My recent poast on the subject of peace talks between Russia and the FUSA garnered a lot of interest, thanks to linkage from Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible, and the writers of Western Rifle Shooters Association (from whom I regularly plunder memes). I am sincerely grateful to both for their patronage. Since that poast, things have moved toward a real thaw in relations between the US and Russia, and that is a VERY Good Thing.

Unfortunately, that has not stopped Russophobic knuckleheads from spewing a lot of bile and nonsense about Russia, the Neo-Tsar, the possibility of peace, and so on.

Below is a comment that got trapped in the spam-filter. I refused to publish it after I saw it, because it came from a 4chan address, and therefore was probably as likely to be a troll as an actual commenter. However, it is useful as a demonstration of the sheer lack of knowledge of Russia, or understanding of its people, that is so common among those drenched in whore-media propaganda:

No, surrendering to Putin won’t bring peace. Russia has never abided by any treaty they’ve ever signed. Putin wants to recreate the Soviet Empire. This is his stated intent. The people who elected him share his desire to invade, colonize, and enslave all of Russia’s neighbors, and he’s been doing just that for more than twenty-five years while Western politicians wring their hands briefly for the cameras then change the subject. The Third World War is already here.

One of the things that is bizarre to me is the objection to NATO membership for Ukraine. Why would the Russians be afraid of this unless their intent is further war and conquest?

The Soviet Union spent seventy years attempting global conquest, by means of subversion, terrorism, and, toward the end, nuclear blackmail. They lost. They were defeated. They got off a lot more lightly than the Japanese and Germans did. The Russian rump state does not get to dictate anything whatsoever to its neighbors. It’s not like they need Lebensraum anyway–the Russian fertility rate is far below the replacement rate and in a hundred years the people living their will be speaking Chinese, not Russian. Outside Moscow and St. Petersburg Russia is tiny farming and mining villages hundreds of miles apart, many not even connected by dirt roads, half of them without electricity. The last Mongol khanates were subdued and the last Mongols driven out almost three hundred years ago, and the land where their yurts were is still undeveloped. Maybe Russia should look inward instead of seeking to invade and loot their neighbors, but I suppose it’s a bad habit they picked up from the Mongols. One can hardly blame their neighbors for noticing.

Reading through this wall-of-text drive-by comment is like staring at a Mirror Universe, where everything is back-to-front and upside down. There is a very great deal to unpack here. We need to take this piece by piece and deconstruct this morass of blithering idiocy.

It has been a while since we did a proper Fisking, so sit back, grab a beer, and let’s unpack this.

Russia: Before and After

I will, however, start out of order a little, because there is something we need to address immediately:

Whoever it is that wrote this comment, has very obviously NEVER BEEN TO RUSSIA, and therefore has absolutely no clue what he is talking about.

The dead giveaway is here in this line:

Outside Moscow and St. Petersburg Russia is tiny farming and mining villages hundreds of miles apart, many not even connected by dirt roads, half of them without electricity.

Evidently, this chap has never been to Ivanovo, or Voronezh, or Makhachkala. I have been to all three. You can cruise down the silky-smooth highway between Moscow and Voronezh for 400Km at a speed of about 120Kph, with nary a speed camera in sight, for hours, on your way to an industrial powerhouse of a city of over a million people, that is today a major aerospace engineering and manufacturing centre.

Makhachkala in Dagestan is a city of about 300,000, and it is clean, orderly, well-run, and unusually liberal (for an Izzlamick stronghold), where Russian women can walk around unveiled and without fear of being molested. That is a damned sight more than you can say for many Western European cities at this point.

Keep in mind, I have barely begun my journeys through Russia, despite having visited it more than a dozen times. The whole country is at a state of advanced technology that you have to see for yourself to believe.

Outside of Moscow is the Golden Ring of ancient cities – all of which are stunningly beautiful, and all of them amazingly well-maintained with a magnificent blend of the old and the new.

And that is before we get to the other cities in Russia’s western third – Tula, Perm, Tver’, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Sevastopol’, Simferopol’, Belgorod, and so many others.

