Just like European maps
place Europe in the center of the planet, so do most western commentators look
at the past year from a US/Europe-centered perspective. Which is fair enough.
Furthermore, the AngloZionist Empire has just suffered two major disasters, the
Brexit and the election of Trump, so there is truly much interesting to focus
on. Still, what I want to do today is to look at the year which is ending from
a Russian perspective. The following were the major challenges Russia faced in
2016:
1. The Nazi regime in Kiev
2. The civil war in the
Donbass
3. Ukrainian attempts to
blockade Crimea
4. The rabid hostility of the
US Administration
5. NATO’s policy of military
confrontation in Europe
6. The united European front
against Russia
7. Western sanctions, the
subsequent drop in investments and credit and the low oil prices
8. The growing dissatisfaction
of the Russian people with the economic polices of the government
9. The struggle against the
“liberal” 5th column inside Russia
10. The international
aggression against Syria
11. The demonization of Russia
in general and of Vladimir Putin in particular
12. Terrorist attacks against
Russia
Let’s take these one by one
now and score them:
The Ukraine 5/5
The Nazi occupied Ukraine
is in free fall. In fact, it has been in free fall for a while already, but
just like somebody jumping from the 40th floor of a building is doing “okay”
passing by the 20th floor, so did the Ukraine still have the possibility to say
“so far so good” and look halfway credible to the superficially informed. Now,
however, it is becoming rather obvious that the so-called “Revolution of
dignity” (which is how the Neonazis call the coup against Yanukovich) is an
abject failure and that the “Independent Ukraine” is simply beyond rescue. The
ruling class which came to power now is falling apart, everybody is fighting
everybody else and there is no other discernible policy left beyond personal
enrichment and survival. As for the “Joan of Arc of the Ukraine” and “Hope of
the Ukraine” – Nadezhda Savchenko – she is now denounced as a traitor and FSB
agent. Forbes is now running an article entitled “Corruption is
killing Ukraine’s economy” while a former Ukrainian
lawmaker has passed recordings of Poroshenko taking bribes to the FBI.
As for the Ukrainian military, which Poroshenko has recently advertised as one
of the 5 best in the world, it has only mustered enough forces to send one
company size infantry force supported by 2 tank platoons to attack the
Novorussian positions near Debaltsevo before getting them all killed. The
situation of the Ukrainian military is so bad that they are now forced to use
private cars to get to the frontlines and to evacuate the wounded. Yes, on
paper the Ukrainian military is huge, but in reality it is a force which has a
hard time surviving even before going into battle. Last but not least, the
entire Nazi ruling elite had thrown its full political weight behind Hillary
while pouring scorn and vitriol against Trump. To say that they are now screwed
would be an understatement. Hence the mood of utter panic now taking over Kiev.
The Donbass 3/5
The Russian policy in the
Donbass (non-occupation combined with overt and covert support) was clearly the
correct one: the DNR and LNR are getting stronger while the Nazi occupied
Ukraine is going down the tubes, vide supra, as they say. There have
however also been clear failures and the two main ones are the Russian
inability to stop the constant shelling and attacks on civilians from the Nazis
and the Russian failure to establish security inside the two republics. If the
first failure can be excused (there is no magic recipe to make that happen),
the second one is inexcusable as seen by the murder of several key Novorussian
figures. Furthermore, the situation in the Donbass remains very difficult and
potentially dangerous. In the big scheme of things, Russia did very well, but
as soon as you look down to the more detailed level many mistakes and failures
become apparent. Still, it is now obvious to any decently informed person that
time is now (and has always been, really) on the side of the Novorussians as
every passing day makes them stronger and the Ukronazis weaker.
Crimea 5/5
The Urkonazis tried
everything, from blockading the peninsula, to cutting off water and
electricity, to sending terrorist infiltrators. This gave Russia the
opportunity to “save” Crimea from the Ukraine over and over and over again. It
is pretty darn clear that the Ukronazis have long given up of ever getting back
Crimea and that all that is left to them are mostly ineffective ways to try to
make the people of Crimea miserable thereby, of course, only strengthening
their resolve. Initially there were some people in Crimea who were not quite
convinced that the nightmare was really over and that Russia truly meant
business (especially with all the rumors about “Putin selling out”). But now
that the Russians have to put major efforts into shielding Crimea from the
Ukronazi attempts at blockading it those doubts have disappeared. Crimea’s
future looks extremely bright: not only is the Russian state pouring in
billions of Rubles for huge infrastructural improvement and the deployment of a
very large and advanced military force, but the prospects for tourism and trade
are also excellent.
