I have received a couple of requests on travel tips regarding Russia. So here goes. I was invited and had a letter of invitation. So that made getting the visa a breeze, though a little pricey ($451). If you’re going as a tourist I recommend you go through a travel agency. They can smooth out all of the hassles.
Getting to Russia is a challenger. There are no longer direct flights from the US or Europe (not sure about South America). You have two basic options from the U.S. — Turkish Air via Istanbul or Qatar Air via Doha. Long flights. From Turkey you have a four hour flight to Moscow. Doha is five hours. You’ll rack up frequent flyer miles if that is your thing.
Istanbul Airport is simply astonishing. Never seen anything like. It is filled with every conceivable Duty Free and Fast Food Restaurant you can imagine. Not a bad place to be stuck.
The key thing to remember when or if you visit Russia is that Western credit cards no longer work. You have to carry cash or buy rubles in advance. I’m not sure what the travel agencies do too handle the money issue.
Moscow is a terrific city — like NYC only cleaner and safer. With 13 million people it is a stunner. Because I was involved in conferences in December and now I did not have much opportunity to eat anything other than hotel food. However, I did go to the Tchaikovsky Cafe, which is one block off of Tsverskaya Street. They had great food. Best beef stroganoff I’ve ever eaten. They also have a great selection of beer and wine. While Moscow is like NYC in terms of the big city, cosmopolitan feel, it is not NYC expensive nor do you get the NYC attitude. People are friendly and quite helpful.
When you fly back to the U.S., you will be subjected to secondary screening at the boarding gate. It is a bullshit security procedure that is designed to make you believe that tough security measures are in place but it is really just a cosmetic show. One guy patted down my jacket and did not take time to examine what he was feeling.
Here is the YouTube of the opening session of the Russophile Conference. I speak at the 1 hour 47 minute mark.
Appreciate this information. Always wanted to go to Russia but with this fundamental geopol shift taking place presently I just can’t fathom when I’ll be able to go. Isn’t that degrading! We’re always looking forward to progress in life and now, for us in the west, where are we to look for?
These assholes in Washington put me and my wife in a bind. My wife needs to go back take care of some financial matters and check on her apartment in Ulyanovsk , I’d love to make one more trip , but being older now and in poor health … the trip was challenging enough , before the sanctions. It’s a very expensive trip now and with the dirty ( desperate ) politics going on , could we be assured of her safe return ? It’s a risk .
As long as she is an AMCIT it should not be a problem.
Don’t worry, eventually the Swampite tantrum will pass and they will be distracted by another target population. So in the meantime do your homework
and read up on this vast and beautiful nation, it’s geography, history, ethnicities, and culture, and you can plan a vacation to one region or several.
The “Swampite tantrum”, as you had described it, is way off the mark. These people are, as you americans call them – “dual citizens” and the viseral hatred of Russia for them is absorbed with mothers milk. They hate Russia with every fiber in their bodies and because they control pretty much everything in your US of A, they make sure that their megaphone is fully switched on, i.e. your mass media, which is owned by them. All of it. Hence the non-stop narrative that Russia is this ghastly ENEMY(!) that needs to be destroyed and weak minded in the West had gone along with that message. Not knowing exactly why, but that is how propaganda works. Repeat your message non stop and eventually the masses will believe. When one controls everything that the masses hear it is easily done. Ignorance also plays a very big part. That is how attitudes form.
It is a mental sickness that has plagued those “dual citizens” for a very long time. Since they were expelled from Russia back in 15th Century for making life a living hell for their Russian neighbors. This is their revenge..
I would say that nothing has changed with them – just ask the Palestinians!
By”Swampite tantrum” I do not in any way diminish the habitual vicious killing sprees that our vermin leaders inflict upon foreigners.
