Some interesting and curious revelations concerning bot “leaker” Jack and “journalist” Gershkovich. I will start with Jack Teixeira.
The U.S. Government is doing its dirty best to portray Teixeira as an aspiring mass murderer. Count me suspicious of this allegation:
New revelations from the court filings have raised more questions about why Teixeira had such a high-security clearance and access to some of the nation’s most classified secrets.
Prosecutors wrote that Teixeira, who owned multiple guns, repeatedly had “detailed and troubling discussions about violence and murder” on the social media platform Discord, where authorities say he shared the documents.
In February, he told another person that he was tempted to make a minivan into an “assassination van,” prosecutors wrote.
They said he may still have material that hasn’t been released, which could be of “tremendous value to hostile nation states that could offer him safe harbour and attempt to facilitate his escape from the United States.”
So, the U.S. Government wants you to believe that a member of the U.S. military who owns guns is evidence of a disturbed person. Last I checked, the men and women in the military are taught to use firearms because they may be called upon to use those guns to kill our “enemies.” That is really bizarre.
I continue to see news articles trickling out that are announcing the discovery on social media of more leaked documents posted by Teixeira. Where are they? Beyond the initial batch released, I have not seen any of these. If they really exist, they were posted in such obscure sites that they failed to attract any public attention. This supports the initial claim by some in Jack’s chat group that he was just showing off and had no nefarious purpose in mind.
Since Teixeira was arrested we have learned that GCHQ, the U.K.’s equivalent of the U.S. NSA, identified the leaked documents on the gamer chat group before the intel became public. I am having trouble finding that report, but it alleged that GCHQ flagged this to its U.S. counter parts. If that is true, why didn’t the U.S. intelligence agencies take steps to shut those sites down and prevent the publication of those leaks. This further reinforces my belief that this was a controlled leak and that Teixeira, who apparently did post this classified material to the chat group, became a convenient scapegoat.
To that point, the fact that Bellingcat, an organization with demonstrable ties to British and U.S. intelligence according to the Grayzone, played the critical role in identifying Teixeira and making sure that information found its way into public media reinforces in my mind that this was an intel op.
Teixeira is being charged with espionage. Bollocks! At most he should be charged with mishandling classified information. There is zero evidence so far that he was publishing these documents with the intent of sharing them with a foreign intelligence agency.
What about Evan Gershkovich. The Russians are charging him with espionage. In light of information released since he was arrested, it appears he was used, unwittingly, by CIA or the U.S. Defense Attache officers to collect information that he intended to publish in the Wall Street Journal. I remain convinced that Gershkovich is a naive, gullible reporter who had no idea that any effort on his part to gather information to report on the Russian defense industry would be viewed legitimately by the Russians as espionage.
Why do I say this? Reports that I have read reveal he made regular visits to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. A real spy would not do something so stupid, especially in Russia. Gershkovich was incredibly naive in my view. He failed to understand that going to the U.S. Embassy would bring him unwelcome attention from Russian security services. I am sure that in his mind, routine chats with U.S. “diplomats” was part of his job as a reporter.
I am pretty confident that CIA officers assigned to U.S. Embassy Moscow would not reveal their true identities or employment with the CIA to Gershkovich. He may have suspected that some of his interlocutors had intel ties, but it is equally plausible that he really believed he was meeting with diplomats and military officials in order to get their views on events in Ukraine and the implications for those on the political situation in Russia that he could use in his articles for the WSJ.
Regardless of his intent, the Russians appear to have a strong case to charge him with espionage. Not a good place for Gershkovich.
First off I want to give a shout out to Larry. You made a mistake on Gershkovich and you admitted it, which is a lot more than we can say for these stenographers in the MSM.
On to the meat and potatoes. Wow. White dude who owns guns and talks about current events is now a potential mass murderer. Do they realize that this is HALF of the country?? Are half of Americans now potential mass murderers?
I hate to be an alarmist but it really seems like we’re soon headed for a kristalnacht moment. Only conservative white men will play the role of the Jews this time.
But unlike then, know that this time that you will not be alone.
Yep, shout out to Larry. And he wasn’t wrong. But new data comes in. And he adapts to the new info instead of dying on a hill. What a concept.
And to you. Indeed. The evil white man gun owner. The source of all our troubles. Brother. I used to laugh at people that talked about FEMA re-education camps. The loons that buried guns in PVC pipes. I ain’t laughing anymore.
Biden will win in 2024. The DOJ and FBI and ATF will be more empowered.
The Warsaw Ghetto. The Jews stayed because THEIR Rabbis told them to. That God would save them if they prayed. That the Germans wouldn’t DO some things. And they died.
I reiterate. Pay off debt. Build cash. Procure physical gold. Divest bulky assets. Be ready to de-ass this AO. Exercise and lose weight. If forced, could you take a backpack and walk across the desert INTO Mexico? Odd salmon stream visual no?
Oh. And praying? Talk to the Warsaw Jews.
. . . . start a garden, get chickens.
Anyone ever reported on the percentage of US lethal drone operators that are psychopaths? I’ll bet it’s a significant number. Are their backgrounds ever checked for any history of animal abuse? I doubt it.
OK, that’s off my chest. Moving along. Does anyone ever check Congress members or presidential candidates for signs of ……..?
I’d wager a fairly large %. After all they have a nickname for MENA children; Fun Sized Terrorists.
Authoritarian Australia.
“In an email sent to all Queensland Police Service (QPS) members, which has been sighted by the ABC, officers have been briefed on new procedures for recording interactions with conspiracy theorists and those spouting religious-related ideology.
“You will be aware of recent media reporting regarding a statement released by the QPS relating to the tragic events in Wieambilla in December 2022,” the email said.
“This commentary will result in increased reporting to police regarding members of the community who allegedly hold a range of ideological beliefs.
“This includes conspiracy theorists and religious-related ideology.”
Officers must record all interactions with people holding ideological beliefs in the central information database used by officers across the state.
It will then be assessed by the state’s counter-terrorism investigation teams.
The matter can then be escalated and individuals flagged.
The memo describes the at-risk groups as conspiracy theorists, religious, social or political extremists and sovereign citizens, as well as people with ideologies relating to capitalism, communism, socialism or Marxism.”
