Russia/Ukraine conflict

[heltok]

Aleksandr Dugin in his article calls for mobilisation of the whole Russia to fight the Antichrist Western world​

Posted on 16 September 2022
in Russian Accounts
by WarTranslated

Below is a translation of Aleksandr Dugin’s latest piece which is a response to the recent Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Kharkiv Oblast.
The original text in Russian is available here:

IT BEGINS: THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE BY ALEXANDER DUGIN​

In the past few days, there have been significant changes in the balance of power in Ukraine. This needs to be considered in its entirety.
Kyiv’s counterattacks were generally a failure in the Kherson region, but, alas, successful in the Kharkiv region. It is the situation in the Kharkiv region and the forced retreat of the allied forces that is the turning point. If we now put aside the psychological effects and the natural worries of the patriots, it should be observed that in the entire length of the SMO we have come to the point of no return.
Everyone as one now recommends taking extraordinary measures to turn the tide, and some of these proposals are quite rational. We do not pretend to be original in any way, but we will only try to summarize the most fundamental points and recommendations and place them in the global geopolitical context.

World War III​

We are on the verge of a third world war, which the West is obsessively pushing us towards. And this is no longer fear or expectation, this is a fact. Russia is at war with the collective West, with NATO and their allies (although, not with all – Turkey and Greece have their own position, and a number of European countries, primarily France and Italy, but not only, do not want to actively participate in the war with Russia). And yet the threat of a third world war is getting closer.
Whether it will come to the use of nuclear weapons is an open question. But the likelihood of a nuclear Armageddon is increasing every day. It is quite clear, and many American military leaders (like the recently ex-commander of the US Armed Forces in Europe, Ben Hodges) openly proclaim this, the West will no longer be satisfied even with our complete withdrawal from the territory of the former Ukraine, they will finish us off on our soil, insisting on “unconditional surrender “(Jens Stoltenberg), “de-imperialisation” (Ben Hodges), dismemberment of Russia.
In 1991, the West was satisfied with the collapse of the USSR and our ideological capitulation, primarily by the adoption of Western liberal ideology, political system, and economy under the leadership of Western curators. Today, for the West, the red line is the very existence of sovereign Russia – even within the borders of the Russian Federation.
The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region is a direct blow from the West against Russia. Everyone knows that this offensive was organised, prepared, and equipped by the military command of the United States and NATO and took place under their direct supervision. This is not only the use of NATO military equipment but also the direct participation of Western military space intelligence, mercenaries, and instructors. In the eyes of the West, this is the beginning of “our end.” Since we have slacked in the defense of the territories under our control in the Kharkiv region, we can be defeated further. This is not a small success of the Kyiv counter-offensive, this is the first tangible success of the Drang nach Osten of the NATO forces.
Of course, one can try to attribute this to temporary “technical difficulties” and postpone the essential analysis of the situation until later. But this will only delay the realization of a fait accompli, and, consequently, will only weaken and demoralize us ourselves.

Therefore, it is worth coldly admitting: the West has declared war on us and is already waging it. We didn’t choose this war, we didn’t want it. In 1941, we also did not want war with Nazi Germany and refused to believe in it until the very end. But in the current situation, when it is waged against us de facto, this is not of decisive importance. Now it is only important to win it, having defended the right of Russia to exist.

End of the SMO​

The SMO as a limited operation to liberate Donbas and a number of territories of Novorossiya is completed. It gradually developed into a full-fledged war with the West, where, in fact, the terrorist Nazi Kyiv regime itself plays only a role of a tool. An attempt to besiege it and liberate a number of territories of Novorossiya controlled by the Ukrainian Nazis, while maintaining the existing geopolitical balance of forces in the world unchanged, failed as a technical operation, and to pretend that we are simply continuing the SMO further, somewhere on the periphery of public attention, is simply pointless.
Against our will, we are now at war, and this applies to every citizen of Russia: each of us is in the crosshairs of the enemy, a terrorist, a sniper, a sabotage group.
At the same time, the situation is such that, with all the desire, it is impossible to return everything to the initial conditions, before February 24, 2022. What happened is irreversible, and one should not even be afraid of any concessions or compromises on our part. The enemy will only accept our complete surrender, enslavement, dismemberment, and occupation. So we just don’t have a choice.
The end of the SMO means the need for deep transformations of the entire political and social system of modern Russia – the transfer of the country to a military footing, in politics, economics, culture, and the information sphere. The SMO could remain important, but not the only content of the Russian public life. The war with the West subjugates everything.

Ideological frontline​

Russia found itself in a state of ideological war. The values advocated by the globalist West: LGBT, the legalisation of perversions, drugs, the fusion of man and machine, total mixing during uncontrolled migration, and others, are inextricably linked with its military-political hegemony and unipolar system. Western liberalism and the global military-political and economic dominance of the US and NATO are one. To fight with the West and to accept (albeit partially) its values, in the name of which it is waging a war against us, a war of annihilation, is simply absurd.
Our own fully-fledged ideology would not just be “useful” to us today. If we don’t have it, we will lose. The West will continue to attack us from the outside, with the hands of armed and trained Ukrainian Nazis, and from within, with the hands of the fifth, still liberal column, skillfully corrupting the consciousness and corrupting the soul of the younger generation. Without our own ideology, which will clearly define who is a friend and who is an enemy, we will find ourselves in such a situation almost powerless.
The ideology should be immediately declared in general terms, and its essence should be the complete and direct rejection of the ideology of the West, globalism, and totalitarian liberalism, with all its instrumental subspecies – including neo-Nazism, racism, and extremism.

Mobilisation​

Mobilisation is inevitable. War concerns absolutely everyone. However, mobilisation does not mean forced sending of conscripts to the front. This can be avoided, for example, through the formation of a full-fledged Volunteer Movement, with the necessary benefits and state support.
We should bet on veterans, on special support for the soldiers of Novorossiya. Russia has few of them, but there are supporters abroad. We must not hesitate to form anti-Nazi anti-globalist international brigades from honest people from the countries of East and West.
But the main thing is that Russians should not be underestimated. We are a hero people. At a great price, but we won over a great enemy more than once or twice in our glorious history. We will win this time too, but only if the war against the West becomes a people’s war. It is people’s wars that we win, wars in which a nation-giant is awakening.
Mobilisation involves a complete change in information policy. Peacetime norms (in fact, blind copying of Western entertainment programs and strategies that only corrupt society) must be abolished. Television and the media in general should become patriotic tools for wartime mobilisation. All concerts are for the frontline, the very being in the rears is also for the frontline. This is already gradually beginning, but so far it affects only a tiny part of the channels. And it should be everywhere.
Culture, information, education, enlightenment, politics, the social sphere – everything must work unanimously for the war, that is, for the Victory.

