I think the issue you're running into is that Americans (I am one) are fat and retarded (because of fat in the brain) and treat political/philosophical allegiances like sports teams. Our entire education system and media complex is designed to get us to think this way which means that it's especially hard for the old farts who read Unz and have their brains' neuroplasticity hardened to think any differently. Anything less than unfettered and often irrational optimism is treated as heretical disloyalty.
Your pragmatic, realistic approach is therefore interpreted as acquiescence to the moral superiority of the US Empire of Gay Anal Sex. Americans just aren't used to this kind of pragmatism, but your predictions continually proven right is validation that your approach is best and will give the most accurate depiction of the situation on the ground in Russia.
There is very good reason to be critical of the situation from the Russian side, but in the long term I don't see how US can hold it's hegemony together for another 10-20 years. Michael Hudson, who is also on Unz, seems to think this way and he's probably the smartest columnist on that site.
Relax, humble narrator. Stay offline for a day , go to the korova milk bar and pick up a few local girls and bring them to your place for the old in n out. Try playing the latest album from Heaven Seventeen, works every time to get them in the mood
Ahh the irony. If the boomers at UNZ could see what roughly 75% Russian rightwingers thought of Putin their heads would explode. I personally dont know of any Russian rightwingers that are effusively supportive of Putin. My ancedotal observation is that the rightwingers tend to just tolerate him or at least not take shots at him but they arent excited about him by any means. By rightwingers I mean your sort of Monarchists/Traditionalist types. Think Strelkov type Russians I guess. You could also lump most the non neo-nazi ethno nationalist into that imo.
The younger nazibols and their fellow neo Soviet boomers just loath Putin and everything about the current system. Of course I wouldn't call these types right wing but I mention them just to illustrate that the more politically engaged Russians are the more lukewarm they grow towards Moscow and Putin by associations if nothing else. I can't back that up with hard data or anything but it's my observation. Putins real base of loyalist among the population is normies who just arent interested in politics and dont pretend they are and they dont want very drastic changes either. Rolos position of being politically active and also very loyal to Putin is actually pretty rare in Russia as far as I can tell. Personally I more or less share rolos stance because despite everything wrong in Russia now the post Putin russia is even scarier imo.
I wont rag too hard on the guys at Unz furiously defending Putins honor against Rolo because they mean well and are just very mislead by Saker, Orlov, etc. But they dont know sh1t about Russia and unfortunately Saker and Orlov wont help them learn anything either.
I think the sheep just wanted to be sheared, Rolo. After all of the Trump 5D crap, you cannot buy anyone at this point who wants to ascribe mastery to military failures for the Russians. I'm sure theres a fancy term out there for it but I'll just that behavior crazy. The SMO was supposed to be over with the fall of Kiev and we all see how that worked. Everything after has been a "failure to plan."
Rolo has been clear about where he stands from the start. He has steadfastly supported Putin, questioning Putins confidantes and the lack of effort to tap patriotic fervor amd national pride. Strength does not come from hoping for the best and just winging it but honest self-criticism and learning from one's mistakes. Frankly it's somewhat comforting to see Russian nationalists have almost as many problems as us westerners. Globohomo does a good job of boxing us in.
Rolo, I think you should knock off the 'old dummies' / 'brilliant young bucks' stuff. That is very typical of 'young dummies'. I have been interested in your writing and have posted links all over the place, along with favorable comments. I am 69 years old.
Considering most of us here agree on all the abover assertions, I am wondering if somebody just pulled your chain for amusement.
Ignore them, brother Rolo.
Meanwhile, your more argumentative fans (such as I) will continue to be obnoxious and pedantic, because we so nobly want to contribute to mankind's cerebral nourishment. We are intellectually philanthropic. We are emotionally the providers of loaves and fishes. Hell, we are almost effing godlike and you should be grateful
enjoy reading your articles and the fair assessments. not many like it out there these days.
more than the current events in ukraine, russia and all the related gutwringing between west and east i find the exploration of that Russian idea most intriguing. The West can only surf to the end its poor set of self delusions into its own sunset. Russia on the other hand stands today as a "historical virgin", even though it was used and abused in many ways, none of these were herself and the actual pregnancy is ongoing and birth to happen eventually. Certainly one of the most rewarding speculative and investigative work one can do today. would love to read more about your take on it.