Well that just about covers everybody LOL
Huh, they left anarchists and existentialists out. Too passé I guess.
Where’s fascism and naziism? I’d say that’s a big tell.
Hi Randolarian
Kristalnacht 2.0? Maybe, but not all across the country. And anyway, it’s already happening in places like NYC, Chicago, Philly, etc.
Most libs don’t own firearms. The criminals in the big towns own the firearms, and they’re not going to ask about your politics before they pull the trigger. And I don’t see too many wokesters moving to fly-over country. The libs are afraid of having neighbors who believe that “ God, Guns, & Guts” made America.
Going all kristalnacht2 against the jews in the US? My how the quality of trolling has fallen in this country.
Reading comprehension problems this week?
Probably a chatbot
He didn’t say that. He said white men.
You made a mistake on Gershkovich and you admitted it,
Nothing’s written in stone, especially a rolling stone.
That was an opinion at the time. Opinion is output. Information is input. The two are supposed to work together.
Frankly, the motive (and the target) of the guys behind the curtain are still up for debate. Did they want to steer the boat clear of the rocks or did they want to give the impression of a boat headed for the rocks but in reality was twice the size as it appeared and on a steady course.
I.E….Were they trying to warn Americans or to fool Russians? Guess we’ll see soon enough.
Sorry, I confused Teixeira and Gershkovich. Never mind.
Complete load of bs it’s not a leak it’s a psy op hello?
“ new revelations “ recent reports “ following reports from officials” I’m not an “intelligence “ professional- what a concept- considering the low iq of American IPs and those who profess to be
Those dumb fks calling the shots in dc are off the rails in terms of arrogance and they’ll get us all killed
they’re placingnukes in skorea now what (on earth)! did they threaten them with its obscene
And … whoever came up with the idea to inflate the egos of those attention hogs in Kiev should be buried in the mud ! They’re loading their larders while people are being massacred by their own
No Kristallnacht for white men any time soon. Too many of us.
Not really. Urban liberal whites are a different ethnic group to OG whites. Who do you think they’re going to use to come after you? CHAZ was a test run.
Interesting development. The situation with Gershkovich is akin to someone asking to enter someone’s house and once they were welcomed inside, looking for a master hall to make a mess. Not a smart decision. Whatever his motives were or how this came about has to be contrasted with what is happening in Russia. It is clear now, and was for a while that their tolerance level is not what it used to be. The writing was on the wall for a long time now and if he chose to play the big game he should have known the consequences. Does anyone remember how Meng Wanzhou was detained in Canada? Shortly after that Spavor and Kovrig were detained and charged in China. Those are big games, big plays. Big thanks to Larry for covering the intricacies of the mechanics behind the scenes. It gives some perspective and is very interesting. On the same note does anyone remember Frederic Pierucci from Alstom? That happened in 2013. The prelude to this could be seen in Putin’s 2007 Munich speech. “Either there is international law or there is chaos and brute force will rule”. We have our picture now. Sad but true, some innocents will be caught up, some will be guilty. One a side note how many great journalists are left. Seymour is but a single raisin in a bun. What did they do to Tucker? Where is Snowden? Does anyone get the picture? Do as we say, not as we do. Thanks for keeping this post going Larry, good to see great discussion and facts.
For Gershkovich to be guilty of what Larry suggests, he must be a blithering idiot.
Entirely possible.
You just described the average journalist….
Wind them up, drop in a dime and away they go, ready to drop a dime on Mother Teresa herself.
/blithering idiot/ The whole Gershkovich makes me really sad. I just sense that the new generations in the West just don’t know their history. Everything in the past seems to have been relegated to the dustbin as “inapplicable”. It is arrogantly (or naively) summed up by this: “In The 21st Century Nations Don’t Invade Other Nations”, John McCain. If you really believe that, then obviously the past has no relevance and you become a blithering idiot.
But knowing the history, as a journalist, I would have been scared to death to visit the US embassy and then head off to Yekaterinburg during an SMO:
A Closed City and Its Secret Archives: Notes on a Journey to the Urals
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1881063
I have posted this before, but I think all journalists of this era would be well served by reading/listening to this:
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, William L. Shirer, 1934–1941 – Audiobook
“Berlin Diary first appeared in 1941, and the timing was perfect. The energy, the passion, and the electricity in it were palpable. The book was an instant success, and it became the frame of reference against which thoughtful Americans judged the rush of events in Europe. It exactly matched journalist to event: the right reporter in the right place at the right time. It stood, and still stands, as so few books have ever done, a pure act of journalistic witness.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_8woab08qo
The book is free at the Internet Archive (out of copyright) or available as an audiobook.
Shirer was so careful about what he did, where he went and who he spoke to. He pushed the limits without crossing the line. Present day journalists would be well served by knowing their Russian history and reading Shirer. IMHO
Most so-called journalists from mainstream media Outlets are nothing but that idiots and quite bluntly I genuinely would not give a damn if the Russians for some reason decide to hang this so-called journalist as a spy
The situation with Gershkovich is akin to someone asking to enter someone’s house and once they were welcomed inside, looking for a master hall to make a mess.
Well in the 90’s, when Americans walked on water and the Russians naively thought the Cold War really was over, I was welcomed into many a Russian MIC house and made a point of being on my best behavior. In those Yeltsin days, their MIC firms were engaged in many commercial projects to make ends meet, so I was persona grata.
One time, I was sitting at the the director’s table of a major aviation institute discussing some commercial titanium projects where I’d just been shown the results of a sophisticated algorithm they ran to model fighter jet surfaces and my host had to excuse himself as a delegation of Chinese was due in a few minutes. I remember warning him tongue in cheek “be careful that they don’t steel your algorithms.” I laugh about its irony to this day.
Needless to say, those days are long gone and it’s little wonder. I was a benign visitor but as time went on, I became aware of the many not so benign visitors feigning commercial projects as data collection vehicles.
It’s a real shame. Who lost Russia? Don’t get me started.
Oops, steal not steel. Had metallurgy on my mind.