Russia has been a Swampite target ever since the Civil War when Tsar Alexander sent his Black Sea fleet to guard our East coast, docked in New York, and the Vladivostok fleet to the West. docked in San Francisco.. Thus the Tsar blocked European predators from capitalizing on American social upheaval. This can still be found in newspaper archives. And it was at the request of President Lincoln through his Ambassador Gustavo Fox. Do we spot a little pattern here? So the visceral hatred of Russia is nothing new, and it is rooted in extreme avarice which is in the Swamp tap water. Things got worse when Tsar Nicholas’s oil facilities in Baku produced more oil in one day than all Rockefeller’s facilities the same day. Pattern? And there was much more hatred and theft plotted against Russia, it is described in Antony Sutton’s book, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution. I bet you thought it was all those Ruskies rising up all by themselves. Even the Russo-Japanese War was planned and provoked by Swampites. The current swam of Russia hating Swampites are the spawn of that era. And the worst part is that even if their dreams/our nightmares came true and they took Russia whole, they are so incalculably stupid that they could only mismanage and loot for a limited time before mass revolt set in and more disposable American servicemen would be sent in to guard the money laundry. Swampites are like chimps at a military control station, jumping on the countertops, pounding on the buttons, swinging on the levers, and screeching for someone to clean up the mess. And after that cage fest they get to control domestic and foreign policy and tell us what to do.
Russia is well on its way to prosperity and a lot of that is self sufficiency from the sanctions imposed by the aforementioned incalculably stupid Swampites. Russia and others will do well to seek the wisdom of their own time tested cultures and traditions, forged over millennia of hardship, natural and socio-political challenges, and most critical of all, protecting the basic family unit which is the cornerstone of every society regardless of what ignorant, venal, covetous (there’s that word again) Swampites have to blabber on the subject. None of their mod blabbering is worth heeding except for their bad intentions.
Just go .. as Larry says, it’s not that hard. Believe me, you will be as astonished, awed and rewarded as Larry was… beautiful, squeaky clean city and the locals don’t hate foreigners.. even Americans re welcome.
“We’re always looking forward to progress…”
Which time and again is one step forward and three steps back.
This excellent flashback on our Vietnam debacle reminds us that we never learn. When corrupt Ukraine falls, prepare for the same blame-game we had after the fall of Saigon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvMqbBIo5co&t=748s
Here’s a link to FM Lavrov’s remarks at the opening ceremony. He also reads a greeting from President Putin to the attendees. It’s good stuff:
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1935217/
For those like me, too old to travel a lot, it’s a good idea to immerse yourself in Russian literature, even if in translation as it is with me. It helps wash off all the dirt of insane Russophobia now besmirching life in the West.
I know enough Russian to get by , but when needed Microsoft and Google translate aps really come in handy .
If using a laptop, I recommend itranslate extension on google chrome browser. It is not available for smartphones or for Microsoft Edge.
Or use the Yandex browser, which internally is based on Chrome and works very well. Built in translation features.
Microsoft Edge automatically translates Russian websites into English and it’s fast. That’s all I use it for. Firefox needs an extension.
Nicely put, Jack. My son enjoys Russian literature. I don’t read much in the way of novels these days, but he and I are going to read Dostoevsky’s Demons. I suspect it may be relevant to what we’re seeing today.
“The Shot” by Alexander Pushkin.
Try to get Russian folk tales especially ones which have baba yaga as the main theme both in Russian and English.
I’d love to fish for Zander in Russia.
I’d settle for eating caviar
A bunch of company contacts brought LITRES of homemade caviar over from Mom (the Ob river I think), did blinis and produced lots of vodka. They were nostalgic. Glasses really did fly into the fire!
“homemade caviar “????
Somehow packed for travel, not tinned. No idea how such fishy stuff keeps?
Dry ice.
That does not make it “home made.”
OT – you mentioned organ traffic recently – here is the link
https://www.theinteldrop.org/?s=organs
The medical rogues involved in this depravity should be named. They are the lynchpins, not the Pentagon fat cats , deep state psychotics, nor political racketeers.
bonbon doesn’t give names, just the “gnomes” label these days.
My reply to Con Coughlin article for the Gatestone Institute:
There Can Be No Ceasefire in Gaza with Hamas in Power
A ceasefire have been explored in recent weeks by the Biden administration, including the recent attempt by Arab nations to pass a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire, which was vetoed by Washington.
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recent diplomacy mission to the Middle East has suggested a bargain, whereby diplomatic rapprochement between Israel and Saudi Arabia would be implemented, in return for Saudi Arabia obtaining a new defense pact with Washington, as well as receiving US assistance in developing nuclear energy.
Biden’s proposals have won backing, among Western leaders supporting a ceasefire, while the Israeli Genocide in Gaza have resulted in anti-Israel demonstrations taking place in most European capitals.