👌 A most laudable stance of a rare maverick in a world where whoever cries the loudest wins 😊
All the numbered clarifications rock: lucid & comprehensive yet reasonably succinct. 💯. I wish more ppl heeded the maxim ↓↓ far better known in its shortened form.
🗨 My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
I support your position Rolo without reservation. I work with my China contacts and an excellent doctor in Australia (BOOM Finance & Economics) as well as patriots in USA (The Burning Platform). I am of your tribe, 90% Viking, and have a love of Russia and Eurasia rising to challenge the Empire of Lies. Here in the West we are battling to survive the onslaught from WEF et al. Here in UK they have infiltrated our government as they have so many other countries. Read Austrians Newsletter tomorrow - you will be shocked.
BOOM also writes here daily on medical issues: https://cmnnews.org/ I was on Skype today with Gerry - we are unsure how far Vlad and China is involved with the WEF - after all he was a Young Global Leader in the past. I am pursuing research in this area.
I avoid commenting on the Ukraine conflict as I have a hard time keeping up with UK's demise, but I will link your site so my readers can get a fair view. I read Unz when I can - not sure what side he is on?
Thanks for your work and if I had to say something about this situation, it is that the whole "Right" in Russia is unbelievably demoralizing, self-hating but also sterile in its production. If I compare it to what can be found in France, which is truly "reinformating" (as they call themselves), with a honest, deep and independent journalistic work in the best sense of the word, their Russian counterparts look bad, very bad. They look like a bunch of very negative guys, frustrated about everything and rejecting their frustration on the government (it seems to be the tradition in Russia to blame the government for pretty much anything). Those kinds of point of view can be found in the lowest classes in France, but they don't get to constitute a whole "movement". They are just intellectually limited guys, frustrated in their lifes and therefore blaming the government for their own miserable lifes. They constitute the core public of "independent medias", but don't run those medias. In Russia, those kind of people own these medias.
Your first set of articles, "The Great Russian Restoration", were really eye-opening about the situation. I remember telling myself at the moment, that I never read such a great analysis of Russian politics in my life. It really made sense. It was very descriptive.
But since then, I have to said that I became more and more disappointed. The content became less descriptive and more ideological. Names and historical facts were replaced with doubtful abstract ideas. In my opinion, you fell into the trap of ideology and abstraction, which is the particularity of the Russian political commentary scene, which makes it ten times less interesting than the Western one, and allows liberals to have the high ground because they are a bit more realistic and informative (and it's not really difficult to do so, considering what the "Right" has to offer in Russia).
I might be wrong, but I have the feeling that delving into the Russian "Right", you became one of them. And unfortunately, those people are miserable. They are what we call in France "paumés" - lost, godforsaken. This whole thing about the need to find a "Russian idea" is really pitful. It is a waste of time, energy spent for nothing concrete except formulating again a limiting set of rules, as was the communism. People nowadays are lost, but it's especially the case in Russia. People in Russia became literate, learnt how to read, at a time and in a system that doesn't exist anymore. I think that it's unprecedented in history. Moreover, this system disappeared not because of the will of the Russian people. Russians were dispossessed from themselves, they didn't have the time nor the possibility to develop a set of rules to live in the modern society, and now they want to catch up the train. But it cannot be done by a strict set of rules, except if you aim at becoming muslim or North-Korean.
The Russian people is an adolescent that needs to accept that things take time.
You will have to keep me posted on what is happening in CT or Belize. These days, out of necessity, we are our own media. You are, I take it, a boat man..
I think the issue you're running into is that Americans (I am one) are fat and retarded (because of fat in the brain) and treat political/philosophical allegiances like sports teams. Our entire education system and media complex is designed to get us to think this way which means that it's especially hard for the old farts who read Unz and have their brains' neuroplasticity hardened to think any differently. Anything less than unfettered and often irrational optimism is treated as heretical disloyalty.
