuff like the Eurovision or mindless TV “talent” shows). Alternatively, we can simply sit, do nothing and wait for the IOC simply expel Russia from the next Olympic games, or even the entire Olympic movement, and then whine and sob about how unfair this all is, how innocent we are all, how much we care for de Coubertin and his Olympic spirit. Is that really the better choice?
Each time Russia participates in such AngloZionist controlled events she ends up getting slapped in the face (remember the last Eurovision?) and walks away in impotent shame. How can the Russians makes fun of the Ukie’s “Ukraine is Europe” when they themselves are constantly trying to play in the very same events, with the very same rules, organized by the very same people who all viscerally hate Russia to begin with?
When will we ever learn!?
The reality is a simple as it is horrible: the AngloZionist elites have declared and are waging total, full-spectrum, war on Russia. Oh no, not a military war (yet?), that’s the kind of war they lost so often that’s they don’t have the stomach for it, but an “everything else but military” kind of war: Russia is the Evil Empire, Mordor, and she must be either completely enslaved or completely destroyed. Have you noticed how recent US movies are, once again, constantly showing evil Russkies (bandits, hackers, terrorists, etc.) again? When all the European comprador elites got together in Munich, what was their unanimous message? “Russia is Evil, Russia Is A Danger! We Will Fight Russia!” It’s WWII, the Crimean War, the Napoleonic invasion or the Northern Crusade all over again (all of the West pulling all of its forces together again), but fought with different means.
And the Russians really seriously believed that they could travel to Korea to enjoy an innocent and peaceful competition in this context?
When will we ever learn!?
There *is* and Evil Empire out there: the AngloZionist Empire. And it wants to crush and subjugate Russia no less than the Nazis, the Masons or the Latins did in the past. Same plan, different methods, that’s all. Just because this time around they are militarily weak does not mean that their political ‘soft’ power is not still immense and that they cannot defeat Russia: they most definitely can unless the Russians finally wake up and start acting like adults who understand that they are, yet again, locked into a struggle for their survival.
When will we ever learn!?
The Saker
The drug-testing people interrupted a practice session of a Russian woman figure skater, demanded she stop her practice, took a blood sample, then tried to force her to produce urine. She couldn’t under the pressure. They made a big thing of it.
Does this happen to anyone else? Of course not.
The disgrace is on the IOC, WADA and the bozos of the host country who allow the insults to their guests.
Russia runs international events with class and dignity.
The Sochi Olympics are considered the best ever by athletes.
The F 1 race track is considered the best in all Formula One racing on the globe.
The World Cup facilities are getting rave previews.
The sample games last year got raves about the stadia and Russian fans.
So, Russia gets dirt kicked in their face. Staying home was a choice, wisely, left to the athletes. A few did. The rest wanted to compete. They are doing well. Under the conditions they are doing great.
How will Russia settle the score with Canada and the US, the two prime culprits behind WADA and IOC?
By running ultra clean athletic programs in the future and beating the crap out of everyone in all sports. They can do this easily. They had terrible leadership that screwed up with doping. And meldonium, once banned, should have been tested for every day for every athlete. It was as common as water for all USSR athletes for decades. That was going to be the tripwire. Too many fell for it. Again, weak leadership in the sport federations.
What they should be doing is exposing the wildly used ‘asthma drugs’ the US and others ingest who are the Gold Medal stars of winter and summer games. This is an outrage. Steroids and amphetamines are packed in these inhalers and all they need is a doctor’s note to use them freely.
Little black gymnasts built like NFL linebackers are very suspicious. Asthma!
Norwegians with asthma? 6000 doses allowed into their system and voila! they lead in medals and Gold. Asthma.
Go after these others with science and medicine. Ruin their cheating program.
Excellent comment and I agree with everything you’ve said. Russians are very naive – they can’t believe that others are truly evil and are out to get them by whatever means they can use. Because Russians don’t play this way, like me, they (and I) find it hard to get around the fact that some people are simply evil – are vindictive, hateful, jealous, envious of Russia’s immense natural assets and good name in the world. Russia is the country most often called on to intercede in others’ affairs, simply because they ARE honest, dependable, trustworthy and honorable. Russia needs to forego some of these events and start having events of their own that they can invite the rest of the world’s athletes to compete in – fair, honest games. No politics allowed. No doping of ANY kind (do you hear, you Asthmatics? All athletes would be tested before arriving for the games. All athletes AT the games would be monitored, their living quarters under camera and security controls, their dormitories and eating areas under strict protection. This could be done at the Olympics, but I’m sure many of the cheating and drug user countries would not allow it. I want to see some justice in this world, finally, for Russia. This proud country gave it’s all during WWII in defeating the nazis so that all of us would have a future. Now the world should thank them instead of letting some countries sanction, demonize and castigate them. This treatment has got to end. Russia needs to insist that it be treated equally.
What we have here is a frame up job. I better point out that Alexander Krushelnitsky is the husband of Anastasia Bryzgalova, also a curler, who became an international sensation during the Winter Olympics because of her good looks. She is probably the most beautiful female participant in the Games. You can find her on the Internet, including YouTube. Well, this positive publicity did not suit someone. Imagine a Russian girl getting international compliments for her good looks. So, in retaliation her husband gets framed. Its so obvious. The Olympic Games have fallen very low in dignity. As I have written before, Russia, China and others need to introduce the Euro-Asian Games, open to all.
It’s strange they chose a curler for the setup. There is no practical benefit for a curler to use such a drug.
It’s as if both sides in the media war got what they needed — one side screams Russian are cheaters! while the other has accumulates more evidence of how Russians are continuously singled out. As per usual this is divide et imperia, and so we are much better off developing our own immune response to the war our our psychological health.
Till this moment I’ve barely noticed the Olympics, as a consequence of completely removing mainstream media from my life. No tv, no newspapers, I won’t even turn on the radio and so I’m generally clueless about anything that isn’t filtered through sources I have selected.
Which is not the same as trust. I do have some more trusted sources but generally I suspect everything I consume mediawise is a volley in an endless disinformation war. I can keep well abreast of everything without subjecting myself to perpetual psychic brutalization.
Which gets me back to my initial point. I see close cooperation by all sides, with everyone attempting to keep their own zombified drones focused on their own particular message. A kind of peace has been negotiated for the Olympics and the World Cup will most likely be managed exactly the same. When the Turks threaten the SAA, should the they enter Afrin alongside the Kurds, each side tells their own story meanwhile it seems obvious the tension between Russia and Turkey is minimal. All sides are cooperating like wolves, the carcass will be divided after the prey has been killed.
Poisoned bread and toxic circuses. I don’t need any of it and I think the wisest thing we can do is to learn work for the Truth by oneself — and do everything in our power to spread this ability to anyone who is sick and tired of being manipulated by Zionists.
Facts don’t matter, silly thinker!
Where-Wolf
That is correct. Why indeed would a curler use dope ? It’s not one of those sports where huge amounts of energy are required. The intention is to tarnish the image and popularity of Anastasia Bryzgalova, now that she has become a celebrity. This is an example how low people can fall. In my opinion the time has come for the Olympic Games to be terminated and for new ones, under a different name, to be introduced.
“It’s strange they chose a curler for the setup.”
Not so strange if it was another curler who wanted to disgrace the Russian couple.
Not strange at all. For a bully, it would be pointless to kick sand in someone’s face unless the victim could see and know who kicked the sand. This had to be done in such a way that the Russians (but not the domestic USA audience) would recognize it for what it was. Like what Mike Morell told Charlie Rose about how the US should go about making the Russians pay for intervening in the destruction of Syria…
As for this meldonium incidence being, perhaps, the work of another athlete motivated by jealousy … that makes no sense either. How or why would another curler arrive at the Olympics packing such a substance?
No, no. This was prepared.
Cui bono?
Sharapova was setup. She is a top tennis money earner (tennis and promotions). Meldonium the drug that she had in her system and admitted taking was banned only 2 month ahead of the Australian open. The WADA or whatever they are called supposedly e-mailed her telling her of the ban. She claims that she never got the e-mail and that her team never told her about the drug being banned. The question that no one asks, “why would a beautiful Sharapova take a chance to discredit herself knowing that she would be tested and disgraced. Is she some sort of a masochist? This would impact her earnings and reputation which was first in the world. Obviously she had no idea about the ban. She was a valuable asset for the propaganda machine her suspension played well with the zombified in the West.
Yes, they should introduce the Euro-Asian Games – I’m sure China, the Koreas, Phillippines and many other countries would want to participate. And yes, Anastasia is very beautiful and she and her husband were the darlings of the Olympics which caused much jealousy and envy, probably prompting the drugging of Alexander. The Olympics has turned into a sad clown instead of the proud athletic contest it used to be. Time to either reform it or replace it.
You nailed it, Muriel-and it is the root cause of the crises humanity faces, geo-politically, economically and ecologically. In the distribution of human psychology, some specimens are what every philosophy and religion, with a few exceptions, like Wahhabism, Talmudic Judaism, ‘Dominionism’, Hidutva fascism or Shinto revanchist Japanese Imperial fascism of the Abe ilk, has condemned throughout history. They are the Evil Ones, call them what you will. For me, psychopath does nicely.
These are those who are insatiably greedy, hugely egomaniacal, unscrupulous, prone to violence and who have no human empathy or compassion, or very little. They basically HATE other people, and often enough, one another and themselves. And they enjoy doing others harm.
This type created capitalism out of Western imperial genocide and pillage of the New Worlds, China, India and Africa, out of the Atlantic slave trade and generations of unending exploitation of working people, a situation that is actually worsening today throughout the West. Capitalism has devolved through a process of unnatural selection into the monster neo-liberal, Market Fundamentalist’ moral insanity that is destroying humanity and the natural world. Its greatest redoubt is the USA, which in its death-throes is lashing about with omnicidal fury at its eclipse by China, aided and abetted by Russia, with a few other dissident states like Venezuela and Iran included as future ‘free-fire zopnes’. Just how we escape the playing out of American Death worship and the lust for destruction befuddles me-the US elite will happily destroy the world if they cannot rule it ALL, FOREVER, and wait for their ‘Rapture’.
Staying clean in athletics is the right thing to do, not just as a settlement of scores with rogues such as USA and Canada (oh please add Japan, EU, Australia into the mix :).
Agree with your comments on Sochi. Looking forward to World Cup this summer. Beat Germany!
Actually yeah, the WADA people can be pretty obnoxious in that way. They show up unannounced and demand an immediate test whenever it suits their schedule.
I saw a documentary about Lance Armstrong, the famous American doper. Parts of it were filmed before Armstrong came clean about his doping. There was a scene in there when the testing people showed up unannounced ahd Armstrong was complaining about their practices. This doesn’t sound all that different from Armstrong’s complaints actually. Trying to test an athlete who is dehydrated from working out or competing is a pretty standard complaint of many athletes.
Who considers Socki the best of all F1 race tracks? Sorry, but to me names like Spa come to mind if you ask that question. I’m not a Russia-hater, but Sochi’s F1 track is kind of run-of-the-mill, and nowhere in a league with Spa, Monza, Suzuka, Sao Paula, Silverstone or the other first class F1 circuits. I’m not a Russia-hater, and I’d love a free trip to go check out Sochi on the Black Sea as the place sounds wonderful. But Sochi as the best F1 track in the world…..no way.
A driver named Hamilton (who do know him) and the head of the Racing organization.
And most all the other drivers and most of the fans that travel around the world to follow the cars.
Don’t mistake PR statements for reality.
Its standard for pre-race interviews with drivers to ALWAYS feature several drivers who say ‘this is my favorite track’. “I’m so happy to be in [fill-in-the-blank]. This is one of my favorite race tracks.” For those who watch F1, this is standard pre-race publicity and can be found before any race. And its rare for any drivers to publicly criticize a track. Usualy you don’t hear this until after a track is off the F1 calendar, as of course, the drivers who draw their big paychecks from F1 don’t like to rock-the-boat. And of course, drivers do tend to ‘like’ tracks where they’ve won races in the past.
But, no, sorry to burst the bubble of the ‘Russia is always greatest’ brigade, but Sochi is not a great F1 race track. Its not a bad track. There are worst on the F1 calendar. But its not great nor is it the best in the world.
L445
“The drug-testing people interrupted a practice session of a Russian woman figure skater, demanded she stop her practice, took a blood sample, then tried to force her to produce urine. She couldn’t under the pressure. They made a big thing of it.”
Russian Figure Skater Zagitova Sets World Record in Short Program at Olympics
https://sputniknews.com/sport/201802211061852898-russia-skater-zagitova/
“Russian figure skater Alina Zagitova set a new world record with the results she had received during the short program at the 2018 Winter Olympics on Wednesday.
The Russian athlete received 82.92 points for her performance.
The previous world record — 81.61 points — was set earlier on the day by Russian figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva also in the women’s single short program at the Olympics in South Korea’s Pyeongchang.
Zagitova set the record despite the incident that occurred on Monday when she was forced to leave the rink several minutes after she had taken to the ice as scheduled by the demand of the doping officers.
As result of a four-hour long blood and urine sampling, the 15-years old figure skater missed her training session.”
Will Zagitova and Medvedeva be the next victims of a zionazi frame up?
Watching the events on TV last night, I watched the American skater fall on her butt and lose a bunch of poiints.
This morning on NHK news, I see that the Russians are going home with the medals. I wonder what will be engraved on them? “This space for rent”?
Fate/karma, coincidence, or a laughing God? I do not know.
Another thought —
One of last year’s popular movies here was I, Tonya about the life of Tonya Harding.
Another coincidence, or do we Americans subconsciously want to be hated and spat upon?
I am with Saker on this one. No one should have gone to Korea and it should have been executive decision by Kremlin. Was it really worth going there and be laughed at and harrass by IOC and WADA puppets? Why give them that satisfaction? Slap after slap and Russia is asking for more. Unbelievable. It has to stop. Now. Russia is at war. Russia is attacked with everything and anything but militarily. ‘Partners’ are doing all in their power to put Russia on its knees and sadly Kremlin is making their job easy. Olympics are just one example.
