The Return of Stepan and Andriy, Or, You Can't Keep A Good Ukranazi Down

The Amerikastani campaign against Russia is showing distinct signs of desperation.

Syria is, albeit with only grudging and limited Russian help, still standing. The colour revolution attempt in Belarus is so dead that the Ameriganda has stopped talking about it. Iran has, contrary to the hopes of the Trump regime, not caved in and imploded, and it won’t. The current Bidet regime (if the shambolic brain dead war criminal which pretends to be the “president” of Amerikastan can be said to be in control of a regime at all) is talking about “encircling” China. Good luck with that; I would love to watch Chinese anti-ship missiles send Amerikastani carriers to the bottom of the sea.

But the primary target has always been Russia.

Why? For the same reason that Amerikastanis have always been out to destroy Russia; it is the only bulwark in the Amerikastani Empire’s campaign to rule the planet. It nearly was successfully destroyed during the 1990s, but since then has recovered sufficiently to no longer be any kind of pushover. And to their baffled fury, the Amerikastanis have realised that.

Of course, anything Amerikastanis claim can automatically be assumed to be a deliberate lie, so it isn’t exactly a surprise that anything they say about “freedom”, “democracy” or suchlike claptrap is rubbish; Amerikastanis care about only one thing, which is looting the planet until there is nothing left. And to loot the planet, they not only want to plunder Russia, but countries that currently are protected from total looting because they trade with Russia instead of Amerikastan. And among those countries are even Amerikastan’s own slaves and vassals of NATO, who have as yet not been looted enough.

Part of this loot is the question of natural gas. Contrary to the fond fantasies of certain people, fossil fuels are still absolutely essential for everything from industry to transport to domestic use. One of the more important fossil fuels happens to be natural gas, which Russia has in abundance and has been selling to Europe. This gas travels by pipelines, and most of it is piped through what used to be Ukraine and since 2014, when the blood soaked mass murdering child droning war criminal Barack Hussein Obama arranged a Nazi coup in Kiev, is now Ukranazistan. I have elsewhere written in detail about the wreck that is Ukranazistan, and my conviction that Russia should have eliminated the Nazi coup regime by launching an actual invasion in 2014. I am not going to repeat myself here.

But Ukranazistan levies fees for the transport of this gas, and in order to get it cheaper (right in accord with the capitalist principles the Imperialist States of Amerikastan alleges to revere), Germany – one of Amerikastan’s most slavish NATO vassals – agreed to construct an alternative pipeline under the North Sea, called NordStream II, to ferry Russian natural gas to its territory. And despite the frenzied rage of Amerikastan (and of Amerikastani agents like the warmonger propagandist Jihadi Julian Röpcke of Bild), the pipeline construction has proceeded, with only 150 kilometres of its 1200 kilometre length still incomplete as of this writing.

Why is Amerikastan so frenzied? Is it because Ukranazistan is going to lose out on transit fees? That’s a bad joke; Amerikastan has itself already looted Ukranazistan to the bone in seven years. It’s in a frenzy because it wants to compel Germany to buy Amerikastani gas.

Amerikastan, you might know, is a third of the planet away from Germany, while Russia is almost next door.

So Amerikastani gas would have to be transported from fast-failing fracking oil wells in Texas or wherever to ports on the coast, pumped into natural gas container ships, sailed across the Atlantic to the European coast (if not actually to Germany itself, at least to one of Amerikastan’s other slaves, like France, Netherlands or Belgium), then unloaded (in specialised port facilities that would, of course, have to be built, and I can assure you that it would not be Amerikastan who would be paying to build them) and transported to recipients in Germany. Who would be paying much, much more for their gas, and all of that payment would find its way to the pockets of the Amerikastani imperialists in Wall Street.

Also, and not a coincidence, the increased prices of gas would raise the costs of German industrial products, and who do you think imagines they could take advantage of that to sell their own, such as they are?

Even the German regime, while abject NATO slaves, are not so stupid as not to see that. So they have ignored Amerikastani blustering and threatening with sanctions, and have gone right along with construction of that pipeline.

And Amerikastan, faced with its imminent completion, is nothing short of desperate.

Their first attempt to sabotage the pipeline was last year, with the affair of Alexei Navalny. Navalny is a wannabe politician with a sub-1% popularity rating in Russia. He is also a convicted criminal, a racist and wannabe genocidaire who calls Muslims “flies and cockroaches” who need to be “shot”. And he is the head of an “anti corruption foundation” paid for by guess who. This Navalny is also, according to the Ameriganda, “Putin’s most important opponent”, when he couldn’t win an election to the post of chief sewer inspector. And when this Quisling (who is also a diabetic and dependent on multiple medications, some of which are anti psychotics) fell sick on a flight in Russia, he was – with Putin’s full acquiescence – airlifted to Germany. Then a German military lab – without , of course, providing a shred of proof – alleged that Navany had been “poisoned” by Novichok.