That is also before we get to places like Kazan’, Chelyabinsk and Ekaterinburg in the centre and east, which have undergone breathtaking transformations in the past thirty years:

All I can say is, a comment like that betrays a profound and pathetic ignorance of Russia that is simply inexcusable in this day and age. That one line completely discredits everything else in the comment, simply because of the sheer idiocy of the person who wrote it.

Keeping the Peace

Now, let us go back to the beginning and unpack what lies there.

Russia has never abided by any treaty they’ve ever signed.

I imagine that would come as news to the Chinese, for one, who signed the 1991 Sino-Soviet Border Agreement, which mostly settled the borders between the two. Those borders were then finalised in a series of long-running negotiations lasting over a decade. Today, the Russians and Chinese enjoy exceptionally good relations, in no small part because both sides respect that treaty.

It would also come as news to anyone who studied the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance with the Soviet Union, signed by Finland with the USSR in 1948. Thanks to that treaty, the Finns – historically major enemies of the Russians – preserved their mixed-market economy and political autonomy, and the Soviets respected that, because the Finns stayed studiously neutral. The Soviets respected that agreement for the entirety of the Cold War.

Looking farther back in history, if you actually examine the long tradition of Russian diplomacy, and you examine historical events in context of broader European politics,you will quickly realise that the overwhelming majority of the time, the Russians were the victims of foreign aggression, not the instigators of it.

This is why their military doctrine, inherited from the Imperial Russian General Staff and on through the Red Army to the modern day, focuses so heavily on defensive warfare, and why the Russian military took quite a long time during the 404 War to adapt to effective offensive operations.

Moreover, Westerners are in no position whatsoever to lecture anyone about abiding by treaties. How many treaties have the Americans torn up with the Russians, on the flimsiest of pretexts?

Dubya pulled out of the ABM Treaty, on the pretext that the Russians were developing anti-missile defences that violated the treaty – when, in reality, the Russians developed their most capable AD systems AFTER 2002.

Odumbass sponsored the coup that put the Banderites in power in 2014 – after the Europeans refused, in their utter arrogance, to reconsider even a single punctuation mark of an economic agreement with Ukraine, about which the Kremlin expressed reservations and asked for revisions. That overturned 15 years of painstaking relationship-building between Russia and the West, resulting in the disaster we have today.

Even Trump, for all my respect for the man, is guilty of tearing up treaties with the Russians – specifically, the INF and Open Skies treaties, from which he unilaterally withdrew the US. (Upon the awful advice of his neoclown advisers, Bolton the Doomstache and Mike Pompeo, admittedly.) This is richly ironic, given one of Drumpf’s priorities today, is to reestablish arms control and nuclear disarmament talks with Russia.

Finally – who was it that broke with the Minsk Agreements of 2014, or the Istanbul Agreement of 2022? Was it Russia, or the entire collective West?

It was the latter.

The Minsk Agreements were ratified and accepted by the UN Security Council, will all 5 permanent members voting in favour of it, and therefore they became part of international law. They had the same level of binding force as a peace treaty. Yet, we now know that the Ukrainians never had any intention of sticking to it, and the French, Germans, British, and Americans had no intention whatsoever of enforcing it. Their own public figures have openly admitted as much.

It was not Russia that walked away from the Istanbul Agreement of April 2022 – it was Ukraine, prompted by the UK and US, which refused to provide security guarantees to Ukraine if they stuck to it, and which said outright that they would supply Ukraine with arms and funds if they tore it up and walked away. The Russians signed it, even though they had to make some enormous concessions in the text, because they always wanted an honourable compromise. The Ukrainians, by contrast, being corrupt and perfidious as they have been for so long, lied and deceived the Russians (and everyone else).

And as a direct consequence of Western and Ukrainian treachery, OVER A MILLION PEOPLE are now DEAD. If Ukraine had simply stuck to the Minsk Agreements and the Normandy Format, all four regions of Novorossiya would still be a part of Ukraine. Their country would still be whole. A million Ukrainians would still be alive. But they chose the path of violence and death – backed enthusiastically by the vampiric, Satanic Western elites.

Who, then, is truly untrustworthy? The Russians? Or the entire collective West?

The answer should be blindingly obvious – to anyone who ISN’T drunk on Western Kool-Aid.

Better Dead than Red

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Putin wants to recreate the Soviet Empire. This is his stated intent.