You think this kind of restraining order would have been possible? What do you think Russia is – the soviet union? Imagine if the government had ordered the Russian athletes to not go. You think they would have ebayed? And when some athletes had gone despite the order, what a slap in putin’s face! what an uproar – a feast for the mainstream western media and the russian liberal fronde. Just think about how this would look – and right before the elections. What i think was wrong was for the government to pay for these athletes to go. They should have paid out of their own pocket.
Well Russia should show some guts of Soviet Union.
If Kremlin made executive decision for Russian team not to compete, no one would argue, I can guarantee. Even if someone decided to go, they cannot compete on their own. I cannot go all by myself and compete for myself only, can I? Your way of thinking is typical of Russian thinking, just worrying what would the West or western media say. West and western media have only one goal. To destroy Russia, regardless of what Russia does. Your country is at war. I will repeat, you country is at war, attacked by globalist cabal. Sooner you understand that and get prepared the better for you.
As for olympics, those who went would better represent their country if they stayed. Pride and defense of your country is more important than silly gold medal and humiliation we are seeing at olympics.
To understand the West and its role in war on Russia you should read Paul Craig Roberts and his articles. Or even better, to live there and see all the Russophobia.
From the case against Sharapova I learned,that Meldonium is allowed for USathletes under another name! Maybe there is a connection? And maybe RF
should pribe someone to publish a finding in U.S. probes…
Actually the little black gymnast built like a linebacker is on ADHD meds – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. That medicine was designed to get restless kids (mainly boys) to sit still at their desk during class all day. A competing gymnast isn’t required to sit still at a desk and listen to and concentrate on a lesson or lecture, hour after hour. So it doesn’t make since why they would be taking that medicine – at least when not in school all day.
It does make sense: the medication used helped her (and anybody else for that matter!) to stay “cool”, concentrated on her exercise, emotionless…Just watch her…
a friend from California told me he used to take those drugs (even though his father is a wealthy doctor). He is about 27 now – but he told me he still remembers how terrible and like zombie he used to feel. He said he woudl never give those drugs to his kids or anyone else
A pundit noted that there are a number of meds for ADHD. And the one that was used in all cases was the only one with performance enhancing effects.
Hello Saker,
With the greatest of respect to all athletes that compete fairly and in good spirit, I must say that I agree with your position. The whole thing feels like a cheap but effective smear job and perhaps it is time for Russia to slam the door on this nonsense.
I can’t speak for others that grew up in the West, but personally I am increasingly ashamed of the behaviour displayed by Western Governments, institutions and the media. We appear spiteful, duplicitous and malicious.
I have some slim hope that the accused athlete is exonerated, but certainly the damage appears to have been done (at least in the short term). Sadly, one tends to expect more ‘scandal’ and disruption ahead of the forthcoming Football World Cup. It is a shame that true competition, which could be enjoyed and celebrated as part of a balanced lifestyle and society, has to be sullied in such a way.
Please forgive any spelling mistakes in the above.
S,
I agree that Russians have to accept the fact that they are under attack, and stay alert always on the lookout for something that doesn’t belong or wasn’t there. Also the only way to avoid all those provocations is to stay isolated, which also includes food drinks etc. No public place can be trusted. Also, this was my question, why would curler want to dope himself. Suggesting that makes me laugh at the idiocy of that provocation.
Legal remedy financed by oligarch for some athletes.
This SOB Rodchenkov who set up the drugging scandal and now hides in the US as a protected rat-traitor needs to slip and fall.
Prokhorov is a good man to finance lawsuits in behalf of some of the athletes smeared by WADA and Rodchenkov.
https://www.rt.com/sport/419364-brooklyn-nets-prokhorov-lawsuit-against-rodchenkov/
When Rodchenkov has outlived his usefulness there will be a bonus for the West. He will slip and fall courtesy of the CIA’s banana skin and then the MSM will explode with “Russia Did It!” for who else could possibly want him dead? – just wait and see!
As for the Saker’s post, I wholeheartedly agree with him on every point. Russia’s apparent naivety and failure to retaliate angers me intensely. If the Russians attend future Olympics they might as well use the red, white and blue in the form of targets on their shirts! Personally I have not watched the Olympics since the late 70s early 80s when all this commercial and political nonsense started. Now it’s time for the Eurasian Games to begin!
I understand wholeheartedly your thoughts and the same question is in my mind: “when will we ever learn ?”
The Evil is much smarter, he learns from his loses, though he never changes his mind, following the same path, using different tools in different ways, in new clothes, making his victim to fell asleep, relentlessly till the victory. It is time to learn to say NO ! No more tricks, no more desolation, no more Fear (“oh, my dear, what will say the world ?”) The Time is ticking for Russia and consequently for the entire freedom loving world ! One way or another, there will be change, a radical change is waiting at the door – though not seen by many but that will come, it has to. Russia has lost too much in a short timetable of 100 years, recuperated it’s strength twice but the lessons have not been learned well, the weakness is still there and that is exploited at maximum. They don’t have to play always the good guy while the enemy is spitting in their own house, maybe some day the house will be put on fire. The era of kind words and smiling has to have an end, until there is still time and power to do it.
I think that that problem is this train of thought: I do not do drugs, I have nothing to worry about, which if course is wrong assumption.
Excellent comment and I agree with everything you’ve said. Russians are very naive – they can’t believe that others are truly evil and are out to get them by whatever means they can use. Because Russians don’t play this way, like me, they (and I) find it hard to get around the fact that some people are simply evil – are vindictive, hateful, jealous, envious of Russia’s immense natural assets and good name in the world. Russia is the country most often called on to intercede in others’ affairs, simply because they ARE honest, dependable, trustworthy and honorable. Russia needs to forego some of these events and start having events of their own that they can invite the rest of the world’s athletes to compete in – fair, honest games. No politics allowed. No doping of ANY kind (do you hear, you Asthmatics? All athletes would be tested before arriving for the games. All athletes AT the games would be monitored, their living quarters under camera and security controls, their dormitories and eating areas under strict protection. This could be done at the Olympics, but I’m sure many of the cheating and drug user countries would not allow it. I want to see some justice in this world, finally, for Russia. This proud country gave it’s all during WWII in defeating the nazis so that all of us would have a future. Now the world should thank them instead of letting some countries sanction, demonize and castigate them. This treatment has got to end. Russia needs to insist that it be treated equally.
My only comment Saker is that we are all against the Empire: The Empire is hostile to all of us who want a free and peaceful world. Yes they ruined an innocent Russian with the drug allegation – but maybe they helped a few people to wake up because they realise for the very reasons you have enunciated — the official narrative does not add up.
The Great Awakening is happening Saker and you are playing a lead role
James McCumiskey
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This Korean olympics is disgusting. As for the whole olympic movement, maybe there is still some benefit in it. Its always been set up to give advantage to westerners especially Anglo and French countries, but the medals of the Soviet Union were a powerful message to them and an embarresment that these ‘impoverished evil russian commies’ could beat the anglo at their own game. The Sochi olympics was a joy from start to finish displaying the beauty of south Russia , and its success despite the proxy war the Anglo backed Banderists fought in Ukraine at the exact same moment meant that Anglo were always going to retaliate. The World Cup and Presidential election are their next targets but Russian people are really alert to this now and wont fall for the lies. A Russian said to me that ‘the 1990s vaccinated us against the West’ and this is whats happening, the Russians immune system can defend itself against the virus of anglo neoliberalism.
All the Saker says in this article is true- a full spectrum war is being fought against Russia and its allies- and remember that its because Russia, Iran, China, Syria, Belarus, Venezuela, Cuba, much of Africa & Central Asia are creating a new mutually beneficial political and economic way of conducting their affairs, one that completely bypasses the Anglo power block. As they become more irrellevant and weakened, the Anglo will become more and more desperate in their attempts to attack Russia. Soon the artificially inflated, quantitive eased Wall Street and London markets will collapse and the military aspect of the full spectrum war will be their only option left..
I watched an interview program involving one of Russia’s liberals with Oksana on RT. It’s interesting to note how they are working with the US to destroy Russia, already looking ahead to when Putin steps down and eager to return Russia to the ’90s’. From that interview, these liberals plan on working the urban areas to begin the destruction of Russia and the handover to the Empire. It’s interesting to note that while Putin resuscitated the dying Russian world from the carpet-baggers of the ’90s’, that very same rescue allows these so-called liberals to proliferate; liberals like Navalny and Sobchak. I agree with Saker. Russians need to shake their naivety and realize the ‘west’ is gunning for them in every way and ensure that these ‘western’ sponsored liberals can never achieve the seat of power in Russia. A quick view of American TV, radio, newspapers, Magnitsky act, the bases ringing Russia, destruction of Yugoslavia, destruction of Ukraine, the CIA’s activities etc. etc. should all get frequent airing on Russian tv and print, preferably right after a liberal campaign. Books like ‘The Devil’s Chessboard’ by David Tallbot should become required reading for Russians to understand just how deeply the planning goes for the overthrow of governments around the world. Russia is the target and has been since after the US Civil War. The US Plutocrats are salivating at the thought of getting their hands on Russia’s resources.
Russia has been a target since The Tzar kicked out Napoleon and then refused to submit to the Rothschild cartel. Since that time the Rothchilds swore to destroy Russia.
That is correct. Both Napoleon and Hitler were financed by private bankers. After the end of the Second World War, NATO took over from Hitler, hoping to invade Russia after it has been destabilized. Too late for that. Russia is too strong for that.
How more times are they going to fall for it:
Lucy moves the football again…
Lucy moves the football again…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=055wFyO6gag
Thank you Saker. With every of your articles I feel less lonely.
I fully agree with The Saker. It was a mistake for Russia to participate in the Winter Olympics. In fact I was surprised that they did, expecting them to boycott their participation. I think it is time for Russia and China to introduce the Euro-Asian Games, open to all.
I am not sure that Russian have not grasped the fact that they are at war with the Anglo-Zionists. As the old Russian saying goes, Russians are slow in saddling their horses, but once they saddle them, they ride them very fast.
In this household the opinion was the athletes should have been ordered not to attend. Her Excellency and I discussed the coming ‘games’ extensively and we agreed, it is and was foolish for Russian athletes to attend. The outcome was foreseen as clearly as the freight locomotive coming down the tracks at Warp 25 and 15 meters from your face.
I read of this drug test, actually two tests, and to be honest I had no idea what ‘curling’ was and when I learned a tiny bit about it I had to wonder why it became an olympic ‘sport’. To me it’s like watching two turtles having conjugal relations and it’s just as exciting to watch either attempt at ‘sport’.
We have been at war for six years now and it is not going to get any better in the near future. Eventually Russia will be completely isolated from any contact, business or otherwise, from ‘the west’. The mess with sports is a carefully calculated global insult to Russia and Mother was dumb enough to fall for the ruse. Mark my words, the football championships will be cancelled, too, and at the last minute. To me, ‘sports’ as in the olympics and football championships are a giant waste of money, time and talent and I fail to see why one kopek of our tax money would go to these ‘sportsmen’.
I agree with Saker, most ‘ordinary’ Russians don’t, or won’t, realize that we are at war but when your enemy is slowly surrounding you and slowly advancing to you, it’s war. I know what is going on in regards to the constant backpedaling to avoid war..at this time…but I also know, I’m not deaf and blind, that the time will come when VVP reminds the enemies of Russia what he said about his growing up on the streets of St. Pete.
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There is perhaps another perrspective. I usually ask: who is supposed to be the audiance for all these fabrications?
Surely Russians much know what is happening. As for ‘mercans, I have no way of making an evaluation. I don’t even try to ask people anymore of their opinions on specifics. I can say that most people I encounter are aware that something is very wrong. Usually the Dems or Pups are to blame.
My hope is that enough global citizens are wise to these efforts and that it further drives a wedge between the hegemon and the civilized world.
hi Auslander – you may not realize how much the Olympics means to athletes – further down this thread I mentions Leslie Reid – a horsewoman from Canada – she was ousted by her own people that one time – but she has actually gone to the Olympics and competed 3 other times – and I saw an interview with her – where she said – ‘well, its the Olympics’ –
And another athlete – a horsewoman – said that when she cantered down the centerline at the beginning of her test and saw the Olympic Logo – well, she thought that was the greatest moment of her life.
Its good and in character — that Putin allowed the Russians to make their own choices – God Bless him.
I agree with you Ann,
The point is: the emperor and his poodles were hoping to grub the medals that would otherwise go to Russians. If Russians participate, even under undo stress, they are going to spoil the dream of the clean sweep. Also, many years from now, people looking at the stats, will not remember that the glorious stats for the benefit of the emperor and his poodles are there because Russians were excluded. I am not suggesting, that Russians would have swept the medals, but they would have what belongs to them had they been allowed to participate formally.
So, I believe that Russia made a very politically conscious and wise decision in allowing the people to participate.
To be honest here, and without emotions I have to logically say that the Russians deserve what they get in this particular issue.
– 232 Russian athletes competed in Sochi 2014 vs 169 now in South Korea.
– Under the terms of the decree, Russian government officials were barred from the Games, and neither the country’s flag nor anthem would be present.
– the Olympic Flag and Olympic Anthem will be used instead, and on 20 December 2017 the IOC proposed an alternative logo for the uniforms of the Russian national team.
– The entire Russian has been suspended effective immediately from the 2018 Winter Olympics.
If you take part in such a competition after being attacked and disgraced in such a manner, then you have basically accepted what has happened to you. It is even terrible for your credibility.
What I truly do not understand…..what kind of athletes accept going to an Olympics where there own Russian Olympic committee, government officials and fellow athletes, coaches and staff members have been suspended ?
I am actually curious about the Russian psyche and though process behind this decision.
I really wonder theoretically what would the Americans or Chinese would have done if something like this would have happened to them, where half to a third of their team would have been banned from participating in the Olympics ?
Do the Russians have some kind of mentality where they “take it lying down”, a kind of passivity coming from the time of Russian Empire (Tsarist) Serfdom/Feudalism followed by the disaster of Soviet Communism ?
Do the Russians have some kind of low sense of honor, pride and patriotism due to their recent history ?
These are serious questions and are not rhetorical….Maybe the Saker or other Russians can answer some of these questions.
Correction:
-The entire “Russian Olympic Committee” has been suspended effective immediately from the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Also another important issue pointed out by the Saker:
“In my many contacts with Russians I notice one recurrent feature: most of them simply do not understand that they are at war and that the war which is being waged against them has absolutely no rules.”