Novichok, by the way, is an extremely potent nerve agent. But not only did it not kill Navalny, it somehow does not seem to have harmed him seriously at all.

I am not going to depict the whole saga of Navalny’s alleged poisoning in detail; a good article on the subject is here. I will, however, repeat my comment to that article:

“...Putin needs Navalny. A racist drug dependent would be genocidaire and Quisling might be ‘the greatest opponent of Putin’ in Amerikastani Empire propaganda, but in actual elections he’s guaranteed to vanish without a trace. He’s a safe outlet for the Moscow liberal yuppie Wall Street tool traitors. While they’re pouring all their energies into supporting this dead duck, they can’t put up any genuinely competent candidate against Putin...if Navalny hadn’t existed Putin would have had to invent him.”

As might be expected for a racist Quisling jailbird with a popularity rating hovering just north of zero, the “protests” in support of Navalny – which schoolchildren had to be duped into attending by telling them there would be a party – fizzled out in short order. Also, despite it being a German military lab that was used to spread the “Novichok” canard, which was immediately parroted by the Merkelist regime, German businessmen still kept the health of their bank accounts paramount, and NordStream II is still going ahead.

Given the desperation of Amerikastani propaganda  and its reliance on “Novichok”, I’m kind of surprised that when the senile war criminal Joe Bidet, so-called “president” of Amerikastan, fell repeatedly while trying to climb the steps of Air Force One, Ameriganda didn’t immediately blame it on Putin and Novichok.

 

                                             It's slippery stuff.

After all, Bidet had only called Putin a “killer” a couple of days before, made unspecified threats against Russia, and Amerikastani media had deliberately twisted Putin’s eminently sane and nuanced response.

So, with the window of opportunity to sabotage NordStream II very rapidly closing, and Belarus is not about to fall, Amerikastan has just one more card to play. That card is Ukranazistan.

The Ukranazi coup regime that took power in 2014 is now a dysfunctional shambles. Its current “president”, a former comedian named Zelenskii, is a total marionette of the Nazis, without whose orders he doesn’t dare to move a muscle. The Bidet war criminal’s son, implausibly named “Hunter”, is complicit in Ukranazi corruption. And Amerikastan, as I said, has already looted Ukranazistan of everything it can carry away. It can more than afford to sacrifice the place to achieve profits for Wall Street.

So, the last few weeks have seen the Ukranazi army – and its openly Nazi formations, such as the Azov Battalion, which flies swastikas and the WWII collaborationist Wolfsangel symbol, wears “slaveowner” patches, and venerates surviving Ukrainian SS members – has begun massing armour and troops on the borders of the two Donbass republics (the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, if you don’t know) and increased artillery and small arms attacks on the Donbass people. This is, of course, openly known to non Western media sources, and has been extremely well reported on, including videos from within Nazi Ukraine. But it is being kept totally silent in Western media.

Why?

The answer is more than obvious. The purpose of the Ukranazi buildup is to launch an attack on the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. The media silence is to present what happens afterwards as a total surprise.

And what will happen afterwards?

One possibility, which is admittedly unlikely, is that the DPR and LPR armies will annihilate the Ukranazis, as they did in 2014, in the field of battle. It is unlikely because the Ukranazis are much stronger than they were in 2014, are numerically far superior (about a 10:1 advantage in manpower, on paper), and have total control of the air. The DPR and LPR have substantially the same level of weapons as in late 2014-early 2015, and have, on top of that, lost their best leaders, Givi, Motorola, and Zakharchenko, to targeted hits and assassinations. If it were a guerrilla war, they might be able to resist successfully. But it will not be a guerrilla war – the Ukranazi lines are literally in sight of Donetsk Airport, and it’s only a hundred kilometres to the Russian border – and if their lines are broken at just one point, without help they are going to be overwhelmed.

And that is the whole point: to present Russia with a problem that it can resolve in one of two ways.

Assuming that the DPR and LPR between themselves will not be able to beat off the Ukranazi attack, Putin will have two choices:

One, to stand by and let the Donbass republics be overrun. This is an election year in Russia, which, contrary to what you may have heard, is not a dictatorship and has elections. Many of the people in the Donbass republics – at least 10% of the population, probably more – have Russian passports. The spectacle of refugee columns of destitute Russian citizens, alongside ethnic Russians, streaming across the border is unlikely to do Putin’s popularity much good, especially when the public mood in Russia is getting increasingly confronatational in the face of neverending insults from the west. So, it’s extremely unlikely that Putin can even contemplate doing nothing.