ORDER IT NOW
The United States 5/5
The credit for the election
of Donald Trump goes first and foremost to the American people to whom I
sincerely believe the entire planet owe a heartfelt and loud “THANK YOU!!!!!”.
I will never be able to prove that and, thank God, we will never know if I was
right, but up to the last minute I was convinced that there was a very strong
probability that Hillary in the White House would have meant war, probably
nuclear, with Russia. I am still undecided about Trump, but I view his upcoming
term with cautious optimism and while I would never say never, I really very
strongly feel that with Trump in the White House the risks of war with Russia
have fallen to a dramatically low level and that barring some stunning
provocation or disaster, a war between the USA and Russia has now become
exceedingly unlikely. Glory be to God for His immense mercy towards us!
That being, said, I will
dare to speculate that Russia did play a role in the election of Trump. No, not
by hacking emails or by recruiting Ron Paul (!!!) as an agent of Russian
propaganda, but by openly and firmly confronting the USA on all fronts and
showing that Russia would not bend her knee before the AngloZionist Empire. As
I have written many times, Russia has been preparing for war for years now and
while Russians were (and still are) afraid of war, they are also ready and
willing to fight it if forced to do so. In his latest press
conference Putin specifically referred to the will of the
Russian people as a key element in Russia’s ability to defeat any aggressor
when he said,
We are stronger than any
potential aggressor. I have no problem repeating it. I also said why we are
stronger. This has to do with the effort to modernise the Russian Armed Forces,
as well as the history and geography of our country, and the current state
of Russian society
and he is absolutely right.
Sure, Hillary was probably stupid enough to try to impose a no-fly zone over
Syria, but the 200 or so generals and admirals who expressed their support for
Trump probably understood what that kind of folly would entail. Furthermore, it
appears that quite a few Americans are sympathetic to Russia and Putin himself.
Again, in his latest press conference Putin referred to this and made some very
interesting comments:
I do not take support for
the Russian President among a large part of Republican voters as support for me
personally, but rather see it in this case as an indication that a
substantial part of the American people share similar views with us on the
world’s organisation, what we ought to be doing, and the common threats and
challenges we are facing. It is good that there are people who sympathise with
our views on traditional values because this forms a good foundation on which
to build relations between two such powerful countries as Russia and the United
States, build them on the basis of our peoples’ mutual sympathy. (…) It
seems to me that Reagan would be happy to see his party’s people winning
everywhere, and would welcome the victory of the newly elected President so
adept at catching the public mood, and who took precisely this direction and
pressed onwards to the very end, even when no one except us believed he could
win.
Putin puts it down to
values, common values, between the Russian and the American people.
[Personal sidebar: for
whatever this is worth, I regularly interact with Americans who support Putin
on the grounds that "he stands for American values unlike the SOBs in
Washington"].
But how did the Americans
become aware of what values Putin and Russia stood for if not for the ceaseless
efforts of Putin himself and the alternative media to convey these values to
the general public? I think that by OPENLY denouncing the total hypocrisy of
the AngloZionist Empire and by OPENLY offering a different civilizational
model, Putin and Russia did have an impact on the public opinion in the West.
To put it simply: Russia has scored an ideological victory over the AngloZionist
imperialists. In other words, the Russian policy of standing firm against the
Empire while openly challenging it on its ideological foundation was the
correct one and it probably did have an impact upon the outcome of the election
in the USA.