Economy​

Any sovereign state can issue as much national currency as it needs. If it is truly sovereign. A war with the West makes it meaningless to continue economic games according to its rules. The wartime economy cannot but be sovereign. To win, you should spend as much money as you need. It is only necessary to ensure that emissions are concentrated in a special circuit designed for strategic purposes. Corruption in such circumstances should be equated with a war crime.
War and comfort are incompatible things. The comfort as a goal, as a life guide, should be abandoned. Only peoples who are ready for hardships are able to win real fully-fledged wars.
In such situations, a new layer of economists always appears, whose goal is to save the state. This is of primary importance. Dogmas, schools, methods, and approaches are secondary.
You can call such an economy a mobilisation economy, or you can simply call it a military one.

Our allies​

Allies play a vital role in any war. Today, Russia does not have many of them, but they do exist. First of all, we are talking about those countries that reject the unipolar liberal Western order. That is, the supporters of multipolarity, such as China, Iran, North Korea, Serbia, Syria, Central African Republic, Mali, and also, to a certain extent, India, Turkey, a number of Islamic, African and Latin American countries (primarily Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela).
In working with them, it is necessary to mobilise all available resources, not only professional but also people’s diplomacy. And for this, again, an ideology is needed. We must convince the allies that we have decided to break with globalism and Western hegemony irreversibly and are ready to go all the way in building a multipolar world. Here we must be consistent and resolute. The time for halftones and compromises is over. The war of the West against Russia is dividing humanity into different sides of the barricades.

Spiritual Factor​

The central moment of the world confrontation that has begun is the spiritual, religious aspect. Russia found itself in a state of war with a God-fighting anti-religious civilization that overthrows the very foundations of spiritual and moral values: God, the Church, family, sex, human. With all the differences between Orthodoxy, traditional Islam, Judaism, Hinduism or Buddhism, all religions and cultures built on them recognise divine truth, the high spiritual and moral dignity of a person, honor traditions and institutions: the state, family, community. The modern West has abolished all this, replacing it with virtual reality, extreme individualism, the destruction of sex, universal surveillance, a totalitarian “cancel culture”, and a post-truth society.
Open Satanism and outright racism flourish in Ukraine, and the West only supports this.
We are dealing with what the Orthodox elders call “the civilization of the Antichrist.” Therefore, the role of Russia is to unite believers of different faiths in this decisive battle.
You should not wait until the ultimate enemy destroys your house, kills your husband, son or daughter … At some point it will be too late. God forbid we live to such a moment.
The offensive of the enemy in the Kharkiv region is exactly that, that very thing. The beginning of a fully-fledged war of the West against us.
The West is demonstrating its intention to start a war of annihilation against us – a third world war. We must gather all our deepest national potential to repel this attack. By all means: with thoughts, military power, economy, culture, art, internal mobilisation of all state structures and each of us.

 

[Singuy]

Aleksandr Dugin in his article calls for mobilisation of the whole Russia to fight the Antichrist Western world​

Posted on 16 September 2022
in Russian Accounts
by WarTranslated

Below is a translation of Aleksandr Dugin’s latest piece which is a response to the recent Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Kharkiv Oblast.
The original text in Russian is available here:

IT BEGINS: THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE BY ALEXANDER DUGIN​

In the past few days, there have been significant changes in the balance of power in Ukraine. This needs to be considered in its entirety.
Kyiv’s counterattacks were generally a failure in the Kherson region, but, alas, successful in the Kharkiv region. It is the situation in the Kharkiv region and the forced retreat of the allied forces that is the turning point. If we now put aside the psychological effects and the natural worries of the patriots, it should be observed that in the entire length of the SMO we have come to the point of no return.
Everyone as one now recommends taking extraordinary measures to turn the tide, and some of these proposals are quite rational. We do not pretend to be original in any way, but we will only try to summarize the most fundamental points and recommendations and place them in the global geopolitical context.

World War III​

We are on the verge of a third world war, which the West is obsessively pushing us towards. And this is no longer fear or expectation, this is a fact. Russia is at war with the collective West, with NATO and their allies (although, not with all – Turkey and Greece have their own position, and a number of European countries, primarily France and Italy, but not only, do not want to actively participate in the war with Russia). And yet the threat of a third world war is getting closer.
Whether it will come to the use of nuclear weapons is an open question. But the likelihood of a nuclear Armageddon is increasing every day. It is quite clear, and many American military leaders (like the recently ex-commander of the US Armed Forces in Europe, Ben Hodges) openly proclaim this, the West will no longer be satisfied even with our complete withdrawal from the territory of the former Ukraine, they will finish us off on our soil, insisting on “unconditional surrender “(Jens Stoltenberg), “de-imperialisation” (Ben Hodges), dismemberment of Russia.
In 1991, the West was satisfied with the collapse of the USSR and our ideological capitulation, primarily by the adoption of Western liberal ideology, political system, and economy under the leadership of Western curators. Today, for the West, the red line is the very existence of sovereign Russia – even within the borders of the Russian Federation.
The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region is a direct blow from the West against Russia. Everyone knows that this offensive was organised, prepared, and equipped by the military command of the United States and NATO and took place under their direct supervision. This is not only the use of NATO military equipment but also the direct participation of Western military space intelligence, mercenaries, and instructors. In the eyes of the West, this is the beginning of “our end.” Since we have slacked in the defense of the territories under our control in the Kharkiv region, we can be defeated further. This is not a small success of the Kyiv counter-offensive, this is the first tangible success of the Drang nach Osten of the NATO forces.
Of course, one can try to attribute this to temporary “technical difficulties” and postpone the essential analysis of the situation until later. But this will only delay the realization of a fait accompli, and, consequently, will only weaken and demoralize us ourselves.

Therefore, it is worth coldly admitting: the West has declared war on us and is already waging it. We didn’t choose this war, we didn’t want it. In 1941, we also did not want war with Nazi Germany and refused to believe in it until the very end. But in the current situation, when it is waged against us de facto, this is not of decisive importance. Now it is only important to win it, having defended the right of Russia to exist.