The other choice, which Amerikastan is putting its money on, is that Russia will be compelled to intervene to destroy the Ukranazi attack. This will, of course, be immediately presented as a “Russian invasion” in the Ameriganda, and it is unlikely that the Merkelist regime will then be still able to go on with NordStream II. Of course, Russia should have destroyed the Ukranazis in 2014, so the current situation is of Putin’s own making, but it does not make it any less of an Amerikastani war for all that.

A few months ago I resurrected my retired cartoon characters Raghead and Towelhead. At that time I had mentioned other retired characters, the Ukranazis Stepan and Andriy. And look, here under the Bidet regime they are back again!

Amerikastanis might no longer find jobs for their young people, but they never have problems finding employment for terrorists.

Including cartoon terrorists.

 

 

The Sultan And The Grandmaster: Nagorno Karabakh, Armenia, and Azerbaijan

There is a war going on between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

 

No there isn't. There is no war going on between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

 

The territory that is being fought over is territory that is recognised by literally everyone (including Armenia) as Azerbaijani territory. This includes two parts:

 

1. The enclave of Нагорный Карабах (usually written in English as Nagorno Karabakh, roughly meaning "Hilly Black Garden") which is mountainous and heavily settled by ethnic Armenians since ancient times, and until 1993 by many thousands of Azeris. This is surrounded entirely by Azeri territory, and was a part of Azerbaijan as it existed in the USSR.

 

2. Said surrounding Azeri territory occupied by Armenia, which is also recognised by everyone as Azerbaijani territory.

 

(a) These two territories are both completely occupied by Armenia since a 1988-93 war and comprise a quarter of Azerbaijan.

 

(b) The occupation of these territories was accompanied by the ethnic cleansing of over a million people, most of whom were Azeris, so that both parts of the occupied territory are now entirely Azeri-free.

 

(c) The two territories jointly declared themselves "independent" as a so-called Republic of Artsakh, which is not recognised by anyone, including Armenia. This Artsakh, by the way, is only one of several unrecognised republics that rose from the murder of the USSR; the others are Transnistria (from Moldavia), Abkhazia and South Ossetia (from Georgia) and, latest and far from least, the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (from post Maidan Ukranazistan).

 

(d) UN resolutions have demanded the settlement of the dispute by negotiations. However, Armenia, until fairly recently far more militarily powerful than Azerbaijan, saw no need to negotiate on facts it had created on the ground by military force. Also Armenia is a CSTO treaty ally of Russia, which has a small military presence in the country.

 

(e) However, in the past few years, these things happened:

 

(i) In 2018 a colour revolution brought yet another "pro-western" regime - under prime minister Nikol Pashinyan - into power in Armenia. The Pashinyan regime has been spending the last two years slowly and systematically distancing itself from Russia, which, let me repeat, is still its CSTO ally and – with its military base in the country – its protector.

 

(ii) Azeri oil revenues boomed and it massively increased expenditure in defence, buying weapons from everyone from Russia to America to a certain settler ethnostate on the eastern Mediterranean coast that treats the native population abominably. I don’t need to remind you what this so called country is called.

 

(iii) Sultan Erdogan of the neo Ottoman Empire needed money for his Ottomanisation project, as well as an empire to rule.

 

(iv) The defeat of the jihadi headchopper invasion of Syria left a lot of armed jihadis trapped in Idlib and desperate to find a way to make a living.

 

(v) Erdogan suddenly discovered, or more correctly found it suddenly convenient to remember, that the Azeris, though Shia, were fellow Turkic speakers, and, therefore, people it was his “duty” to “protect”.

 

As a result of all this, Erdogan made an alliance with the (corrupt and easily purchased) Azeri president, the dynast Ilham Aliyev. The Ottomans would supply the means (air cover, weapons, and jihadi headchoppers to use as shock troops) to reclaim the Azerbaijani territory occupied by Armenia. Aliyev, as the Liberator of Azeri Land, could immediately scotch all opposition to his rule. In return, Erdogan would get a share of the oil revenues and the right to station Ottoman forces in the reconquered land.

 

Simple, right? In fact it played out in full public view, with Ottoman forces conducting “exercises” with Azeri troops in (Azeri controlled) Azerbaijan, after which less than all returned to their own country. Aliyev, too, sharply increased his anti-Armenian rhetoric, clearly signalling that the matter was now to be settled by military force. So obvious was it that even I, with no resources available to me but the news, immediately stated as soon as I heard of the fighting that it was the Ottomans who were behind it. But, as we shall see, someone who could have stopped this war before it started, didn’t.