NATO 4/5
Russia has defeated NATO on
two levels: a purely military one and a political one. On the military level
Russia has taken all the asymmetrical measures she promised to negate both the
US anti-missile system in Europe and the deployment of threatening military power
in eastern Europe: Russia deployed the Iskander missile, doubled of the size of
her Airborne Forces, and initiated the creation of a Tank Army in the western
strategic direction (to read more about how Russia prepared to fight and defeat
NATO see “How Russia is
preparing for WWIII” and “The EU’s suicide
by reality denial“). On the political level there can be little
doubt that all the European leaders who favored confrontation with Russia are
now unpopular and in a political crisis except maybe Merkel, but Germany alone
can’t do anything meaningful (at least one “positive” side effect, so to speak,
of the EU integration). As for the election of Trump, it has resulted in a
NATO-wide panic, especially in those countries which had prostituted themselves
to the Empire with special enthusiasm and zeal (Poland, the three Baltic
statlets, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, and our “Orthodox brothers” in Romania and
Bulgaria). I don’t see Trump dumping NATO, there would be too much opposition
against that, but with Trump in the White House all the nonsense about the
“Russian bear is about to invade Latvia or Poland” is going to come to a
crashing end and the poor folks in eastern Europe will come to realize that
neither Russia nor the USA gives a damn about them. Trump will probably put the
financial squeeze on NATO and force its member states to purchase even more US
gear, but that will be a purely financial operation and not an attempt at
surrounding Russia will military forces. Russia’s ultimate goal, the replacement
of NATO by a European-wide common defense agreement from Portugal to the Urals
has not happened, but the election of Trump is a huge step in the right
direction.
The EU 5/5
Poor “EUans” (my own word
for the European zombies who believed in the Bilderberger’s European Union):
they are now, how shall I put it politely, totally “frigged”? Not only did the
British people defy the Empire and vote for a Brexit, but now the Imperial
Homeland has “backstabbed” them by electing a patriot who is not interested in maintaining
the global empire (or so he says, at least for the time being). At the same
time, the so-called “refugee crisis” is bringing several crucial EU nations to
the brink of a civil war (France for example) while all the efforts of the
elites to blame Russia for it all end up in abject failures. Just check out
this hilarious article in the British Sun which accuses Russia of, I kid you
not, “organizing sex
attacks in Germany“!! True, we already had the “Serbian Chetniks
using rape as a weapon of ethnic cleansing” and “Gaddafi distributing Viagra to
his soldiers to rape opposition supporters” but Putin ordering refugees to rape
women in Germany is the best, so to speak. And just in case the unthinkable
happens in Germany, the Germans have already warned that Russian hackers might
steal the election in Germany. If this was not so utterly disgusting it would
be hilarious. The bottom line is this: the entire EU project is morally
completely bankrupt, each EU member state is now in a deep political crisis and
the so-called “elites” are scrambling to find a response to what appears to be
an inevitable collapse of the EU-order over Europe. The European militaries are
a joke, all of them, and when, say, the Swedes go on “Russian sub hunting” they
always end up embarrassing themselves. If there are any extra-terrestrials
observing us from space, the EU is beyond any doubt their laughing stock. As
for the Russians, far from fearing the Europeans, they don’t even take them
very seriously and they look at them with either pity or scorn for their
apparently infinite lack of spine and dignity. Of sure, as soon as mentally
sane leaders return to power in the various EU countries Russia will be more
than happy to trade with the EU, send and receive tourists and generally have
friendly relations. But after over three centuries of trying to sheepishly
imitate the Europeans and be accepted as European themselves, the Russian have
finally lost all interest in emulating Europe, at least in a cultural or
political way. Of course, the Russians will still love German cars, French
wines or Italian music, but the myth of the European cultural superiority has
truly died. Good riddance!
The Russian economy 3/5
The main external factors
influencing the Russian economy have been Western sanctions, the subsequent
drop in investments and credit and, especially, the low oil prices. Almost
exactly as Putin had predicted it, it took Russia two years to overcome the
combined effect of these factors, so says not me or a Kremlin spokesman, but
the IMF (see here).
What matters here is not this or that figure for GDP or inflation, but the fact
that all the key indicators for the Russian economy point to a gradual recovery
and good prospects for growth. I personally think that the policies of the
“economic block” of the Medvedev government made the effects of this crisis
even worse than they had to be, but I have to admit that despite the major mistakes
committed by the Russian government the Russian economy is recovering. If I had
to score the performance of the Russian government’s policies I would have
given it a maximum of 2/5, but since what I am looking at is the state of the
economy I have to give it an objective 3/5. I just think that a 5/5 would have
been possible. One small point here: some have made a great deal of noise
around the planned reduction in Russian defense spending but what they are
missing is that reduction has been made possible by the spending over the past
couple of years and that the Russian defense program by 2020 has not been in
any way amended, nevermind reduced. In other words, the Russian military can
afford to use less money for a couple of years and there will be no cuts in
defense programs as planned by 2020.