That reminds me of another curious time, when I was walking around Moscow with a declassified USDOD catalog of every Soviet metal alloy and composition the DOD was aware of. Every so often, someone would suspiciously ask “How did you get that?” Why, at the RPI library I’d say. Once I had a metallurgist point out “Yeah – this alloy was experimental, never produced in quantity. This one they got the magnesium and vanadium contents reversed. This one we found performed better than your 6/4 Ti alloy”. What a trip those days were.
People in the former Soviet Union really did trust and appreciate Americans at that time. I lived in the FSU for several years in the 90s and beyond. They genuinely liked and trusted us.
Boy did our gov blow that good will!
Very illuminating. I looked up the Frederic Pierucci case involving Alstom; interesting how that resulted in GE gaining control of the maintenance of all French nuclear reactors – even more interesting now we know that most of the French NPPs had to reduce output during 2022, thus making Europe even more reliant on US gas!
Interesting info on the AFNG airman. To help MSM: Unnamed intel souce said he wore MAGA hats to the unit and his mother was Putin’s girlfriend illegitimate daughter. Inside FBI sources report his father is Alex Jones bisexual lover. 💩🤡
Good evening Larry,
I wanted to ask Larry how a US intel professional analyzes Prigozhin’s latest interview. And even the Russian nationalist Strelkov for coinciding in time. Regardless of Strelkov only seeking protagonism because he was ostracized! No better than Ukrainian nationalists! Is Prigozhin trolling? Or does Prigozhin have any ambitions after the restaurants and the Wagner’s PR? ? Anyway I ask because I don’t see how none of the interviews help Russia? Just when it seems to me that Russia is finally annihilating the AFU! And when I say finally I’m not accusing Russia of anything. Just look at how Russia with so few forces is completely defeating NATO’s 8 year work in Ukraine! After the best army in the world fled Afghanistan hanging from the wheels of a plane, reminiscent of Saigon again! Even if they made another movie like “The Deer Hunter” with De Niro! 😂 . Thanks.
It is a combination of trolling and UKR propaganda. I think that video is two months old.
Thank you Larry. I’m talking about this interview with War Gonzo that I thought was more recent. In that devastates the MOD and Shoigu!
https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/p/wagners-prigozhin-issues-most-dire/comments
The interview in russian where Prigozhin says he loses 500 men (?) per day:
https://dzen.ru/video/watch/644cc90da1be2f710a8d82dc?share_to=telegram
And CNN’s reaction 2 days ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztls3lQ769s
And Stralkov’s interpellations. 39 questions to the Kremlin:
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/39-questions-about-the-war-in-ukraine
Listening to it now, Prigozhin (~29 minute mark) stated that UKR are losing up to 500 men per day. Elsewhere (different recording), Prigozhin said that Wagners’s losses are ~90/95 men per day, and should be 5 times less if they had enough artillery shells.
Hope this helps
Thanks. And the translation also said this:
“Wagner is facing down 35k Ukrainian soldiers in Bakhmut and up 500 of their soldiers die a day, but are replenished. Every 20 minutes, 10 soldiers are sent in. An unending flood of reinforcements.”
My mistake. Like Larry, I always saw Prigozhin as a minor figure in the Russian MOD and a troll trying to deceive the AFU! But attacks on the Russian MOD fall a bit outside that sphere and are more incomprehensible to me. Because my reading of the SMO is very benevolent for Russia in a country with the size and number of Ukrainian forces trained, equipped and supplied by NATO throughout the SMO! As some specialists have already said, no force on earth could do better and especially with so few human resources. Because it’s very easy to see that Russia does everything to not have casualties among the regular forces. What brings down Govts. After entering Ukraine with the aim of enforcing the Minsk Accords, Ukraine’s neutrality and a new European security architecture that does not pose a constant threat to Russia. Which is completely distorted by the US disinformation campaign that has been teasing Russia with NATO since Putin said in 2007 that he did not accept the unipolar world. Its biggest crime for Washington, that it was not used to statesmen saying no to the US after the end of the USSR! And for me this conflict is above all economic and goes far beyond Ukraine! This week Alastair Crooke said all about what I think is happening and could even benefit the US if it manages to completely change the course of its economy. Which is very difficult due to its debt volume!
https://vk.com/@580896205-alastair-crooke-the-world-doesnt-work-that-way-anymore
prigozzi was successuful in his mission, that’s deceive the pro ukraine propaganda and western media in general. they lured ukrainan soldiers in bahmut with the premise of an easy killing of russians, cause they’re unorganized, without weapons and ammunitions, corrupt etc etc. but it happened the opposite, with the ukrainans not able to do their counteroffensive, postoping it while western media begin to doubt about that. prigozz. those who believed to this strange character helped the russian to divert the ukrainan military from the offensive to the lost cause of bahmut, they fallen behind the russian propaganda of prigozzi, and then lose strategic advantages. i think he’s the main russian propagandist, considering that every word that comes from his mouth is reprised and amplified by western medias
prigozzi was successuful in his mission, that’s deceive the pro ukraine propaganda and western media in general. they lured ukrainan soldiers in bahmut with the premise of an easy killing of russians, cause they’re unorganized, without weapons and ammunitions, corrupt etc etc. but it happened the opposite, with the ukrainans not able to do their counteroffensive, postoping it while western media begin to doubt about that. prigozz. those who believed to this strange character helped the russian to divert the ukrainan military from the offensive to the lost cause of bahmut, they fallen behind the russian propaganda of prigozzi, and then lose strategic advantages. i think he’s the main russian propagandist, considering that every word that comes from his mouth is reprised and amplified by western medias
Thanks for the correction. The translation in the link I provided clearly says that it is Ukraine that has 500 KIAs/day. My mistake! And this is the second time I’m apologizing. I don’t understand why my comments are not published! When there is clearly a strategy to stifle Prigozhin’s interview on the internet! Where he makes very serious accusations. However, I continue to think that Prigozhin is nothing more than a clown! Like the number in the video wanting to trade WW1 Maxim machine guns from a warehouse in Soledar for artillery shells!? As if the deposit was his?! It’s all too weird for now! But thanks for the correction!
@Paulo Guerra
“I don’t understand why my comments are not published!”