 

Meanwhile, Pashinyan of Armenia was facing his own challenges. Armenia has hardly any natural resources. Its best farmland isn't even Armenian, it lies in the occupied zone around Nagorno Karabakh. And like a good little colour revolutionary he needed to obey the orders of those who put him into power. As such, he couldn't even ask Russia for help (this would anger his owners in Washington), or recognise Artsakh, or annex it, even though he "threatened" to when the fighting began.

 

It is, in fact, possible that Pashinyan has deliberately chosen to sacrifice the territory in order to get rid of a dispute that would normally stop Armenian accession to NATO. We will return to this point later.

 

Now let’s go over this again:

 

1.The so-called Republic of Artsakh is Azeri Nagorno Karabakh, historically settled by Armenians, surrounded by Azeri territory occupied by Armenia from which the Azeri population was ethnically cleansed thirty years ago.

 

2.Azerbaijan is in all but name an Ottoman proxy, which happens to have a sudden glut of oil money and is part of the neo Ottomanisation project of Sultan Erdogan Pasha.

 

3.Pashinyan is a colour revolution tool owned by Washington as much as Aliyev is the wholly owned property of Erdogan Pasha.

 

4.Normally, Armenia would have been able to smack down any Azerbaijan attack, but these are not normal times, because Azerbaijan is reinforced by Ottoman command and control, air support, and cannibal headchopper jihadi imports from Syria.

 

In fact, the Ottoman-Azerbaijan-Headchopper Alliance (hereafter referred to as OAHA for convenience) plan of action is as simple as it is predictable by anyone looking at a map. 

OAHA’s basic operational plan depends on two things:

 

First, the fact that Armenian manpower is seriously restricted by two factors:

 

(i)It has a much smaller population than Azerbaijan and therefore a much smaller recruitment base.

 

(ii)It has an Azeri enclave (Nakhichevan) and the Ottoman Empire on its western borders as well as, you know, Azerbaijan on its eastern borders, the part where it does not occupy Azeri territory.

 

As such, Armenia can’t, no matter how much it tries, mobilise as many troops as Azerbaijan. And of those troops it does mobilise, it can’t, no matter how much it tries, put all or even most into defending Nagorno Karabakh. It has to hold back many or most of them to defend Armenia itself from any possible attack from the Ottomans and/or the Azeris. It’s the classic dilemma of a two front war.

 

On the other hand, OAHA has no such constraints. It knows perfectly well that, unless suicidal, Armenia can’t and won’t attack them. They can perfectly well concentrate almost all their forces around Nagorno Karabakh.

 

Secondly, once said forces are concentrated around Nagorno Karabakh, what happens? Aliyev may be a corrupt sell-out, but he’s no idiot. Casualties in large numbers won’t be popular at home, no matter how popular the conquest might be. To this end, a blitzkrieg offensive into the waiting guns of fortified Armenian defensive positions on the Nagorno Karabakh hills is not exactly the best solution. So what is?

 

The really brutal, really simple plans are usually also the most successful. And a look at the map shows the extremely predictable strategy OAHA is following:

 

1.Impose unacceptable levels of attrition on the limited forces that Armenia can commit. At a certain point, the attrition will cause the Armenian lines to collapse. That point, in fact, has been reached north and south of Nagorno Karabakh itself in the plains.

 

2.Use jihadi headchopper imports from Idlib as shock troops, taking the casualties while the Ottomans achieve air supremacy and the Azeris hold back their own troops for the final push. This is the same way the Ottomans used jihadi headchoppers as shock troops against the Kurds in Syria and against Haftar in Libya, about which I’ll talk in a moment.

 

3.Attack Nagorno Karabakh cities (just like Stepanakert is being bombed and shelled) to trigger a refugee exodus into Armenia. This has already happened to a large extent with some half of the Nagorno Karabakh population already having been “displaced”, meaning, they’re fleeing.

 

4.Bypass the mountainous fortified area to cut off Nagorno Karabakh from Armenia in a pincer movement from north and south. As the territory becomes increasingly encircled, the remaining civilian population and at least a substantial part if not all of the surviving defenders will flee. Which sane Armenian, after all, will ever trust himself to the tender mercies of the Ottomans and their anti-Christian jihadi cohorts, not to mention Azeris filled with vengeance for their own ethnic cleansing thirty years ago?

 

5.Manufacture “Armenian attacks” on Azeri cities as propaganda. It is shoddy propaganda, like the Narendrabhai Damodardasbhai Modi regime’s anti-China propaganda (or like the EU “Novichok” propaganda), but like them, it’s meant as a justification, not to be believed.