Despite the Israeli bombardments of civilians in Gaza and Rafah, Hamas shows no sign of fatigue.
Hamas holds 136 Israeli hostages of whom at least 32 have been killed by Israeli bombardments.
Israel have release 1,500 Palestinians, but still holds 1.5 Million Palestinian refugees hostage in Rafah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is totally opposed to a ceasefire. Instead The Israeli PM is launching a military offensive against the Palestinian refugee camp in Rafah.
The IDF has already presented plans to displace all the Palestinian refugees of Gaza into Egypt.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/dozens-killed-injured-by-israeli-fire-in-gaza-while-collecting-food-aid
Maybe it’s time for the world to end the terror state of Israel.
In the spirit of Madeleine Albright: It will be worth it.
Bears repeating: “Maybe it’s time for the world to end the terror state of Israel. In the spirit of Madeleine Albright: It will be worth it.”
What the UN created, it can take away. Rescind Resolution 181. Create a New Palestine, a secular, politically and militarily neutral state.
Stop letting the Rothschild Zionists play “divide the baby” with the illusory “two state” scam.
Not much can be done when the Israelis keep insisting that they are only targeting Hamas and avoiding civilians.
At this point they really need to stop insulting the intelligence of anyone with a cellphone, and just be content with all the ripped off taxes and immunity from any kind of criminal prosecution.
They are literally getting away with murder in broad daylight and telling us ghastly lies while the truth is glaring at all of us.
Kauakhstan
<i>Istanbul Airport is simply astonishing.</i>
I only went through there once back in the late 1980’s. For the time, it was pretty good, absolutely immaculate, and a bit of a contrast to the Egyptian Domestic pavilion I’d flown out of in Cairo but IIRC a bit gloomy. Not that any airport as all that great.
The customs people and the tourist police whom I consulted about getting into town could not have been more pleasant and helpful. I don’t know about now but if it is anything like it was then, you’d enjoy a few days lay-over.
Good food!
Completely different airport. The new airport is absolutely massive.
The Bulgari ad in the airport reminds me of Trump’s run-in with the law decades ago when he had an empty jewelry box shipped out of state from a Bulgari store in an effort to dodge sales tax.
That must have been worth 50 million fine as it was shipped on a wednesday!
Way back in 1988, I was “Wined & Dined” (a 75cl. bottle of beer & basic hearty fare) at the, then, USSR’s Moscow Airport during an Aeroflot layover between London and Bangkok.
Getting off the plane in Moscow a stout middle-aged woman handed me a meal ticket. Though I was surprised they were feeding us at all, I jokingly asked if they were serving “Steak & Lobster.” She laughed, and said “Ya, ya, Steak & Lobster AND Champagne!”
After eating I met two Soviet fishermen who were catching a flight to Buenos Aires to meet up with their trawler. Me being ruble-less, they bought the large bottled beers while we drank and BS’d before going our separate ways.
It was an extremely small taste of the USSR, but it was better than nothing.
Done that stopover many times too. London Bangkok with Aeroflot was the cheap and cheerful way to go to the east in the 80s. I remember the lung busting cigarettes with the cardboard filters.
Between Moscow and Bangkok, did your flight make a surprise not-on-the-itinerary pit stop in India? Ours did.
We disembarked for a few hours in, I think, New Deli. When I used the airport’s bathroom there were four or five smiling Indians, waiting inside, who all wanted tips for doing what I always did on my own (No, not shaking it more than twice): one guy turned on/off the water tap, another guy handed me a cloth to dry my hands, another took the cloth after drying my hands, another opened the door, etc.
They provided a “service” I didn’t want nor need, nevertheless, I pulled some left-over English coins from my pocket to tip. Their eyes sure lit-up and their smiles broadened when they saw the one-pound coin in my handful of small change, They didn’t get it. I handed one of the Indians a 10-pence coin and said, “Divide it up” and walked out.
By the way, Thailand, in 1988 was FANTASTIC! But you already knew that.
“I handed one of the Indians a 10-pence coin and said, “Divide it up” and walked out.”
“The four or five” Indians to whom you were so kind had no trouble guessing your ethnicity.
I didn’t ask for their help; it was phony “work” in providing services I didn’t want or need. So screw ’em.
