Update: Comparisons: Scott Ritter (after his Russian trip) and a fellow called Edward

We had some further developments here.  As one could expect Edward Slavsquat (Riley Waggaman) was not too happy with my depiction.  But, we talked it through and after a rocky start, reasonable relations are the order of the day.

The issue that remains then, is the “6th column in Russia”.   Riley does not accept that but, with a caveat.  Take a look: “I strongly object to the use of “6th columnist” to describe views in Russia that are often ignored in Western alternative media.” 

There is nothing wrong with that in my view, and the term should not be thrown around willy-nilly.   This is Riley’s counter, tongue-in-cheek header, as he has a comical way about him and we truly had a friendly and civil discussion.

Everyone I don’t agree with is a 6th columnist:  I think we can all agree that non-Russians should decide which Russians are allowed to talk about Russia. That’s just common sense, folks.

We discussed the issue of who gets to decide the internal Russian discourse, and this was my reply:

Do they then call Riley’s argument pure strawman?  Anyway, this is not the important issue and before we get to that I would like to do one thing.  I sent the Saker’s two articles on the ‘6th column’ to explain the term and how we use it.  I would like to move that from the table and speak for myself rather.  This was a term that the Saker coined and we just naturally accepted it into the lexicon.  But I want to move it out because there was a better term which I want to adopt.

The better term is all-is-losters and we get them in all countries and all domains.  This will then move the discourse to a different level and deal with the strawman.

Why is this important?  It is important in my view for two reasons.

1. Many of us feel that not all is lost and we look at where the world is developing and where people are thriving.  Innately, we yearn for that!  That is why we look at the hope engendered via principles such as multi- or pluripolarity and the strength of a new and fairer financial system that is not at the whim of an empirical imperialist autocratic controller.
2. I personally look at China or Russia or even Iran who unveiled a locally built hypersonic missile just this morning.   I also look at Africa and at Latin America.  We are now part of the majority in terms of objectives, although the path is still long and hard.

Some of us, actually incredibly many of us are not all-is-losters.  These ones have a very specific style or signature.

The first main differentiator is that they espouse the idea that everyone, besides of course themselves, is just bad.  If you are a government, or in governance, you are bad and you’re coming to get us.  So they present themselves as this little pressurized fringe group that always speaks truth above all else.  In reality, it is a stream of continual negativity, even if there is something good going on.  Someone is always coming to get them.

The second differentiator is that there is no good government.  Seemingly the portrayal is, and this is my own definition, whatever is going on now, is just the big fat cats of many different stripes, fighting over territory and power and they might leave the scraps for us if we are lucky.  This is despite the fact that the countries that are changing, have incredibly high approval ratings in respect to their leaders.  AMLO in Mexico has an 80% approval rating and if he speaks in the square in Mexico City, he is surrounded by a million people in support.  Putin himself is rating up there to 80%.

The third differentiator is copious use of the word “They”.  “They”, this amorphous boogyman mess under the bed, is out there and coming to control us.  Paranoia is the word.

How does this manifest in Russia?  Well, all three differentiators hold.  The Russian governance is just the same, fighting over everything but secretly in obeyance to the WEF and Davos and such.   We see them in the channels, those of us that follow the SMO.  We see them in economic circles.  We see them in philosophical circles.  They are there and I know they are because I’ve answered questions until my fingers are tired and I want to cuss.  It manifests in Russia with a discourse that is encouraged, which takes the Western tropes, and simply fits them over into Russia as if they fit.  I’ll give a few examples.  Putin is WEF.  Sputnik V is highly questionable despite the fact that we have worldwide results that it actually did some good and people are not falling over dead.  (Just to say, I am not keen on vaxxes).  China is absolutely very very bad and their handling of Covid was brutal and terrible.  And Oy Vey!  They are coming to get us, no matter where we find ourselves in the world.  CBDCurrencies .. The sky is falling!  The sky is falling!  They’re coming to control us!  Well, Big Bad China has had a CBDC for about two years now, and nobody is controlling anyone else with granular adjusting of their accounts.  In this way, with this message, the all-is-losters are denuding the human being from internal power.

It is a continual and self-imposed weakening of the individual and the individual’s power.  It is a self-imposed weakening of the power of our more socialist groupings.  We have already shot ourselves in the foot, long before Bill Gates or the WEF can get to us.  We must fight but nobody knows why or how, so the continual negativity streams out, consuming any energy left within us, if we let it.  This is not productive.  That is how the all-is-losters manifest.