Total horsehit. This is the ACTUAL quote from the Neo-Tsar, within the full context of the interview in which he said those words – I think he has said it several times, actually:

I think you’ve thrown the baby out with the bathwater – that’s the problem. Liberation from dictatorship should not necessarily be accompanied by the collapse of the state.

As for the tragedy that I talked about, it is obvious. Imagine that one morning people woke up and discovered that from now on they did not live in a common nation, but outside the borders of the Russian Federation, although they always identified themselves as a part of the Russian people. And there are not five, ten or even a thousand of these people, and not just a million. There are 25 million of them. Just think about this figure! This is the obvious tragedy, which was accompanied with the severance of family and economic ties, with the loss of all the money people had saved in the bank accounts their entire lives, along with other difficult consequences. Is this not a tragedy for individual people? Of course it’s a tragedy!

People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain. We do not regret this, we simply state the fact and know that we need to look ahead, not backwards. We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move. But we must act based on a clear understanding of what happened.

Does that sound to you like a man who wants to recreate the Soviet Union?

In fact, if you read his speeches and public comments – I have, and do, though sadly mostly in translation, as my Russian skills are not up to the task of listening to him speaking live – then you will see a consistency of thought and philosophy, going back twenty years, that advocates for a strong, free, independent Russia, made up of the Russian peoples, that does not seek to dominate anyone or anything else, but seeks ONLY to preserve its vast territorial integrity and homeland security.

Moreover, saying that The Putin somehow wants to restore the USSR – despite his very clear and very public statements directly to the contrary, over the past 25 years – completely ignores why the USSR collapsed in the first place.

The reason why the USSR fell, is because, like all empires, it became impossible to sustain.

All empires fall because they end up draining resources from the productive centre, to prop up unproductive peripheries. This is a universal truth, and the USSR’s peripheries were the economically useless (by and large) lands of the Central Asian republics. The USSR fell in large part because of the effort and resources required to build up places like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and the Caucausus republics, into something like the standard of the Europe-facing western Russian cities and towns.

It did not work.

The effort drained the Soviet economy – already inefficient and moribund, thanks to the insane idiocy of Marxist central planning – to the point where it simply could not sustain the effort.

To this day, those Asian republics are still poor, backward, and broken. I saw this when I visited Kyrgyzstan in the summer of 2023, and I imagine I will see it again if I ever get around to visiting Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, which I hope to do in the coming years.

NOBODY in Russia wants to return to those days – not even those who vote for the Communists. (Yes, they are still a thing, amazingly – though you wouldn’t know it, looking at their party platform. For instance, these days, the Russian Communist Party says the Orthodox Church is a GOOD Thing.)

Georgia on Their Mind

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The people who elected him share his desire to invade, colonize, and enslave all of Russia’s neighbors, and he’s been doing just that for more than twenty-five years while Western politicians wring their hands briefly for the cameras then change the subject.

Gentlemen, the stupidity of the American Idiot there, on full display. It is tragic that a great country like the US, MISEDJOOMUHCAYTES and infantilises its people to such a degree.

This clown has never witnessed a Russian election. I, however, have.

I was there in 2020 when Russians voted for Constitutional reforms that allowed The Putin to run yet again for President. That got a lot of headlines in the West at the time. What the Western whore-media failed to report, of course, was that the Russian people voted overwhelmingly in favour of Constitutional changes that required the President and senior government officials to be Russian, with no foreign loyalties of any kind.

The amended Russian Constitution also codifies marriage as a union between one man and one woman; the federalisation of power away from the office of the President; puts children as the most important priority of Russian state policy; explicitly mentions “faith in God”; and pledges the Russian government to safeguard “the historic truth”.

Does that sound like an expansionist, imperialist power that wants to colonise and enslave others to you?

Furthermore, keep in mind that it was Russia, as the largest and most powerful successor state of the USSR, that paid off the entire debts of the USSR, for ALL of the constituent socialist republics of the Frankenstein’s monster that was the Soviet Union. That includes Ukraine and Georgia, countries that were deeply hostile to Russia after the fall of the USSR.

Speaking of Georgia, let us remember what happened in the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. The Russian military – cash-strapped, poorly equipped, largely made up of conscripts, and a shadow of its former self – absolutely SMASHIFIED the NATO-trained and -armed Georgian military in three days.