End of the SMO​

The SMO as a limited operation to liberate Donbas and a number of territories of Novorossiya is completed. It gradually developed into a full-fledged war with the West, where, in fact, the terrorist Nazi Kyiv regime itself plays only a role of a tool. An attempt to besiege it and liberate a number of territories of Novorossiya controlled by the Ukrainian Nazis, while maintaining the existing geopolitical balance of forces in the world unchanged, failed as a technical operation, and to pretend that we are simply continuing the SMO further, somewhere on the periphery of public attention, is simply pointless.
Against our will, we are now at war, and this applies to every citizen of Russia: each of us is in the crosshairs of the enemy, a terrorist, a sniper, a sabotage group.
At the same time, the situation is such that, with all the desire, it is impossible to return everything to the initial conditions, before February 24, 2022. What happened is irreversible, and one should not even be afraid of any concessions or compromises on our part. The enemy will only accept our complete surrender, enslavement, dismemberment, and occupation. So we just don’t have a choice.
The end of the SMO means the need for deep transformations of the entire political and social system of modern Russia – the transfer of the country to a military footing, in politics, economics, culture, and the information sphere. The SMO could remain important, but not the only content of the Russian public life. The war with the West subjugates everything.

Ideological frontline​

Russia found itself in a state of ideological war. The values advocated by the globalist West: LGBT, the legalisation of perversions, drugs, the fusion of man and machine, total mixing during uncontrolled migration, and others, are inextricably linked with its military-political hegemony and unipolar system. Western liberalism and the global military-political and economic dominance of the US and NATO are one. To fight with the West and to accept (albeit partially) its values, in the name of which it is waging a war against us, a war of annihilation, is simply absurd.
Our own fully-fledged ideology would not just be “useful” to us today. If we don’t have it, we will lose. The West will continue to attack us from the outside, with the hands of armed and trained Ukrainian Nazis, and from within, with the hands of the fifth, still liberal column, skillfully corrupting the consciousness and corrupting the soul of the younger generation. Without our own ideology, which will clearly define who is a friend and who is an enemy, we will find ourselves in such a situation almost powerless.
The ideology should be immediately declared in general terms, and its essence should be the complete and direct rejection of the ideology of the West, globalism, and totalitarian liberalism, with all its instrumental subspecies – including neo-Nazism, racism, and extremism.

Mobilisation​

Mobilisation is inevitable. War concerns absolutely everyone. However, mobilisation does not mean forced sending of conscripts to the front. This can be avoided, for example, through the formation of a full-fledged Volunteer Movement, with the necessary benefits and state support.
We should bet on veterans, on special support for the soldiers of Novorossiya. Russia has few of them, but there are supporters abroad. We must not hesitate to form anti-Nazi anti-globalist international brigades from honest people from the countries of East and West.
But the main thing is that Russians should not be underestimated. We are a hero people. At a great price, but we won over a great enemy more than once or twice in our glorious history. We will win this time too, but only if the war against the West becomes a people’s war. It is people’s wars that we win, wars in which a nation-giant is awakening.
Mobilisation involves a complete change in information policy. Peacetime norms (in fact, blind copying of Western entertainment programs and strategies that only corrupt society) must be abolished. Television and the media in general should become patriotic tools for wartime mobilisation. All concerts are for the frontline, the very being in the rears is also for the frontline. This is already gradually beginning, but so far it affects only a tiny part of the channels. And it should be everywhere.
Culture, information, education, enlightenment, politics, the social sphere – everything must work unanimously for the war, that is, for the Victory.

Economy​

Any sovereign state can issue as much national currency as it needs. If it is truly sovereign. A war with the West makes it meaningless to continue economic games according to its rules. The wartime economy cannot but be sovereign. To win, you should spend as much money as you need. It is only necessary to ensure that emissions are concentrated in a special circuit designed for strategic purposes. Corruption in such circumstances should be equated with a war crime.
War and comfort are incompatible things. The comfort as a goal, as a life guide, should be abandoned. Only peoples who are ready for hardships are able to win real fully-fledged wars.
In such situations, a new layer of economists always appears, whose goal is to save the state. This is of primary importance. Dogmas, schools, methods, and approaches are secondary.
You can call such an economy a mobilisation economy, or you can simply call it a military one.

Our allies​

Allies play a vital role in any war. Today, Russia does not have many of them, but they do exist. First of all, we are talking about those countries that reject the unipolar liberal Western order. That is, the supporters of multipolarity, such as China, Iran, North Korea, Serbia, Syria, Central African Republic, Mali, and also, to a certain extent, India, Turkey, a number of Islamic, African and Latin American countries (primarily Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela).
In working with them, it is necessary to mobilise all available resources, not only professional but also people’s diplomacy. And for this, again, an ideology is needed. We must convince the allies that we have decided to break with globalism and Western hegemony irreversibly and are ready to go all the way in building a multipolar world. Here we must be consistent and resolute. The time for halftones and compromises is over. The war of the West against Russia is dividing humanity into different sides of the barricades.

Spiritual Factor​

The central moment of the world confrontation that has begun is the spiritual, religious aspect. Russia found itself in a state of war with a God-fighting anti-religious civilization that overthrows the very foundations of spiritual and moral values: God, the Church, family, sex, human. With all the differences between Orthodoxy, traditional Islam, Judaism, Hinduism or Buddhism, all religions and cultures built on them recognise divine truth, the high spiritual and moral dignity of a person, honor traditions and institutions: the state, family, community. The modern West has abolished all this, replacing it with virtual reality, extreme individualism, the destruction of sex, universal surveillance, a totalitarian “cancel culture”, and a post-truth society.
Open Satanism and outright racism flourish in Ukraine, and the West only supports this.
We are dealing with what the Orthodox elders call “the civilization of the Antichrist.” Therefore, the role of Russia is to unite believers of different faiths in this decisive battle.
You should not wait until the ultimate enemy destroys your house, kills your husband, son or daughter … At some point it will be too late. God forbid we live to such a moment.
The offensive of the enemy in the Kharkiv region is exactly that, that very thing. The beginning of a fully-fledged war of the West against us.
The West is demonstrating its intention to start a war of annihilation against us – a third world war. We must gather all our deepest national potential to repel this attack. By all means: with thoughts, military power, economy, culture, art, internal mobilisation of all state structures and each of us.

Cool story bro

Russian logic: If we have a hard time fighting Ukrainians even though we completely out gun them 100:1 and they are using 30 year old westernized weaponry they were not even trained on, we surely can take on the West and win.

Perhaps Russia want to see what a real 72hr invasion of their home land look like, the U.S probably can take it in under 48h....with only drones....

