US delays Wagner sanctions after insurrection – WSJ “Washington reportedly did not want to be seen as siding with Vladimir Putin” 🤣😂 They celebrated too early! And Little Blinkie better hurry — while they still have a Wagner around to be sanctioned (or U$D in demand and with value)

Well done Sudhi in highlighting the 19th century Crazy Cossack who founded his own colony in Djibouti! It appears the Chef’s fate now rhymes with the Cossack. Both Tzars neatly defused the wayward son. Stripped of their ambitions and exiled whilst being defanged and declawed. Our Tractor Farmer Lukashenko will teach him how to farm potatoes!

This is lovely indeed. It will be a most bitter cuppa tea in London. No fratricide of civil war and darkly stirred Russian waters, but an anticlimactic and meek ending for the Old Chef, lol

ok released! just holler, even in advance if posting > 3 links. I sometimes forget to check. thx

Ok after listening to speeches and on reflection, this is no maskirovka but a loose nut that escaped reason or was turned.

Hal is now spewing something about US being obligated to conduct a first strike if Prigozhin gets his hands on Russian nukes. The raving messaging is unreal.

However this is far from 1917. This government has deep legitimacy and wide armed support. They will make mince meat of insurrectionists.

The issue is Crimea, and why they were so desperate to sever the links to Russia proper. If Wagner really controls Rostov now, and it’s the main resupply & HQ of the SMO, then Crimea becomes even more critical??? The Kerch bridge and whatever depots on Krim itself.. They need to solve this mutiny ASAP

I held my nose and peeked into the BBC…
Their measured tone is surprising. No celebrations or incitement. They matter of factly report a mutinous situation being dealt with.

This is such a bizarre situation.

If he was an agent for West, wittingly anyhow, there would be coordinated media campaigns, at least by the rabid UK press….
What BBC noted, besides usual precautions of tightened security throughout Russia: the internet was restricted.

As crazy as it sounds, i am still not convinced this is not possibly a Russian PsyOps…

• A “Coup attempt” is launched at least successful opportunity — when UkroNATO is on the ropes, counteroffensive floundering, and patriotism and pleasure at MoD performance is highest
• It happens to make the crazies pause from dastardly nuclear provocations AND in wild hope launch more Ukie brigades into the Grinder
• Internet and informational hygiene is given excuse to be tightened just before expected major western attack
• Again, like “withdrawals” from Kherson and Kharkov last year, it makes Russia look weaker than it is, and paradoxically gains Global South sympathy for their horse who appears to be faltering

Possible? Crazier stunts have been performed for less existential times and occasions.. Mr. S in his update linked to by Pepe notes interesting point: the Russian MoD videos calling for calm and noncompliance with the Chef were prerecorded… yes, not proof of staging, and likely a prudent preparation given profiling and usual Rooskie planning for contingencies. Everything has such surreal aspect. Emerson! Your take? What’s Canadian media saying

Certainly a dance is underway, and regardless of spontaneity it does serve to put the crazed Enemy on the infowar backfoot, all the while their proxy is being thoroughly finished off in the gray zone….

PS — wasn’t it prudent to attrit Wagner in Bakhmut now? It wasn’t just the Ukies losing brigades… the long time spent, ensuring the thoroughness of the grind affected both sides. In case this show went live, now he has ten of thousands less crack shock troops at his disposal.

A night of perfect storms in Moscow!! 

• The Prigozhin card is activated towards desired regime change
• Roadblocks manned from Rostov-on-Don to Moscow & activation of National Guard of Central Mil District (((if Hal is to be believed)))
• The Air Defender -23 wraps up “exercises” — fight or flight time.
• Medvedev slams the door on Polish or any western negotiations
• SU-NPP joins Z-NPP on a deathly watch on the high tower!
• The demented effeminate senator from South Carolina adds spewing of radioactivity from struck NPPs to the triggers of Article V
• Russian MoD says more “counteroffensives” being launched now under the cover of Prigozhin’s stunt

Oh my. Can they worm their way into the Kremlin’s head, shake the nerves and cause discombobulation? As our Brit friends may say, “Highly unlikely.” So what comes after another optical illusion??

YouTube algos pushed this guy. A reasonably sharp and logical guy, ostensibly on the Ukies side, who is deducing next steps.. onwards into the mouth of Hell, brave West! Just like the 600.. an interesting reveal, enough of the truth! How many would be willing to countenance nuclear war to save their privileges & way of life? It is being made clear that Everything’s on the line — a life of Comfort and Leisure. Men killed for less — once upon a time, a pair of expensive sneakers in NYC did the trick

Ah, Masha and the Bear, favorite of several of my kids

Sorry to cause discomfort Mr P! Was not my intent at all. I hadn’t even considered AI could have created it. Undoubtedly there were many similar [indoor] bookshelves throughout human history, well before AI or computers… that was what triggered my memories and led to the posting of the calming tableau.. Some of most wealthy humans in history were arabs and Mediterranean people (like today) who were deeply insecure and obsessed over water (being hostages to an arid existence)… and so combining indoor pools and libraries came second nature to them.

A Yemeni told me the story in the Qur’an of the Prophet-King Solomon, whose palaces amazed mankind. The Queen of Sheba (also from Yemen), another Superpower of her day, when visiting his palace lifted the hem of her dress, thinking the glass floor under which flowed rivers (iirc) would ruin the dress. When it was explained to her the nature of the floor, this amazement led her to accept the Faith, and turn away from prior sun-worship… He had many technologies unknown to others of his day. And so the adoption of indoor pools, fountains, aquaria, waterfalls, etc… with many non-desert people who sought solace and meditation by still or gently rolling waters… do you understand?? This was point. I avoid AI.. water is source of our life, and in it is healing and inspiration of body and mind and spirit.

Yeah English Law begins to eat itself. Fitting, no? Such games of cynicism can only play so long. The chickens came home to roost. As Pirates are beaten back on every flank and front, they will increasingly use all the tools acquired by their accursed three letter agencies and the little Gene Sharps to cannibalize each other. A hammer only knows how to slam in nails. All the malignant energy and ill-will formerly spent on Others abroad will marinate their own…

I haven’t watched Mercouris since I returned from Yemen about seven months ago… I got into the habit of downloading his videos into mp3. I did it in Yemen to save on download bandwidth in low-tech scene. I do it now as he never posts images so I can listen to him and pause and resume as needed, while I push strollers or on sundry tasks or relax in bed.. Is he psychologically going to hell?! His voice sounds like crap recently. I assumed a simple cold.. maybe a sign of cratering immunity levels due to stress and the now-evident slow-mo train crash?? He does sounded jaded too. He kept the blinkers on for too long!

In many regards he lives in La-La Land… Younger Alex, having lived in the US and thoroughly familiar with the sordidness is in many regards more mature about the denouement in motion. Being a highly learned Oracle in Ivory Towers may confer wide scope and understanding of History, but does leave one stranded and behind the ball on situational events. Especially considering one’s lot as a passenger on the Titanic half-way down Mariana Trench!

➡️ Oops! Sorry Sudhi, was meant for Mr P… Yes, I loved that image too. Sometimes AI can create something positive we yearn for – a pleasant vista or image that drifts just beyond grasp…