Would you accept – and tip – a WC weenie shaker? I wouldn’t.
But if they were not looking you would have scooped some of the coins from their tin, wouldn’t you? Just to teach them a lesson, you know? I bet they were fat too, like the Gazans. Not in need of a meal.
A miser too, to round off your portrait.
Беламорканал cigarettes. Still Russian flights to Bangkok and Phuket. That’s another way to fly to Russia currently.
I have never been to Moscow or St Petersburg. I was planning to go but then this whole situation started. I even started to learn more Russian to travel there.
Strange, how this world changes and makes everything more complicated.
You can still get to St Pete via FinnAir or SAS to Helsinki and from there by train to St. Pete. That’s about 2 hrs less flight time from NY than Istanbul. The train takes 3.5 hrs.
https://www.russiantrains.com/en/train/allegro-high-speed-train
If you go the Istanbul route you can also take a ferry from Trabzon to Sochi, and from there rent a car and explore the Black Sea region before taking an overnight train to Moscow. If you’re going through Turkey, might as well stopover and see the place. Amazing country.
We had a trip planned for 2020 but the “pandemic” put an end to that idea. The route we chose was Icelandic Air with a 4 day stopover in Iceland, and from there to St. Pete. No longer possible. With everything that’s happened since, our next trip to Russia will be one-way.
You can also get to Russia via Tehran, but that’s a lot of time in the air. Worth it if you include some time in Iran though, which is an amazing country full of friendly people, even towards Americans.
Border between Finland and Russia is closed. There are no trains, busses or anything else going between these contries. You can take a fary to Tallin and bus to StPt though
Rats! I was looking forward to the train ride. Well, I guess Turkey gets our business then. Dumbass Finns.
my brother, sister and l took a russian flagged ship from Moscow to St Pete a few years ago, the people we met throughout were a joy but everything from the thin cushioning on
seats to hearty food sure indicated a pretty hearty people. The monuments in Moscow to their military were noteworthy.
Used to fly Seattle to Moscow , Aeroflot, direct flight , ten hours , around $800, round trip .Delta airlines wasn’t digging it , so they got Aeroflot got kicked out of Sea-tac.
E pur economy si muove
The western financial system is no longer needed in the East/South.
The greatest shock will come the cards no longer work in the West as well.
Great speech, Larry: concise• but packed with all the important points relevant to multi-polarity.
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*Pity you can’t take the Algerian guy aside guy aside to tell him:
Less is more!
The women, full of emotional intelligence. The Serbian actress was great reciting the slav brotherhood poem but the moon-faced Indian woman was hard to take. The Princess probably went over better with the Russians by sticking to Daria although the “martyr” bit was overfly long.
Feliz estancia en Moscú y ¡buen trabajo!
Has anyone else read anything about this?
US Killing ‘Large Numbers of Palestinians’ in Gaza – What Did Aaron Bushnell Know?
“He told me on Saturday that we have troops in those tunnels, that it’s US soldiers participating in the killings,’’ Bushnell’s unnamed friend told the Post.
The young US soldier who set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC on February 25 had direct knowledge of US fighters engaged in active combat in Gaza, the New York Post reported, citing a friend of Aaron Bushnell.
Bushnell, the US airman who served in the Air Force’s 70th Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing, was driven to the act as a desperate attempt to bring attention to the Israeli genocide in the Strip, according to his own last words.
His last words were:
“I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest but, compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal”.
The Post, however, suggests that there is more to the story.
“He told me on Saturday that we have troops in those tunnels, that it’s US soldiers participating in the killings,’’ Bushnell’s unnamed friend told the Post, which indicated that it has verified the connection between the two.
These are excerpts from Bushnell’s friend’s statement to the Post:
US Military in Gaza
Though the Biden Administration insisted that no US troops would be directly involved in the war on Gaza, media reports suggested that the US has some kind of direct military involvement in the Israeli war, which has led to the killing and wounding of over 100,000 civilians.
The Post cited an earlier New York Times report saying that US special operations forces have been deployed in Israel since Hamas’ October 7 to “identify hostages, including American hostages.”
“Special forces have also been on hand to assist with strategy for Israeli troops in Gaza, who are flushing out Hamas members from the network of tunnels under the territory,” according to the Post, which added that the NYT report had noted that US troops are “not assigned any combatant roles.”