Russians I guess are no different than the rest of the world……Do you think the majority of the world follow the Saker blog or any kind of alternative media for that matter ?
If the Russian Main Stream media do not spell out to the Russian people that they are at war with the Western-Zionist Alliance, I do not see how most Russians will realize they are at war ;-).
the victims of psychopaths often have that problem (not knowing there is a war being waged against them).
You cannot understand what is going on in the Anglo Zionazi west unless you understand psychopaths.
normal people simply cannot believe there are such evil sick monsters with no honor and no conscience.
So they refuse to believe what they see (because it’s so unintuitive). I used to be like that when I lived in LA – psychopaths are charming, they know how to kiss your ass and to tell you what you want to hear…pretending they care about you (“I am just like you!!!”). They lie in ways no normal person would even dream of lying. And they never admit when caught lying (Steve Jobs was famous for that – read his biography – a few people said the same thing about him. He would walk around Apple and an engineer would come to show him something he invented. SJ would just look at it and say it was SHIT – then the next day he would come back to that same engineer and tell him what he (SJ) ‘invented’ – the very same thing the engineer told him about the day before and SJ told him it was shit. The engineer would look at him and think the psychopath was joking – but no he was not joking – it’s a power game for psychos .
So to make a long story short – only when we understand how psychos work, how they lie in ways that no normal person would with no trace of shame anyone normal would feel etc…Only then we can hope to be able to identify psychopaths and to prevent them from doing damage.
When I read books on psychos – I could not help thinking jewish/zionist ‘culture’ was exactly like a psychopath but on a level of a culture.
Psychos also like to make you feel sorry for them if possible (‘Please don’t tell!’) – so their victims lower their defenses.
Psychos also cannot care about others even if they wanted to – such is a nature of their sickness. Putting them in positions of power is like having a fox in charge of a hen house.
These are good books on the subject – the first one by the inventor of the Psychopath Test:
https://www.amazon.com/Without-Conscience-Disturbing-World-Psychopaths/dp/1572304510/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519166960&sr=8-1&keywords=without+conscience+the+disturbing+world+of+psychopaths+among+us
https://www.amazon.com/Sociopath-Next-Door-Martha-Stout/dp/0767915828/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1519166984&sr=1-1&keywords=the+sociopath+next+door+by+martha+stout
https://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Test-Journey-Through-Industry/dp/1594485755/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1519167003&sr=1-1&keywords=the+psychopath+test
once you know what to look for – it’s easy to spot them and they run away from you (as they run away from me now)
Tomo, this is a good observation.
I would like to also add Narcissism.
Where psychopaths think very highly of themselves, find themselves superior and do not need attention or acceptance for their sense of self-worth, Narcissists on the other hand manipulate and use others because they need the attention, validation, importance because they feel a deep sense of inadequacy.
Both are common traits of the Western ruling class, and other classes for that matter. You could actually write an entire PhD on the psychological state of the Western societies and its effect on the morals in politics, economics and other factors.
People who have dealt with psychological problems / struggles due to whatever circumstances (neglect, abuse, trauma, wars, etc.) tend to better understand this psychological factor and how it effects the leaders and decision makers. Others have come to find out this information from study and knowledge.
the author of that second book I listed (the Sociopath Next Door) said that Narcissists are pretty much like psychopaths – the only difference is they actually want to be liked (and psychos don’t care at all – although due to their good acting skills they can pretend they do).
I’ve met both kinds in LA where I lived for almost a decade.
They say in the books above that world’s capitals of psychopathy are London, LA and NYC – I’ve lived in the first 2 and I think London is more psychopathic than LA – although LA is choke full of them.
I think historically they were useful for empires due to their ability to kill easily (normal people find it hard to kill) – so if you are a country that invades, kills and rapes a lot – they are ideal to have on your side. After a few centuries of promoting them they are out of control.
Lots of politicians and other influential people are probably psychos and they have influence when it comes to what’s being taught in schools even Psychology. The same way when I did my degree in Economics in England all we learned about was Friedman and his BS economics of raping and stealing from others (it took me ten years to forget that propaganda) – when I studied Psychology – also in England – we spent no time at all learning about Psychopaths – the most dangerous people on the planet – we focused mostly on relatively harmless Schizophrenics. How convenient considering psychopaths rule most western countries. I only learned about psychos after I read (by accident because I was on a holiday and there was nothing else to read) Steve Jobs biography. I was shocked with how crazy and weird he was – and after speaking to a friend in London who told me SJ a psychopath – I ordered a few books
I like this quote from the Sociopath Next Door:
To illustrate I propose an imaginary society of exactly one hundred adults, in a group that conforms precisely to known statistics. This means that of the one hundred people in my hypothetical society, 4 are psychopaths – they have no conscience. Of the remaining 96 decent citizens, all of whom do have consciences, 62.5% will obey authority more or less without question, quite possibly the authority of one of the more aggressive and controlling sociopaths in the crowd. This leaves 36 people who have both conscience and the strength to bear the burdens of their actions, a little more than a third of the group. These are not impossible odds, but they are not easy ones, either.
And people why Russians don’t smile?
I am guessing Russians are probably like Serbs in that respect so I’ll reply as a Serb (who lived in the US for more than a decade and likewise in England).
WE do smile when there is something to laugh about. We smile much more than Americans/Brits do. If you want to make us smile – you have to be funny and have good social intelligence – dumb Hollywood jokes won’t do.
Fake smiles make as much sense as fake crying – it’s probably a symptom of mental sickness which has been normalized among Anglosheeple by their masters so to make them more slavish, confused and fearful.
I go to Serbia once a year – and I can tell you people there smile much more than Americans or English do – and they remember and talk about funny things they did with their friends decades ago. For instance one of my sisters in law told me they still remember mischief I did as a kid in primary school. I remember what my nephew said and did 10 years ago (it’s very funny) and we still laugh about it.
To be funny and have sense of humor you need to feel free and to have balls (both are lacking in the US/UK)
Smiles and happiness tend to be real and in a good social context in Eastern Europe – unlike MANIC cheer-leading performed by robotic anglosheeple (and promoted by Hollywood and BBC etc – they actually have people providing fake laughs – on demand – the opposite of what real happiness is – I saw it once in a BBC studio while watching a recording of Curb your Enthusiasm – there is a Crowd Manager who trains sheeple how to laugh before the recording starts – and then shows them a sign to laugh while recording is going on to make it look as if jokes which were not funny are funny)
It’s all part of Orwellian renaming/training so widespread in totalitarian MORDOR that the US of AIpac and the UK have become. People have lost any connection with their biology and meaningful social skills – so they instead develop a set of unnatural fake social reactions used to mis-signal social clues so to somehow profit or project a fake image (as opposed to organic developing of meaningful social interactions that are so rare in the totalitarian West)
I was confused initially when I moved to LA – (I am naturally happy and laugh a lot when there are funny things to laugh about) – I saw a lot of robotic smiles – they perplexed me – I knew what happiness/real smiles were – yet I could immediately tell those US ‘smiles were fake. Yet I could not understand why someone would fake laughs (the same way Russians above could not understand why someone would lace their drinks with drugs)
Only when I read this book about MANIA by an English prof from UCLA – I understood this sickness:
https://www.amazon.com/American-Mania-When-More-Enough/dp/0393059944/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519228317&sr=8-1&keywords=american+mania+when+more+is+not+enough
Also – when I lived in the UK – I noticed people smiled very differently depending on who was telling the joke (not so much whether it was funny or not): if a supervisor or someone else they were trying to kiss ass to was telling that joke – they would laugh a lot (fake) – if it was someone they perceived (or pretended to perceive) as lower in status – they would barely smile.
So the real question westerners should be asking is – why are smiles used as a currency in the US/UK (instead of being natural social rituals people should effortlessly comprehend and use after years or evolution).
Also why English people tend to change their accents (so to sound more like posh accents from TV) when they travel to the US? Probably the same reason – faking it so to trick someone – it’s all about predatory dishonesty
When someone is not smiling – it usually means you did not say anything funny enough. Fake smiles are like participatory rewards – everyone must win no matter how crap he was.
It’s all a part of destruction of social context and meaningful social interaction in the west – whereby instincts which took millions years to evolve and function effortlessly have been lost as the society has entered a Dark Age of human interaction where everyone is scared of everyone else, lost, irrationally competitive and unable to meaningfully integrate to solve problems or /and enjoy life.
Fake smiles are probably also an appeasement gesture – you need balls(painfully lacking in the US/UK) to not smile when something is not funny.
Insecure people pretend to smile if they fear they are not wise enough to get a joke (they are not sofisticated enough to see that the joke was crap).
Natural , real smiles are one of those things that build society, collaboration, joie de vivre etc – fake smiles just add to already MANIC fakeness – a part of downward spiral of human interaction occurring in this Clownfuckery of a country.
They don’t smile without a cause because they believe only lunatics do.
T
“When I read books on psychos – I could not help thinking jewish/zionist ‘culture’ was exactly like a psychopath but on a level of a culture.”
Exactly.
Cultures can certainly have pathological aspects.
Psychopaths can have narcissistic tendencies and vis versa. People see the conditions as black and white but my observation suggests it is more a spectrum thing.
Both are bad news, psychos can kill you, but narcissists will leave you feeling like you wish you were dead, for a very long time and possible permanently. Everyone should learn about the defects and if you come across either, leave, as fast as you possibly can. Whatever it costs you to do it will be a pittance compared top the costs of staying around, believe me.
it’s also to do with the culture – in the US/UK psychopaths are worshiped and endorsed (as per Hollywood brainwashing for stockholm Syndrome) . In Serbia where I am from – we don’t let assholes get away with their crimes (on a friendship level at least) . If you screw someone – you will get punished – no matter your diagnosis.
When I moved to the UK – (London is one of 3 world capitals of psychopathy) – -I noticed people often ask others to lend them money they they pretend nothing happened and don’t mention it – you have to chase them.
My former boss once asked me to lend him money – he was trying to buy a place in my building. (I used to like him he stayed at my house a couple of weeks – I thought he was a friend). After a month or so he disappeared and I could not find him (the amount was about 500 pounds but this was 20 years ago – it was like 10k USD now.
TO put a long story short – I eventually found him (thanks to telling everyone about it – so other people helped me find him) – he ended up paying me 6 times as much as he owed me – and his credit rating was screwed (and I think he got fired). I think he learned a lesson – and that was the best investment I ever made.
Psychopaths usually go after insecure people -if you have balls and fight back – they tend to run away to weaker victims.
Hmm, Tomo. I find your comment interesting especially because when you see all the crap about hollywood stars you will be struck with comments that most of them actually have bypolar disorder, which I call a poor excuse for nothing else but psychotic behavior.
I lived in LA and my neighbors (who used to come to my house every week or so for dinners ) won Oscars and one of them was the exec producer of Sex and the City etc. I know a few of such producers , writers etc. My roommates were actors and Armani models etc. I spent years interacting with these people. Another English friend also won an oscar (after being caught stealing money from his agency which represents Meryl Stryp, Tom Cruise etc – he asked the owners to give him money for a ‘secret’ fund to be used for drugs for drug addicted actors from his agency – then was caught lying – he basically just stole money without buying any drugs and was kicked out.) He did not need the money – already had too much . Then he produced a documentary and won an oscar
There are so many psychopaths there you would not believe it Kind of like in London. . Actors are the most desperate and would do anything for any role in any crap Hollywood movie (probably even the very famous ones would- it just comes with their hooker-like unhappy personality – they get into acting because they are insecure and crave attention to prove to their high – school friends they were wrong for bullying them years ago) .
Americans mostly remain in high – school mentality (they were all bullied there and stunted mentally – that’s why they forever seek someone ‘popular’ to blindly follow and kiss ass to). Like zombies.
The fat, ugly jewish producers know everyone is kissing their fat ass not because of love but for roles – so they try to humiliate as much as possible these gold-digging actors – it’s interesting and tragic to watch the process of lying and mutual destruction of soul (due to Faustian bargains – and they often fail – screwing a fat pig-ass ugly producer is just a start – it does not guarantee you anything).
I told my niece I would rather she becomes a prostitute than an actress – at least it’s a more honest job and pays better on average.
another explanation – WADA and MOC have their people among top Russian sport officials.
Also remember that many of the best members of the Russian team were excluded.So Russia except for a small number,was forced to field its “B-team”. Its great that Russian competitors are so good that they are still able to win a few medals. But those are all 2nd or 3rd place medals. Not the 1st place Gold medals that Russia is known to win in winter sports. Even that is too much for the West. So they had to discredit Krushelnitsky and get his, and his pardner’s Bronze medals taken from them (since it is a team event,if he loses his medal,so does she lose her medal).As Saker say’s, when will we ever learn.
You are talking from the perspectives of national pride. But the pride matters only if you give a damn to the importance of such events, or the importance of western opinion. As spoken by many here, these are just games, what is the big deal? Is it really a national issue if a winner is from Russia, or, Ethiopia, or Vanuatu? I guarantee you, if coconut tree climbing an Olympic event, Vanuatu, Samoa, Thailand et al will win 90% of all medals. But the west decides what games are, so tough on thee Vanuatu/Samoa/Thailand.
But talking from the perspectives of the athlete, they trained and toiled in their games all their lives. Success at the game earn them a livelihood and fame. It is not fair to be denied the opportunity to compete because of politics. I agree with Putin’s decree that each athlete make up their own mind on whether to participate. It’s really not that important that they represent Russia or just themselves.
You are right it matters to Nations. And that is the way Russians feel as well. Make no mistake. The wonderful feelings that Russians get over the medal count is as real there as it is in any country. Russia spend around 70 billion (or more) on putting together the best ever Winter Games in 2014. You surely don’t think that was just to allow for a couple of athletes to compete. Russia is a World powerhouse in Sports,and especially in Winter Sports.This attack is a huge deal for Russia.Which is why Putin hoped to salvage at least something by allowing at least some Russians to go to the 2018 games.But what wasn’t understood clearly is that the West won’t allow Russia to compete fairly.Even with only having mostly the B-team there. That isn’t good enough for the West.They want to totally humiliate Russia.Which is why we see these tricks going on,as Saker explained.