 

[iPlug]

Putin has been working on bad information. He probably thought his guy in Washington did more damage to the alliance than he actually managed.

ChrisO has translated a long essay from a Russian speaking analyst
Thread by @ChrisO_wiki on Thread Reader App

One of Russia's many problems is the rampant culture of lying up and down the chain of command. Putin has been planning operations based on force strength numbers that were completely fictional. He was also relying on Ukraine's probable allies being fractured and unable to help them efficiently, probably based on boastful lies from a certain American he was depending on.

Last major hurdle seems how Europe pulls through this winter without Russian NG. Putin hoping on a prayer things fall apart, but still not looking good for him. Most Europeans know who burned them. They will not long forget.

 

[ZeApelido]

Aleksandr Dugin in his article calls for mobilisation of the whole Russia to fight the Antichrist Western world​

Posted on 16 September 2022
in Russian Accounts
by WarTranslated

Below is a translation of Aleksandr Dugin’s latest piece which is a response to the recent Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Kharkiv Oblast.
The original text in Russian is available here:

IT BEGINS: THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE BY ALEXANDER DUGIN​

In the past few days, there have been significant changes in the balance of power in Ukraine. This needs to be considered in its entirety.
Kyiv’s counterattacks were generally a failure in the Kherson region, but, alas, successful in the Kharkiv region. It is the situation in the Kharkiv region and the forced retreat of the allied forces that is the turning point. If we now put aside the psychological effects and the natural worries of the patriots, it should be observed that in the entire length of the SMO we have come to the point of no return.
Everyone as one now recommends taking extraordinary measures to turn the tide, and some of these proposals are quite rational. We do not pretend to be original in any way, but we will only try to summarize the most fundamental points and recommendations and place them in the global geopolitical context.

World War III​

We are on the verge of a third world war, which the West is obsessively pushing us towards. And this is no longer fear or expectation, this is a fact. Russia is at war with the collective West, with NATO and their allies (although, not with all – Turkey and Greece have their own position, and a number of European countries, primarily France and Italy, but not only, do not want to actively participate in the war with Russia). And yet the threat of a third world war is getting closer.
Whether it will come to the use of nuclear weapons is an open question. But the likelihood of a nuclear Armageddon is increasing every day. It is quite clear, and many American military leaders (like the recently ex-commander of the US Armed Forces in Europe, Ben Hodges) openly proclaim this, the West will no longer be satisfied even with our complete withdrawal from the territory of the former Ukraine, they will finish us off on our soil, insisting on “unconditional surrender “(Jens Stoltenberg), “de-imperialisation” (Ben Hodges), dismemberment of Russia.
In 1991, the West was satisfied with the collapse of the USSR and our ideological capitulation, primarily by the adoption of Western liberal ideology, political system, and economy under the leadership of Western curators. Today, for the West, the red line is the very existence of sovereign Russia – even within the borders of the Russian Federation.
The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region is a direct blow from the West against Russia. Everyone knows that this offensive was organised, prepared, and equipped by the military command of the United States and NATO and took place under their direct supervision. This is not only the use of NATO military equipment but also the direct participation of Western military space intelligence, mercenaries, and instructors. In the eyes of the West, this is the beginning of “our end.” Since we have slacked in the defense of the territories under our control in the Kharkiv region, we can be defeated further. This is not a small success of the Kyiv counter-offensive, this is the first tangible success of the Drang nach Osten of the NATO forces.
Of course, one can try to attribute this to temporary “technical difficulties” and postpone the essential analysis of the situation until later. But this will only delay the realization of a fait accompli, and, consequently, will only weaken and demoralize us ourselves.

Therefore, it is worth coldly admitting: the West has declared war on us and is already waging it. We didn’t choose this war, we didn’t want it. In 1941, we also did not want war with Nazi Germany and refused to believe in it until the very end. But in the current situation, when it is waged against us de facto, this is not of decisive importance. Now it is only important to win it, having defended the right of Russia to exist.

End of the SMO​

The SMO as a limited operation to liberate Donbas and a number of territories of Novorossiya is completed. It gradually developed into a full-fledged war with the West, where, in fact, the terrorist Nazi Kyiv regime itself plays only a role of a tool. An attempt to besiege it and liberate a number of territories of Novorossiya controlled by the Ukrainian Nazis, while maintaining the existing geopolitical balance of forces in the world unchanged, failed as a technical operation, and to pretend that we are simply continuing the SMO further, somewhere on the periphery of public attention, is simply pointless.
Against our will, we are now at war, and this applies to every citizen of Russia: each of us is in the crosshairs of the enemy, a terrorist, a sniper, a sabotage group.
At the same time, the situation is such that, with all the desire, it is impossible to return everything to the initial conditions, before February 24, 2022. What happened is irreversible, and one should not even be afraid of any concessions or compromises on our part. The enemy will only accept our complete surrender, enslavement, dismemberment, and occupation. So we just don’t have a choice.
The end of the SMO means the need for deep transformations of the entire political and social system of modern Russia – the transfer of the country to a military footing, in politics, economics, culture, and the information sphere. The SMO could remain important, but not the only content of the Russian public life. The war with the West subjugates everything.

Ideological frontline​

Russia found itself in a state of ideological war. The values advocated by the globalist West: LGBT, the legalisation of perversions, drugs, the fusion of man and machine, total mixing during uncontrolled migration, and others, are inextricably linked with its military-political hegemony and unipolar system. Western liberalism and the global military-political and economic dominance of the US and NATO are one. To fight with the West and to accept (albeit partially) its values, in the name of which it is waging a war against us, a war of annihilation, is simply absurd.
Our own fully-fledged ideology would not just be “useful” to us today. If we don’t have it, we will lose. The West will continue to attack us from the outside, with the hands of armed and trained Ukrainian Nazis, and from within, with the hands of the fifth, still liberal column, skillfully corrupting the consciousness and corrupting the soul of the younger generation. Without our own ideology, which will clearly define who is a friend and who is an enemy, we will find ourselves in such a situation almost powerless.
The ideology should be immediately declared in general terms, and its essence should be the complete and direct rejection of the ideology of the West, globalism, and totalitarian liberalism, with all its instrumental subspecies – including neo-Nazism, racism, and extremism.