It is plausible. Remember seeing reports that US military ‘advisors and observers’ were accompanying IDF in initial invasion of Gaza and took casualties along with IDF. Then nothing.
Some links:
US special forces said deployed to help Israel track down hostages held in Gaza
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-special-forces-said-deployed-to-help-israel-track-down-hostages-held-in-gaza/
US military advisers invoke lessons of Iraq in urging Israelis to avoid all-out ground assault in Gaza
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/24/politics/us-military-advisers-iraq-israel-ground-assault-gaza/index.html
Pentagon rushes defenses and advisers to Middle East as Israel’s ground assault in Gaza looms
https://apnews.com/article/israel-military-iran-navy-gaza-1a906598be5baccc614897768b1824a8
Pentagon rushes advisers to Middle East as Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza looms
https://apnews.com/article/israel-military-iran-navy-gaza-1a906598be5baccc614897768b1824a8
The above are regime agitprop sources.
This is from The Intercept, founded by Glen Greenwald:
U.S. QUIETLY EXPANDS SECRET MILITARY BASE IN ISRAEL
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/27/secret-military-base-israel-gaza-site-512/
Then coverage disappeared. I’m sure that was because the US troops were withdrawn…
Greenwald had to leave Intertcept – he has detailed explanation at substack.
The Intercept was funded by deepstae sources when it was set up, including ‘Sam Bankrupt’-Fried, so not surprised. The 2023 link is still good.
“Then coverage disappeared. I’m sure that was because the US troops were withdrawn…”
Riiiight….
You don’t beeee-leeev? (laughing)
It is plausible. Remember seeing reports that US military ‘advisors and observers’ were accompanying IDF in initial invasion of Gaza and took casulties along with IDF. Then nothing.
Just posted some links with info about US troops in Israel from late October, early November 2023, Should have used the (dot) format with links because the auto-censor flagged it and it is ‘awaiting approval.’
If it doesn’t turn up, will repost with links edited.
It is plausible. Remember seeing reports that US military ‘advisors and observers’ were accompanying IDF in initial invasion of Gaza and took casualties along with IDF. Then nothing.
Some links:
US special forces said deployed to help Israel track down hostages held in Gaza
timesofisrael(dot)com/us-special-forces-said-deployed-to-help-israel-track-down-hostages-held-in-gaza/
US military advisers invoke lessons of Iraqin urging Israelis to avoid all-out ground assault in Gaza
edition.cnn(dot)com/2023/10/24/politics/us-military-advisers-iraq-israel-ground-assault-gaza/index.html
Pentagon rushes defenses and advisers to Middle East as Israel’s ground assault in Gaza looms
apnews(dot)com/article/israel-military-iran-navy-gaza-1a906598be5baccc614897768b1824a8
Pentagon rushes advisers to Middle East as Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza looms
https://apnews.com/article/israel-military-iran-navy-gaza-1a906598be5baccc614897768b1824a8
The above are regime agitprop sources.
This is from The Intercept, founded by Glen
Greenwald:
U.S. QUIETLY EXPANDS SECRET MILITARY BASE IN
ISRAEL
theintercept(dot)com/2023/10/27/secret-military-base-israel-gaza-site-512/
Then coverage disappeared. I’m sure that was
because the US troops were withdrawn…
Why is U.K. flying drones over Gaza unless in support of U.K. troops ?
Why are US troops in Akrotiri ?
https://www.declassifieduk.org/author/matt-kennard/
Various articles on Britain’s direct involvement in a Cyprus Air-Lift to Israel and activity in Lebanon right now.
Exclusive: Israeli military planes have landed at four locations in Britain since 7 October
Yup, they’re all in it up to their dirty Rothschild-puppet necks.
But at least Jacob Rothschild had the courtesy to croak last week. So considerate of him. A bit late admittedly but better late than still festering among the rest of us.
It would be interesting to know if the additional Gaza janissaires were really active duty disposable Americans servicemen, mentally deformed mercenaries with bloodlust issues, violent criminals who are given a chance to get out of jail free if they participate in the killing spree without question, or illegal migrants who are willing to kill in exchange for citizenship and permanent welfare checks.
If true that US troops are partaking in the glory of genocide then that is certainly something the public should know…and of course something they will cover up.