 

And then what happens afterwards? If Erdogan’s actions in Syria, where he settled Uighur jihadi imports in a mini caliphate in Jisr al Shughour are any guide, the headchoppers from Idlib will be put into “liberated” Nagorno Karabakh and protected there by Ottoman forces. Just like the headchoppers in Idlib, come to think of it.

 

The Ottoman Question:

 

By this point the reader will have been aware that the driving force behind the entire war is the Ottoman Empire. This same Ottoman Empire is a member of NATO, allegedly not one in good standing, but still a member of NATO. I say “allegedly” because despite all the rhetoric against the Ottomans from the likes of the gerontophiliac Macronist regime in France, the Ottomans are

 

1.Still the second largest military in NATO, and by far the best – indeed the only competent – military in NATO.

 

2.The single most strategically located country in NATO, sitting as it does across the chokepoint of the Black Sea and overlooking all of West Asia.

 

Because of these factors, even if there was any option to expel a member from NATO (there isn’t) the Amerikastani Empire would never do such a thing. And that in turn means that

 

1.An Ottomanised Azerbaijan is a NATO Azerbaijan in all but name.

 

2.The endless appeasement of Erdogan by Russia, which I will refer to in the next section, will get nothing for Russia.All it is doing is emboldening Erdogan.

 

Among Erdogan-watchers there is a remarkable tendency to imagine that the Sultan is flailing around starting wars at random, as though he’s just another tinpot megalomaniac like Muhammad bin Salman al Bonesawi of Saudi Barbaria. This is absolutely not true. Erdogan, whatever else he might be, is a remarkably shrewd political operator. His wars are always extremely carefully chosen. Look at these:

 

1.From 2011, he assiduously supported headchoppers against Syria, laying out the red carpet for international jihadis, so that the airline from Istanbul to Gaziantep became known as the “jihad express”. In return he got the proceeds of the factories and warehouses the headchoppers systematically looted and shipped off to Ottoman businessmen, and, later, bought oil from ISIS; the Amerikastani Empire left the convoys of oil tankers from occupied Syrian oilfields to Turkey alone until the Russians began bombing them. Erdogan’s son is known to have personally benefited from these transactions.

 

2.In Libya, Erdogan intervened to save the so-called ‘government’ (the GNA, an outfit of slave-trading, human trafficking gangsters) when it was on the ropes against the forces of the LNA (led by “Field Marshal” Khalifa Haftar, a known CIA asset whose only saving grace is that he’s a secularist). In return he got the “rights” to oil exploration in the Mediterranean and a share of Libyan oil exports. He’d have got away with it, too, but for the fact that Haftar managed to hang on to the city of Sirte, the hometown of the martyr Brother Muammar Gaddafi. Libya’s oil reserves are pretty much all to the east of Sirte, in Haftar territory. In Libya, too, Erdogan used large numbers of jihadi headchoppers imported from Syria. Some of those headchoppers – the very same ones – have been sent on to Azerbaijan.

 

3.In Iraq, Erdogan’s repeated invasions are mostly a security measure meant to keep the Kurds down. It’s far from a war of choice; the Ottomans actually have, by their standards, a legitimate reason to not empower the Kurds. At the same time it’s not stopped Erdogan from buying oil from other Kurds in Iraq, at prices well below what he would have to pay the legitimate Iraqi government, well, as legitimate as any Iraqi government after the invasion of 2003 can be.

 

4.In Azerbaijan, as stated, Erdogan’s calculations are simple; victory for Aliyev in return for oil revenue.

 

In fact, Erdogan, who closely styles himself on the 16^th Century ninth Ottoman Sultan, Selim the Grim, like the Ottomans, wages war as a way of securing income. Then it was the loot of conquered cities, and the taxing of vassal states – the Ottomans didn’t really care what their vassals did as long as they paid their taxes – and now it’s the loot of natural resources and protection money from the looters. This is why the crash of the lira is a temporary blip; the Ottoman plan of war will succeed as long as nobody stops them.

 

And who will stop them? Well, then, let’s talk about...