Mobilisation​

Mobilisation is inevitable. War concerns absolutely everyone. However, mobilisation does not mean forced sending of conscripts to the front. This can be avoided, for example, through the formation of a full-fledged Volunteer Movement, with the necessary benefits and state support.
We should bet on veterans, on special support for the soldiers of Novorossiya. Russia has few of them, but there are supporters abroad. We must not hesitate to form anti-Nazi anti-globalist international brigades from honest people from the countries of East and West.
But the main thing is that Russians should not be underestimated. We are a hero people. At a great price, but we won over a great enemy more than once or twice in our glorious history. We will win this time too, but only if the war against the West becomes a people’s war. It is people’s wars that we win, wars in which a nation-giant is awakening.
Mobilisation involves a complete change in information policy. Peacetime norms (in fact, blind copying of Western entertainment programs and strategies that only corrupt society) must be abolished. Television and the media in general should become patriotic tools for wartime mobilisation. All concerts are for the frontline, the very being in the rears is also for the frontline. This is already gradually beginning, but so far it affects only a tiny part of the channels. And it should be everywhere.
Culture, information, education, enlightenment, politics, the social sphere – everything must work unanimously for the war, that is, for the Victory.

Economy​

Any sovereign state can issue as much national currency as it needs. If it is truly sovereign. A war with the West makes it meaningless to continue economic games according to its rules. The wartime economy cannot but be sovereign. To win, you should spend as much money as you need. It is only necessary to ensure that emissions are concentrated in a special circuit designed for strategic purposes. Corruption in such circumstances should be equated with a war crime.
War and comfort are incompatible things. The comfort as a goal, as a life guide, should be abandoned. Only peoples who are ready for hardships are able to win real fully-fledged wars.
In such situations, a new layer of economists always appears, whose goal is to save the state. This is of primary importance. Dogmas, schools, methods, and approaches are secondary.
You can call such an economy a mobilisation economy, or you can simply call it a military one.

Our allies​

Allies play a vital role in any war. Today, Russia does not have many of them, but they do exist. First of all, we are talking about those countries that reject the unipolar liberal Western order. That is, the supporters of multipolarity, such as China, Iran, North Korea, Serbia, Syria, Central African Republic, Mali, and also, to a certain extent, India, Turkey, a number of Islamic, African and Latin American countries (primarily Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela).
In working with them, it is necessary to mobilise all available resources, not only professional but also people’s diplomacy. And for this, again, an ideology is needed. We must convince the allies that we have decided to break with globalism and Western hegemony irreversibly and are ready to go all the way in building a multipolar world. Here we must be consistent and resolute. The time for halftones and compromises is over. The war of the West against Russia is dividing humanity into different sides of the barricades.

Spiritual Factor​

The central moment of the world confrontation that has begun is the spiritual, religious aspect. Russia found itself in a state of war with a God-fighting anti-religious civilization that overthrows the very foundations of spiritual and moral values: God, the Church, family, sex, human. With all the differences between Orthodoxy, traditional Islam, Judaism, Hinduism or Buddhism, all religions and cultures built on them recognise divine truth, the high spiritual and moral dignity of a person, honor traditions and institutions: the state, family, community. The modern West has abolished all this, replacing it with virtual reality, extreme individualism, the destruction of sex, universal surveillance, a totalitarian “cancel culture”, and a post-truth society.
Open Satanism and outright racism flourish in Ukraine, and the West only supports this.
We are dealing with what the Orthodox elders call “the civilization of the Antichrist.” Therefore, the role of Russia is to unite believers of different faiths in this decisive battle.
You should not wait until the ultimate enemy destroys your house, kills your husband, son or daughter … At some point it will be too late. God forbid we live to such a moment.
The offensive of the enemy in the Kharkiv region is exactly that, that very thing. The beginning of a fully-fledged war of the West against us.
The West is demonstrating its intention to start a war of annihilation against us – a third world war. We must gather all our deepest national potential to repel this attack. By all means: with thoughts, military power, economy, culture, art, internal mobilisation of all state structures and each of us.

Can someone do the “Sir, this a Wendy’s drive-thru” meme in Russian to this guy?

 

[iPlug]

Aleksandr Dugin in his article calls for mobilisation of the whole Russia to fight the Antichrist Western world​

Posted on 16 September 2022
in Russian Accounts
by WarTranslated

Below is a translation of Aleksandr Dugin’s latest piece which is a response to the recent Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Kharkiv Oblast.
The original text in Russian is available here:

IT BEGINS: THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE BY ALEXANDER DUGIN​

In the past few days, there have been significant changes in the balance of power in Ukraine. This needs to be considered in its entirety.
Kyiv’s counterattacks were generally a failure in the Kherson region, but, alas, successful in the Kharkiv region. It is the situation in the Kharkiv region and the forced retreat of the allied forces that is the turning point. If we now put aside the psychological effects and the natural worries of the patriots, it should be observed that in the entire length of the SMO we have come to the point of no return.
Everyone as one now recommends taking extraordinary measures to turn the tide, and some of these proposals are quite rational. We do not pretend to be original in any way, but we will only try to summarize the most fundamental points and recommendations and place them in the global geopolitical context.

World War III​

We are on the verge of a third world war, which the West is obsessively pushing us towards. And this is no longer fear or expectation, this is a fact. Russia is at war with the collective West, with NATO and their allies (although, not with all – Turkey and Greece have their own position, and a number of European countries, primarily France and Italy, but not only, do not want to actively participate in the war with Russia). And yet the threat of a third world war is getting closer.
Whether it will come to the use of nuclear weapons is an open question. But the likelihood of a nuclear Armageddon is increasing every day. It is quite clear, and many American military leaders (like the recently ex-commander of the US Armed Forces in Europe, Ben Hodges) openly proclaim this, the West will no longer be satisfied even with our complete withdrawal from the territory of the former Ukraine, they will finish us off on our soil, insisting on “unconditional surrender “(Jens Stoltenberg), “de-imperialisation” (Ben Hodges), dismemberment of Russia.
In 1991, the West was satisfied with the collapse of the USSR and our ideological capitulation, primarily by the adoption of Western liberal ideology, political system, and economy under the leadership of Western curators. Today, for the West, the red line is the very existence of sovereign Russia – even within the borders of the Russian Federation.
The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region is a direct blow from the West against Russia. Everyone knows that this offensive was organised, prepared, and equipped by the military command of the United States and NATO and took place under their direct supervision. This is not only the use of NATO military equipment but also the direct participation of Western military space intelligence, mercenaries, and instructors. In the eyes of the West, this is the beginning of “our end.” Since we have slacked in the defense of the territories under our control in the Kharkiv region, we can be defeated further. This is not a small success of the Kyiv counter-offensive, this is the first tangible success of the Drang nach Osten of the NATO forces.
Of course, one can try to attribute this to temporary “technical difficulties” and postpone the essential analysis of the situation until later. But this will only delay the realization of a fait accompli, and, consequently, will only weaken and demoralize us ourselves.