Having read how SAS and US Special Forces trained Pol-Pot‘s forces to fight the Vietnamese who freed Cambodia from Khmer Rouge I can believe any evil from these people
Yep and Pol Pot and his merry band of serial killers were set up by none other than our very own DC serial killer Bzrezrzinski. He was a real guttersnipe.
Too bad Bushnell didn’t just pull a Snowden and go to Russia to ask for asylum. Once the asylum was granted release all the information known (without endangering assets etc.) via a “Dead Man’s Switch”.
Maybe he did a “Wikileaks”, too early to say.
Yes that was a pity, he could have exposed the rot, lived better elsewhere, and maybe stopped the carnage. Too bad he was driven to this extent by such official degenerates.
Bushnell faced an official summons order :
https://twitter.com/thebarrackslive/status/1762243762372141367?s=20
Bushnell knew he and other airmen were going to be deployed to occupied Palestine.
I’ve read: “There’s no evidence that Aaron Bushnell was suffering from mental illness.”
My reply: “There’s one solid piece of evidence.”
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An X comment:
“Allow me to finish with a slightly more serious item.
Remember that no matter how far you go to please our postmodern left — up to and including setting yourself on fire for one of their causes — it is never enough.”
I had plumb forgot you are a playing a “conservative,” Genocide Lover.
Of course anything even remotely throwing shade on the genocidal goons must be .. “post-modernist left”
Note to self: Don’t torch myself for the Palestinians.
You need to improve your reading comprehension.
The “post-modernist left” are the clowns complaining that a X commenter used the phrase “Rest in Power” for Aaron Bushnell.
Apparently, it’s only Negros who have died by cop or so-called “hate crime” who are worthy of that phrase being used upon their cold corpses.
White boy Aaron Bushnell torching himself for the Palestinians just doesn’t cut it. It ain’t, for example, in the same league as the fentanyl OD-death of the ex-con, deadbeat dad and drug addict George Floyd.
Of all the sobriquets that would first spring to the mind of any normal person thinking of Aaron Bushnell, “White boy” would NOT be one. Especially not from one who expresses hatred and contempt for blacks as well as Muslims, trying to hide those under topic covers he thinks will appeal to “conservatives” (e.g., BLM, illegal immigration). Tsk, tsk, tsk, just can’t get the Goy script right…
Here’s where Genocide Lover falls flat on his face one more time in his impersonation letting the tzit-tzit of his anti-White/anti-Black/anti-Muslim/anti-….Amalek” slip out from under his “All American White conservative” cloak.
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.”
-Gutle Schnaper, wife of Amschel Rothschild.
Mom should get the squabbling kids to do more sports, like Rugby.
What no “gnomes all the way down”?
Gutle’s is admittedly an “apocryphal” quote, just like “I care not who sits on the throne, as long as I control the money supply.” by Nathaniel Rothschild, of Napoleonic War loans manipulated to seize control of the Bank of England fame.
“In cunning and trickery you shall wage war” Turns out it’s NOT the “official” Mossad slogan, but straight from the Bible/Torah.
https://gevron.livejournal.com/24864.html
Unfortunately there seems to be no Dead Sea Scroll fragments of Proverbs, so we are left with the usual dog’s breakfast of copied/edited/destroyed cycle of resulting various extant scripts and (mis)translations. “Inviolate word of God”… as if.
No, Mom should have denied “conjugal rights” to Amschel
They were both guttersnipes, no wonder they spawned trash.
Air Serbia flies an A330 from JFK to Belgrade. After that it flies on a separate Air Serbia flight to Moscow that takes three hours.
Also, I believe Tucker Carlson recently returned home via Belgrade…
I didn’t mention that route because it is very expensive and not too many direct flights from the US. But you’re correct.
Turkish Airlines had, at least four years ago, the best record on not losing any luggage in the world. Something you may want to consider when travelling far abroad and for more than a week…
You really do not want to waste your holidays time buying all necessary for travelling once you realize you have nothing, at least for a week, until you come back to the capital, if that even happens…especially worrying in remote places when you can not even find shops, Western standard…or you travel to the mountains…
You may need to dress a la local style for a week or more….which you may find funny.. if your are young enough…
Turkish is good airliner, with a very good price-quality relation.
Excellent and numeorus connections.
