Russian Federation SITREP, May 31, 2018
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RUSSIA: REALITY AND ILLUSION. In my employed days (10 years ago this week!) we Russia hands would intermittently be visited by someone from a Embassy who would tell us (expressing surprise) that Moscow was safe, interesting, a people “normal” and so on. we testily told one once that all he was revelation us, who already knew this, was how bad Western (and Embassy) stating was on a existence of Russia. Nicolai Petro has created a dictatorial square on this diligence of an prehistoric and wrong-headed picture that is still a substructure of so most comment. “Paradigm blindness occurs when an eventuality stays invisible given a spectator has no context or countenance for fixing it. Simply put, Americans can't speak about Russia as a democracy given there is no support of anxiety for Russian democracy in their minds.” He sadly concludes that “Russophobia is a ongoing condition for American elites” and that it is “a by-product of American exceptionalism”. You should review a strange but Paul Robinson summarises it. we notice it all a time: to contend “Russian elections” is to get a grin – “everybody knows” they don’t have them, ditto “Russian law” and so on. An inadvertently waggish painting of illusion masquerading as research can be found here: “Our unfamiliar process successes have been distant some-more countless than a mistakes, and a advantages of American impasse around a creation distant transcend a shortcomings”, “Putin’s Moscow has sought to reconstruct Russia’s status by severe a United States in a Allies though dignified constraint” and so on. In short: we explosve hospitals by mistake, Russians do it on purpose. Dangerous things to be meditative these days.
FOUR AT ONCE. Four Bulava ICBMs launched at once. That’s potentially 24 150kt warheads. Maybe it’s time to glance profitable improved – and reduction self-delusory – courtesy to Russia.
OOPS. The Russians explain to have dual Tomahawk missiles from Syria; they say they will investigate them so as to improved opposite them. This will not bother the Pentagon that denies that any such thing happened.
SPIEF. Took place final week. May infer to be an eventuality of some stress depending on Europe’s greeting to Trump’s termination of a Iran agreement and tariffs. Serious meetings with Japan, France and the IMF, China and, a few days before with India and Germany. Interesting that, no matter what, they come to speak to Putin earlier or later, isn’t it? There’s a new universe a-borning though it will take a while yet.
SANCTIONS. Oleg Deripaska has resigned as CEO of Rusal; a suspicion is that given a US has authorised him personally, a association can now function. But so prolonged as a US sanctions pointless people for things Russia didn’t do, who can say? Washington now involves 20 countries in sanctions; or is it more? You supplement it up. Once on a list, we never got off and Jackson-Vannik morphs into Magnitskiy.
MH17. Is behind and only in time for a World Cup. Some aged Bellingcat videos and a conveniently-just-discovered-somewhere-sometime 30-year aged barb bit. Meanwhile Kerry’s “we celebrated it” is nowhere to be seen and Ukrainian radar was “down for maintenance“. Who knew that a strong US comprehension structure all comes down to social media and and one man in a UK.
SKRIPALMANIA. “British Hostage Video Of Yulia Skripal Released“. But, as is argued here, maybe she bravely negotiated what she could say. I stick by what we pronounced during a start and we am gratified to see that a readers of a Daily Mail (one of a few MTP outlets that still allows comments) are equally scornful. (PS: we generally enjoyed it when Lexus and Vovan got Johnson to promise: “evidence we many be means to furnish in due course“. we suspicion they already had all a evidence). Craig Murray discusses.
SRIPAL KIEV. we don’t know what a indicate of this stupid genocide and rebirth was, though be positive that Putin will continue to be blamed for it. Stupidest take (so far): “The Babchenko try might finish adult feeding a Kremlin spin machine“: those annoying Russians will use a lies to infer that we lie.
PHONE PRANKS. Lexus and Vovan, sanctimonious to be a Armenian PM, speak to Boris Johnson; a Foreign Office contend it was a “latest unfortunate try by a Kremlin to save face” and Johnson figured it out flattering quickly. “Quickly” in this box being 18 minutes. You have to wonder: can anyone with an accent and a story get to speak these people? Lexus and Vovan have finished this many times.
NEW NWO. Is Trump alienating allies? I suggested he is on purpose; others notice it’shappening. Either way, people are starting to cruise life though Uncle Sam ensconced in a guest bedroom.
UKRAINE. It’s not only “Putin trolls”: from an American Jewish publication: “Violent Anti-Semitism Is Gripping Ukraine — And The Government Is Standing Idly By“. The bequest of Nuland’s “Revolution of Dignity”: nazi recrudescence, fight with Russia and – potentially worse – nuclear disaster.
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