Posts with links in them take longer to appear. I guess they are all manually approved, to prevent abuse.
This is top level trolling. 😀
https://odysee.com/@trader.one:d/wag-ammo-control:3
Now we know definitively that Prigozhin, the Wagner head or PR is not just a troll! Alexander Dugin has just turned him into a political actor with a poignant text!
https://www.thepostil.com/the-wagner-factor-and-the-fairness-principle/
Regardless of Dugin’s value in Russia or whether someone in the Russian media, which I don’t see, has already tried it or not! For sure, Prigozhin is worth more than a thousand Navalnys today! And the greatest irony is that this was always the dream of the US when they provoked the proxy war in Ukraine! Destabilize political power in Moscow. Obviously in the opposite direction but we should never minimize the CIA’s decades of experience hijacking and rotating protests. Especially because it is the nature of all Revolutions that we never know how they end. Like wars! And it was quite obvious that if there were to be any change in Moscow during an existential conflict it would never be in the way of more liberalism but of more nationalism! It’s human nature and Nations! By the way, I continue to think that it is very difficult for Russia to have a leader in the coming years as liberal as Putin was when he arrived at the Kremlin! Regardless of being a completely different politician today as a result of US harassment! We’ll see how Putin handles this “ranch uprising!” If it is not also behind him!
Interestingly, not long ago, Xi Jinimping explained to the Russians why the USSR collapsed! Because in Russia the greatest political catharsis always occurs in the same mistakes! Destroy all the past publicly! Like Gorbachev who tried to reform the USSR, the CPSU and the economy in the public space and with the help of the West?! Only the Yeltsin puppet that came later is worse! When we all know that in superpowers like the USSR or the US, hardly everything was done badly. otherwise, they would never have risen to superpowers! And just as the US lived a golden age with industrial capitalism, there were also developed areas in the USSR! Like some state functions like public school or science, just to name two examples! And two of the most important predictors of economic growth worldwide.
Putin himself has just admitted to Xi Jimping that China has got the economic path right! We are talking about Friedrich List! Who, contrary to Adam Smith, believed that the growth of a nation and the well-being of a society depended more on its productive capacity than on consumption as it is today in the US! And how do you measure GDP, which says little about economies. Economic thinking also behind big economies like Japan or Germany. Regardless of the fact that they are also two US colonies! But even that didn’t stop them from growing, and today they are much healthier economies than the US!
Interestingly, Alastair Crooke also spoke about Russia, Xi Jimping and List this week:
https://vk.com/@580896205-alastair-crooke-the-world-doesnt-work-that-way-anymore
Now we know definitively that Prigozhin, the Wagner head or PR is not just a troll! Alexander Dugin has just turned him into a political actor with a poignant text!
https://www.thepostil.com/the-wagner-factor-and-the-fairness-principle/
Regardless of Dugin’s value in Russia or whether someone in the Russian media, which I don’t see, has already tried it or not! For sure, Prigozhin is worth more than a thousand Navalnys today! And the greatest irony is that this was always the dream of the US when they provoked the proxy war in Ukraine! Destabilize political power in Moscow. Obviously in the opposite direction but we should never minimize the CIA’s decades of experience hijacking and rotating protests. Especially because it is the nature of all Revolutions that we never know how they end. Like wars! And it was quite obvious that if there were to be any change in Moscow during an existential conflict it would never be in the way of more liberalism but of more nationalism! It’s human nature and Nations! By the way, I continue to think that it is very difficult for Russia to have a leader in the coming years as liberal as Putin was when he arrived at the Kremlin! Regardless of being a completely different politician today as a result of US harassment! We’ll see how Putin handles this “ranch uprising!” If it is not also behind him!
Interestingly, not long ago, Xi Jinimping explained to the Russians why the USSR collapsed! Because in Russia the greatest political catharsis always occurs in the same mistakes! Destroy all the past publicly! Like Gorbachev who tried to reform the USSR, the CPSU and the economy in the public space and with the help of the West?! Only the Yeltsin puppet that came later is worse! When we all know that in superpowers like the USSR or the US, hardly everything was done badly. otherwise, they would never have risen to superpowers! And just as the US lived a golden age with industrial capitalism, there were also developed areas in the USSR! Like some state functions like public school or science, just to name two examples! And two of the most important predictors of economic growth worldwide.
Putin himself has just admitted to Xi Jimping that China has got the economic path right! We are talking about Friedrich List! Who, contrary to Adam Smith, believed that the growth of a nation and the well-being of a society depended more on its productive capacity than on consumption as it is today in the US! And how do you measure GDP, which says little about economies. Economic thinking also behind big economies like Japan or Germany. Regardless of the fact that they are also two US colonies! But even that didn’t stop them from growing, and today they are much healthier economies than the US!
Interestingly, Alastair Crooke also spoke about Russia, Xi Jimping and List this week:
Prigozhin was invited to a closed meeting of the State Duma to clarify his positions. Got everyone already. My opinion: his roof went from self-promotion. Every day, a new scandal from Prigogine.
Strelkov is a muddy, offended by the whole world person, an unrecognized fugitive self-appointed commander in chief. He was never a Russian nationalist-patriot for the reason that a patriot can be the one whom others consider so, and not the one who calls himself so loudly on every occasion (I am a patriot, I am a genius, I am a handsome man).
Putin, the Government, Shoigu, Medvedev, Lavrov do not read telegram channels and bloggers. They have no time to deal with Prigogine’s whims. If Prigozhin has problems and questions, let him submit reports to the Ministry of Defense, as expected, and not spread his specific opinion to the public, let him not provoke the people, do not get into politics.
Hi Gera,
Always a pleasure to speak with Gera. Strelkov is all that but he’s also a dangerous nationalist for Russia! Does not recognizes the state of Ukraine or the Verkhovna Rada, where Putin skillfully wielded political power throughout Donbass and southern Ukraine and elected presidents. What Strelkov’s brain will never understand! A nationalist is not a patriot! For example, a nationalist is an isolationist who always thinks that his country is the navel of the world and would never sign a strategic partnership with China! So important to bypass the economic sanctions! With Strelkov today Russia was on its knees or resorting to nuclear weapons. That’s the difference for a patriot like Putin!