They then parked 50Km outside of Tbilisi, with literally nothing to stop them from conquering the whole territory, and shortly afterwards…

WENT HOME.

They could have annexed and taken over South Ossetia and Abkhazia. They did not. To this day, the two Georgian breakaway provinces remain, from the Russian point of view, independent countries, and the Russians have made ZERO effort to integrate them into the Russian mainland – despite, I might add, very strong desires among the populations of both impoverished and underfunded regions to become part of Russia.

I was there in Tbilisi last year. I know how angry the Georgians still are about losing that war. But the fact is, their country is torn between a strongly pro-Russian rural population, and the roughly half of the country that lives in Tbilisi and which is pro-Western.

But Russians have no desire to conquer or capture these territories. They simply want to see the rights and voices of the ethnic Russians in those regions, respected and upheld – nothing more.

The Crimean Question

The same was true after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Contrary to the whore-media lies, the Russians did not occupy the place – which, by the way, has historically been theirs since the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca in 1774. Crimea was NEVER Ukrainian by right of any treaty or agreement – Nikolai Krushchyov basically handed the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR for administrative purposes, apparently following a drinking game and “measuring” match with his buddies one late night in the Kremlin.

As you will see if you read the supremely excellent book by Col. Jacques Baud, The Russian Art of War, of the 22,000 “Ukrainian” (really, ethnically Russian) troops stationed in Crimea at the time, more than 20,000 simply turned their coats and went over to Russia, after the referendum in Crimea resulted in NINETY-SIX PERCENT of the population voting to return to Russia.

The Western presstitutes lie consistently and say the referendum was a sham. It categorically was not. The Crimeans have been saying since 1991 that they want to be part of Russia – data from a 2013 poll by the International Republican Institute, which had the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned late Sen. John McCain (may he burn in Hell) as its chairman, showed the people of Crimea overwhelmingly identified with Russia, and wanted good relations with Russia, even if they did not necessarily want to be part of Russia at that time.

It was the CIA-backed, American-financed Maidan coup that radicalised the Crimeans, which is why, just a few weeks after the blatantly illegal overthrow of the democratically elected Yanukovych government, they voted in such huge numbers to return to the Motherland.

At that time, the breakaway regions in Ukraine’s east, Lugansk and Donetsk, wanted to do the same. Russia refused to permit them to accede to the Motherland.

Why?

Because the Kremlin, under Putin, wanted to preserve regional stability and Ukrainian territorial integrity.

Again, does that sound like an expansionist imperial power to you?

Broken Promises

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One of the things that is bizarre to me is the objection to NATO membership for Ukraine. Why would the Russians be afraid of this unless their intent is further war and conquest?

You would have to be catastrophically ignorant of Russian history to make an argument this idiotic.

Every invasion of Russia, except for that of the Mongols, has happened through its western borders. It does not matter where you look – the Great Northern War under Charles XII, the Grande Armee’s invasion under Napoleon, or Operation: BARBAROSSA under Hitler, all of those European armies marched through Russia’s western border into Russian lands.

Furthermore, the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War, as the Russians call WWII, is seared into them at a genetic level.

Over 20 MILLION Russians died in that war. Virtually every family in the country lost someone in their family tree. To this day, the horror of what happened, haunts the Russian psyche, which is why their western border is so highly sensitive to them.

It is not possible to understand what the Russian people endured, simply by reading about it. You have to SEE it. And that could be enough to drive a sane person mad. The film, Иди и Смотри (Come and See), an epic Soviet anti-war film from 1985, gives you some idea of what the Nazis did to the Slavic peoples on the Eastern Front:

What you see above is a sanitised depiction of what the Russians endured during the invasion of their lands in the 1940s. Now imagine that, on a vast scale across the entirety of the Eastern Front, and you have a small idea of what the Russians suffered at the hands of the Nazis.

If you go to the Kremlin, and you walk along the walls toward Aleksandrovskiy Sad (the Aleksandr Garden), you will see a long, low row of plinths that commemorate the great battles of the Eastern front. It is one long list of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian cities.

I took that photo myself in June 2018, during my second visit to Russia. That low wall makes for deeply sobering reading.

