Maybe time to give another try, with the 'old/new' parallels thing; we can only hope that 'local' attack dawgs will forgo the rabid hijack thing... and let this line of thinking finally have an airing.
Old is new... all over agin. Prigozhin - and the Chechen Leprechaun for that matter too - is an AUXILARY of the (neo-bolshie)imperium. He and his forces are barbarians from beyond the (allowable)borders of "the Third Rome - tm." They fight/forward murder weapons/fulminate coups & implicitly threaten a SACK of the holy city on the Muscovy ... because the Emperor is weak, his forces are disloyal or declining in number and ability both... and because ALL empires end up trying to save themselves via buying off the foe at their gates.
And this time around, there are no brave and capable Legionary commanders able to save the center. Surovikin barely managed to save his own hide, and get out of Kherson with some semblance of dignity. Nobody else waiting in the wings to save the day...
save for... the horrible Huns like Prigo & the Leprechaun. No imaginary "afghan commandos," Syrian guerrillas, even Siberian tigers. Vlad will throw "imperial aurei" at the duo until they get tired of eating off gold plate and drinking from silver goblets. - and start hunting for better sport in the coliseum itself.
Hitler's imaginary army to hold at the Elbe/Dnipro. The Turkic/Muslim mercenaries who deserted the Emperor at the battle of Manzikert. Vlad's persistent delusion of 'a decisive victory' over the 'holhols.' Every night now, the waking nightmares invade the jittery dreamscape of the new/old Czar.
Prigo snickers in the forelight of the camp fires where he and his crew eat meat dripping with fat from gawd only knows what sources. Somewhere out there in the night, another "battle group" is in it's death throes, and the balance of power shifts ever more towards the horde and it's horrible master.
Russia tried to show too eagerly how civilized they are, how they are on their best behavior and how they respect the international law, how they stand for the high humanist ideals etc. since Gorbi coming to power in 1985. They still continue the same rhetoric through their Foreign Affairs office and basically by all top level officials, including Putin's spokesman Peskov. But ask yourself, where has it gotten them? I'm talking here about the situation even before the start of the SMO in February of this year. They lost their big country (USSR) and their influence in at least 20% of the world. They got NATO right at their doorstep. Citizens of Russia in Western countries are treated as potential criminals. Russian sports was destroyed and Russia is humiliated by not even being allowed to display national symbols at the international events. Russian diplomats are treated as a scum, they are constantly expelled and not allowed into places like UN HQ in New York. But to "pay back" for all this mistreatment through capital flight and trade disbalance Russia has gifted to the West over 3 trillion dollars since 1994 and the process continues today - capital flight from Russia to the West is expected to reach record $243 billion this year and trade imbalance will exceed $200 billion. Russian CB and the government continue to do nothing about it.. So taken into account all of that and Western support for the terrorist forces working against Russia in places like Chechnya two decades ago and now in Ukraine, that uses terrorist methods (think of killing of Darya Dugina or mass executions of unarmed Russian PoWs) isn't now the time there was a person like Prigozhin to balance out all that sweetness in official Russian talk? Should they still care what the representatives in Europarliament think or say when they declared Russia a terrorist sponsoring state and when the head of EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen insists on war to complete destruction of Russia to the last Ukrainian?
As for Putin, his dedication to the globalist agenda (except for LGBTQ+), to his oligarch friends against the interests of ordinary Russians, this guy makes me nauseous.
Honestly, the European Parliament which received the war hammer has been the most hostile european anti-russian entity of all, with the possible exception of Ukraine. They were asking for SWIFT blockade even back then in 2014. Declaring the Russian Constitution "illegal". EP has been under russian sanctions even before the war. They are one of the the biggest euro hawks on China and Iran too.
Some context on the relations between the two would not be bad.
Right now their site can not be accessed. A cyber attack on the European Parliament followed its declaration of Russia as a terrorist state, something that even the US and UK refused to do. Even Iran has not been treated in such a way.
Declaring someone a terrorist state is serious and some reaction is warranted. In diplomat speak, it gets pretty close to declaration of war.
Overall, this "arrows or olive branch" approach with the fertilisers and the hammer fits realpolitik, and yes, the Global South and the Non-Western world are pretty important to Russia, otherwise the country would be suffocated by the West pretty fast.
Interestingly enough, i notice that the issue of the European Parliament declaring Russia a terrorist state is relegated to one of the tweets cited, with no mention or discussion by the author. Or the associated staggering levels of russophobia coming from that entity.
Yaplakal does not provide much context to their readers either, with similar infos missing.
Imo the article follows a simplistic no context approach, in order to justify negativity about everything. At first glance it looks good and easily digestible, but not to someone who is aware of the deeper contexts involved.
tx you, AE
Now, I lost hope in the narrative "holy Russia will deliver West Europe from wokism"
(I feel so stupid to have believed in such story)
(anyway, I still think EU's economical 'sanctions" will destroy western wokist regimes, simply by economical RUIN.)