Russian public opinion 4/5
In spite of the still
strong grip the “IMF-types” in the Russian government have over the key
economic decisions in Russia there are some signs that things are getting
better and that the Russian public is getting some of the heads it wanted to
see rolling: here I am, of course, referring to the arrest of the Minister of
Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Uliukaev. Of course, the
list of candidates for termination and arrest is much longer (see here) but Uliukaev was
definitely one of the most influential and toxic member of the Atlantic
Integrationists and the hysterical reaction of the Russian liberal press
clearly shows how painful this arrest is for the Russian 5th column. As for
right now, the arrest of Uliukaev has not been followed by more sackings or
arrests, but it is quite possible that Putin did with Uliukaev what he already
one did with Berezovsky: hit at the one “big guy” and therefore force the rest
of his gang to play ball and give up any hopes of confronting him. Only time
will tell if sacking and arresting Uliukaev will be enough to finally re-sovereignize
Russia, but it sure is a very good beginning.
Russian russophobes 4/5
Sounds weird, does it not?
“Russian russophobes”. Reminds me of the “self-hating Jew” category. And yet
they exist, at least nominally. I say nominally because being Russian has never
been about speaking Russian, or about living in Russia or even about some
hypothetical “Russian ethnicity” (which really does not exist). One definition
of what it is to be Russian was given by the philosopher Vasilii Rozanov who
wrote the following prophetic words in 1913: “To love a happy and great
Motherland is really not a big thing. We have to love her when she is weak,
small, humiliated, finally, stupid, finally, even filled with vices. It is when
our “mother” is drunk, lying and all entangled in her sins that we must not
depart from her. But even that is not enough: when she finally dies, eaten up
by Jews, and when only her bones remain – he will be truly “Russian” who will
weep over her useless skeleton, abandoned by all. He truly shall be… ” Needless
to say, Rozanov is hated by the Russian “liberals”. Contrary to Rozanov, these
russophobic “liberals” rejoice in every Russian failure and they can barely
contain their joy when some tragedy befalls the Russian people which they hate
and despise for supporting a “tyrant” like Putin instead of them, the
self-perceived “intellectual elites” of Russia.
When Putin came to power,
these 5th russophobic columnist were literally everywhere since their families
were usually members of the Soviet elites and since during the infamous 1990s
they literally took control of every single lever of power in Russia from the
mass media to the Kremlin. First, Putin got rid of the oligarchs, especially
the “Seven Bankers“.
Next, he gradually pushed most of them out from of mass media (that is when
their colleagues and patrons in the West began speaking of the lack of a free
press in Russia). And then he began the slow and outright dangerous process of
getting rid of them, one by one, from inside the Russian government, including
the Kremlin. But Putin’s biggest achievement this year has to be his extremely
successful campaign to delegitimize this 5th column. He did that no by
“cracking down” on them, nor did he murder any journalist or opposition figure,
and he did not fill the “new Russian Gulag” with thousands of liberal
dissidents. He (by “he” I mean not only Putin himself, but also his supporters)
did the exact opposite: he gave them a platform and he made darn sure that
their views would be freely aired on an almost daily basis. Those interested
about this can read my analysis “Counter-propaganda,
Russian style“. This was pure genius: instead of silencing the
russophobes, Putin gave them a completely disproportionate amount of airtime
(keep in mind that less than 5% of the Russian population supports these
freaks) and let them hang themselves by being wrong on just about everything:
they were wrong on Crimea, wrong on the Ukraine, wrong on the economy, wrong on
social and civil rights, wrong on corruption, wrong on so-called “gay rights”,
wrong about NATO, wrong about the EU, wrong about Clinton (they loved her),
wrong about Trump (they hated him), wrong about terrorism and wrong about
Syria. As a result, these “liberals” (in the Russian meaning of the word) are
now universally seen as traitors, russophobes, snobs, racists, 5th columnists,
CIA puppets, etc. They now are absolutely hated and desperate. As a result,
during the recent elections, we saw the amazing sight of Russian “liberals”, including
Jews, allying themselves with Nazis and organizing joint
protests against Putin. Needless to say, that only served to
further discredit them.