Therefore, it is worth coldly admitting: the West has declared war on us and is already waging it. We didn’t choose this war, we didn’t want it. In 1941, we also did not want war with Nazi Germany and refused to believe in it until the very end. But in the current situation, when it is waged against us de facto, this is not of decisive importance. Now it is only important to win it, having defended the right of Russia to exist.

End of the SMO​

The SMO as a limited operation to liberate Donbas and a number of territories of Novorossiya is completed. It gradually developed into a full-fledged war with the West, where, in fact, the terrorist Nazi Kyiv regime itself plays only a role of a tool. An attempt to besiege it and liberate a number of territories of Novorossiya controlled by the Ukrainian Nazis, while maintaining the existing geopolitical balance of forces in the world unchanged, failed as a technical operation, and to pretend that we are simply continuing the SMO further, somewhere on the periphery of public attention, is simply pointless.
Against our will, we are now at war, and this applies to every citizen of Russia: each of us is in the crosshairs of the enemy, a terrorist, a sniper, a sabotage group.
At the same time, the situation is such that, with all the desire, it is impossible to return everything to the initial conditions, before February 24, 2022. What happened is irreversible, and one should not even be afraid of any concessions or compromises on our part. The enemy will only accept our complete surrender, enslavement, dismemberment, and occupation. So we just don’t have a choice.
The end of the SMO means the need for deep transformations of the entire political and social system of modern Russia – the transfer of the country to a military footing, in politics, economics, culture, and the information sphere. The SMO could remain important, but not the only content of the Russian public life. The war with the West subjugates everything.

Ideological frontline​

Russia found itself in a state of ideological war. The values advocated by the globalist West: LGBT, the legalisation of perversions, drugs, the fusion of man and machine, total mixing during uncontrolled migration, and others, are inextricably linked with its military-political hegemony and unipolar system. Western liberalism and the global military-political and economic dominance of the US and NATO are one. To fight with the West and to accept (albeit partially) its values, in the name of which it is waging a war against us, a war of annihilation, is simply absurd.
Our own fully-fledged ideology would not just be “useful” to us today. If we don’t have it, we will lose. The West will continue to attack us from the outside, with the hands of armed and trained Ukrainian Nazis, and from within, with the hands of the fifth, still liberal column, skillfully corrupting the consciousness and corrupting the soul of the younger generation. Without our own ideology, which will clearly define who is a friend and who is an enemy, we will find ourselves in such a situation almost powerless.
The ideology should be immediately declared in general terms, and its essence should be the complete and direct rejection of the ideology of the West, globalism, and totalitarian liberalism, with all its instrumental subspecies – including neo-Nazism, racism, and extremism.

Mobilisation​

Mobilisation is inevitable. War concerns absolutely everyone. However, mobilisation does not mean forced sending of conscripts to the front. This can be avoided, for example, through the formation of a full-fledged Volunteer Movement, with the necessary benefits and state support.
We should bet on veterans, on special support for the soldiers of Novorossiya. Russia has few of them, but there are supporters abroad. We must not hesitate to form anti-Nazi anti-globalist international brigades from honest people from the countries of East and West.
But the main thing is that Russians should not be underestimated. We are a hero people. At a great price, but we won over a great enemy more than once or twice in our glorious history. We will win this time too, but only if the war against the West becomes a people’s war. It is people’s wars that we win, wars in which a nation-giant is awakening.
Mobilisation involves a complete change in information policy. Peacetime norms (in fact, blind copying of Western entertainment programs and strategies that only corrupt society) must be abolished. Television and the media in general should become patriotic tools for wartime mobilisation. All concerts are for the frontline, the very being in the rears is also for the frontline. This is already gradually beginning, but so far it affects only a tiny part of the channels. And it should be everywhere.
Culture, information, education, enlightenment, politics, the social sphere – everything must work unanimously for the war, that is, for the Victory.

Economy​

Any sovereign state can issue as much national currency as it needs. If it is truly sovereign. A war with the West makes it meaningless to continue economic games according to its rules. The wartime economy cannot but be sovereign. To win, you should spend as much money as you need. It is only necessary to ensure that emissions are concentrated in a special circuit designed for strategic purposes. Corruption in such circumstances should be equated with a war crime.
War and comfort are incompatible things. The comfort as a goal, as a life guide, should be abandoned. Only peoples who are ready for hardships are able to win real fully-fledged wars.
In such situations, a new layer of economists always appears, whose goal is to save the state. This is of primary importance. Dogmas, schools, methods, and approaches are secondary.
You can call such an economy a mobilisation economy, or you can simply call it a military one.

Our allies​

Allies play a vital role in any war. Today, Russia does not have many of them, but they do exist. First of all, we are talking about those countries that reject the unipolar liberal Western order. That is, the supporters of multipolarity, such as China, Iran, North Korea, Serbia, Syria, Central African Republic, Mali, and also, to a certain extent, India, Turkey, a number of Islamic, African and Latin American countries (primarily Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela).
In working with them, it is necessary to mobilise all available resources, not only professional but also people’s diplomacy. And for this, again, an ideology is needed. We must convince the allies that we have decided to break with globalism and Western hegemony irreversibly and are ready to go all the way in building a multipolar world. Here we must be consistent and resolute. The time for halftones and compromises is over. The war of the West against Russia is dividing humanity into different sides of the barricades.

Spiritual Factor​

The central moment of the world confrontation that has begun is the spiritual, religious aspect. Russia found itself in a state of war with a God-fighting anti-religious civilization that overthrows the very foundations of spiritual and moral values: God, the Church, family, sex, human. With all the differences between Orthodoxy, traditional Islam, Judaism, Hinduism or Buddhism, all religions and cultures built on them recognise divine truth, the high spiritual and moral dignity of a person, honor traditions and institutions: the state, family, community. The modern West has abolished all this, replacing it with virtual reality, extreme individualism, the destruction of sex, universal surveillance, a totalitarian “cancel culture”, and a post-truth society.
Open Satanism and outright racism flourish in Ukraine, and the West only supports this.
We are dealing with what the Orthodox elders call “the civilization of the Antichrist.” Therefore, the role of Russia is to unite believers of different faiths in this decisive battle.
You should not wait until the ultimate enemy destroys your house, kills your husband, son or daughter … At some point it will be too late. God forbid we live to such a moment.
The offensive of the enemy in the Kharkiv region is exactly that, that very thing. The beginning of a fully-fledged war of the West against us.
The West is demonstrating its intention to start a war of annihilation against us – a third world war. We must gather all our deepest national potential to repel this attack. By all means: with thoughts, military power, economy, culture, art, internal mobilisation of all state structures and each of us.