As for Prigozhin, I agree with Gera, the problem is that he speaks in public space! And he didn’t just talk about the theater of operations in Ukraine! He delivered a major attack on the political heart of Russia! In the MOD but also in the Minister of Defense who, as Gera says, has an image to defend in the world! And he also spoke about Syria and Chechnya?! He even called Kadyrov’s father a traitor and corrupt?! There have been people arrested for less and well for attacking the state in time of war! Whether he lost control with some burnout or not, someone has to sort out this primadonna situation! Russia is not Sudan! Russia is changing the World Order!
And according to the American General Christopher Cavoli, US Commander in European Command (NATO) informs the US Congress Armed Forces Committee:
“Much of the Russian armed forces have not been negatively affected by this conflict”; Prigozhin also just talks shit about the conflict in Ukraine! Where Russia, always with a very small force and very methodical to avoid heavy casualties, has achieved stunning results. Against the entire rich Collective West!
All the best Gera!
I also welcome you, Paulo Guerrasays!
It seems to me that our discussion is not over. I would like to say something else about this.
1. What Strelkov-Girkin, Prigozhin, as well as many bloggers from Donetsk, politicians who fled Ukraine (Medvechuk, Tsarev), representatives of the near-political party of former Ukrainians (Yuriy Podolyaka, Montyan, Grubnik, Sladkov, Chalenko …) and a whole galaxy of publicists connected with Ukraine is called by one capacious Russian word “meanness”.
The word “meanness” does not have an exact synonym in Russian. Closely related to the word “deceit”. Unfortunately, I don’t know how accurately Google translates this word into English. Since there is no exact semantic analogue for the word “conscience” in the English language, then, perhaps, there cannot be an exact translation of its antonym “meanness”.
Meanness is what causes acute emotional rejection, indignation in the mentality of a Russian person. For example, firing heavy artillery at civilian targets in the Donbass and accusing Russia of killing civilians is meanness.
The story with Bucha is a meanness.
Threatening to seize Crimea and transfer it under the control of Kiev is meanness, since the Ukrainian side does not hide its intention to subject civilians to violence: to kill a significant part of its inhabitants, to repress or expel the rest, to destroy the Crimean bridge and everything that Russia has built in 8 years.
The foreign policy of the countries of Eastern Europe (Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia …) in relation to Russia can also be characterized by the word “meanness” (at least in my subjective understanding).
About US foreign policy – you can guess.
2. The image of Russia, the image of Putin, the image of Russian state institutions, the image of the army and the image of the Russian people can no longer be corrected or spoiled by any statements and words – so many tubs of dirt have been poured. Russia is already earning its image on the battlefield, paying for it with the lives of its soldiers.
We will win – there is no doubt about it. Our concern is that later some America does not steal the victory of our soldiers over Nazism and vilely appropriate it, as it was after the Second World War.
3. Russia is a multinational country. Russians are a multinational people. To be a Russian nationalist means in the vast majority of cases to be a patriot of Russia, deprived or suppressed in oneself of a sense of xenophobia, isolationism, and hatred for the peoples of other countries.
A patriot is one who perceives the misfortunes, failures, defeats of his country as his personal misfortunes, failures, defeats.
Putin is a Russian nationalist and a patriot at the same time.
(By the way, I feel a strong dislike for Ukrainians. I guess I’m not a real Russian nationalist). :a)
To insult Kadyrov’s father is also meanness on the part of Prigozhin. Meanness to the entire Chechen people. For this, he will definitely be punished.
Thanks Gera. I loved! True, objective, clairvoyant and with humor!
The term “meaness” has a broad definition that starts with miser but is above all someone who does not have a noble spirit! Someone mediocre. And I also realize that the term nationalist does not have the same meaning in all cultures. But in the West since the 1930s there is even a soundbite that says nationalism is a disease. Xenophobic. Like the fascist Govt of Poland! Someone who never respects other countries. Precisely the opposite of Russia’s multiculturalism, which welcomes all peoples. Loving our country is defined as a patriot! Regardless of the word “Nation” having nothing negative but it’s more associated with the territory and the word “Homeland” with our home. A nobler term!
And I consider the attitude of the Baltics towards Russia more than meanness and I don’t mean the current period but the way they also always discriminate the Russian ethnicity! In which the EU has a lot of responsibility because it could have corrected this attitude many years ago. Like in Ukraine! And the problem, as Gera says, starts in WW2. The West never admitted that the real WW2 took place on the eastern front and that it was Moscow with millions of dead that defeated Nazism! In the West we have never seen the true Nazi beast! And I am also deeply sorry for all the negative propaganda against Russia since WW2! That never allowed the majority of Europeans to know the nobility of the Russian people!
All the best Gera!
A great analysis. The whys and wherefores are always hard to determine but the results are another thing. The US government has a problem with the truth, so best to be skeptical about whatever they say.
The results of the Pentagon Leaks?
a.) public discussion
b.) speculation — which spurs public discussion
c.) attention drawn to internal controversy in the Pentagon with conflicting views of how the war is going — i.e. confusion and division
This discredits the official narrative.
The US is one BIG dysfunctional family. The “Counteroffensive” will fail . If it doesn’t happen the Proxy War will fail. That’s the “Off Ramp”. But the US is on the highway to war and the next On Ramp is China as I write here.
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-off-ramp-from-ukraine
Is our government counting on financial collapse? New bank failure for Monday is a better than 50% chance. Another major bank imploding, derivatives triggered. If they can’t keep this one quiet, the population may wake from woke and numb to a whole new reality.
Will they walk away even if they caused the earthquake? Now may be a good time to dump the (don’t say Z or V) ‘alensky puppet. Soon to be found to have been lying to the CIA about everything. He was accepting bribes and selling all the nice war tools to anyone? Even Russia in trade for diesel?
What is the next tail to wag?
Reporting at ZeroHedge and Unz indicates that the current bank crisis began as a result of the USG, Fed and Wall Street strangling crypto-currency access to banking services.
Guess they want to clear the decks for adoption of the Fed’s CBDC… among other things.