 

Russia and the worship of the Greatest Grandmaster Genius The Galaxy Has Ever Known:

 

A few years ago I wrote an article in which I had compared Putin’s “restraint” against Amerikastani provocations not just failures in and of themselves, but direct encouragement to more provocations. Back in 2014, I had said, Putin was so single issue focussed on the Sochi Olympics that what even the Amerikastani imperialists STRATFOR called the “most blatant coup in history” played out in full public view in Kiev, without Russia lifting a finger. I had written that Putin could have sent in two battalions of Spetsnaz, overthrown Obama’s Ukranazi coup regime, reinstated Viktor Yanukovych, and withdrawn, with the clear statement that if there were any more coups Russia would return and this time to stay. I remember that when the militias of the Donbass were desperately raiding museums to secure WWII weapons to take on Ukranazi armoured columns, when Russian military blogs were demanding “Putin, dai prikaz!” (Putin, give the order!), Putin kept silent. When the defenders of Donbass had to withdraw from Slovyansk and were nearly cut into two, when the Ukranazis were at Donetsk airport, when defeat was only a matter of hours, it was then that Putin allegedly did something. What that something was I’m not clear about. It was certainly not the dispatch of Russian forces, or else Russian tanks would have been rolling down the Kiev streets in two days. It may have been finally sending weapons, allowing volunteers to go to the front to fight (including more than a few brave and laudable Americans; not all of them are brain-dead imperialists), and possibly limited artillery support. At any rate, when the defenders of the republics crushed the Ukranazis at Debaltsevo and were well on the way to liberating Mariupol on the Black Sea, Putin again withdrew support to them, leaving them without a port and stuck in a frozen war interrupted by sniping and shelling.

 

And what was the excuse presented by Putin’s worshippers online, a species I have recently dubbed “Putinoids”? It’s been changing over the years. At first it was that the Ukranazis would “inevitably” collapse. Well, it’s going on for seven years now, and, absolutely predictably, the Ukranazis are far too convenient a tool to the Amerikastani Empire to be permitted to collapse. Then the excuse shifted to the notion that if Putin had intervened, Russia couldn’t have got back Crimea. Apparently it passeth the limited understanding of these people that had Putin intervened, with a friendly government in Kiev, Russia would not have had to annex Crimea. Then it was something about Yanukovych not having had the courage to fight, so why should Russia fight for him. It seems that we are still in the 17^th century, when kings could conduct foreign policies according to their personal likes and dislikes, whims and fancies. It’s not, by the way, surprising that a lot of these Putinoids are people who hanker back to a Tsarist mythical golden age. Arch Putinoid the Saker (Andrei Raevski) is the most infamous, but the internet is full of them.

 

But let’s ignore the people of the two Donbass republics for the moment and look at the result of this “restraint”. Today, Amerikastani B52 bombers and RC135 reconnaissance planes fly freely through Ukranazi airspace right up to the Russian border, compelling Russian air defence systems to turn on their electronic defences, exposing their signatures for analysis and jamming by said Amerikastanis. Ukranazistan, not being a NATO member officially, is even more valuable to Amerikastan than it would have been as a NATO member, since it can be used for staging actions that could not involve NATO without risk of a world war. How’s that for “restraint”, Putinoids?

 

In fact, with the one shining exception of the war against Georgia in defence of South Ossetia in 2008, when Medvedev – not Putin – was president, Russian foreign policy has always been criminally defensive and reactive, never proactive. In 2011 Russia permitted Libya to be destroyed, turning an ally into a jihadi hellhole where a slave trading human trafficking regime and a CIA asset fight for control. In 2015 Syria was on the verge of collapse when Putin belatedly and reluctantly sent just enough planes and troops to save Damascus and help the legitimate government of Dr Assad liberate Aleppo, but failed to do a thing to stop the north and east turn into, respectively, an Ottoman colony and a Kurd Quisling puppet state under Amerikastani protection. In 2020 in Belarus it was only the personal courage and genuine popularity of President Aleksandr Lukashenko that prevented a colour revolution that would have turned the country into another NATO stooge. The same 2020 saw the Putin regime allow the racist right wing “liberal” Alexei Navalny to be sent to Germany, and predictably a fake “Novichok poisoning” was immediately manufactured to wreck EU-Russian relations, which were just about beginning to mend, beyond repair.

 

In none of these cases – none! – did what the Putinoids celebrate as the Greatest Grandmaster and Geopolitical Genius in the Galaxy do a thing to prevent it happening, even when everyone could see it coming. For instance, the moment I heard that the Azerbaijan regime had attacked Nagorno Karabakh, even I, with no information but what I could read in the news, instantly said the Ottomans were responsible. I refuse to believe that Putin, with the Russian intelligence services at his disposal, did not know any of these things were coming. But he never did anything proactive, and when he did react, it was just enough to impose a shaky and unstable status quo. Not a status quo ante, just a status quo.

 

This same instinct, apparently, is in effect where Putin’s relations with the zionist entity and the Ottomans are concerned. Under the Putinist “help” to Syria, the zionazi pseudostate bombs the country at liberty, and Putin, despite having S 400 air defence systems in place, does nothing. And after the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, when Russia, for some inexplicable reason, saved Erdogan’s bacon, it’s bending over backwards to appease him. It sold him S400s, offered the latest SU57 fighters, endorsed the Turkstream pipeline, and when Syria attempted to reclaim the Idlib jihadistate earlier this year, it withheld air cover, allowing the Ottoman drones to wreck the Syrian army spearheads. After which it signed yet another agreement that it knew perfectly well the Ottomans had no intention of honouring, as they have not.