Excellent meals aboard and warm, friendly and servicable staff.
Still conserved that solera of the old flag airliners, most of which got the kill during “the pandemic” amongst the general plunder started then by US hedge funds and corporations in Europe….
They just killed affordable and comfortable travelling for the masses, not for them, psychos…
As an international viewer , i do remember a time in the late seventies when you got what was news . I believe that it was the T.N.N. , before it got bought over . And may i add , well spoken sir .
From the West Coast, you can enter via Asia. I’d like 3 weeks in both China and Russia, which IMO would be barely adequate.
Better to spend two weeks in each place.
I do not move from my closer entourage if it is not for at least a couple of weeks, if it is to catch a bit of the taste of the country, which, have into account, you probably will never return, especially when far enough….like China, or at war with the West, like Russia…Spend as much time as you can afford.
The most expensive are currently the flights, with the “carbon taxes” and all the rest of taxes, extending your stay sometimes does not mean much more money and it is well worth, especially if you travel with your wife in a double room.
I spent a week in both, Moscow and St. Petersburg, well, each city is well worth a week at least…
I could not even visit Lenin….still, I had time to stroll a bit an have an excellent cup of coffee in a pedestrian street parallel to Tsverskaya, mentioned by the “gorillas” over there…
Great speech, Larry. Simple words and simple truths added up to a powerful speech.
All real Americans should be grateful to have you as our ambassador to the magnificent Russian people.
God tells me to turn off the internet and stop caring because people don’t. He has been saying it for some time now. But I do. So he told me to read Jeremiah 7 yesterday, and that happens right often when I have really reached the end of my understanding. And it is possible to have the computer read out loud and it continued to Jeremiah 8. And I don’t know where else it is in the book but I heard what I have head before. DON’T PRAY FOR THIS PEOPLE. Everybody asks for money. Pay me so I can tell you things, they say.
You said, Larry, we should take care of things at home. Ray McGovern says justice is taking care of the widow and the orphan. That is the Jewish truth. You pump up the Christian Russia as allowing any religion. In Russia. Give me money, you say.
Texas, a red state, sues not because of Fauci’s genocide, not because of most of the 1.7 trillion that made the streets unsafe for widows and orphans, but because they did not want to make the work place tolerable for pregnant women. And you go to Russia again.
What a way to make a liar out of you. I will stop caring. I am sick. And I am sick of this nation’s false religion. I have God. I will listen. Maybe there’s a home. At least I won’t go out hearing bullshit.
the mess in your home country is one issues
the fact that instead of focusing on fixing these all the money goes againt “fighting” made-up and self-created enemies is another issue
the fact that we live in genocidal countries and support genocide with our taxes is yet another
you can’t fix fix issue 1 if you don’t deal with issue 2 and 3
without people like Larry that is unlikely to happen
perhaps instead of reading heavily redacted jewish fables of long, long ago and trying to pick details that don’t line up the way they could or the way you like …
… if you really care about issue #1 focus on that and be grateful that people like Larry deal with 2 and 3
I’ve only gone to a few foreign countries, and the last was a long time ago. I never paid anything like $450 for a visa. What’s the deal with that?
US Visa costs $235 from India. In terms of purchasing power parity it’s equivalent to $1000 .
A Russian visa for Indians is priced at ₹4850 ie $59.
I guess they price according purchasing power, the exchange rate and how much trouble they have to go to get the applicants.
A revolutionary tax on people coming from the Empire…I guess….
The US have not any agreement with Russia on those grounds, nor on any other, for that matter, right now, I fear….Thus, you must pay to enter the Russian world.
They obviously are not promoting US tourism there…
In any case, they are after rich and highly educated people, both for tourism and immigration, as they ask you to own at least 400.000 euro cash to stay living in the country.
Wondering how they think they can achieve young professionals going to live there, asking for such ammounts of money…in cash….
People owning 400.000 euro savings do not need to work in Russia…in any case, they will be rentist people there…
[…] Zdroj […]
A nation that preserves its long cultural history, children who still read books, a nation that honors its ancestors and keeps their memory in its heart, a nation in which the family still consists of grandparents, mother, father and children, that must be the realm of evil. (Sarcasm) … I am tired in Mordor.
“You have two basic options from the U.S. — Turkish Air via Istanbul or Qatar Air via Doha.”