Ellen Brown writes about this:
https://www.unz.com/article/how-the-war-on-crypto-triggered-a-banking-crisis/
“ A real spy would not do something so stupid…”
I don’t know, Larry. We’ve been seeing an awful lot of stupid from the US lately. There is the old aphorism about no one ever going broke underestimating the intelligence of Americans.
Elial,Ithink Larry’s point was that Geshkovitz was duped into spying without getting spycraft training.I was imediately suspicious when the Moscow reporter traveled 300 km to Yekaterinberg.What was in Yekaterinburg that he could not report on from Moscow (while Russia is at war).”The best place to hide something is out in the open”,Sherlock Holmes(A.C.Doyle)
There are some occupations where Darwin’s Law survival of the fittest applies.
Sadly not for our politicians (in a political sense).
MI6’s hollow rocks can only be thought up by MI6’s hollow heads. 😉
Americans have traditionally been known to be naive….for all those war whores, take a look at their background…
On another note, some connections between Jeffrey Epstein and others that are worth noting
have recently been brought out:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/30/wall-st-journal-outlines-documents-from-jeffrey-epstein-showing-contact-with-highly-influential-people-including-current-cia-director-bill-burns-and-clinton-obama-lawyer-ruemmler/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-calendar-cia-director-goldman-sachs-noam-chomsky-c9f6a3ff
In the CTH article we find:
Whitney Webb has done a very deep dive (with a wealth of supporting bibliography) in her 2-volume Nation under Blackmail.
In a free country one may freely associate with a convicted sex offender.
The WSJ is only giving up small potatoes and scapegoats.
“In February, he told another person that he was tempted to make a minivan into an “assassination van,” prosecutors wrote.”
So the Bidet regime is desperately and pathetically using hearsay now. Not admissible in court. But in the court of public opinion, guilty Your Honour!
Larry – even if he wasn’t a “spy” he deserves to be in jail (and the key thrown away) for sheer f***ing stupidity. Why? He’s a foreign national (citizen of the USA), who’s country (the USA) is actively providing weapons and Intelligence to the enemy (Ukraine) of his host country (Russia). These actions by the US are leading to the deaths of hundreds and probably a few thousand Russian troops. And this dickhead, because that’s what he is, then tries to gather information about Russian military industrial output in a militarily sensitive location in Russia. I was going to say something about using his brains then remembered he’s a journalist ……… I’ll leave it to Andrei Martyanov to discuss what that entails with regard to brain power.
I have a question about the Evan Gershkovich case.
In one of his comments under the article “Evan Gershkovich, Meet Mr. Julian Assange” (https://sonar21.com/evan-gershkovich-meet-mr-julian-assange/), Mr. Johnson claims(https://sonar21.com/evan-gershkovich-meet-mr-julian-assange/#comment-124399):
“The agency can’t use American journalists for anything, by law. The use of any American in the private sector requires the personal approval of the CEO of the company, in this case the CEO of WSJ; and DCIA’s approval. On the common sense side of things, only a nitwit would use an American to collect inside Russia or any other denied area. Do you think the CEO of the WSJ authorized his reporter to work with the agency? I don’t.”
But now: “he was used, unwittingly, by CIA or the U.S. Defense Attache officers to collect information that he intended to publish in the Wall Street Journal”.
If the former statement is true (about the requirements by law), isn’t Mr. Gershkovich supposed to be informed by the CEO of WSJ about being used by CIA? Or the latter statement, about being useful idiot, implies that Mr. Gershkovich was used in violation of U.S. laws?
Does the question need an answer? Does the sun rise in the east?
This would require that Gershkovich was indeed a journalist that the CIA attempted to co-op for their own purposes.
The other possibility is that Gershkovich was always a CIA operative who was simply using “journalist” as his cover.
In which case the CIA might argue that they are under no legal obligation to inform the CEO of the WSJ as they – not the CEO – was his true employer.
Therefore Gershkovich was never really an “American in the private sector”, he was just a spook who was pretending that he was.
That may seem like splitting hairs, but this same Biden administration used a similarly-convoluted argument to convince itself it was under no legal obligation to inform Congress that it was going to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline.
If you don’t think that Bezos eats alphabet cereal for breakfast, I have a bridge to sell you.
Let’s hope Gershkovich can be swapped for Assange.
That would be the PR coup of the century, for Russia.
So, alas, unlikely to happen.
Larry,
You may want to read this (if you haven’t already): https://johnhelmer.net/breaking-news-from-the-donbass-front-the-teixeira-case-and-then-from-canada-what-happens-to-the-ottawa-regime-when-the-kiev-regime-is-defeated/
Needs some culling, but has interesting info that Texeira was used by intel services to some nefarious purpose.
gerchcovich is either naive, a fool, or on the cia payroll for any of this to happen..
george kovachev..
as i had said previously, it is possible he is working two jobs similtaneously, although one is public knowledge and the other isn’t.. bottom line, he is a fool..
any comparison to assange is bs, like most all of usa foreign policy…. if the usa had a shred of integrity, assange would have been let go 20 years ago. they don’t.. neither does the uk.. both are supreme hypocrites on the international stage..
You are being too kind in your assessment.
Am I the only one.
The photograph of Jack Teixeria is a selfie for crying out loud.
And Even Gershkovich? A “journalist?” Oh, please.
When “mainstream” media is synonymous with “Nord Stream”?
Honey, they blew up the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, a Free Press.
You don’t have “journalists” when all you’ve got is a fully owned, fully controlled, fully manipulated mainstream media. All you have are spies, bimbos and propagandists.
Take away “proxy” and all you have left is “war.” But these fool idiots, like Gershkovich are blinded by their own delusions. Gershkovich being in Russia is the same thing as these Bible Thumpers crossing the border into North Korea. Gee. I wonder what could possibly go wrong?
Let Gershkovich rot.
So, as I predicted repeatedly, you’re being compelled to walk back your Gershkovich stand too. Remember how you got so huffy when I asked you to wait and find our what evidence the Russians had before nailing your colours to the Gershkovich Cannot Possibly Be A Spy boat?
Give it a rest, Bis. I read your musings on MOA on this topic and our host. Just a word to the wise: Never talk behind someone’s back looking for brownie points. Very bad manners.