Your pragmatic, realistic approach is therefore interpreted as acquiescence to the moral superiority of the US Empire of Gay Anal Sex. Americans just aren't used to this kind of pragmatism, but your predictions continually proven right is validation that your approach is best and will give the most accurate depiction of the situation on the ground in Russia.
There is very good reason to be critical of the situation from the Russian side, but in the long term I don't see how US can hold it's hegemony together for another 10-20 years. Michael Hudson, who is also on Unz, seems to think this way and he's probably the smartest columnist on that site.
Relax, humble narrator. Stay offline for a day , go to the korova milk bar and pick up a few local girls and bring them to your place for the old in n out. Try playing the latest album from Heaven Seventeen, works every time to get them in the mood
Ahh the irony. If the boomers at UNZ could see what roughly 75% Russian rightwingers thought of Putin their heads would explode. I personally dont know of any Russian rightwingers that are effusively supportive of Putin. My ancedotal observation is that the rightwingers tend to just tolerate him or at least not take shots at him but they arent excited about him by any means. By rightwingers I mean your sort of Monarchists/Traditionalist types. Think Strelkov type Russians I guess. You could also lump most the non neo-nazi ethno nationalist into that imo.
The younger nazibols and their fellow neo Soviet boomers just loath Putin and everything about the current system. Of course I wouldn't call these types right wing but I mention them just to illustrate that the more politically engaged Russians are the more lukewarm they grow towards Moscow and Putin by associations if nothing else. I can't back that up with hard data or anything but it's my observation. Putins real base of loyalist among the population is normies who just arent interested in politics and dont pretend they are and they dont want very drastic changes either. Rolos position of being politically active and also very loyal to Putin is actually pretty rare in Russia as far as I can tell. Personally I more or less share rolos stance because despite everything wrong in Russia now the post Putin russia is even scarier imo.
I wont rag too hard on the guys at Unz furiously defending Putins honor against Rolo because they mean well and are just very mislead by Saker, Orlov, etc. But they dont know sh1t about Russia and unfortunately Saker and Orlov wont help them learn anything either.
I think the sheep just wanted to be sheared, Rolo. After all of the Trump 5D crap, you cannot buy anyone at this point who wants to ascribe mastery to military failures for the Russians. I'm sure theres a fancy term out there for it but I'll just that behavior crazy. The SMO was supposed to be over with the fall of Kiev and we all see how that worked. Everything after has been a "failure to plan."
Rolo has been clear about where he stands from the start. He has steadfastly supported Putin, questioning Putins confidantes and the lack of effort to tap patriotic fervor amd national pride. Strength does not come from hoping for the best and just winging it but honest self-criticism and learning from one's mistakes. Frankly it's somewhat comforting to see Russian nationalists have almost as many problems as us westerners. Globohomo does a good job of boxing us in.
Rolo, I think you should knock off the 'old dummies' / 'brilliant young bucks' stuff. That is very typical of 'young dummies'. I have been interested in your writing and have posted links all over the place, along with favorable comments. I am 69 years old.
Considering most of us here agree on all the abover assertions, I am wondering if somebody just pulled your chain for amusement.
Ignore them, brother Rolo.
Meanwhile, your more argumentative fans (such as I) will continue to be obnoxious and pedantic, because we so nobly want to contribute to mankind's cerebral nourishment. We are intellectually philanthropic. We are emotionally the providers of loaves and fishes. Hell, we are almost effing godlike and you should be grateful
hello Rolo,
enjoy reading your articles and the fair assessments. not many like it out there these days.
more than the current events in ukraine, russia and all the related gutwringing between west and east i find the exploration of that Russian idea most intriguing. The West can only surf to the end its poor set of self delusions into its own sunset. Russia on the other hand stands today as a "historical virgin", even though it was used and abused in many ways, none of these were herself and the actual pregnancy is ongoing and birth to happen eventually. Certainly one of the most rewarding speculative and investigative work one can do today. would love to read more about your take on it.
cheers, Viktor
A very good article, Rolo. Thank you for your clarifications.
💬 I’m not going to cry about it.