 

Much is made by Putinoids of Russia calling the Amerikastani Empire “not agreement capable”. If it isn’t, and it is not, the Ottomans are a thousand times more “not agreement capable”. Anyone trusting Sultan Erdogan about anything needs a brain transplant. And yet the Putin regime keeps making agreements with them!

 

When I asked online how Russia has benefited from appeasing Sultan Erdogan, I was responded to by a counter-question. Did I think, a Putinoid asked, that a “western poppet” in Turkey would be better for Russia? I replied back by asking the Putinoid to inform me which conceivable Ottoman regime would be worse than one that occupies North Syria, routinely attacks Iraq, conducts a proxy war with jihadi headchoppers in Libya, and now helps Azerbaijan create a headchopper ministate in Russia’s underbelly. I would, I said, enjoy watching him make the attempt.

 

Not astonishingly, he never replied to me.

 

The “arguments” of the Putinoids, assuming one can dignify them with such a term, fall into these basic categories:

 

1.Putin is such a genius that he is beyond our comprehension; his slightest act (or, much more frequently, total inaction) is loaded with more symbolism and hidden plans than we mere mortals can ever fathom. I do not see this as a particularly persuasive contention.

 

2.Putin does not need to do anything because of the famous new Russian hypersonic missiles, which make it impossible for the Amerikastanis to attack Russia directly. The so-called analyst Andrei Martyanov, who among other things can’t stop boasting that he’s written three whole books, is a particularly loud exponent of this thesis. It again seems to have escaped the attention of these people that

 

(a)Said hypersonic missiles will only be of the slightest use in case of an all out war, which is now absolutely the least likely kind of war. Wars these days are first and foremost economic and fought by economic strangulation.

 

(b)Said economic strangulation is preceded by political strangulation, that is, stripping way friends and allies by jihadi invasions and bought and paid for colour revolutions. That’s what these colour revolutions and NATOisations, even of specks like Montenegro, are about.

 

(c)Is Putin going to go to war if Amerikastani colour revolutions and NATOisations end up blockading Russia on all or most of its borders? Really?

 

3.If I don’t like Putin, who do I want to lead Russia in place of him? (Followed by an abusive rant when I name anyone.) Well, I’m not Russian so it’s not my business who leads, but

 

(a)Is Putin immortal? Is he beyond cognitive degeneration that comes with age? If the answer to either of these is no, why has Putin not only not appointed any successor, but systematically loaded his government with personality-less bureaucrats who can never succeed him? What happens when Putin dies or becomes incapacitated? Apres moi l’deluge?

 

(b)Literally anyone who’s not of the Russian liberal Quisling set from Moscow, such as Navalny, would be a better replacement than Putin, in my opinion. From the far left or the nationalist right, anybody.

 

4.Why do I want Russians to die in Armenia?

 

(a)Let’s remember the Nazi coup in Ukraine. At that time Putin could have overthrown the Nazis at next to no cost in blood or treasure. But Putin was too obsessed with the Sochi Olympics, towards which his attention had been diverted by a few “Putler” memes and some canards about homosexual oppression in Russia. What happened in the end? Far more ethnic Russians (and Russian volunteers) dying than would have happened if Putin had acted in 2014.

 

(b)The exact same thing happened in Syria when Putin waited till the government was on the ropes before finally, belatedly, and minimally acting. To this day Russian servicemen are dying in Syria because of Putin’s “agreements” with Sultan Erdogan. Inaction costs lives.

 

(c)Absolutely no Russians needed to die in Armenia, or more precisely in Nagorno Karabakh, if Putin had stopped the war from happening.

 

Which brings up a couple of questions.

 

Let us assume (it’s an easy assumption to make, and a safe one) that the Russian intelligence agencies had intimated Putin in advance that the Ottomans were planning an attack in conjunction with the Azerbaijanis and jihadi headchoppers on Nagorno Karabakh. Then we must ask:

 

First, could Putin have stopped the war from happening at all?

 

The answer to this is, yes, yes, he could have. All it would have had needed was two phone calls and one public statement.

 

(i) A phone call to Erdogan saying that Putin knew what he was up to and that it would have dire economic consequences for Russian-Turkish relations, such as another ban on tourism. (The last time that happened, in 2015, it brought Erdogan to his knees within weeks, so important is Russian tourism to the Ottoman economy, so this is no idle threat.)