Moscow. Leningrad. Kursk. Bryansk. Oryol. Minsk. Kiev. Sevastopol’. Voronezh. Stalingrad. Belgorod. Tuapse. The list goes on, and on, and on.

The Russians lost HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS for each city they liberated, as they first slowed, then stopped, and finally reversed the progress of Army Groups North, Centre, and South.

So when they hear from Western elites of their desire to break up Russia into constituent republics – dating all the way back to the early 2000s – and they see that Western promises not to expand NATO one inch eastward are so much empty air, and when they then see NATO expanding eastward, toward them…

Are you really surprised that they get twitchy?

Moreover, given what they saw in the late 1990s and through the 2000s and 2010s, as NATO wilfully gang-raped Yugoslavia, then Iraq, then Libya, then Syria, are you surprised that Russia has zero desire to have NATO forces anywhere near its western borders?

Further, are Americans really such hypocrites as to claim that having hostile forces in close proximity to their sovereign territory, is a massive provocation, given their own history?

Never forget how the US reacted, when the Soviets stationed nuclear missiles capable of hitting the American heartland on Cuba. We came within a hairsbreadth of nuclear annihilation at that time – and it was a Soviet submarine commander who literally saved the entire world from nuclear fire. The Soviets, by the way, stationed those weapons on Cuba as a direct response to American installations of Pershing nuclear-tipped missiles in Turkey, which could reach Moscow and other major Soviet cities at high speed and with little to no warning. As part of the de-escalation deal, the Soviets publicly withdrew their missiles from Cuba – and the Americans secretly withdrew theirs from Turkey.

If America can do that with Cuba, then Russia can bloody well do the same with Ukraine.

Finally, recall the First and Second Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s – which, incidentally, played a very big role in The Putin’s rise to power. The Wahhabi goathumpers who arrived in the predominantly Sufi region of Russia were Western-backed and Saudi-financed, and they caused horrendous damage to Russia through their terrorism and barbarism, before the Russians finally smashed them and wiped them out, practically to the last man.

Even to this day, the Russians still face Izzlamist unrest in the southern Caucasus region – there was an extremely violent, though thankfully brief, armed insurrection in Dagestan last summer, which left at least 27 people dead, including 15 police officers. (One of them was the brother of a man I know in Dagestan, through a mutual acquaintance.)

The Russians know damned well that the West backed those insurrectionists. They have long memories, and they will not forget this.

Commie Plots

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The Soviet Union spent seventy years attempting global conquest, by means of subversion, terrorism, and, toward the end, nuclear blackmail.

And, what, the Americans didn’t? Do the words, “Tonkin Gulf Incident”, mean nothing to you Ameribros?

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They lost. They were defeated.

Again, total horseshit.

The Soviets did not LOSE the Cold War. It ended with an honourable settlement in 1988, when General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachyov addressed the United Nations and announced the withdrawal of Soviet forces from eastern Europe and the liberation of the Warsaw Pact nations.

This is exactly what St. Reagan Magnus of the Right always sought – an honourable peace. Despite his public rhetoric, in reality, Reagan Magnus never sought to inflict a truly humiliating defeat on the USSR – he wanted to find a way to roll back Soviet expansionism, free Europe, and to allow the Russians to live peacefully in their own sphere of influence.

The Soviet Union then collapsed because of its own massive internal contradictions and problems, and because of the total failure of centrally planned economics – but it did not LOSE the Cold War. The sooner Americans shed this particularly pernicious myth, the better for everyone.

The Hell-Times

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They got off a lot more lightly than the Japanese and Germans did.

The Russian population experienced ten years of hell during the 1990s, after the collapse of their empire. Its economy contracted by at least 50% – worse, by an order of magnitude, than the American experience in the Great Depression.

Russian life expectancy went down by 5 years from 1990 to 2000. The impact on men was particularly devastating. The Russians lost at least 10 million people to alcoholism, suicide, and drugs, during those hell-times.

This is a level of horror FAR BEYOND anything the Japanese suffered after they surrendered in 1945. It is FAR worse than what the Germans suffered.