Russians love life too much to worry about what many others consider are “issues”. Being from a Russian family I saw countless times a sort of bonhomie amongst our people even when treated like dirt – and others do this to us because of their own lack of love for life and consequent self-loathing.
Russians in general realise that there is a higher power that makes all of this look like fights in a kindergarten – not to mention all that our people have been through in only the last century.
The only other people that I have personally seen like this are Australians – and that is not to say that there are not others – who are very similar to Russians in that they rarely respond heavy-handedly unless the situation is really serious.
Then shit starts to happen – minimum talk, maximum walk.
Hence the saying in Oz – “she’ll be right mate” – I love it.
The Russians will get over all of this nonsense – a favourable outcome is in the making – guaranteed.
Try putting yourself in the position of a Russian athlete who has tirelessly trained for years for the chance to earn a medal they can be proud of and to compete against the best in the world. These young people have given the best years of their life toward this effort. I am not so sure if I were in the same situation that I would voluntarily abstain from going just to make a political point.
“The Olympics are a stupid, useless, corrupt waste of money, a disgusting display of crude nationalistic fervor which has nothing to do with real sports and Russia ought to be the first country to leave them, slamming the door loudly, and organize her own, real, sportive events.”
Very true, and the same verdict applies to the God-awful Eurovision nonsense. The question I’m struggling with is how much of Russia’s proven willingness to participate in these fiendish, politicized, degrading non-events stems from Russian gullibility/servility vs. personal vainglory and greed on the part of the Russians personally involved.
In a sense, it’s good the West stays the course. That way, the Russian Liberals will be seen for what they are — traitors without the slightest self-respect whatsoever.
Eurovision is even far worse, as it doesn’t usually mean any real talent. Whereas, with the Olympics it is very highly skilled, disciplined and remarkably talented people (not counting competitors of the weird events they have added).
Well, talent certainly lies in the eyes of the beholder. Imagine Russia sending the Pussy Riot harridans to the ESC year in and year out shouting and yelling (in English, of course) “BOOO for the Kremlin — end Crimean occupation NOW!!”. It would be a stunning success and, most likely, would lay the basis for an all-new Nobel music prize as well.
As for the Olympics, there are some quite entertaining twists that could be applied to existing competitions. Just one example: Hurdling with compulsory loud swearing against Russia/Putin/the Kremlin at each jump. Would leave me stuck before the idiot box forever :-D
Dear Saker, and all:
I disagree with many of the ideological tenets; but I keep reading because here I can find information on Russia, sometime, that is not easy to find in the west, especially from an objective point of view, with some respect for truth; and also because I feel only empathy, care for the Russian people, who is oppressed from all sides, both internally and from the empire.
So I would really like to see here discussed those things that make the Russian nation still suffer, as sadly for almost all her history; especially now the present day problems sprouting in my view from the flawed legislation implemented under Yeltsin, still valid in Russia as I understand, some reform has been tried, but has been withdrawn in a hurry because was… I don’t know exactly, but apparently didn’t work, was a mess.
So I would know more, why Russia still has laws that protect people who literally stole the best assets of the USSR, belonging to the Russian peoples, and did it mostly with money quickly kindly lent by the usual suspects, the Zionist rent-extracting finance criminals who control the west economy…
Why nobody has provided for the end of such criminal enterprises, apart from the quick patches applied by Putin who famously just stopped to a grinding halt the most dangerous and criminal plans by those true minions of the empire.
Why did Putin stop there? Why no attempt has ever been made to restart that economic reform that was being tried at the end of the USSR, that for a very short time was helping honest, simple citizens to start their enterprises, in a fair way, and apparently was working?
But these things are never spoken, very ominously; so why is Russia still in cahoots with the worst western financial gangsters?
Why Putin, and the healthy sector of true honest Russian patriots does not try at least to follow the example of China, where the economy has been turned in a capitalist’s ‘paradise’, but the central finances and the power is still very firmly in the hands of true Chinese nationalists?
For Communism, ‘real socialism’, whatever its faults, still mean and has always meant true independence, true care for the people, true attention at making the nation, its people strong. If failed, it was for the usual reasons: the major sins of greed and selfishness, the sources of all evil…
That’s what I would like to see; also, at this point, with the west hell bent in a war with Russia, and China and Iran, I start thinking that these articles should be directed at least also to the Russian people, to make it wake up to the level of aggression that’s going on against the very survival of Russia.
And last, don’t forget: it was the USA that invented that famous ‘unconditional surrender’ always applied in all the wars where the USA won.
And in all its history, and the only nation in history, the USA has never respected any of the treaties it signed; only when defeated militarily, and kept in check, has been forced to maintain a resemblance of peace, if always with an attitude to try all the dirty tricks in the book, and to destroy the others with sneaky criminal undercover violence…
It’s past time for Russia to counter-attack, pro-actively…
I’ve always thought the US was the modern – day Mordor
Saker
The Russians are not naive, they went to the games knowing full well what expect. And the zio-gays didn’t disappoint them. I think it was the correct choice to leave the decision on whether to compete with the athletes.
I’ve no doubt the athletes we’re thoroughly trained in maintaining their own personal security with regard to potential spiking, as well as safety. Krushelnitsky implied as much here:
‘Only someone with no common sense would use meldonium’ – Russian curler Krushelnitsky
https://www.rt.com/sport/419338-krushelnitsky-curling-meldonium-pyeongchang-russian/
“First of all, I want to apologize to my Olympic teammates and our delegation and all the supporters, that could not seal myself and Nastya [Bryzgalova] off from these issues, which we have met today,” the statement read.”
Another Russian athlete basically laid it out here:
‘Doping is absolutely useless in curling’ – European champion Anna Sidorova
https://www.rt.com/sport/419308-anna-sidorova-curling-doping/
“A professional athlete included in the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) registered testing pool should be very cautious with any food and drinks. We all know, if you open a sealed bottle and drink from it you should keep your eyes on it. If you have turned away for a second – don’t drink from that bottle any more.”
If the frame up took place within wada, obviously there isn’t much the Russians could do to prevent it. Krushelnitsky may have slipped up on security and that is how the zionazis got to him. Or maybe the method used got around the security precautions.
If Krushelnitsky maintained security, one can rule out an amateur doing the spiking and figure it was professionals. They would spike him in a way that the source could not be later tested, such as spiking his toothpaste. One should investigate this like one would a political hit involving poison. Because, essentially that is what this is.
The Russian security people accompanying the athletes, I assume they must have some sort of security detail keeping an eye out for them, can perhaps find how it was done by helping Krushelnitsky retrace his actions. This could be of use later in the court battles. If by finding out how they are able to find out who, specifically, even if they can’t bring a prosecution against these people, knowing who they are could be quietly put to use later.
“Have you heard anything about the conclusion of the expertise on the engine of the SU-25 recently shot down over Syria? I haven’t. How about the investigation of the downing of the MH-17? What about the bombing of the Russian airliner (Metrojet 9268) over Egypt? Again, maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see anything. So what about this drink, or toothpaste, of snack or whatever was used to give Krushelnitsky this one single dose of Meldonium, just enough to be detected – do you expect that we will find out who done it?”
Yeah, but, today, Tass.com is reporting that “Presidential candidate Sobchak says the core of her political movement is shaped.” That’s getting r’ done, Tass news! Way to fill the void!
I’m going to suggest there are too many women involved in Russia’s infowar. Maybe RT is a cesspool of double agents. Maybe it isn’t. Even if it isn’t, it’s simply not man enough to be on the front-line, which is where it is. This comment, believe it or not, is not coming from an alt-right misogynist. People should go with their strengths. Gender differences are very real and endlessly extensive. Women happen to be weaker at the propaganda game. Case in point: Russian blogging women made a big deal about Russia beating the American hockey team. This sort of cheer-leading is typically feminine and, in the context of an infowar, comes across as pathetic.
I’m not sure if Russia should have went to the Olympics. I don’t follow “the news”. I care what’s on CNN as much as the House of Saud cares about bobsledding. Most of the things that happen at these games aren’t worth watching and are completely detached from most people’s reality. Who speed skates? Who does curling? What is curling, for Pete’s sake. Who snow boards? More people watch pro wrestling than any of that stuff combined. Who throws a javelin? high jumps? Come on! Forget this stuff. Put on a big fist fight tournament and maybe then, there’s a reason to lose your reputation.
haha!…
Yes, I haven’t heard about what experts have to say about the engine…usually saker has hyperlinks but none this time! But anyways an Israeli F-16 was shot down after that so that score seems to have been settled.
Reading this article makes me say Bingo! This point what saker is raising is so evident and it is so hard to understand why Russkies keep on doing the same mistakes!
What I think is happening is that Russkies are torn apart between east and west, they don’t’ want to let go the glitters and lust of western pop culture. They think that siding with east(Muslims in particular) somehow will make them stop going to clubs or having sex with women or will stop them drinking vodka…(bit speculative but what else could explain this conciliatory behavior)
For this reason, Ruskies have to make a choice and this choice it seems they haven’t been able to make over the course of their history!
well said Saker overall.
We march to Armageddon so a bruise or two along the way is no surprise in my estimation. For those whose eyes are closed until the end Russia’s pains cannot teach them truth. There are people around this world will see this for what it is…a provocation. Identification and confirmation are good things. Even the elect may be led astray in the days ahead. Thank your lucky stars today your eyes have been opened. Pray despite the horror yet to come they stay that way. Bad…it hasn’t even begun.
Putin’s recent lectures on messianism should give you some comfort. He knows. He understands what the search for a red heifer means. I don’t see Putin so much as playing chess…I see him deep in Wei…a single stone…a game deeper and older than them all. The game of surroundings. Russia will punch its way through Turkey on that day like a wet paper bag. Putin understands the centrality of the problem. Korea, Ukraine, Yemen, Vietnam, etc, are not central. The dogs are not the problem…the bear’s focus remains solely on the thing in the checkered shirt.
Maybe the plan in the cunning plan department of the Kremlin is to suffer the abuse of the West so totally that the coming generation will never consider the West as an option.
With so many sanctions, so much full spectrum hybrid war ongoing, it is clear to any rational young person that their great nation that saved the entirety of the West, especially Europe, from Fascist Nazi Germany is now a cesspool of race/nationality/religious hatred of them, their parents, their grandparents, their flag, their name, their language and their Cross and Saints.
And so, the young will stay home, study hard, build the Russian contribution to Eurasia, discover a partner for life, have children, and live a joyous Russian life.
I think Putin’s letter from his campaign to the citizens the other day was a call to the young to help him reform the rest of the government and to grow the economy with Russian native genius and hard work.
The fuel for turning inward is the Russophobia.
The Kremlin could cajole and coax all they want, but the humiliation served by the IOC and WADA and the CIA and Western jackals in Brussels should be incentive to want to achieve greatness in all things.
The future is great if Russia looks inward. Lessons abound on how to excel and astound the world.
They need but one Yuri Gagarin. We’ve already seen enough war heroes for them to admire. It is their turn to coalesce as a generation.
Maybe they also need a songwriter and singer like Viktor Tsoi.
His work still is the most powerful song of the last 50 years. And its words say it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlIkyhttqOI
I love this version for Donbass. Whenever I need to feel up about all the down crap, I play this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I0Bgb-vAAY
Ah, Кукушка. I thought that would be the song when you mentioned Tsoi. In English:
Cuckoo
Songs of mine that I’ve yet to write. How many?
Tell me cuckoo, sing it for me.
To live in the city or the hamlets?
Lie as a stone or burn like a star?
A star.
Sunlight of mine, glance now at me.
My palm has turned to a fist.
And if there’s gun powder – give me the fire.
Like this.
Who will go the lonely path?
The strong and the brave
Have laid down their heads in the field of battle.
Few now remain with bright memory,
with a clear mind, even a firm hand in order*.
In order*.
Sunlight of mine, glance now at me.
My palm has turned to a fist.
And if there’s gun powder – give me the fire.
Like this.
Where are you now, freedom of will?
With who are you now
Greeting the gentle sunrise? Answer.
It’s good with you, but bad without.
The head, even shoulders so patient , under the whip.
The whip
Sunlight of mine, glance now at me.
My palm has turned to a fist.
And if there’s gun powder – give me the fire.
Like this.
*In order = as in ‘functioning’ / ‘not broken’ ; opposite of ‘out of order’
The israeloscum at youtube are censoring access to the Donbas version with their ubiquitous 18+ filter sign up nonsense. A tactic they use often as a less overt censor that deletion.
Yes, I previously had downloaded it for my own listening ease.
YouTube is so censored now, it has lost its use as an archive.
L445
Both
Полина Гагарина / Ольга Задонская – Кукушка (Голос 4 Финал)
and the Donbas videos are fantastic, btw. The translation in the Donbas video is I think better than the one I posted above.
Anonymous
Thanks for the nsfw heads up. Works. :-)
here is the same song by another songbird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iio41rPwX1w
and Larchmonter – did you ever see this gorgeous one – its about the victory in Aleppo –
https://youtu.be/ufqCCPA1jAs
The 18+ youtube sign up can be bypassed
include the prefix ‘ss’ before ‘youtube’ in the url -> http://www.ssyoutube.com...
then click on the ‘download video in browser’ link. You can right click to ‘save link as’
or, if you dont want to save, postfix with repeater, as in http://www.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=iio41rPwX1w .
it also masks your access to youtube (no alphabet cookies in your gmail account, as the repeater acts as proxy).
http://www.nsfwyoutube.com/watch?v=6I0Bgb-vAAY
Link to the version of song for Donbass if you don’t wish to sign in or you don’t have a Youtube account. (Adding nsfw after www. and in front of youtube works for all videos 18+. Letters are easy to remember as initials of Not Safe For Watching.)
Again, the suffering is there ONLY if one considers western perceptions matter. If not, one would just laugh off the ‘abuses’, as Putin no doubt does.
100% agree…
Why get so worked up because western MSM is having a field day demonizing Russian athletes? I read Chinese news platforms all the time, and I assure you there isn’t the echo of condemnation against Russian sports because of this, as intended by the west. Unless general western opinion is important to you, why, just laugh it off. I agree with Saker on the absurdity of Meldonium in this case.