 

(ii) A phone call to Pashinyan saying that Russia isn't overwhelmed with joy at his actions since 2018 and that if this continues Russia will stand aside and let any future OAHA offensive overrun not just Artsakh but Armenia itself.

 

(iii) A public statement that Russia will not tolerate the changing of the facts on the ground by military action - by anybody.

 

I do not see that the Ottomans would dare to begin their aggression under those conditions. And under the current conditions I do not see them ending their aggression short of the fall of Artsakh entirely or most substantially. Erdogan has too much prestige invested, not to speak of money, to have it any other way.

 

Secondly, should Putin have stopped the war from happening at all?

 

To this question the Putinoids have a standard, scripted response. The Greatest Geopolitical Grandmaster Genius The Galaxy Has Ever Seen was teaching Nikol Pashinyan a lesson for sneaking around canoodling with NATO; a defeat in Nagorno Karabakh, apparently, would bring Armenia crawling back to heel.

 

It seems to have escaped the notice of these sublime geniuses that

 

(a)It might only play into Pashinyan's hands, assuming the idea (increasingly being voiced on multiple fora) that he wants to lose the war in order to sacrifice Artsakh and - free of the territorial dispute that might block the accession - join NATO is true. Russia would be faced with a NATO Armenia and a NATOised Azerbaijan together. A good idea? I think not.

 

(b) Officially, Artsakh isn't part of Armenia. Therefore it is not responsible for the crimes of the Pashinyan regime. Therefore allowing it to be overrun is ipso facto an imbecilic response to teach Pashinyan a lesson.

 

(c) If Artsakh is overrun, what happens to the other republics that seceded from post Soviet states? What about Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria? What about the two Donbass republics, which let me remind you, Russia doesn't recognise either? Does anyone really think the Ukranazis won't take the hint that Russia won't intervene unless they attack Russia itself?

 

(d) If part or all of Nagorno Karabakh is captured by OAHA, what exactly is stopping Sultan Erdogan from repopulating the place with jihadi headchoppers just as he did in Jisr al Shughour with his Uighur imports? A jihadi headchopper ministate in Russia's underbelly isn't exactly a great idea.

 

Or maybe I’m wrong, the Putinoids are right, and Putin is playing some kind of incredibly complex chess game in which he can see hundreds of years into the future, and Russia will save the world yet. We’ll only have to wait 10135 years to find out!

 

The religion factor:

 

There’s a school of thought that Russia should intervene, but only because Armenians are fellow Christians. This is rubbish.

 

Once again: it's entirely an ethnic/economic/political clash. Religion has absolutely nothing to do with it. (Sunni) Muslim Brotherhood Sultan Erdogan is supporting Shia Azerbaijan with, among other things, (Sunni) Wahhabi jihadi headchoppers. Shia Iran is supposedly neutral but is being accused by Azerbaijan of sending weapons to Christian Armenia, with whom it has an open border, and has shot down Azeri drones. So-called Christian Russia – most Russians are atheists or agnostics – has stayed out of the fight completely. And (Sunni) Wahhabi Saudi Barbaria has opened another propaganda offensive in the meantime...against the Ottoman Empire.

There is nothing religious about it.

The Ceasefire:

At the time of this writing, I read that under Russian auspices a temporary ceasefire between the two sides to exchange prisoners and bury corpses has been signed. This is being presented by Putinoids as a “triumph for Russian diplomacy”. Apparently said Putinoids can’t read, because the “ceasefire” is specifically referred to as “temporary”. Both Sultan Erdogan and his ventriloquist’s dummy Ilham Aliyev have far too much invested to back down now.

 

And finally...what do I believe?

 

 

By now it should be obvious that I am not particularly enamoured of Putinoids or, for that matter, Putin. My position is that Russia, in fact, has a duty to the world; it is the only military bulwark (China being the economic entity on that scale) against the Amerikastani Empire. It is what stops the Amerikastani Empire from enslaving us all. When Russia stands up it stands up for all of us. When Putin betrays Russian interests he betrays us all.

Also, Russia is hardly secure. It’s beset on almost all its borders with Amerikastani aggression, colour revolutions, and subversion. It cannot afford “restraint” and complacency. A bit of proactive and aggressive action would only help it, especially if it nipped Amerikastani plans in the bud.

Therefore the Putinoid position that Russia only needs to “look after itself” is asinine, as imbecilic as the idea that Armenia will come crawling back if only Putin allows Nagorno Karabakh to be overrun. In fact, all it will do is convince everybody – including China – that there is no more unreliable ally and protector than Vladimir Putin. Is this what the Putinoids want? Really?

So here is today’s cartoon.

I’m also adding a version without dialogue, in case anyone wants to add their own.