Get a life.
BP, congrats on your perfect predictive skills. Now, while squatting on Larry’s blog, could you muzzle the tedious prima donna routine…it defeats anything useful you might contribute to the conversation and is patently off-putting. Or do always piss on your host’s rug?
Ron Unz on the origins of the neocons.
https://www.unz.com/runz/the-neocons-and-their-rise-to-power/
Owning a toolset and discussing with other pros the set and the intrinsics of using it is normal, but
> he was tempted to make a minivan into an “assassination van,”
This if true might be troubling, if true.
Like would’ve been a chemist not only holding poisons at home but also admitting an obsessive temptation to mix those in some grocery shop goods or restraint kitchen sources.
Like a kindergarten worker having at home pictures of kids naked, and not ones running across a summer lake shore but in hotel with legs spread. It *might* still be “only a fad” but deserves some special attention.
This is perhaps why the media added that detail. They, suspiciously, added in very brief, not detailed way: a reader to invent details suiting him, while journo not explicitly claiming.
Still, it can be a genuine detail too: the western news are designed for attention span deficit consumers, as was displayed even in the 1950-s “Day Of Triffids” novel.
The official reports on Jack Teixeira and Evan Gershkovich seem to me to fit very well into the pattern that Jacob Siegel has described in detail:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation
The simplest answer is probably the right answer. There was and is no “leaker” who is convieniently portrayed for pretext purposes as a white, first thing, young soldier with dangerous and violent things running around his deranged head, second thing, who is a purveyor of evil guns in cotizen hands, third thng, and has implied intent, because bad think, fourth element here, inplied also is the Jukian Assange thing where there are people not acceptable to this collection of surveillance reprisal and terror generating entity called our government not government now and not been for a ling time only now its showing its disgusting bloody evil world dominating face. in the guise of poorly managed and poorly staged false flag operations designed to alter perceptions of what the truth us towards some kind of make believe whole cloth world, designed itself to steadily mind job all of us deemed “domestic terrorists” and this just horrible gigantic threat to whatever moral superiority fiction of “democracy”, it is they incessently cram down our throats to get as far away from any concept idea or thought, Lord forbid, free open unfettered thinking even never mind open source grass roots “insurgency” against these just beneficiant devine protectors of us, but really minions all, we do not matter, of the status quo of Rothchilian dark money system and their world domination more cowbell please BS.
Know what? We don’t mind them, they do not matter. Thats mind iver matter. I guess it sucks to be irrelevant when you used to rule the world with your dark money system, which appears to no longer work or its been destroyed somehow. And its mad minute time because the Rothchilian institutional order which has used wars non stop for how ling now?, to make money off of.
Thing is, the war in the Ukrain is not going swimmingly for them, the Russians not only have awesomely upped their game, they seem to have created an assets based monetary system, which is spreading across the 80% of humanity that the Rothchilian dark money magic people apoear incapable of stopping from replacing their dark money magic fiat buck system.
They Are Running Out of Money. That much is apparent. Just how could BlackRock in the blink of an eye become bankrupt? Or block chain crypto be dissapeared by the hundreds of billions, by yet again, a young, White, man who mysteeriously had this responsibility for ungodly sums of other peoples wealth, and along with an equally young and unwordly experienced in life youg lady. How? Why? Why? Because its all fake and gay and clown world orchestrated BS. Nothing is real, its a stage managed show scripted to produce desired artificial results desirable to these Rothchilian lunatics. Everything, everything we are told to believe is a lie. Look at things in that light, suddenly it is clear, what is basically happening, what “they” are doing to us, and how they are afraid of what we could do to them for what they are doing to all of us good folks. They always tell us what they do. Like thst is some kind of rule or something. Just have to oick up on it when they tell us, mostly by projection, but sometimes it so obvious it hides in plain sight. And that it is also messaging to everyone in the system they control, like broadcast messages, similar to like the Brits did during WWII, over the radio waves to the resistance in Europe. You must now the key references to know its a message for you. It seems they do this a lot, and after all they own the mainstream, and have control over a lot platforms in the alt-media these days, using these influence agents, and another thing I think, the pattern in detail is surely hard to discount, some if these false flags, and influence agents such as Tucker are pressure relief valves. No doubt the vast surveillance in us, 24-7 surveillance coverage, is constantly on guard for any sign the 100 Million armed to the effing teeth Americans show signs of an uprising against the Rothchilians, seems we are a threat existential and that you can take to the bank.
Look at as everything is a lie that they tell us to believe it all is just so patently obvious. They really think they are special. And we are chattel, slaves to be farmed, like they farm children for adrenal chrome, but we get farmed for our intrinsic wealth, we are, or it appears as recent finacial monetary system wise, we did but no longer, their slaves, not now, something foundationally has been changed. One thing though, me thinks they are going to begin getting very nasty and hateful with us, gonna take out their fears on us somehow, which signs have begun.
Its said desperate criminals do desperate things. And all these people involved in hoodwinking us and mind jobbing this country, stealing everything from us not nailed down, when the money runs out as it looks like is going on, what will these traitors and criminals going to do then? Theres a lot of them, thick as thieves, their minuons numerous, they have lived real large on our dime now, like kings and potentates princes and lords, mandarins really. They are not accustomed to living with less, they ain’t learned to exist in the edge of things, barely paycheck to paycheck, having to choose between gas to get to your job and just not enough to pay for the other critical essentials, getting further behind all the time, whike every buck possible is squeezed out our creation of wealth. These operatirs and actors running all this MK ultra and micking bird BS on us, now with the death vaxx, they are criminals in every way every sense, seriously, what happens when their sugar daddy no longer is filling the trough of other peoples money they all belly up to share?