There are lots of hanky panky in international sports; I myself suspect 90+% of USA athletes are cheaters on performance doping but such facts, even if proved true, would be shielded from the public by western MSM. I also suspect there is an army of agents of the west in the intelligence/espionage sector plotting and manipulating mischief on so-called ‘rival nation’ news-worthy persona and athletes with the aim to disgrace them, and by extension, their nations. As an ethnic Chinese I’ve long since awaken to this shenanigan. In fact, the trickery is not restricted to sports. It is applied to literary spheres, to commerce, to scientific work, to history…..you name it, they are in it. But for all their efforts, they didn’t stop the rise of their ‘rival’ nations (mainly, Russia, China, Iran) a bit. So why be so bothered?
Use of the western MSM is their only effective weapon in this new cold war, as their economic and military weapons are being neutralized. This weapon has been cultivated and perfected as the main tenet of their soft power ever since the close of WWII. It affects the western mind along with zombie minds in the developing world not sophisticated enough to see through the wool. But I sense that this weapon of theirs is fast losing credibility and salvo, especially during the past decade.
I think all world-class athletes try to walk close to the line when it comes to ‘doping’. I believe that is a part of being a world-class athlete.
World class athletes are going to pay a lot of attention of preparing their bodies and trying to maximize their potential. For instance, they’ll go into labs and be tested for physical capabilities as a part of their training. World-class athletes will definitely pay attention to their nutrition in preparing their bodies.
If you went up to any world-class athlete and told them by eating ‘xxxxx’ that they’d perform better and thus have a better chance of winning, then they’d do it. Or these days, their coaches and trainers and doctors and advisors would have to look closely as to whether ‘xxxx’ is a banned substance and if not, then they’d tell the athlete to do it.
In any sport, any world-class athlete tries to push the limit of what is legal in order to compete and win. That’s true no matter what we are talking about. If a figure skater’s coach looks at the rules and understands that jumps in the second half of a program get more points, then they’ll take advantage of that. If an athletes understands that taking dance classes helps them as an athlete, then they’ll do it. To be a world champion of anything, you have to push the limits of the rules as far as you can push them and bend them. The competition is likely that close that this is what’s needed to get a gold medal.
This includes what we now call ‘doping’. I’d say you can bet that any athlete is pushing the limits. What can be taken? When? How long to not take it to be clean for testing? What is now being tested for and what is not? What has some scientist in a lab come up with that the testers don’t know about yet? Can we get a note from a doctor approved that lets us take this or that?
Everyone is pushing all of those limits. There are those who push too far and get caught. But they are not radically different than ‘clean’ athletes. Its all a matter of degree, and who’s got the best specialists advising them. Or, who’s got officials looking the other way. When Armstrong was busted for doping, there were rumours around that the UCI officials who ran the sport had been looking the other way, if for no other reason than the popularity and money Armstrong was bringing to the sport.
If all world-class athletes walk close to the line of doping, then to call them out as cheaters is only fair. Why pretending that sports is “clean”, when it’s (according to your understanding of sports) just a competition of scientists pushing their athletes further than the scientists of other nations? The game that you’re proposing is plausible deniability (afaik a Western game).
The problem is, using this weapon comes with a cost. Especially now that its routinely over-used for almost everything.
The problem is the same as in the parable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Eventually it stops working and people just yawn.
Even in America, the MSM is now widely distrusted. Many pay very little attention to ‘the news’. Oh, they pick up on trends like the Hate-Russia meme through other means. But many, many Americans don’t watch TV news and don’t read the front section of a newspaper.
And that’s not counting the portion of Americans who actively believe the MSM is lying to them and not to be trusted. This is anyone who’s politically active and not a core supporter of either major party. The people from the anti-war and environmentalist movements know from first hand experience that the MSM lies. In this last election we saw that a large group on the right feels the same way. I remember one poll that defined that as the difference between Hillary supporters and Trump supporters that the Trump supports correlated extremely well with beliefs that the MSM was lying to them.
The people who think the MSM is lying won the last Presidential elections.
Which of course deeply shocked the MSM that was so confident of a Hillary victory. They are of course now responding in the typical heavy-handed way of authoritarians who find that people are thinking in unapproved ways. Thus the whole thing behind ‘fake-news’ and efforts to quietly filter all but the ‘trusted’ MSM liars. And of course, these methods will not work just like the never ever have before. If anything, they’ll drive alternative opinions underground and it will become quietly sexy to pay attention to them if people have to work a little bit harder to find them. And their hopes of controlling a connected communication age world are less likely to suceed than the Soviets trying to ban copy machines and fax machines.
that is true – my former roommate is Lance Armstorng’s old friend (they train together when my friend goes to Spain – he stays and Armstrong’s house outside of Barcelona).
he told me about 9 years ago that Lance was doping for sure. I met other cyclists from his team – and they all knew it. Yet nobody did anything until recently.
I was told that the only reason they exposed him was that Armstrong is really a very selfish, nasty man who treats everyone like shit and takes all the credit for everything all the time. That’s what pushed his team-mates over the edge and they exposed him
So Lance doped and that gave him equality with the others who all dope.
He was the most amazing rider and strategized the race better than anyone.
His cheating just gave him a chance against all the other cheats.
Who was clean and were they competitive riders? No. He beat his peers all of whom cheated.
Yes, he turned on a lot of people close to him.
But he still was the best.
No, I don’t think Putin or anyone around him is naive. They just play along till after the football world champion competition is done. After that all the shit will come down on the heads of whoever try to pick up a fight.
I’d agree it was a mistake to go to S. Korea and these fake-Olympics that violate every ideal of the original Olympics.
However, Mr. Putin and the other decision makers had other things to consider. Most obviously would be the impact of telling Russian athletes who’ve dreamed and trained their whole lives of their fleeting chance to go to the Olympics that no, they weren’t going to be able to go. And to tell them that only a month or so before the games, after they’d already fought and trained hard to make the team.
We see pictures of Mr. Putin skating around with a hockey stick. And there are some stories I think I’ve heard of him being involved in martial arts. Thus, Mr. Putin has been around other athletes and is a bit of an athlete himself. Thus, I guess that he understood the pain he would cause to Russia’s Olympic athletes if he banned them from going.
At the end of the games the Olympic hosts and the corrupt IOC will announce something like ‘these are the greatest games ever’. I perhaps forget the exact phrase, but its a ritual announcement that’s made almost every time. I do hope Russia takes steal that moment to announce that they are withdrawing from the Olympic movement and that in the future the Olympic movement won’t have Russia to kick around any more.
I must say that I disagree with all of you.
First of all, popular sports is important for the health of the nation. That’s why Putin is constantly seen either riding horses, or playing hockey, or wrestling, or swimming. If you think he does sports for memes, you are wrong.
He is leading by his personal example. The fact that Russians practically stopped consuming alcohol speaks for itself. It could be that the nation is now in self=-preservation mode, but it helps that Putin doesn’t drink at all. Thousands of sports arenas, and stadiums have been built everywhere in Russia.
Sport is very important for a spirit and health of the country in general. It’s better to go to gym, than to go club-hopping.
You can see some events going on in the country right now.
https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/?id=91
As for the athletes that went to this Olympic games… They all had met with Putin, and he blessed them to go and compete. There is some reason behind this.
Look at their faces. Can’t you see their steely, almost super-human determination? They know it’s a war, and they are fighting this war.
Even 15-year-old Alina Zagitova, a Russian figure skater.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6pP610P5sI
She is absolutely phenomenal. She is called a Russian ballerina on ice.
The Russian athletes now remand me a football team of captured athletes who played a football match in summer 1942 in Kiev. In Hitler occupied Kiev with the German fascists team.
They were told that if they win, they will be executed. Every one of them played like mad, and they won, and the Germans executed them.
The Death Match
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_Match
1942 the death match
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB2yEmeoodc
Call it whatever you want, but we call these people heroes.
I agree with your take.
The Russians think of themselves as world class athletes (the whole population thinks this). Thus they would compete no matter what.
The reason the athletics of Russia is under attack is because it means so much to the society.
It’s like Space, Rockets, jet fighters, gas pipelines, tanks and artillery. It’s what Russians do.
Great points. How I wish we had a role model like VVP in this regard. This country is ridiculously pro-alcohol (wink wink, nudge nudge — Craft beer on every corner will solve our economic problems, etc.).
Also, there is unintended PR blowback in the United States itself from all these Olympian shenanigans. Last weekend I was at a fine minor-league hockey game, very popular here in “flyover” land, was surprised to see 5,000+ people bought tickets and the team is very popular despite little MSM support. This was the heart of “deplorable”-land, and yet when they announced the results of the Russia/US hockey game from earlier in the day, I was expecting the (at least 30% inebriated) audience to be rowdy and obnoxious, like they’d been treating the opposing side’s goalie…
Nothing. Not a murmur, not a boo, not a chant. Nobody cheered either, but I suspect there’s great not-so-secret support among many Americans for the Olympic Athletes from Russia “Underdog” — American tradition was to “root for the underdog” back in the day. Not that the Russians were ever Olympic underdogs. We remember them in hockey from way, way back when and I doubt anyone in that arena thought that they’d done anything other than win, “fair and square,” playing harder than we did, as usual.
The strangest part of it all is that there is a power in the world that has already taken over the US economically and is going to reshape the world order. That power is China.
Yet the Anglo scum has a soft spot for China and would sooner pick on Russia. No matter what it is. Even the new fighter jet. China has its new J-20 fighter. (its the Mig 1.44 reskinned but that’s ok). You would think the western defense media would pick the J-20 apart and expose all of its weak points. But what do they do instead ? They use the J-20 as a prop to further heap scorn on the new Russian su 57 ! They praise the J-20 and make fun of Russia for not getting their fighter in service before it. YET the J-20 is the air arm of the power that IS CAPABLE OF CHALLEGING THE US !
Yet the Anglo scum has a soft spot for China and would sooner pick on Russia.
have you considered the relative difference in population and the resulting
army numbers?
The “Anglo scum has a soft spot for China.”
This is an Orwellian statement—either that, or deliberate disinformation.
Apparently, you haven’t bothered to read America’s new National Security Strategy where it paints China (right along with Russia) as a major threat because it is a “revisionist power” opposing America’s unipolar world empire?
“Pentagon unveils strategy for military confrontation with Russia and China”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/20/ndst-j20.html
“US admiral advocates war footing against China”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/20/harr-f20.html
In fact, the Anglo American “scum”–including America, Australia, and New Zealand–are now ratcheting up the same propaganda campaigns against China as they did with Russia. The parallels are chillingly similar with even a US Congressional commission advocating that employees of Chinese state media in the US be forced to register as “foreign agents”—just like employees of Russia’s RT America were recently compelled to do!
CIA director brands China “as big a threat to the US” as Russia
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/01/usch-f01.html
Anti-China dossier highlights target of Australian “foreign interference” bills
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/10/doss-f10.html
You must also be oblivious to America’s promotion of the Quad Alliance (Australia, Japan, India, and USA) as part of its anti-China axis? This Trump policy is merely a continuation of Barack Obama and his anti-Chinese “Pivot to Asia.”
“Washington Quad Alliance Targets China”
http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO2Feb2018.php
And you are apparently ignorant that America’s hostility towards North Korea is merely a stalking horse for threatening China (and Russia) using the pretext of North Korean “weapons of mass destruction”?
US Targets China & Russia Under Guise of ‘Korea Protector’
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/03/10/us-targets-china-and-russia-under-guise-of-korea-protector.html
And you must not have yet fathomed that America’s machinations in Southwest Asia are covertly aimed at destabilizing China’s New Silk Road economic projects, such as the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.
“Is Trump Afghan Policy Aimed at Taliban or at China?”
http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO12Jan2018.php
As for China “taking over” the American economy… if only this were true. The American menace and its malign brand of “free market” capitalism would have been rightfully terminated by now.
Though rationalized by Goebbelsian deceptions, the United States instinctively demonizes *any* nation (not just Russia) that poses a challenge to the USA’s Dollar dictatorship in particular and American “full spectrum dominance” of the planet in general.
— In my many contacts with Russians I notice one recurrent feature: most of them simply do not understand that they are at war and that the war which is being waged against them has absolutely no rules…
That is the very reason why Putin did not object to participation in the Games of those, who decided to go there. The continuing provocations against them – both on the eve of the Games (CAS decision against ‘clean athletes’ and in their course (curling – the latest example) – would be a bitter pill both for Russians and those in “civilized world” who sill do not see the real face of the failing Hegemon. Who has “absolutely no rules”…
I fully agree here, of course… And the Americans do not shake hands etc.. But why the hell all these Sputniks, Durans etc write so much about it? It was the highest stupidity for anyone from Russia to even go to the Olympics… Valerij Pjakin calls them traitors… and I think they deserve these punches… But Russia needs to fight back hard. The question is, should Mr. Putin not be already replaced outside of the regular elections by someone who could carry the same task, but with a bit of a punch. Finally… I know we are all afraid that there is nobody else with the same/similar qualities he has… But everybody is replaceable… What is happening in Syria is a consequence of not acting in a much harder manner…
Russia paid for their training/facilities/etc. so they should represent Russia and not a bullshit flag… They deserve it…
A good neocon is a dead neocon. Yankees have only slaves or enemy’s, no “friends” or “allies”. Never ever believe this liars. I’m sick to see all over the paces the renaissance of old Nazi policy. This is if you leave an old job unfinished, should wipe them out 75 years ago, up to Atlantic! Prepare for war, nuclear maybe, this psychopaths will don’t give up on their planes. So strike first! : )
Saker, I don’t see Russia walking away from any of the US barbarities in any kind of “impotent shame”. I see Russia setting a moral example that is admired by countless more people around the world than the relatively small group of brainwashed westerners.
I also see the US is destroying itself from a frenzy of hatred afforded by Russia and China doing nothing. So I wonder if the doing nothing is vastly more effective than doing something. This would be very Taoist, very Systema.
When the US hegemony collapses, there will need to be moral examples still standing to show nations how to behave. Russia will foremost in this position. I don’t think Russia loses by this doping episode – you say even the west sees it was fabricated. I don’t actually think this silly little trick enlarges the stature of the west so much as it demeans it even further.
Russia stands sane among crazies, and declines to act crazy, but waits for sanity to prevail. And turns the other cheek. One day, Russia may be forced to push back. On that day, all the bullying of the US will stop. It only needs to happen once, and only in the most righteous of circumstances.