And, keep in mind, both Germany and Japan received huge infusions of American money to restart their economies. Russia, by contrast, was denied economic stabilisation packages that would have prevented massive economic turmoil, and its economy was gang-raped by American-backed oligarchs who sold off priceless state-owned assets for a pittance, to the (((Rothschilds))), among others.

Year of the Family

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The Russian rump state does not get to dictate anything whatsoever to its neighbors. It’s not like they need Lebensraum anyway–the Russian fertility rate is far below the replacement rate and in a hundred years the people living their will be speaking Chinese, not Russian.

How STUPID do you have to be to say something like this in public?!?!?

The Russian superpower is conclusively BACK. Their economy is growing at 4%, despite being under the most crushing sanctions regime in the entire world. They are as close to a true autarky as you will ever get – they are totally self-sufficient in the things that matter: energy, food, raw materials, and manufactured goods. What they cannot build themselves, they can buy from China or their BRICS+ friends.

They have the world’s most powerful and battle-hardened army, and perhaps the best or second-best navy (depending on how you judge such things). They have overwhelming dominance in the air, and they have a level of economic power and sophistication that defies Western understanding.

A country like THAT, absolutely DOES get to dictate things to its neighbours.

After all, if Amerikhastan can do it, despite a greatly diminished economy, a colossally bloated administrative state, and a very shaky industrial base… so can Russia.

Indeed, if anything, Russia does it better, because, unlike the FUSA, Russia is not interested in threatening its neighbours with tariffs and sanctions to get what it wants. It simply tries to do trade deals, and if that doesn’t work, it waits until the West attempts to mount a Colour Revolution, before sending its military in to terminate such nonsense with EXTREME prejudice. (See e.g. Kazakhstan in early 2022.)

Also, it is a matter of fact, not opinion, that the former Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union, are DESPERATE to reintegrate their economies with Russia – but NOT the other way around. Russians do not like or trust Central Asians. They look down upon the Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, and especially the Tajiks, whom they consider little better than unwashed monkeys (with, I must say, good reason).

As far as the Russian TFR goes – that is about the only thing I have read so far that is true, but even then, there are qualifiers. The Russians have a very strongly pro-natalist set of policies in place, that are helping – SLOWLY – to turn the tide. Their TFR is around 1.5 children per woman, which is still far too low, but we are now coming out of that generation that went through the Hell-Times of the 1990s, and the next generation appears to be far more interested in having children and families.

When I was in Moscow last April, everywhere I went, I saw posters and billboards advertising the “Year of the Family”, and extolling the virtues of large families of at least 4 kids. The Russian public is coming around to the idea that the economy is roaring, times are good, and housing is available – so they need to GET BUSY AND GIT HUMPIN’!!!.

Which is exactly what I expect will happen when the veterans of the Special Military Operation come home to their wives and girlfriends. I would not be at all surprised to see a big bump (heh) in the Russian TFR in the next decade, because Russia will have hundreds of thousands of young men coming home from the war, who understand what is really important in life, and who now have a vested interest in preserving and building their Fatherland.

Go East, My Son

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The last Mongol khanates were subdued and the last Mongols driven out almost three hundred years ago, and the land where their yurts were is still undeveloped. Maybe Russia should look inward instead of seeking to invade and loot their neighbors, but I suppose it’s a bad habit they picked up from the Mongols. One can hardly blame their neighbors for noticing.

The Russian Far East has about 15 million people, in a territory that could literally swallow the entire continental US without anyone noticing except the mosquitoes. And yet, even there, in places as remote as Yakutiya, Primorskoye, Khabarovsk, and Sakhalin, the inhabitants of those regions are benefitting from a booming economy and a government policy of heavy investment in the Russian East.

Russia under The Putin now recognises that its future is in Eurasia. That means unlocking the resources and power of the East. Which is exactly why there are major initiatives underway within Russia, to address the chronic underinvestment that existed in previous decades, when the Russian government simply did not have the money to do what was necessary to build the roads, infrastructure, and power plants for those people.

It is telling, by the way, that the West is struggling to build Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) – while the Russians have had a dual-reactor floating SMR out there, the Akademik Lomonosov, for five years now, providing enough nuclear-powered energy for a small city in the Kamchatka region.

The simple fact is, Russia IS looking inward, and IS developing, at a rate that would make most European nations green with envy, if only they could pull heads out of arses long enough to notice.