There are still plenty of
5th columnists in Russia, but they are mostly laying really low, hoping for
better times and trying to remain out of the public eye as much as possible.
Their main remaining center of power is the Russian Central Bank and the
“economic bloc” of the Medvedev government, but since both Kudrin and Uliukavev
have been kicked out, the rest of them are being very careful in their actions
and statements.
All in all, 2016 has been
an absolutely catastrophic year for the russophobic 5th column which is now in
a state of total despair and which seems to have no future whatsoever.
Syria 5/5
Russia’s success in Syria
is nothing short of amazing. Not only did an extremely small Russian military
force succeed in turning around the course of the war, but it has held an
essentially indefensible position long enough to deter Turkey, Saudi Arabia,
the Gulf states and the USA from overtly attacking the Syrian forces or
government. The Russians succeeded in this despite numerous, ugly and bloody
provocations and despite having to operate in an extremely hostile environment
(the region “belongs” to NATO and CENTCOM). One of the most amazing successes
what how the Russians managed to save Erdogan in extremis from a US
backed coup and convince him to work with Russia and Iran to solve the Syrian
crisis. The liberation of Aleppo could not have happened had Turkey continued
to support al-Nusra & Co at any price. At the very least it would have
taken much more time. By the end of 2016 the Russians own the Black Sea,
control, at least for the time being, the eastern Mediterranean and they are
working with the three biggest powers on the ground: the Syrians, of course,
but also Iran and Turkey. As for the United States, they seemed to have lost
the entire region and their only “achievement”, so to speak, has been to
alienate both the Israelis and the Saudis. As for President Elect Trump, he has
clearly indicated that his number one priority will be to smash Daesh & Co.
which happens to be exactly what Russia, Iran and Syria want too. If Trump
really manages to kick the Neocon crazies to the cockroach filled basement
where they belong, we could see something quite amazing happening: a joint
Russian-US effort to destroy Daesh. The big problem here will be the totally
counter-productive and, frankly, idiotic anti-Iranian rhetoric of the Trump
campaign. However, there must be enough good brains around Trump to make him
understand that nothing in the region can happen without Iran’s approval and
that the US and Iran don’t need to love each other to agree on a common
objective. Trump strikes me as a realist much more than as an ideologue.
Hopefully, he will learn how to separate AIPAC-pleasing rhetoric with serious
foreign policy (the crash of the Obama Administration ought to teach him that
lesson).
What is certain is that
Russia is now running the show in Syria and that without US or Turkish support,
Daesh will be facing an existential crisis. Of course, the situation remains
fluid, complex and dangerous. And I would never put it past the US or Turkey to
do yet another 180 and to resume their support for Daesh. The Kurdish factor,
Israeli policies and Erdogan’s inherent unpredictability all serve to make sure
that the Syrian crisis will continue well into 2017. However, I think that the
Neocon’s crazy rampage is reached is apogee and that things should begin to
improve from now on. Russia alone simply could not save Syria, and yet she
appears to have done just that.
The russophobic hysteria in
the West 3/5
There was simply no way
that the AngloZionist could be defeated on all fronts without screaming “oy
veh!” to high heaven and screaming they did. All year long. Their
allegations ranged from Russia wanting to invade Latvia to Russian hackers
stealing the US election. And to make absolutely sure that there was no doubt
at all as to the identity of these hackers, the AngloZionists informed us that
these hackers called themselves “fancy bear” and “cozy bear”, that they used
the alias “Felix Edmundovich” (the first name and patronymic of Felix
Derzhinskii, the founder of the Soviet secret services) and that they worked
during Moscow time office hours and they took breaks during Russian holidays.
And least you think that this kind of nonsense was made up in an mental
institution or a kindergarten, here is the link
to the article in the article in the New York times quoting
“security experts”. Amazing, no? But then again, when I see the Neocons
seriously calling Ron Paul a Russian agent I realize that there is nothing, no
matter how stupid, that these guys would not dare say. Chutzpah in action,
I suppose. And while the left side of the Bell Curve appears to have fully
internalized the message, there is a growing segment of the population which
realizes how silly all these accusations are.