Wise words my friend. My thoughts also. Russia is like a spirit of the Christ and that´s why I love her so much.
When all the European comprador elites got together in Munich, what was their unanimous message?
Spelling error?
When all the European comprador elites got together in Adolf’s city, what was their unanimous message?
That’s where he started his first attempts at world conquest. He didn’t get far. A short stop in Nuremberg and finally Berlin (also some overhyped city).
I dunno. I think you’re being too hard on the Russians. Personally, I feel bad for them, and embarrassed and ashamed of the people doling out this bad behavior.
However, we are, after all, talking about just a sporting event.
In the movie “Ghandhi”, the idea that the British had lost moral authority due to their violence and brutality, contrasting with non-violence of the Indians, made for a very powerful movie. Certainly, the Indians who participated in the Ghandian actions were not naive. Or have I been duped by the cinematic equivalent of “fake news”?
While there may be considerable cost to SOME Russians’s egos in that their good intentions are rewarded with insults, being Ghandi-like in a sporting event scenario is not asking too much, IMO.
In comparison, provocations by the West that cost Russian lives will probably elicit a more dramatic response than turning-the-cheek behavior, no matter what you or I think.
Perhaps ignoring provocations in the sporting world will allow the West to expend some of it’s malicious energy relatively harmlessly. Sort of like giving young males the opportunity to sublimate their aggression by encouraging them to box as a sport, rather than as a way to settle scores between gang members.
Those of us who are non-russian Russophiles are simply in awe at the angelic patience Russia displays after every provocation. Each one bolder and bloodied than the one before it.
In fact, many of us are outraged and demand retribution against the culprits. In fact we become frustrated at Russia’s seemingly endless well of grace and patience. And yet, patience almost invariably turns out to be the correct virtue and long term serves Russia well. We all recal the rage we felt at Turkey when they shot down the SU 24 and murdered the pilot. I personally wanted to see Turkey face severe punishment. But Russia’s careful response has proven to be correct. An emotional response, while satisfying in the short term, would have served Russia poorly in the long term. The same is true in Ukraine.
And the same is true in regards to the Olympics. The credibility of the West declines with each lie. Slowly, imperceptibly…But also irreversibly.
So I feel Russia’s decision to participate in the Olympics was the correct one, though we may not realize it for another 2 or 3 years.
Fascinating article. I am surprised to see The Saker call Russians naive. You would think they’re history would prepare them otherwise. I do not think it was a mistake for Russia to go to the games. Putin’s decision to let athletes decide for themselves was an excellent diffusionary tactic on his part. It took away an opportunity for western media to attack Russia. He absolutely did not take the bait. Now, the athletes from Russia tag for the Russian team looks ridiculous. But it looks ridiculous on the IOC, not Russia. I think the IOC is being exposed as petty.
The western MSM losses ground every day to YouTube and independent citizen journalists. No one under 40 in the West believes MSM over the internet. It is becoming lopsided and this is why the MSM gets more outlandish and desperate. They are fighting for more than a war against Russia. They are fighting for their very survival.
I’m Canadian and we are weak and pathetic in so many ways. But talking to an internet informed person versus a TV informed person is now like travelling between planets. Only senior citizens speak with information gleaned from television and even the intelligent ones sound incredibly stupid. The baby boomer ignorance is appalling.
Agree — I don’t think average American sports fans respect the IOC any more than they respect Roger Godell or the U.S. Congress. NBC can spin whatever they like, it does not make the IOC respected and money (PR) can’t buy you love.
The stupid people of the world are allowing the bully to have his way. Don’t blame the bully. He is not part of “The *Human* Condition”.
The corruption and abuses are endemic and pervasive. Your assessments and grievances apt and correct.
Its not going to change.
So in response here’s some wild ideas I am suggesting.
Upgrade the Asian Games to the Asia Invitational Free World Championships. Any team or individual can compete that qualify. Provide actual 99.9 % gold medals. Notify 20 drug testing companies, randomly choose 10, and then have athletes tested by a random 3 of those 10.
Broadcast or any rebroadcast of the games free live on the internet, any country or enterprise can film and provide commentary or translation in any language… creative commons.
Countries that want to host are randomly selected at random to host two years before the games, 10 year interval before a repeat hosting.
The AIFWC Committee chair, directors, officials, staff, referees, organizers are either volunteers or paid a wage commensurate of a fair standard of living. All AIFWC members are current professional athletes or former athletes and coaches.
Providing many opportunities for professional athletes who would like to remain connected with sports.
Tickets, advertising revenue, donations, sponsor support and games proceeds are all exclusively purposed for AIFWC continuation and improvement.
The Western paradigm has failed.
Its time to start fresh, remake the rules and games into something worthy of a free world.
Feelings of trust or affection felt in certain cases of kidnapping or hostage-taking by a victim toward a captor.
Stockholm Syndrome is what Russia suffers from!
The Russians at the 2018 Winter Olympics is like wearing the Jewish Star in 1938 Warsaw.
Wake up before it is too late!
“The Russians at the 2018 Winter Olympics is like wearing the Jewish Star in 1938 Warsaw.”
Yes, exactly. Listen Jesus: “Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord`s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.” Matthew 22: 42-43
Jimmie Carter paid heavily for pulling out of the 1980 summer olympics. .Vova gained hugely when the RF Hockey Team SLAUGHTERED team usa.
When the silly court ruled against Russia in upholding the ban, it was said that the court was under ‘intense pressure’. What does that mean: gun to the head?, pictures of their children getting on a school bus?, stack of unmarked bills? What was the Chain of Custody for the piss sample? We already know that the hegemon ignores standard protocols, as in the Syrian ‘gas attacks’. If judges can be ‘pressured’, what about a piss-courier?
Russians are not alone in their naiveté. Middle Americans of the “flyover” variety have been played in the same way, and for a much longer time. The oligarchs that control the media and pay off the politicians in DC have been openly disdainful of the interests and viewpoints of the average blue collar American, whose real wages have declined for over 40 years now, and have virtually spit in their faces since the Neocons took over under Reagan.
Yet, in spite of the fact that most US citizens have repeatedly said they want us out of foreign wars, still they tune in to the mind-numbing stupidity of Fox News or MSNBC, which may differ on domestic politics, but when it comes to the Zionist global agenda are in lock step together. They will continue to watch movies and TV shows that are openly disdainful of their values and the religion they profess to believe in. They will with a straight face argue about which of the 2 candidates they have to choose from that they will vote for, as if it is their sacred duty, even though the choice is almost always between twiddle-dum and twiddle-dee.
They do all these things, and then they wonder why nothing changes ever seems to change when “their guy” gets elected. They never seem to understand that “their guy” thinks they’re hicks and rubes and is only using them like an old shoe to get elected. In point of fact, “their guy” hates them, and so do all of the elites in academia, the media and, more importantly, the banking class, who have raped them raw for a full generation now.
You’d think by now the light bulb would come on, but no. I keep waiting for real anger to spill out onto the streets and it does, occasionally-against the wrong people. The neocons and elites never pay the price for their deception and cupidity. I’m not sure if what I’m seeing is a kind of Stockholm Syndrome, simple ennui, or just plain stupidity, but it’s high time they woke up just as the Russians are starting to.
I know that every time I mention this in the brain dead, reactionary, Christian zionist town I live in it is as close to violence as it can get without actually being physical.The only thing that can change this is the collapse of the American state. This is happening as we speak and I am waiting as patiently as the Russian government seems to be.
Don’t worry. Next Winter Olympics will be in China where such stings will be nipped in the bud and exposed. But before that, there is the Tokyo Olympics.
Russia should establish the Afro-Eurasian Games with China. That I think is the future.
I totally agree with you about the Olympics – horse stuff too is horrible – in Canada – the athletes have to pay for their own transportation – HORSES !~~!
And even within the country there is jealousy – and bitter resentment and crime – my acquaintance – Leslie Reid – was qualified – her horse was a tiny bit sick the day before the journey – and she was not allowed to go – even though she was sure her own horse was okay and would travel okay – it was AWFUL – so political –
Ann can you give details or links please?
The 3 Trade Centers were essentially a center beer can containing the elevator shafts connected to the outer beer can by floor trusses. In between was empty space. No columns or supports. Atrium’s several stories high. The wide open spaces were a big selling point. The outside walls were hollow square supports with sheet metal and windows. No concrete or stone except in the floor which allowed them to build in record time.Thus there was no way to taper these buildings, like most skyscrapers, because there was no way to support any inset as all the strength and support was in the outside and inner walls. When people think of any skyscraper they think Empire State with it’s close set massive guiders which made the whole building one strong unit. Thus when unbelievers wonder how a plane can bring down a building they think massive girder strong unit. If the Empire State is the Cadillac of buildings the 3 buildings at the trade center were Yugo’s. They were a revolutionary design but as one architect put it “we don’t build them like that anymore.” Wonder why. As far as building 7 it was heavily damaged at the base by debris from the other buildings that fell. Early on they set up a transom to measure building movement and concluded the building was going to come down.
We have all tried to crush a beer can and it takes some effort. But put a little dent in the side and a toddler can collapse it. Thus the buildings with their “innovative” construction were easy to bring down once breached and the terrorists knew it as at least one was an engineer. The 767 has a full load weight of 400,000 lbs which means it’s robustly built especially considering it has to withstand the extreme forces of turbulence. So yes the aluminum of the 767 can take out the not so robust uprights which leaves the uprights in the center, unless some were taken out, and other side to hold up millions of pounds with the weight of the top stories trying to lean over. Building 7 had at least one corner at the base wiped so we have a beer can trying to lean over with with millions of pounds pushing on nothing but air.
No one has ever offered any proof the buildings were blown. Some claim they found traces of explosive but if the buildings were blown you’d piles not traces of explosive evidence. In watching the buildings collapse the windows were blown out as the stories above fell. If explosives were used the windows would blow out then the story above would fall.
Many claim the government had something to hide so they quickly excavated the buildings to hide the evidence. A great many first responders and people who worked in the cleanup ended up with chronic illness and died. With toxic materials in the rubble along with decomposing bodies, there’s a reason we bury the dead quickly or embalm them, the site was a disease tragedy in the making. Piles of rubble are not a secure covering.
Unless they have been removed there are videos of the construction of the Trade Center buildings. Watch them and see my point.
Is it a false flag by the US government or in cahoots with Saudi Arabia and or Israel? If it is the plot wasn’t hatched or planned on US soil as too many people would be involved. Going overseas and to a tight knit foreign organization with loyal employees would entail only a handful of them contrary to the thought at the time it was a large organization. Round up a few patsies, do a little planning, send them some cash, and off we go. At the time security was pretty lax and for years we were told if there was a hijacking sit back and relax as most hijacks ended peacefully. At the time you couldn’t make cell phone calls from planes say the skeptics and they are right. Unfortunately for their theory every plane I flew on during that time period had air phones on the back of every seat. Odds are these planes were also equipped. No one ever used them because they were very expensive. My vote goes to an Israeli only operation. Just as with the USS Liberty they know the US will suck it up and not do squat to them. Even if someone leaked it they wouldn’t be believed.
How come the official US government report said the buildings collapsed because the airplane fuel burned and caused high temperature that melted the steel structure? Did the government missed your beer can theory?
You can crush a beer can easier if there is dent on the side ONLY IF ALL THE WEIGHT IS APPLIED FROM THE TOP. So, for beer cans 1 and 2, all the weight of the masses of the buildings happened to be placed on the roofs?
Oh, carnages must be cleaned away quickly for hygiene reasons, and someone was careful enough to pick out just the right passport deep underneath all the debris?
You need to tell a better story than this to swing the minds of skeptics like us here, buddy.
Of course, the melting steel theory of the said government took a terrible slap on the face when that building in England burned for a whole day and didn’t melt.
I post some credit to structural engineers that seems feasible a controlled demolition.
I being an structural enginer do not discard them.
the buildings were designed to withstand such a posibility (being hit by an airplane) long enough to permit evacuation.
the main damage to the structure it is not because of the loss of some structural support (not enough to provoque collapse) but the effects on the steel structure of the fire, the planes were half loaded with jet fuel at least (a normal fire for long enough time causes some changes in the plasticity and resistance of steel and then collapse due to this loss of strengh) the collapse was inevitable but not so soon
also there are some details that raise some questions…
but I suposse we will never know the truth. as the real culprits and all associates are surely in their farms (6 by 3 feet sq) resting in peace (usual procedures of CIA Et cetera to not leave loose ends)
bye
how did we get this off topic? never mind..
there is only one way a building collapses at freefall speed.
it can only happen if you remove SIMULTANEOUSLY all structural resistance.
there is only one know way to achieve it. it is called controlled demolition.
check the patents for nano thermites from the company owned by the same bush cousin? that owned the towers security contract and the airports where the “hijacked” planes left.
if that is not enough, learn demolition explosives handling. in particular, cutter charges, it will be easy afterwards to find proof of usage in many pictures going around the internet.
don’t want to learn military grade stuff? no worries, back to phisics 101… check david chandler’s youtube videos.
if after that you still believe the official version, please let me know… I have around here somewhere an eiffell tower to sell you…
The mistake the IOC, evil twin to Dr. Nassar, chose a curler? The Keystone Cops ride again. What was he planning to do? Throw the rock overhand to the far end of the rink? More IOC/CIA stupidity!
The Eurovision scandal should have been a lesson for Russia to stay away from western events that are so clearly and obviously rigged. The world is so much bigger and greater outside of the little Anglo-zionist club.
What about, was it 8?, “heart attacked” and bumped off Russian officials in 2016, even Putin’s own driver for G-d’s sake, all the servicemen, one Major killed by CIA, Pentagram and their cutthroat proxies in Syria, not to mention Russian defense scientists that was killed under mysterious circumstances?
Yes it is a war on all fronts and since Russia keeps walking into these traps over and over again she really deserves it.
I didn’t watch the Olympics for those obvious reasons and i’m not going to watch “Eurovision” (it was another thing all together before 90’s and the eastern circus was allowed to participate) if Russia decides to get yet another dose of humiliation this year.
I can’t believe i’m saying this but Zhirinovsky is right, Russia should stop being defensive and start being offensive, she may not be liked (but what’s the difference anuyway) but she will be feared and respected.
