Once again, a combination of business and personal travel has kept posting to a very bare minimum, and has once again resulted in significant delays to otherwise regular editions of the site. I have not had much time to keep up with events, beyond what you see in my Telegram channel, but suffice to say, the world appears to be going to Hell in a handbasket – at high speed.
The most sensational news of the past week was the story by Seymour Hersh, which confirmed what most of us had figured out months ago – that America blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, in an act of premeditated and savage economic sabotage against the Germans and the Russians.
The nature of the attack was so brazen, and so stunning in its implications, that many people probably did not want to believe the US was capable of such a thing. That is why, when hackers compromised the phone of former Prime Minister of PommieBastardLande, Lizz Truss, and we saw the text from her to Jew-Boy Blinken saying, “It’s done”, mere minutes after the NS pipelines went kablooey, we assumed the Brits were behind it all, at America’s behest.
But there are wheels within wheels with this thing, and the true details are even more appalling than that. If Hersh is correct – and I suspect he mostly is – then the US planned to destroy the NS pipelines in 2021, then pulled back from the brink to delay the detonations a bit, and finally set off the explosives in a desperate attempt to destroy Russia’s economy, once the neoclowns realised their “economic shock and awe” programme had completely failed.
The wrinkle here is, the neoclowns didn’t get the Brits to carry out their (literal) wetwork for them – they got the Norwegians to do it instead.
Why? Because the Norwegians would benefit immensely from being the only game in town for pipeline gas to Germany.
The problem with this LODJIK is, the Russians now understand full well that infrastructure is absolutely a legitimate target under these new “rules”, which the neoclowns themselves keep making up on the fly. And that means the undersea cables connecting the entire Western telecommunications infrastructure are also fair game now.
The US is one of only a handful of countries with the technology, capability, training, and methods needed to conduct underwater sabotage of this kind. Russia is another – and its submarine fleet is the only one in the entire world that can match the American one. (In some cases, the Russian Navy’s submarines have greater capabilities than their American counterparts, which even the Americans will admit, albeit very grudgingly and under immense duress.)
How much more do the Russians have to be poked and provoked before we all learn, to our immense cost, that Russians do not bluff, and that their red lines actually mean something?
I suspect that the US has f***ed around quite enough – and will very soon start finding out the consequences. It already is, actually, but just hasn’t taken a really hard punch to the face yet. And it needs to, fast.
And that is enough geopolitics for now. Let us wrap things up with the real reason you are here.
This week’s closing Instathot is Veronika Kisheleva (Вероника Кишелева), age 26, from Minsk, Belarus. There is not much to say about her, other than that she seems to layer on the warpaint with a trowel for her photoshoots, and that she has an unusually severe case of RBF.
With that, I wish all of you a happy and restful weekend. I will be spending a substantial part of the next week travelling (again), and working my tail off, but hopefully, we should see a resumption in normal posting by the end of next week.
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oy, that’s some fine shiksa.
“How much more do the Russians have to be poked and provoked before we all learn, to our immense cost, that Russians do not bluff, and that their red lines actually mean something?”
Sure, the Russians could go after Norway’s new pipeline. Or underwater cables, though those have an awful lot of redundancy.
But why?
Put it this way. Let’s say Russia breaks the 404 defenses, goes all the way, establishes a land bridge to Hungary. Which then translates into a land bridge to Serbia. Those countries, and those connected to them, can now safely defy the West in anything. Now their economic and military backs are all covered, as they join EAEU-NRI-INSTC.
That’s way, way worse than blowing up a pipeline. So just do that.
Maybe do the Norwegian pipeline too in early fall 2023, to punish Norway and Poland. Though I have to say, I’d put money on the Brits being Hersh’s source, to conveniently omit their role and the Poles. Truss sent what she sent, when she sent it. They were involved. But this way, the global story is now fixed at “The USA did it.” Of course the GAE was eyes-deep in this, and no-one outside believes their denials. But adding in “the UK arranged it with Polish help” just became difficult outside the West. Even if that was true. And was Norway actually complicit? That part of the story is weakest on the technical details.
Why even have these problems, when you’re trying to present yourselves as reliable and predictable to everyone else? Let the GAE be the globally-understood terrorist state. You can use that as a long-term vulnerability, in a strategic global contest over future infrastructure connectivity. So do that.
And keep positioning Wagner as the global Foreign Legion against globohomo. I wonder how many people have grasped that positioning yet? They will.
Even Russian fighting approaches like Systema are explicit that you fight emotionlessly. What matters is: you hit the other guy, deliver all of the energy without having tension that works against you, you don’t get distracted by trivia, and you look to affect the other guy’s overall structure with your strikes. You do the work (rabota) based on what the other side gives you to work with. Rabota emerges out of the movement.
What’s the core globohomo posture that Russia must collapse? If there are successive layers, what are they? How does any proposed escalation justify itself on that basis? What opportunities for rabota is globohomo giving us?
It’s emotionally unsatisfying. Until you win.
Against narcissists with fruit-fly attention spans, how should you fight? My personal enjoyment is to use globohomo’s reactivity to keep them running in circles and wearing down their legitimacy. I’ve seen that work. But then, globohomo are happy in that BPD environment, and every such attack leaves them a chance to do what they’re used to. An emotionless long-term grind that keeps forcing them into strategically less-favorable positions, while severing the ties they rely on manipulating, strikes me as the most favorable strategic baseline. And is also part of the usual personal recommendations for dealing with individual narcissists.