Ultranationalist advisor, one of many advisors that reinforces Putin's contorted narratives.

Putin probably considers Dugin a convenient idiot, in case he needs to brainwash his population for a call to general mobilization as Dugin argues for here. It is thus that Dugin may not be inclined to jump out of a window from a multistory building.

 

[nativewolf]

Supposedly Dugin is not allowed close to Putin, kept at bay by Putins handlers. However, he's a voice...like the briebart or alex jones nimnuts. Anyone spewing hate 24/7 seems to have a platform nowadays.

 

[lolachampcar]

Putin has been working on bad information. He probably thought his guy in Washington did more damage to the alliance than he actually managed.

yes and no
Putin is not stupid. His ego has lead him out over his skis but, in the totality of his world, he is not far from wrong.
He heads a kleptocracy which depends on using limited resources to buy needed support and keeping the masses in check. A deteriorating economy combined with the death by a thousand cuts of having democracies slowly gaining ground on his eastern flank is a slow loosing proposition.

An intelligence officer's answer is to use the West's natural corruption to undermine its foundations. Feed a bunch of cash to one politician's kid so you have leverage in the future. Feed another's ego. Spread your bets around and one may hit. One did and in a big way to the point that the dog did not know what to do with the bus when he caught it. Make no mistake, the previous administration did a HUGE amount of damage to NATO and the US' relations abroad. The prima cord was set around all the pillars and Putin simply ran out of time to attach the blasting cap. US antagonism combined with the stress of energy versus support for Ukraine would have been sufficient to bring the house down.

American Exceptionalism, I've heard about it all my life but have really struggled to understand what it is. Having worked on many continents, all peoples have merit. So what is "exceptional" about a country that continues to meddle in places, start needless wars, destroy existing governmental infrastructure without a clue as to what to put in its place and on and on? These are my recent understandings of the US. Ukraine has given me a different view. The US is the only one that has used nuclear weapons and yet the country they were used on is one of the US' strongest allies. Germany was routed during WWII and now it is one of the strongest economic engines in Europe and at peace with its neighbors. It would appear that, when its better angles prevail, the US has the ability to participate in a group effort and help nations rebuild from rubble while reinventing themselves without needing to "own" them.

I hope we (the US and Europe/NATO) find a way to do this with Ukraine and Russia as well if it crumbles. Ukrainians have already demonstrated they are willing to do the heavy lifting to build a better world for themselves. I'm hoping we can help them and, in so doing, offer Russia another chance at reinventing itself.

 

[lolachampcar]

Supposedly Dugin is not allowed close to Putin, kept at bay by Putins handlers. However, he's a voice...like the briebart or alex jones nimnuts. Anyone spewing hate 24/7 seems to have a platform nowadays.

As much as I despise how tort law has been twisted in the US, at least the reason it exists and the infrastructure to employ it sometimes allows for accountability for clowns like Jones. Russia does not currently have that luxury.

 

[wdolson]

yes and no
Putin is not stupid. His ego has lead him out over his skis but, in the totality of his world, he is not far from wrong.
He heads a kleptocracy which depends on using limited resources to buy needed support and keeping the masses in check. A deteriorating economy combined with the death by a thousand cuts of having democracies slowly gaining ground on his eastern flank is a slow loosing proposition.

An intelligence officer's answer is to use the West's natural corruption to undermine its foundations. Feed a bunch of cash to one politician's kid so you have leverage in the future. Feed another's ego. Spread your bets around and one may hit. One did and in a big way to the point that the dog did not know what to do with the bus when he caught it. Make no mistake, the previous administration did a HUGE amount of damage to NATO and the US' relations abroad. The prima cord was set around all the pillars and Putin simply ran out of time to attach the blasting cap. US antagonism combined with the stress of energy versus support for Ukraine would have been sufficient to bring the house down.

Putin is a brilliant politician in the Russian sphere and he has put in motion a number of programs that have hurt the world's liberal democracies. They find useful idiots to do their bidding but they also found fault lines within societies and worked hard to make them grow.

Putin has also been paranoid about a coup and he knows that successful coups always involve the military. He went about making the military as incompetent as possible on top of the flaws inherited from the Soviet system. Any commander who showed any popularity with their troops were gotten out of the way ASAP.

Putin also has no feel for how military campaigns work, but he thinks he knows what he's doing. A bit of Dunnig-Kruger there.

American Exceptionalism, I've heard about it all my life but have really struggled to understand what it is. Having worked on many continents, all peoples have merit. So what is "exceptional" about a country that continues to meddle in places, start needless wars, destroy existing governmental infrastructure without a clue as to what to put in its place and on and on? These are my recent understandings of the US. Ukraine has given me a different view. The US is the only one that has used nuclear weapons and yet the country they were used on is one of the US' strongest allies. Germany was routed during WWII and now it is one of the strongest economic engines in Europe and at peace with its neighbors. It would appear that, when its better angles prevail, the US has the ability to participate in a group effort and help nations rebuild from rubble while reinventing themselves without needing to "own" them.

I hope we (the US and Europe/NATO) find a way to do this with Ukraine and Russia as well if it crumbles. Ukrainians have already demonstrated they are willing to do the heavy lifting to build a better world for themselves. I'm hoping we can help them and, in so doing, offer Russia another chance at reinventing itself.

It's become a political slogan that means whatever the politician wants it to mean, but it originally just meant what the country was founded for. Most countries exist as the political vessel for a cultural group. Japan is the land of the Japanese, Sweden is the land of the Swedish. The United States instead of being the vessel of a cultural group was founded on an ideal that people could come together under a set of written principles and laws and live in relative harmony.

The book American Nations by Collin Woodard shows that the US is really a patchwork of different cultures that have been struggling to get along with one another for 250 years. The book has been out about ten years so you can get a used one cheap on Amazon. A forum member here on TMC recommended it a few years back and it's one of the most substantial history books I've read in years.