I know i know, The Bully and his little gang of giggling Eurof-gs interprets all this as Russia being “weak” and we all know that it is the other way around, but it wont prevent him from planning and executing delusions such as a “first strike” on Russia does it?
sigh, agreed Saker. And they will try to spoil soccer, too, in a month or two.
Hatred. It is the demon of hatred and lies. I see it in people’s eyes as spittle flies from their mouths when they curse Trump and hope for his death. What used to be regular people. Infested. One of my neighbors said, ” I hate him so much I can scarcely breathe”. It is free floating, all consuming with nothing to counterbalance it. And no reason for it. Yet the truth of the matter is this:
It wants us all dead. Every last one of us.
Is it possible to call anonymously the WADA after you put the thing in the bottle or anything ? If yes, you forgot the call to make sure this athlete will be teste for that thing.
Time for alternatives to the Olympics, FIFA, and other sporting events.
If, as the Saker says, theses are instruments of war then it is better to fight these on your own terms.
If done well, it will cause these events to wither away as more countries are attracted to and compete in the alternatives.
Any ideas on how it could be done?
Moving on the the football worldcup, there will be imported hooliganism from the Ukie diaspora in RF or directly fron Banderatsna as was the case in Marseille during the latest EU football cup held in France in 2016.
Rumours had that a fishboat with 200-300 pravii sektor hooligans made it to the vieux port in Marseille via a Cyprus fishing boat (Kolomoyski?).
Police was critized in marseilles for letting things slip between English hooligans and so called Russian hooligans. And local taned hooligans joine dthe party but the blame was put on evil Rusky hooligans.
Media was sidding with english hooligans anyway,as if there was a good side (even for gullible public watching TV news)
Most importantly video surveillance cams in the Velodrome stadium showed “russian” supporters with Taras Boulba tattoos. And it was not an isolated case really… and these were the most violent ones leading the sheep.
https://gaideclin.blogspot.fr/2016/06/marseille-pourquoi-un-hooligan-russe.html
With the 5th col + Ukie diaspora + US embassy in Moscow, they’ll clearly be able to reproduce the same pattern. Not the first time that radical politiczed (and western sponsored) hooligans would be used.
Remember may 2nd 2014 in Odessa?!
That is off course if war in Donbass doesn’t break up beforehand and they don’t force a Russian intervention and then ask for a boycott of the worldcup. Just a few teams off in one or two groups, would serioulsy disrupt the event, it’s not like the Olympics….
They maybe realizing that whatever they do before next month will have no effect and therefore they maybe inclined to dedicate all their efforts to the football world cup.
Poroshenko said he exepected a new ‘nex Frame’ with regards to the Ukie army and the controversial law on Donbass and full rcombat readiness by April. We’ll soon find out anyway….
I did not read
[ and don’t want to read ]
the British newspaper
who doubts in the story about Alexander Krushelnitsky,
because I am sure when a British newspaper try to defend injustice inflicted upon Russian people – still they will write “Putin dictator” and the Russian state has no legitimacy to exist and must end up as Carthage.
The world has turned into a three ring circus and ladies and gentlemen, for the main attraction, let’s have a round of applause for the Great American Freak Show!
There’s 2 possible views to Russia’s reactions to the “war”:
The optimistic: trying to gain time by “appeasing” the enemy and pretending to be naive, like the soviets did with Germany right before WWII.because time is on their side.
The pessimistic: we are really doomed
I think these are the only 2 answers because this is being Russia pattern behaviour in all “war fronts”, and I think will not change until Putin retires.
Events happen as they should, it’s a reflection of the times.
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The ill-intent manifested in the wrong sport so one is to assume these efforts are probably generalized across all Russian won events in a hit or miss fashion.
It does not bode well for the IOC nor the host South Korea for not securing the sanctity of a win, so everyone looses to this memorable event, and the organizers deserve the scandal they evoked.
As absurd as this sounds, this is the way it was supposed to be.
However
Russia will honor this couple in its own cool-headed gracious way.
Finally
In spite of his twisted sense of righteousness, in the twilight of his service, President Clinton proclaimed “In the end good prevails over evil”.
Here on the US’s largest aircraft carrier (the UK), we get the usual nationalistic fervour, but not having many winter Olympians to hype, our state broadcaster naturally hypes anyone from Team USA. Take, for example, the women’s downhill skiing. The host of the broadcast was on tenterhooks – can Lyndsey Vonn get gold? Viewers were treated to a short bio and lots of analysis, etc etc. Turns out Lyndsey was beaten to the gold by a woman who was in fact leading the World Cup downhill standings. So obviously the favourite going into the event. But we viewers are asked to admire the American, because, well she is American. We have to thrill at the thought of a Team USA gold! This has happened across many of the other events. I don’t know how many expatriate Americans live in the UK, but probably not as many expat Australians, South Africans, New Zealanders, Europeans, Jamaicans, etc etc. The BBC also played down the performance of the Russian women ice skaters. Its website featured only highlights from their record-breaking efforts. Above this story on the page we were treated to a feature on whether Lyndsey Vonn thinks she has another four years in her for the next winter Olympics. I’m really not sure how many people watch the Olympics. The time difference isn’t great, so the highlights programs are what most people view I think. Throwing our lot in with the Americans has done us no end of harm but the elites and their media handmaidens must keep pumping out the message: USA Good! USA Good! If you want to see bad losers and graceless winners, roll on the LA games in 2028. I predict record levels of nauseating behaviour from the asthmatics (aka athletes) and crowds alike. Oh, and no Russians of course. Unless they have Yeltsin mark 2 in charge. Phooey to the lot of them.
I have lived in the west for a long time . I was educated in the West. The school books that we used were all anti Russian. History of WWII had one or two paragraphs about Russia and ten pages about UK and USA. The Red scare was front and center. “One Day in the Life Of Ivan Denisovic”, Orwell’s, “Animal Farm”, and 1984 were required reading in the English classes. We did not get Tolstoy, Lermontov. Pushkin or Gorki but we sure got “I Was a Spy for the FBI, and Rocky IV “shit” . We never saw a picture of a good looking Russian women , all our books had pictures of Babas who were overweight and don’t get me wrong I loved my Serbian baba since there is no one in the world better than ones baba. Remember the Media frenzy about stray dogs in Sochi. Well we euthanize over 2000 of them in my small town in Canada but no one says anything about the fact that Korea has over 17000 kennels were dogs are raised for food and that over 30 million dogs are eaten in Asia. During the Calgary Olympics some years ago a Russian athlete was kidnaped and held for three days until the press had their fill of a defecting Russian and the poor guy somehow managed to get away and get back to his team but not a word about that. You know what big mistake that the Russian athletes were sent to Korea. Many of the western athletes are mental midgets when it comes to politics and salivate like Pavlov’s dogs any time a negative thing is said about Russia. I like this web site http://siberiantimes.com/home/ on Eastern Russia an eye opener for anyone interested in the open spaces of Siberia.
@ Vuki
I agree with most of your statements with a small explanation for those unacquainted with Serbian expression ‘baba’, meaning ‘grandma’ or ‘granny’ (in Russian this means ‘a simple woman’, ‘a peasant woman’, insofar as I’m acquainted with Russian), and especially the one regarding US films depicting Soviet women as square, ugly, masculine, brutish etc. The first that come to my mind were 007 films, before Olga Kurylenko in ‘Quantum of solace’ (although she is Ukrainian, as per Wikipedia).
However, I can not agree that Orwell’s ‘Animal farm’ and ‘1984’ are anti-Russian. Anticommunist, yes. Anti-Russian, no. He returned from the Spanish civil war deeply disillusioned (as also described in ‘Homage to Catalonia’) and was not the only one deeply disillusioned by communism, as was Arthur Koestler (Darkness at noon). I do not blame them for such emotions, after all, they were well acquainted with communism firsthand.
The trouble with most people in the West (NOT you, let me emphasize here and now) is that they equal Soviet with Russian and USSR with Russia , while in essence, Russian people were the greatest victims of Bolshevik revolution and Stalin’s regime. When USSR fell apart, western animosity switched to Russia. We Serbs experienced the same during Yugoslav civil wars, when being Serb was equaled with ‘communist’ while Slovenians, Croats were ‘democratic, pro-western’, although Serbian people were the greatest victims of communist oppression both during and after WW II and Croats were Hitler’s staunchest allies, up to his bitter and well-deserved end. The Poles in their hatred of everything Russian, regard present day Russia accountable for Katyn massacre and demand that Russia (!) declares it as genocide (which it was not, but it was a mass murder of outstanding proportions), although it was master minded by Stalin (a Georgian) and executed by Beriya (a Georgian) and NKVD, Soviet regime (and not Russian) secret police. Therefore, I am not surprised that both books you mention were obligatory literature for English classes, although, sincerely, I liked ‘Animal farm’ very much and bought it for my children to read in both Serbian and English, because the book in essence is a metaphore and refers to all the politicians both than and nowadays. ‘1984’? Big brother is watching you, both in UK (a country with the biggest number of observation cameras per capita) and USA where homeland security agencies monitor all sort of communications and amendments to constitution are continuously disregarded.
Could someone please inform me whether US basketball players, all coming from NBA, have ever been tested for drugs during Olympics (they participate since 1992), or they have been exempt from drug testing?
I have to resend this, my apologies, bad Internet connection
You remind me of the NATO briefings I used to listen to on BBC when NATO bombed Serbia (and I believed it all – only years later I realized I was lied to).
Regarding education – I studied in London – when I did my degree in Economics – all they taught us was Friedman BS – how to steal from the poor and give to rich. It took me a decade to unlearn that shit.
when I did my degree in Psychology (also in England) – they never even mentioned psychopaths (the biggest problem we face today) – only relatively harmless schizophrenics.
My masters at Imperial College (usually voted top in the world) was also kind of crappy and average – I did not learn my useful things there.
Remember in Serbia – the first story they taught us was (I think from the 1001 Nights) – how you cannot please everyone – so don’t even try. The other story (moral of the story was kind of like Lord of the Ring – we need to all unite to achieve something) – when the grandfather tried to pull out a big radish, then baba had to help, their son too, then kids , dog, cat – only when the mouse helped – they managed to succeed.
It was all about collaboration.
Meanwhile in the US I read recently – children hardly spend any time at collaborating:
“A 2007 U.S. government survey of 737 fifth-grade classrooms found that the students spent over 90 percent of their class time working solo or listening as a class to teacher lectures, while spending almost no time—not even 5 percent of the day—working collaboratively.” (from Smarter Than You Think)
I also read in a book by the director of Max Plank Institute in Berlin (Risk Savy) – that Russians believe the least amount of Medical BS studies and misleading medical advice given by incompetent doctors . The sheeple who believed the most were Brits – they believed anything doctors told them
This tells you all you need to know about education there.
Also most of my English friends studied at Oxford or Cambridge – they were all pro – Hilary and believed everything they see on CNN and other fake news – I was really disappointed. And they are not at all critical about anything – they are like obedient numbed down anglosheeple.
In the grand scheme of things, it’s part of the slow psychological conditioning affecting both sides. How do you start a fight? By harassing and provoking either side, first picking the low hanging fruits and going upwards. The Saker’s reaction is classic expected result :)
The quintessential Sun Tzu, somewhat of a cliche : Convince your population that a war is necessary or justified to receive their full backing. Secure your national unity. Without it, you cripple your war machine.
WW1, WW2 had the same pattern.
It took several years, but all had the same predictable result.
If anyone wants to prevent a war, find a way to break that pattern.
He who tries by any means possible to avoid war in a situation where the opponent thirsts for it, will fight it anyways. Only on far worse terms. – Igor Strelkov
People who will not fight eventually will be eaten by those who will fight. – Dr. William Luther Pierce
Nope. That’s a misunderstanding of concept. Those quotes are pretty meaningless and derail from the actual subject. Homo-sapiens aka humans are a warlike race to the point that it becomes common sense to be ready for any type of aggression. In the modern age, it’s somewhat diluted but nevertheless still applicable.
Igor Strelkov & Dr. William Luther Pierce merely reinforces the human common sense. Nothing more.
The average day-to-day American, Russian, Chinese, Brits, Germans, French etc. dislike war. Why? There’s no benefit to anyone. It’s a lose-lose situation. They lose family members from false unecessary wars, lose travel freedom, lose out on the economy from supply disruptions, lose friends on the other side, mass deaths if it escalates to nuclear war, higher risk of biological/medical pandemic … ad nauseum, you get the picture.
Because of this, when the leader of the government decides to go to war (a decision made within the cirle of the select few, nothing could go wrong right?), they need the backing of the public aka the masses. Without it, two things happen :
– it’ll be short-lived war
– the war never materializes
Break their ability to receive this backing by any means, you break the war.
Naturally, this works best against the belligerently provocative side who’s looking for a fight, rather than the defensive side.
“The average day-to-day American, Russian, Chinese, Brits, Germans, French etc. dislike war. Why? There’s no benefit to anyone.”
Actually there are many who work for in defense industry – and are raising their families on this money. Wars and bombing mean more employment and money for those manufacturing the arms. Plus it is often distant countries and civilians who are being hurt – it is no skin off these large countries’ noses if people from other nations get killed and they don’t. The defense industry is HUGE in these countries. Also, the stock market goes up during some wars and many Americans are pleased with that.
You also have many people (most all men) who do like to join the military and war is exciting for them. They are bored with civilian life.
The masses don’t care about Yemenis, for example, being genocided if the media isn’t hyping it.
Many in the defence industry, yes. Majority no.
(starting to wonder if I’m attracting trolls because the original comment struck close to home :) )
If the masses are unimportant to the whole war equation, no one would be spending the effort. You wouldn’t see all these petty child fights and obvious provocations in the media. Zero gain from the economic, diplomacy and goodwill perspective.
It’s exists for a purpose. That purpose is to change the masses’ sentiments.
Throw a spanner into this, you’re more than likely to madden the warmongers :)
QED.
P.S. Ironically, imo the defence industries would benefit more from a multi-polar world demands in the long-term. Build up of defensive weapons and internal security markets to maintain the balance. Common sense in action.
Huge “In Your Face!” from a Russian 15-year old.
They tried to destroy her performance by interrupting her practice session and depriving her of her last practice. Four hours of interruption to take blood and urine.