I have been back to Russia 3 times since the start of the SMO. Every time, I have been stunned at how quickly and vigorously the economy is expanding. I have NEVER seen Russia growing so fast, in all my visits, as I am now. The prosperity reaches EVERY level of society, not merely the top 1% as it does in the West.

The whole country – all 11 time zones’ worth of it – hums with vibrant energy. It is growing at a speed and pace I have never seen outside of the boom years of my childhood in Southeast Asia. Russians have NEVER lived as well as they do now. Their living standards exceed those of Germans and Brits, who are seeing their own standards of living falling precipitously.

Let me put it this way:

If you go walking through the great cities of the West – London, Naples, Rome, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, etc. – you will find homeless people, drug addicts, Muzzies, Wakandans, Pajeets, and all manner of other detritus, everywhere. The problem of drug addicts is particularly severe in Barcelona – I remember being there 3 years ago and thinking that there were an awful lot of potheads sitting around doing nothing in such a beautiful city.

You will find no such nonsense in Moscow. Or Ivanovo. Or Voronezh. Or St. Petersburg. Or in most other Russian cities – even in the poorest regions, like Buryatia and Bashkortostan.

That should tell you something about how well things are going there.

Conclusion – See For Yourself

The main reason why I took so much time and effort to deal with this particularly retarded Gamma-sperg wall-of-text of a comment, is because it reminded me of my own journey over the past decade.

If you look through the archives of this site, you will see that I have been writing on matters related to Russia since, I think, about 2014. And you will notice a massive change in tone and style around my writings related to Russia, starting in late 2017.

The reason for this shift, is quite simple:

I WENT TO RUSSIA.

It really was that straightforward. A single week of travelling to Moscow, and seeing the power, dynamism, culture, and depth of Russia for myself, was enough to completely change my mind about the place.

Once the war ends – and I think it will end this year – all the signs are that Russia and the US will restore travel and financial services between them. This will allow Americans to go to Russia and experience it for themselves again.

I cannot recommend this strongly enough.

People in America NEED to get out of the bubbles their whore-media have put around them, and see the world a bit. They NEED to get beyond their parochialism and provincialism, and their silly “garrulous patriotism”, as no less than Alexis de Tocqueville said, over 200 years ago, and see how far the rest of the world has come, while their own country sinks into degeneracy and backwardness.

And if they go to Russia, they will not recognise the country about which they have been lied to for so long.

Russia today is a lot like America was in the 1950s, from what I am told about that bygone era. It is a strongly conservative, mostly Christian nation that embraces traditional values and wants nothing whatsoever to do with the godless nihilism that plagues the West.

That is not to say that Americans and Russians think the same way – not at all. Russians live in a country that is too big to govern easily or effectively, and that has huge borders with many potential enemies. It cannot separate itself from those enemies using vast oceans, as America can.

As a result, Russians have an obsession with the security and stability of the state that borders on paranoia, which Americans simply cannot understand.

By that same token, the American obsession with individual liberty and maximal freedom, makes literally no sense to a Russian. It is like trying to explain what an elephant looks like to a blind man. They just do not get the point of dumbocracy – which, it must be said, is rather to their advantage, these days.

None of what I have written in the long, long screed above, should be taken to mean that Russia is without problems. It has PROFOUND societal problems – not the least of which is the Muzzie Question, which has historically plagued Russia, and will continue to do so well into the future. They have no good solution for it.

All of that is before we get to the highly materialistic attitudes of their women (though that appears to be changing, slowly), and the issues they have with their welfare state, which is bloated and inefficient (though nowhere near as bad as what you see in Europe and the US).

For all that, though, I am convinced that the future belongs to Russia and Eurasia, based on all the data I am seeing. The West has made a colossal, probably fatal, mistake by trying to go to war with Russia. The Russians have comprehensively defeated NATO, and they are no longer afraid of it. But they also want nothing to do with the degenerate and dying West.

There will likely be a new Iron Curtain across Europe – one created by the Russians themselves, whereby they will simply slam shut their western borders, except to the very few Europeans who renounce the GloboHomoPaedoPharisatanry of their home countries, and come to Russia to contribute to their economy. And the Russians will then GLADLY leave the West to die, as it richly deserves.