Try to kill us all or something? I mean thats what they been doing all along. Look how many oeople been killed, they murdered for some false narrative. How many chikdren have they out thru their human trafficking system? How many murdered are they responosible for because the wars and regime change and color revokutions they created?These are not not nice people, they are homicidal psychopaths and sychohants. Again one things plain as day they fear us because we are a people armed and numerous. The inherent threat we pise is no joke, we are a bunch of losers and brainwashed dupes, coach potatoes to zonked out to get off our butts. We basically are what you can call the honorable resistance, by default, all of us Americans who just only want to be left alone. And these ruthless elites they fail to really understand just how mean good folks get when their codes are violated. I mean, its onvious as all getout the asshokes are going to start some kind of civil war amongst us, i mean what else are hundreds of thousands of soldier age alien invaders being brought across tge bordee for. And thats another thing if tgere is any doubt about it, all cross border events, all, must have the signature of either POTUS or Sec State. Benghazi anyone? Niether the pantsuit or the won would sign for going into Libya to save thise guys at the consulate house. Left tgem with their arses swinging in the breeze, they did not sign on ourepise, ultimate oassive agressive murder of US citizenry. Operation Fast & Furious, yeah, all that cross-border activity with Jake Sullivan running the show for she who they thought could never loose and The Won, they signed off on the ATF and FBI doing cross border stuff. Only way it worked. How many did they murder? couple hndred thousand in Libya, tens of thousands all told in Mexico and the US. That just regular bussiness.
What BS are these assholes going to pull on us when shit gets down to brass tacks her in the homeland, once the rest of planet earth has rejected them and their BS? Gonna get real nasty to us is what. Gonna pull the plug, because if they cant have everything nobody will have anything, America is their private piggybank, they will do whatever it takes to hold onto it. A Hundred Million of us armed to the effin’ teeth stand directly in their way. And we got lots of friends famiky and tribe too. Largest potential very light infantry combat army/grass roots open source insurgency in history. The only real honest to God one. Decendents of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in history. Think some cheese fell off my cracker?
Hope we make it. All of us good folks. All together as one, indivisible, under God, with liberty, justice, love for our fellow man, for all of us.
By The Grace if God we dare not go into that evil which is the enemy of our Sovereign being. Besides, the First Law, is self preservation, and Our Rifles, which to the Lord we leave our cause.
So mote it be.
Amen.
FWIW, it may or may not be true, but IMHO it’s not so hard to believe the warmongering WSJ, owned by the Murdoch family, would permit one of its employees, i.e, Evan Gershkovich, to spy on behalf of US and Ukraine interests (or would provide cover for a spy by employing him). Here’s a link to an article reporting that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch have had recent discussions with Zelenskyy. Note that Semafor is founded by Ben Smith, former reporter for the NYT, Politico and Buzzfeed – infamous publisher of the Steele dossier:
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/30/2023/the-murdochs-ukraine-connection
Mercouris today referred to John Helmer’s report from yesterday at: https://johnhelmer.net/breaking-news-from-the-donbass-front-the-teixeira-case-and-then-from-canada-what-happens-to-the-ottawa-regime-when-the-kiev-regime-is-defeated/#more-87911 that Texeira’s guns were only replicas.
I don’t believe that Hershkovich is naive,. nor do I believe that he was, unbeknownst to himself, used to collect info for CIA., NSA,. etc.
At the most, unbeknownst to the CIA he might have also collected data for Israel.
I believe that he, as well as his bosses, were arrogant enough to think the Russians are stupid and, unless you have “Spy” emblazoned on your coat they can’t catch you
Some things for sure; there are ‘over zealous’ prosecutors everywhere, twenty year olds can be both incredibly naive and incredibly capable,intelligence agencies especially devious, and the media loves to ‘spin’ stories.
E.G. There seems to be some questions whether Teixeira’s bedroom guns are real. And the bazooka, is it his or his dad’s. (Now I am curious, is the latter with ammo covered under the 2nd Amendment?)
https://johnhelmer.net/breaking-news-from-the-donbass-front-the-teixeira-case-and-then-from-canada-what-happens-to-the-ottawa-regime-when-the-kiev-regime-is-defeated/
Once I saw bazooka mentioned, I had to click on the link. It seems to me that the Helmer guy pulled it out of his ass, because I can’t find it in the original document (that he linked and quoted). Quotes are supposed to be just copy-paste, and not copy-paste-add-stuff.
Explosive munitions are highly regulated. In all of Youtube cannon firing videos they use inert projectiles.
“This further reinforces my belief that this was a controlled leak and that Teixeira, who apparently did post this classified material to the chat group, became a convenient scapegoat.”
The official narrative on Ukraine was in the process of collapse so maybe the leaks were a way of saying: “see, we knew all along that things weren’t going well. If some dramatic development was to suddenly occur in the course of the war we would not at all be surprised.”
If it was a controlled leak then the documents themselves could have been prepared for that purpose, marked as classified and accidentally left in a place where Teixeira would find them.
“detailed and troubling discussions about violence and murder” on the social media platform Discord…
Pathetic is an understatement. I’m an old gamer myself, it’s interactive and keeps my mind working. Discord is a place to get together and share things about the games your group is playing. Most games are PVP, (player vs player) and talk of violence and killing is a part of the FREAKING game. Could he have been plotting something? With youngsters that play in a fantasy world? Yeah, of course. But it still makes me laugh and shake my head.
H Larry,
Is the site “losing” posts? I ask because my comment posted early this morning has not shown up…
Thanks
Spanky
There can be several hours delay. Comments are moderated.
Posts with links in them take longer to appear than the regular ones. I guess they are all manually approved, to prevent abuse.
The photo of the ‘guns’ Jack Teixeria has all had red tips on their muzzles. Maybe he had more ‘guns’?
The war in Ukraine and the sanctions attached to same have turned the United States into the BRICS alliance’s greatest recruiter. I’m sure Larry could speak more incisively on this issue than I have:
https://bruceohara.substack.com/p/brics-plus
This young Man is just a unwitting patsy for the CIA, set up & discarded like a used prophylactic sheath, that’s the US War Machine & Intelligence Agencies for you? But the canny Ruskies will let this Guy go, eventually, when it’s in their Business to do so? I suggest a Prisoner swap, Julian Assange, a real Journalist in exchange for this gullible, amateur Journalist? Sounds like a good deal!
Prigozhin this, Prigozhin that. There is a photograph of him right there in Bakhmut next to the iconic tank right after it was liberated. He’s got a short rifle slung around his neck. Worth a thousand words.