She came back with a World Record! Alina Zagitova, heroine at 15!
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/02/19/dave-lindorff/mcmaster-of-war/?utm_source=LRB+blog+email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180220+blog+US&utm_content=usca_nonsubs
A what did the arrogant competitor from the USA do? She bitched about Alina’s program and how the performance was not well-constructed. Bitched about the World Champ while she herself couldn’t even qualify for the Olympics.
As an American, the shame by some of the Americans at this Olympics toward the Russians is disgusting. Some Americans would not even ride in the same elevator with Russians. Now this story of a loud mouth loser commenting on Alina’s program.
The exceptional nation has reached a new low. Some Americans have become mind-massaged against Russia, just like the nazis of Ukraine.
https://sputniknews.com/olympics-2018-news/201802211061859397-olympic-figure-skating/
But today, all hail Alina Zagitova! Hurrah!
This guy is most likely a scapegoat created by the Russian Olympic Committee, to show that they are finally doing their job properly or a willing to comply.
Single dose of meldonium has no benefit & makes no sense – drug inventor on Russian curler’s case
https://www.rt.com/sport/419390-meldonium-inventor-krushelnitsky-doping/
“It makes no sense to take meldonium on a single occasion as one needs to take it for at least ten days for the effect of protecting [the organism] from oxygen-deficit in tissues and organs to emerge,” Kalvins told RT. He added that the drug would also hardly enhance an athlete’s performance in curling, as extreme or vigorous physical activity is not typical in the sport.
The specialist assumed that the positive doping test of the Russian curler can be a result of “unlawful actions taken by some interested party,” since meldonium has “no particular taste and is very soluble in water.” Food or water containing meldonium could be the real source of the drug that was found in the athlete’s samples, Kalvins said, adding that he hopes that “such possibility would be thoroughly examined by the officials.”
The idea that the curler’s food or drink could have been spiked with meldonium was already expressed by the Russian Curling Federation President Dmitry Svishchev, who emphasized that Krushelnitsky’s most recent sample, prior to the games, was clean.
“There’s a possibility of it being something within the team, that something happened during training camp, or as a political means to achieve some goal,” the official said, vowing to find those behind the possible frame-up.”
If the frame up was organised by the cia, then either trump or pence gave the go ahead. Most likely pence, since he appears to run things in that israeli quisling regime, while trump has all he can handle with the twitter account and keeping up with what the zio-gay media (fake liberal division) says about him.
Also, if the ioc and wada ignore or only superficially consider the frame up possibility, it will be a confession from them that they also we’re a part of the framing.
When will we ever learn!?”
I keep saying the same thing.
When will people who claim to support Russia ever learn to understand language and how it works on the mind, on perceptions and self-image?
Why do you persist in lumping Russia in with a non-defined non official vague, unreal area called “Eurasia”?
The mind when reading – once we are adults – scans, takes the first syllable, or the first and last letters and completes the word in light of pre-existing perceptions.
Eur… means Europe. To all who read this, Europe is partly the EU – a political power block, – but mainly the core countries which occupy the Western Atlantic Spur of the Northern Continental Massif on which the nation of Russia is found, and which she dominates.
The term “Eurasia” has been popularised by the philosopher, Dugin, who however, stated that it has only one meaning, and that is Russia’s never ending battle with the West, which seeks now as it always has, Russia’s total destruction. “There is one only meaning of “Eurasia” and this is it” he says.,
However, for reasons known mainly to themselves, [apart from those of us who are awake to the uses Edward Bernays and Madison Avenue puts language to ], The West has decided it has the right to name either the entire continent, or bits of it. I say this as it is so common to see the word “Eurasia” used in conjunction with “Europe” and “China” for example, as contrasting concepts. For example one can read “Russia is trying to become dominant in Eurasia, whereas Europe counters this idea”. If “Eurasia” includes Classical Europe – then Europe is already covered.
I fact, pan-Europeanism was coined by Count Coudenhove-Kalergi – a half Austrian half Japanese aristocrat with too little to think about ” in order to [a] form a mass of people with no national characteristics or identity to make them easier for white aristocrats to rule and [b] to “counter Russian hegemony”.
Clearly, “Europe” means in the main Germany, with backup from France, Italy, Greece, Austria, the Netherlands and Brussels!! These were the original, core “Europe” and they are what we know as “Europe” now. Asia is the same, it meant “East of here” i.e. Greece. The West has never accepted that Russia exists between Europe and the Far East, and is still trying to fit her somewhere that suits it’s agenda.
I read so many articles in which “Russia” is meant by the word “Eurasia”. The moderator of the EEF said “Russia is the only country in Eurasia”. One Russian writer referred to “Europeans of Slavic goup” meaning Russians.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica, written and published and owned out of Chicago, USA, refers to “The European Steppes ” where once existed The Russian Steppes. The EB tells us that “there is no such place as “The Taiga” as taiga is merely a Russian word meaning “wood”. Eat your heart out for your idea of a national symbol, Mr. Putin !!
Now Germany has immensely distressed the very stupid Poles because they thought they were Europeans, and it turns out this means that Germany can and will totally destroy an ancient, iconic forest in order to mine for —lignite– the most carbon dirty useless version of coal around. Are the Russian steppes to meet the same fate?
The thing is, every country that self identifies with Europe gets a name in Eurasia. Every country that acknowledges it is part of “Asia” [few Asians do, actually, its another Western construct] gets a mention. But which country is ignored here? Which one is not referred to, as if she doesnt exist?
And when even her friends do this to her, why are you surprised that so many Russians seem to have a dreadful sense of inferiority, that they accept the contempt metered out to them by Anglos and Euros, and take it in silence?. Not one word has been heard from Russia denying that “Russia has a European half”, nor of rejecting the use of the this pernicious word “Eurasian” – Russians seem not to realise that to be silent is always always always taken to mean consent.
They want to be seen as “Europeans” because they think this is the only way to be accepted as less than a load of thuggish peasants, as they have been portrayed. They accept being spat on by the IOC because so many of them appear to think they deserve no better.
When even her friends promote use of a word to describe her which mentions one of her worst Historical enemies, yet maintains a silence on identifying “Russia” why are you surprised that they think they are “Children of a Lesser God” ??
Saker ,as you have pointed out there is an undeclared war going on against Russia . It is ,not only the Anglo Zionist Empire at work , but also the controllers of the empire . The government of the USA , Great Britain , Canada , Australia and the vassals Germany , Italy , France etc, etc . are all controlled by the same machine the IZXS or the International Zionist Crime Syndicate . It makes me laugh when I hear of Nitwitniahu going to Moscow to confer with Putin , that kindly talks to a guy that should be kicked in the ass and told to get lost .
It makes me laugh when I hear , the supreme diplomat Lavrov , addresses as ” partners ” the criminals that try to screw Russia at every turn . It made me laugh when , visiting Russia , the FSB was monitoring me e my wife . So despite the economic war ,and war of different type , fortunately non hot yet , the Russian government cooperates with the Western criminal secret agencies .
This abnormal situation cannot last long , I think that soon , something could go wrong with the dollar and then most problems will be resolved . It is the only way to achieve a resolution without killing people .
For what it’s worth, I agree that Russia should not have gone. But the temptation is great, the propaganda is loud, and it takes time to change a colonized or nearly-colonized mentality. Which is why I think that the government did well to facilitate athletes’ participation, for now. To ease the withdrawal. But next time it will be different, I’m sure.
I’ve been on this earth for a long time and never seen anything like the pantomime death-row circus currently in play, even before times, when not on the earth and looking down on it it never ever looked like this before…
While i very often agree with your brilliant analyses, in this special case i have an opposite view.
In your article you don’t mention a major event that this international peaceful meeting gives the opportunity to take place. Something of a repprochment between the two Koreas.
This is very meaningful and i have some doubts about the possibility to set it up in any other context.
In our west countries everybody who is interested in sports, especially professional sports, is very aware of a very large doping addiction. That is why our mainstream medias tries to convince their gullible readers that in Russia the doping is organized at the state level.
For Russia to participate even in these very shallow conditions means: 1) not to cut links with the international community 2) give the opportunity to their athlets who trained themself for this major event to compete If they win everybody aknowledges that this is a russian Victory.
And i suggest that in a future article you investigate the main differences between national feeling and nationalism. The confusion between these two stances is cultivated by our politicians, corrupt philosoph, geopolitical pundits in order to disqualify any resistance to the dismemberment of state Under the neoliberalism ruling.
What the IOC assholes are promulgating is that the Russian Flag or the National Anthem does not exist . This means that Russia doesn’t exist according to the sick minds that are pushing ‘this’. My message to All sane Humans participating or viewing the Olympic games in Korea is -don’t accept this demeaning Orwellian BS . Wave a Russian Flag and play the Anthem when they win Gold ,don’t let these Bastards ruin a sporting event that so many have come and learned to cherish . The Olympics are a symbol of Peace not War ,let the warmongers rot in their bile.
Exactly. Well said.
You see this over and over in all media from the West. One paper runs a photo-spread of “most beautiful lakes / mountains/ scenery / villages, women etc etc —- from ALL OVER THE WORLD. Every continent and big nation will appear. Russia will not 90% of the time.
See information being collected about the drastic fall in semen counts from everywhere – but not Russia.
See them construct a map of World beauty spots, most fascinating villages, they will be everywhere, except, a “black empty spot” on the planet. It’s where Russia is.
Read the UK press about the Olympics. Mention of everything, most of all the “meldonium incident”, but not one word, not one picture of two beautiful highly skilled athletic young women who both broke world records.
Never ever record of the achievements of Russians, the growth of Russia, her record breaking wheat yields.
Why??
Because they can’t let her exist; she doesn’t exist.
It’s why they want to subsume her into “Eurasia”. The entire continent would then be identified as Europe [i.e. Germany, France] and Asia [i.e. China, Japan] —- then Russia ceases to exist.
That is why, you see, they banned her anthem, her flag, her colours.
To try and make not exist.
And as long as Russia lets them do this, as long as she accepts the names, designations, rules, which these Western SoB’s slap on her — they are winning the war of perceptions.
Yip Saker, you are spot on. They should start their own Olympic games with China and the other BRIC members. But..they already paid the “fine” – $ 15 million – to cover the “costs” for the WADA flipping doping investigation. What a laughable situation if I were not crying aready
For a balanced MSM view from Australia see here. Notes that doping in curling is so odd as to be regarded as a joke and entertains the possibility of the athlete’s drink being spiked:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-21/alexander-krushelnitsky-curling-why-would-curler-dop/9470276
US Christian Right must be shackled heart and mind to the machine of state in this war to end all wars almost upon us. Jim Bakker…an American Redemption…is backed. He will be given every little assistance. This little rivulet will grow into a tsunami mark my word.
Behold a false prophet ariseth:
https://www.sott.net/article/378055-Hes-back-Former-PTL-televangelist-Jim-Bakker-returns-warning-Christians-to-prepare-for-the-Apocalypse
Quite curious that curling guy got the drag. Someone else was targeted?
My guess was that the athletes from other sports are much more cautious about what they consume. The more ‘athletic’ athletes are used to a testing regime where even taking something very innocent looking can result in a positive drug test and thus cause them huge problems.
So, its just a guess, but perhaps the curlers aren’t that cautious and thus got busted by taking something innocent looking that the skiers passed by out of long-ingrained habit?????
A Slovenian hockey player tested positive for doping soon after Slovenia beat the U.S. in hockey.
I get the feeling that many test positive, but only if it is politically useful will they be exposed.
U.S. was angry at Slovenia, so they decided to expose one of their players, Ziga Jeglic.
Many of these athletes are on the asthma drugs.
The Russian athelets should be able to decide whether they want to attend the Olympics. But they should also know what they are getting into. I suspect many of them do given that at the Brazil Olympics a custom developed to roundly boo any Russian in any sport. And now the winter Olympians are getting a taste. Maybe some group can develop training for the athelets for both major international meets and the Olympics in possible ways that “bad actors” will attempt to use them for anti-Russian propaganda. Steel them for the crap they will have to endure.
When I read arrogant fat moral finger pointing at Russian Olympians my reply recently has been:
“Yah. Russians dope their Olympians. Americans rape their Olympians.”
“Russian Curlers Stripped of Olympic Medals Over Doping Probe”
If Russia don’t get it by now…..
Payback perhaps? Who not slip something in the US curling team’s meal?
I believe there is one important point in the article, that is; today many events (from Olympics to Eurovision song contest) are corrupt, soulless and vulgar. Also yes Russia has the potential to restore back their souls and make them meaningfull things again, may be the only country with that potential at the moment (this is sad though). Mind you, I am saying all these as a foreigner who has only very recently get to know what Russia is really all about. However my humble opinion is that she has to do it not by leaving the game and forming her own show, but by staying in the game and showing everyone her strength, endurance and most importantly her moral stance. I do not believe that Russians are “naive” or “stupid” because they believe in the existance of rules which everyone should follow, as claimed in the article. This belief, on the contrary is the very strength of the Russians. They fight for what they believe to be right but not just for the sake of winning. And here is the best part, they often win (especially recently!). My feeling is that this is what gains a substantial ammount of support and sympathy for Russia despite all the negative propaganda. “Russians can be ruthless time to time but they are very moral cautious people, they have a very real sense of what is right and what is wrong, however in the West politicians talk about morality, tolerance etc. but in essence they are liars and cheats” is the opinion that is growing. Some sense of morality is what we need to survive as humans, however the sense of wright and wrong is getting completely squeezed out of everyting. Some “naivity” feels very good these days. Of course next time Russia will be better prepared for all these cheap tricks and they will expose themselves much less and much better expose the swindles of the others, but please do not see all these, olympic games, song contests and all, only as something “Russia against the West”, and do not approach only in patriotic terms, or in context of simply coming on the top, it is something with much much wider implications.
What the Russians do not understand is how hated they are by some in the West. These Deepstaters and others project their aggression to Russia, and it comes back to them as fear and hatred (same thing) of Russians.
Obviously, there is no such aggression on the side of the Russians, as they expect nothing similar from the other side.
There is a difference between the two mentalities, I feel. The western one is more prone to xenophobia and aggressive as a consequence. The Russian one has a tendency to separation fear, the fear of becoming an outcast and alone. That is my feeling and intuition on this subject, at least.