👌 A most laudable stance of a rare maverick in a world where whoever cries the loudest wins 😊
All the numbered clarifications rock: lucid & comprehensive yet reasonably succinct. 💯. I wish more ppl heeded the maxim ↓↓ far better known in its shortened form.
🗨 My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
I support your position Rolo without reservation. I work with my China contacts and an excellent doctor in Australia (BOOM Finance & Economics) as well as patriots in USA (The Burning Platform). I am of your tribe, 90% Viking, and have a love of Russia and Eurasia rising to challenge the Empire of Lies. Here in the West we are battling to survive the onslaught from WEF et al. Here in UK they have infiltrated our government as they have so many other countries. Read Austrians Newsletter tomorrow - you will be shocked.
Check out these links:
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/xmas-humbug-un-hires-hancock-lord?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=762792&post_id=88382248&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email
This where I re-post my weekly Letters (Jim Quinn is a great friend and supporter over many years): https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/12/02/we-are-trapped-in-a-truman-show-directed-by-psychopaths/
BOOM also writes here daily on medical issues: https://cmnnews.org/ I was on Skype today with Gerry - we are unsure how far Vlad and China is involved with the WEF - after all he was a Young Global Leader in the past. I am pursuing research in this area.
I avoid commenting on the Ukraine conflict as I have a hard time keeping up with UK's demise, but I will link your site so my readers can get a fair view. I read Unz when I can - not sure what side he is on?
Go well - AP
Dude, everything you say is the antithesis of points #1 & #2 above.
So either you’re lying now or lying in your article. Which one is it? (I’m going with the former)
Thanks for your work and if I had to say something about this situation, it is that the whole "Right" in Russia is unbelievably demoralizing, self-hating but also sterile in its production. If I compare it to what can be found in France, which is truly "reinformating" (as they call themselves), with a honest, deep and independent journalistic work in the best sense of the word, their Russian counterparts look bad, very bad. They look like a bunch of very negative guys, frustrated about everything and rejecting their frustration on the government (it seems to be the tradition in Russia to blame the government for pretty much anything). Those kinds of point of view can be found in the lowest classes in France, but they don't get to constitute a whole "movement". They are just intellectually limited guys, frustrated in their lifes and therefore blaming the government for their own miserable lifes. They constitute the core public of "independent medias", but don't run those medias. In Russia, those kind of people own these medias.
Your first set of articles, "The Great Russian Restoration", were really eye-opening about the situation. I remember telling myself at the moment, that I never read such a great analysis of Russian politics in my life. It really made sense. It was very descriptive.
But since then, I have to said that I became more and more disappointed. The content became less descriptive and more ideological. Names and historical facts were replaced with doubtful abstract ideas. In my opinion, you fell into the trap of ideology and abstraction, which is the particularity of the Russian political commentary scene, which makes it ten times less interesting than the Western one, and allows liberals to have the high ground because they are a bit more realistic and informative (and it's not really difficult to do so, considering what the "Right" has to offer in Russia).
I might be wrong, but I have the feeling that delving into the Russian "Right", you became one of them. And unfortunately, those people are miserable. They are what we call in France "paumés" - lost, godforsaken. This whole thing about the need to find a "Russian idea" is really pitful. It is a waste of time, energy spent for nothing concrete except formulating again a limiting set of rules, as was the communism. People nowadays are lost, but it's especially the case in Russia. People in Russia became literate, learnt how to read, at a time and in a system that doesn't exist anymore. I think that it's unprecedented in history. Moreover, this system disappeared not because of the will of the Russian people. Russians were dispossessed from themselves, they didn't have the time nor the possibility to develop a set of rules to live in the modern society, and now they want to catch up the train. But it cannot be done by a strict set of rules, except if you aim at becoming muslim or North-Korean.
The Russian people is an adolescent that needs to accept that things take time.
Hello, just subscribed. Appreciate the realist, practical bent. Can you link to the unz article and comment referred to?
You will have to keep me posted on what is happening in CT or Belize. These days, out of necessity, we are our own media. You are, I take it, a boat man..
"I’d never go against a popular man in the highest seat in the land - it goes against my entire political philosophy."
You're bragging this?
Another piece of advice from the brain-dead oldster. Don't whine about people criticizing you ... at all.