As for rebuilding Europe and Asia, the US did that to stop the Soviet Union rather than be nice guys, though considering how well it worked out you'd think the US would have done it since WWII. I hope the world does rebuild Ukraine after this. I think it would be a win win for democracies around the world.

 

[nativewolf]

So we have closed a few days with relatively little news on the battlefields. Calm before the storm. Perun also thought the destruction of the Guards Tank Army in Izium was significant as it was the best equipped unit and abandoned 100 of the most modern tanks, many being driven by Ukraine days after abandonment (not mechanical issues). Lots and lots of speculation on a 3rd front being established to split Kherson province down to the Sea of Azov. Lots of speculation that the USA has already supplied longer range weapon systems to Ukraine.

France has started training Ukrainian soldiers (about time).

Ukraine is exhibiting exceptional battlefield information control. No leaks from the entire Kherson front and still none of significance elsewhere.

I predict one last big push later this week to accomplish some goals before mud season arrives again. When mud season arrives I could see Russia making a play to pull out the elite units from Kherson, looks to me like they'll try. They'll leave heavy weapons and reequip; they have plenty of 1950s mortars in reserve, rounds have been kept meticulously in wooden boxes on the ground hidden in a siberian forests. Easy to find, sometimes one blows up and you just follow the sound, careful where you step. They can get some RPGs from cuba...oh wait. We haven't seen any cuban mercenaries here. Huh... That is actually one of the biggest surprises of the war. In the 70s and 80s you could count on finding Cubans.

 

[SageBrush]

I thought the Dugin article was interesting, and that is saying something since I normally cannot tolerate reading propaganda. Dugin understands (and obviously distorts and quotes out of context) the call to "de-imperialize" Russia from a Russian POV. The quote is presented as a call to destroy and "dismember" Russia, when in fact the actual call was to take steps to prevent future invasions by Russia of its neighbors without specifying the means.

I'd say Dugin presumes that NATO and the US would use the same approaches that Russia would use if the roles were reversed. Since Russia views destruction of a neighbor and installation of a puppet regime as the way to prevent a neighbor from invading Russia, their reasoning is that the neighbor must think the same way. Moreover, if a neighbor invaded Russia and was repelled, the Russian response would be to not only prevent further invasions as outlined above, but to punish the neighbor with mass destruction, murder, and subjugation of the invaders as a right and proper response.

In short, Dugin is suffering from what Freudians call transference. He presumes that the West will act exactly the way Russia would act if the roles were reversed. No wonder he is frightened. And to the extent that his readership accept his proposition that the West will be just as barbaric as Russia, they must feel that their backs are up against a wall regardless of their original position on the invasion.

 

[nativewolf]

Two last words: svatove , strarobils

 

[KBF]

Two last words: svatove , strarobils

Google tells me Svatove is a city in Ukraine (or 'wedding guest') but all I got with strarobils is 'strawberries'... So I'm ignorant, not catching your reference, please enlighten me.

 

[nativewolf]

Google tells me Svatove is a city in Ukraine (or 'wedding guest') but all I got with strarobils is 'strawberries'... So I'm ignorant, not catching your reference, please enlighten me.

east of svatove...well I might be mangling the translation/spelling. rail road junction....strategically something to control before mud.

 

[unk45]

I thought the Dugin article was interesting, and that is saying something since I normally cannot tolerate reading propaganda. Dugin understands (and obviously distorts and quotes out of context) the call to "de-imperialize" Russia from a Russian POV. The quote is presented as a call to destroy and "dismember" Russia, when in fact the actual call was to take steps to prevent future invasions by Russia of its neighbors without specifying the means.

There is another aspect in all this that is rarely discussed in the rest of the world. Russia views it's area as all the area it has ever controlled. The Wiki on the Russian Empire presents this succinctly:

Russian Empire - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

From the Russian nationalist perspective all that area, including even Alaska, should be Russia today. Right now they use the Dugin phrase 'novorossiya' loosely defined as the USSR extent following WWII. One oddity is that they use the term 'Nazi or Nazification' as a descriptor of all the former USSR republics that seceded from the USSR (other than the Russian Republic, Bylorussia and the Asian USSR republics that remained as Russian semi-integrated states.

Dugin is not actually a 'useful idiot' at all. He is the loudest spokesperson for the Russian nationalist world view. In fact the Russian nationalist view is a nearly exact reposition of the A. Hitler Liebensraum policy.

Hitler's Search for More German Living Space

Lebensraum, meaning living space, was a geopolitical term adapted by Adolf Hitler to support German expansion to the east.

www.thoughtco.com

In both cases the policy is driven by a deep sense of vulnerability when there is any dependence on non-controlled area, for anything at all.

It is well to understand these positions and not discount them at all. They are deeply felt by ethnic Russians who are adherents of the Russian Orthodox views. Those are both jingoistic and religious and ONLY consider the Rus. Non-Rus can be subjugated and used but never trusted.

This current conflict can only end with annihilation of Ukrainians who do to adhere to the Rus.
Of course, this depends on a serious misunderstanding of history. Truth is itself defined in terms of chosen reality, not an objective reality.

After thinking about that perspective we also must understand how much many Nationalistic parties around the world share similar views.

 

[petit_bateau]

A roundup of posts that may be informative.

(The Izium graveyard appears to contain a lot of torture.)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1570826199861194753

https://twitter.com/WarMonitor3/status/1570521952800112641

https://twitter.com/x/status/1571216692612669441

https://twitter.com/x/status/1571531776178245635

https://twitter.com/x/status/1570740207892434946

Thread by @ChrisO_wiki on Thread Reader App

@ChrisO_wiki: 1/ @ian_matveev, who's one of the smartest Russian-language commentators on the Ukraine war, has posted a very interesting and detailed thread discussing the reasons for Russia's defeat east of Kharkiv...…

threadreaderapp.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1571165187654180867

 

[madodel]

Czech presidency calls for war crime tribunal over mass graves in Ukraine​

The EU presidency on Saturday (17 September) called for the establishment of an international tribunal for war crimes after new mass graves were found in Ukraine.​

 

[RobStark]

Ukraine Just Captured Another Rare Russian Electronic Warfare Vehicle

The vehicle from the Taran-M signals intelligence, or SIGINT, system was captured after the rout of Russian forces in the Kharkiv region.

www.thedrive.com

 

[RobStark]

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[petit_bateau]

There's about two months of reasonable campaigning time left before Winter really closes in. Clearly the Russian troops are struggling with basic stuff, such as suitable clothing. Let's hope Ukraine can make good use of that time.