[Personal sidebar: while I
am sure that there are some Americans who believe that the Russkies are a
dangerous enemy of the USA, I have yet to met even one such American. In my day
to day interactions I see *no* hostility towards Russians even when I openly
speak Russian with my family in stores or restaurants or when I say that I am
Russian. Maybe this is because I am in Florida and not New York, but I have yet
to see a single example of anti-Russian hostility].
The Russian treatment by
the Western-controlled WADA at the Rio Olympics was an absolute outrage, a
farce and and crime all wrapped into one. And Russia is very much to blame for
having allowed the key world organizations become so controlled by the West.
However, let’s also see that the USA failed to have Russia completely banned
from Rio and that Russian hackers (yes, they do exist) have uncovered
convincing evidence which discredits WADA and the entire system behind it. I
would call that “growing pains” for the post-Soviet Russian sport: Russia now
needs to “clean house” in the very real cases of doping while, at the same
time, wrestling the control of the key international organizations from the
West. A tough task for sure, but Russia has an immensely powerful ally in this
(and many other) struggles: China. But yes, all in all, the partial ban and subsequent
Russia-bashing campaign is a black eye for Russia.
In the case of Europe,
russophobia has always been a northern European thing. Mediterranean countries
were only dragged into imposing sanctions under very strong pressure from the
north. It now appears that France will soon be ruled either by one or the other
generally pro-Russian parties which are competing for the Presidency. The
Brexit took out probably the single most anti-Russian country in the EU and now
Germany and Poland are more or less on their own in trying to desperately
revitalize the anti-Russian front. The problem for them is that they are also
both subservient US colonies and that while they can fancy themselves the next
in line to defend the western civilization against the revanchist Mongol hordes
from the East, the reality is that they will do whatever the hell Uncle Sam
tells them to do.
From now on, the only
bastion of true rabid russophobia will remain in the most thoroughly
“Zionified” segment of society: the media, the so-called “intellectuals”, the
“liberal interventionists” and all the “tribe of minorities” who have a beef
with Russia on account of the different civilizational model she represents
(gender differentiated parents, religion, patriotism (but not nationalism!),
etc.). These will continue to pour a steady stream of filth against Russia in
general and Putin in particular. Putin will not be their only target, however,
and Donald Trump will be the recipient of whatever hatred remains after Putin.
Frankly, taking on Putin AND Trump at the same time is a futile and possibly
risky business, no matter who you are in the AngloZionist “jet set”, especially
when you also have little traction with the general public whom you have
regularly insulted, demeaned and dismissed.
There could be a gigantic
return of the pendulum happening before our eyes against those who have
produced the lion’s share of the hate-propaganda in the West: these guys might
well end up finally reaping what they have sown and become the object of hate
themselves.
Terrorism 4/5
This year as been tough on
Russia. A recent anonymous
comment posted on this blog made a good list of the tragic
murder of Russians this year including the bombing on the Russian civilian
airliner over Egypt, the Su-24 shootdown involving US AWACS, the murder of the
Russian medics in a precision strike, the murder of the Russian Ambassador and
the probable murder of the Red Army Choir. To this list I would add the
Novorussian commanders assassinated in the Donbass. That is a lot of innocent
Russian victims. But compared to the number of innocent Syrians or Turks this
number is relatively small. It is outright tiny of compared to the kind of mass
horror the Wahabis managed to organize in Chechnia. Let’s remember that Russia
is a country at war with state-sponsored transnational terrorism and that many
millions of dollars of “aid” are going towards the various Nazi and Wahabi
organizations with have the murder of Russians as their main goal. I would say
“so far, so good” but I cannot do that because I believe that Russia is still
not ready to face the kind of terrorism which is likely to hit her in the next
year. There is one specific type of target which is currently completely
undefended and which the terrorists can strike with quasi-impunity: Russian
Orthodox churches outside Russia.
The Russians need to
revisit the kind of terror campaign the Palestinians waged in the 1970s against
the Israelis when they attacked not only Israeli cultural centers, but also
Jewish daycare centers, schools, and synagogues. Russian Orthodox churches are
now facing the very same threat including bombings and hostage taking. As
somebody who has attended Russian Orthodox churches all my life and all over
the planet I know that the number of potential targets are in the *hundreds*
and that they are all completely unprotected.