(will I be also stupid with this narrative ?)
Maybe time to give another try, with the 'old/new' parallels thing; we can only hope that 'local' attack dawgs will forgo the rabid hijack thing... and let this line of thinking finally have an airing.
Old is new... all over agin. Prigozhin - and the Chechen Leprechaun for that matter too - is an AUXILARY of the (neo-bolshie)imperium. He and his forces are barbarians from beyond the (allowable)borders of "the Third Rome - tm." They fight/forward murder weapons/fulminate coups & implicitly threaten a SACK of the holy city on the Muscovy ... because the Emperor is weak, his forces are disloyal or declining in number and ability both... and because ALL empires end up trying to save themselves via buying off the foe at their gates.
And this time around, there are no brave and capable Legionary commanders able to save the center. Surovikin barely managed to save his own hide, and get out of Kherson with some semblance of dignity. Nobody else waiting in the wings to save the day...
save for... the horrible Huns like Prigo & the Leprechaun. No imaginary "afghan commandos," Syrian guerrillas, even Siberian tigers. Vlad will throw "imperial aurei" at the duo until they get tired of eating off gold plate and drinking from silver goblets. - and start hunting for better sport in the coliseum itself.
Hitler's imaginary army to hold at the Elbe/Dnipro. The Turkic/Muslim mercenaries who deserted the Emperor at the battle of Manzikert. Vlad's persistent delusion of 'a decisive victory' over the 'holhols.' Every night now, the waking nightmares invade the jittery dreamscape of the new/old Czar.
Prigo snickers in the forelight of the camp fires where he and his crew eat meat dripping with fat from gawd only knows what sources. Somewhere out there in the night, another "battle group" is in it's death throes, and the balance of power shifts ever more towards the horde and it's horrible master.
Russia tried to show too eagerly how civilized they are, how they are on their best behavior and how they respect the international law, how they stand for the high humanist ideals etc. since Gorbi coming to power in 1985. They still continue the same rhetoric through their Foreign Affairs office and basically by all top level officials, including Putin's spokesman Peskov. But ask yourself, where has it gotten them? I'm talking here about the situation even before the start of the SMO in February of this year. They lost their big country (USSR) and their influence in at least 20% of the world. They got NATO right at their doorstep. Citizens of Russia in Western countries are treated as potential criminals. Russian sports was destroyed and Russia is humiliated by not even being allowed to display national symbols at the international events. Russian diplomats are treated as a scum, they are constantly expelled and not allowed into places like UN HQ in New York. But to "pay back" for all this mistreatment through capital flight and trade disbalance Russia has gifted to the West over 3 trillion dollars since 1994 and the process continues today - capital flight from Russia to the West is expected to reach record $243 billion this year and trade imbalance will exceed $200 billion. Russian CB and the government continue to do nothing about it.. So taken into account all of that and Western support for the terrorist forces working against Russia in places like Chechnya two decades ago and now in Ukraine, that uses terrorist methods (think of killing of Darya Dugina or mass executions of unarmed Russian PoWs) isn't now the time there was a person like Prigozhin to balance out all that sweetness in official Russian talk? Should they still care what the representatives in Europarliament think or say when they declared Russia a terrorist sponsoring state and when the head of EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen insists on war to complete destruction of Russia to the last Ukrainian?
As for Putin, his dedication to the globalist agenda (except for LGBTQ+), to his oligarch friends against the interests of ordinary Russians, this guy makes me nauseous.
Honestly, the European Parliament which received the war hammer has been the most hostile european anti-russian entity of all, with the possible exception of Ukraine. They were asking for SWIFT blockade even back then in 2014. Declaring the Russian Constitution "illegal". EP has been under russian sanctions even before the war. They are one of the the biggest euro hawks on China and Iran too.
Some context on the relations between the two would not be bad.
Right now their site can not be accessed. A cyber attack on the European Parliament followed its declaration of Russia as a terrorist state, something that even the US and UK refused to do. Even Iran has not been treated in such a way.
Declaring someone a terrorist state is serious and some reaction is warranted. In diplomat speak, it gets pretty close to declaration of war.
Overall, this "arrows or olive branch" approach with the fertilisers and the hammer fits realpolitik, and yes, the Global South and the Non-Western world are pretty important to Russia, otherwise the country would be suffocated by the West pretty fast.
Interestingly enough, i notice that the issue of the European Parliament declaring Russia a terrorist state is relegated to one of the tweets cited, with no mention or discussion by the author. Or the associated staggering levels of russophobia coming from that entity.
Yaplakal does not provide much context to their readers either, with similar infos missing.
Imo the article follows a simplistic no context approach, in order to justify negativity about everything. At first glance it looks good and easily digestible, but not to someone who is aware of the deeper contexts involved.