The Israeli example is
crucial here because the Israelis rapidly realized that they simply could not
count on the local police forces to protect them. This is why they organized
various local organizations directly attached to a synagogue or school staffed
by volunteers who could do many very useful and fully legal things to protect
Israeli/Jewish targets such as, for example, begin to occupy all the parking
spaces around a synagogue 48 hours before any religious holiday to make sure
that no VBIEDs (aka “car bombs”) could be placed next to the synagogue. There
is *a lot* a well educated group of volunteers can do to legally protect an
exposed civilian target. They can do even better when they work with the locals
cops and the security specialists at the embassy. The Russians urgently need to
study the Israeli experience in dealing with a kind of threat which they will
soon face. Remember, the Palestinians also began by attacking diplomats,
officials and aircraft, but as soon as these targets were “hardened” they turn
to daycare centers, schools and synagogues.
I believe that inside
Russia the FSB has a good control of the situation. But outside Russia the
amount of specialized personnel fully dedicated to security is woefully
inadequate and needs to be dramatically expanded. During the Soviet era few
government dared to openly attack Soviet targets, the fearsome (and very much
exaggerated!) reputation of the KGB probably helped, while during the Eltsin
years there really was no point in attacking Russia as she was internally
collapsing. But now that Russia is very strong internally, and the Russian
military personnel hard to get at, diplomats, children and clergy are probably
going to be the next targets of the Wahabis.
The one good news about
this issue that the the Soviets/Russians have been fighting the Wahabis since
the 1970s and that they are acutely aware that there is no such thing as a
non-state sponsored terrorism. The Russians know where the money, training and
weapons come from and they know that terrorism can only be defeated by strong
counter-intelligence and and intelligence operations, especially human
intelligence. The foreign intelligence branch of the KGB, the PGU or First
Chief Directorate, had a (very much deserved) reputation for being able to
infiltrate agents pretty much anywhere, including the top echelons of the CIA
and NSA, and we can be confident that the SVR today is slowly rebuilding is
capabilities worldwide and, especially, in the countries which sponsor Wahabi
terrorism. Just the way the Russian special services saved Erdogan and thereby
“flipped” Turkey – one of the absolutely worst sponsors of Wahabi terrorism –
is already a huge success. God willing, the Saudis will be next.
Conclusion
Simply put – 2016 has been
a fantastic year for Russia. Putin’s policy of slow, low-key and deliberate
move and counter-move has proven to be extremely effective. While to some
“hurray patriots” it did appear that Putin was being passive and doing nothing,
the outcome of this year has been a Putin victory on all fronts, including the
most dangerous and difficult ones. Remember all the nonsense these Putin-haters
wrote about “Putin selling out the Donbass”, “Putin unable to reply to the
Turkish shoot-down of the SU-24″, “Putin disarming Syria” or “Putin betraying
Assad”? These “hurray patriots” have been predicted doom and gloom for years
now and they have been proven wrong every single time. Did that silence them?
Somewhat. I notice that most of the “Putin is selling out the Donbass” blogs
are posting very little and when they do, it is mostly stuff unrelated to their
previous Putin-bashing campaign. The same goes for the Ukronazis commentators
on sites which allow them to post: they seem to have thrown in the towel and
given up convincing the world about how democratic the junta in Kiev is, about
how there are hundreds of Russian tanks in Donetsk and how the Ukraine will
join the EU and become Germany-like overnight. The only ones who are keeping up
the Putin-bashing campaign are the western presstitutes, but they are doing
that for pay and to keep their jobs. Besides, that is all they know how to do
anyway. But all in all, there is a general lack of energy and enthusiasm in the
Russia hating camp which is a real joy for me to see.
2017 could be an amazing
year for the world, or it could be a big disappointment. Right now this depends
mostly on what Trump will do after he assumes his official capacity. To me the
single most important fact will remain that with Hillary in the White House our
planet risked a major thermonuclear war. There is no reason any more to believe
that this is going to happen. As for the list of all the good things which
*could* happen in 2017 if Trump does the right thing for his country, it will
be the topic of a future analysis.
http://www.unz.com/tsaker/2016-the-year-of-russias-triumph/