There is a 3rd basic option with a stopover in Europe, the one that I’ve used: Emirates airline to Dubai. You can take a flight to Dubai in Emirates from any major airport in Europe. Then Dubai Moscow or Dubai St. Petersburg.
I was in Leningrad in 1976 while Brezhnev was in power. It was a bit dreary but beautiful. Went to to the Hermitage which was magnificent. Also to the Kirov ballet and saw “Adam and Eve.” Walked back to the Astoria hotel along the canals at night in the snow. Next day I walked across the frozen Neva on the ice. There was a swimming pool cut into the ice with several old men swimming and an attendant scooping the ice out of the pool. Great times. Wish I could go again but age has caught up with me.
Age may have caught up with you, but when you had the chance you traveled. Good on you.
Istanbul airport is just a major nexus to East Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
That way, you can find there not only all kind of restaurants and shops for you to eat and buy whatever you may need or have forgotten at home, but also beds cabins where to sleep a bit in the so long scales when you travel to Central Asia, for example.
I considered it, but ended passing the time strolling, which will asure a good ankles edema after a whole day travelling which can be very annoying when you have to start your visits just the next morning….
When scalling in Istanbul, be sure that you have time enough to board and pass passport control when you have short time between one flight and another ( which is the most commendable when you want to avoid wasting your first vacation day…). If you anytime sight a whole crowd of orthodox jews in your way to the passport control to catch your next flight, give it a little face, forget your manners, and start pushing all those people apart so that they get behind you holding your board card high stating your flight is about to leave, otherwise you will lost your flight connection, as they travel with a lot of articles of clothing one over the other, children and adults, in astounding numbers, and a lot of presents.
I watched a couple Arabs doing the same, and immediatelly felt that I should imitate them if I did not want to stay on the ground….
May be your travel agency will offer you a night in an Istanbul hotel if your connection requires more than three hours in the airport.
I dunno whether that is convenient, taking into account the time for going and back, check in, check out, and so on. I mean, how many hours you really are going to sleep?
If the goal is to sleep a bit and relax your body, especially your legs, the bed cabins, completely isolated from outside noise and with relaxing music available could be the best option, of course you do not have a shower there, but, if I do not recall badly, you may have a little sink there to make some toilette.
Going into Istanbul city, for example, to have a hamman session, which could be highly commendable when travelling and having back pain, unless you have organized all the transfers with time enough, may be way too risky, in case you find a traffick jam while returning…unless you have beforehand the number of one of those freelance taxi drivers capable of anything and who know any trick and way to save time in the road….
When in Moscow, you can eat cheap if you go to the GUM store, where you can find average meals at several prices, even self-service style.
Also, in the surroundings of Red Square and perpendicular streets to Tsverskaya, and laterals, you can find affordable restaurants and cafes with more then acceptable cuisine and servicable attention.
Tsverskaya is, by far, the most expensive street in Moscow to go having lunch and dinner, at least for a working class European, ( not for a US citizen, of course, who earn the double while we must pay their war in Ukraine so that they can keep their PPP…), you know that when you see those luxury cars parked just in front of those “cafés” with rimbombant names of writers and musicians….
If you want to eat well, like at mom´s, and not spend a lot, go where the Russians go.
Anyway, the prices in both cities, for an European, can well afford you an extra and try one of those expensive places at least once…
It is a destination I would certainly enjoy. Sad that the distance is huge and demands a long stay to “repair the body”. As a descendant of eastern people I really like to go some day to see and speak with the Russians face to face.
A good attitude towards Europeans and Americans and hospitality is something innate among Russians, transmitted at the genetic level. Russians are often intolerant of their own fellow tribesmen, but do not make the same strict demands on foreigners.
However, every Russian with sufficiently extensive life experience will definitely remember a situation about which he will say: The world is not without good people (he will remember how some people pulled him out of trouble, into which others drove him).
Do not wait, after all you could end without your savings in a not so distant time.
Better spending everything travelling, as in dying with boots on…
Moreover, once the digital panopticon closed, you may find it difficult to travel anywhere, even driving to the next city…
Go now, if you can, while you still have your economic independence and have some health.
You may fall to the next mandatory vaccine, if presure overwhelms you, and, after that, you could not find so desirable travelling in any way, if sick enough.
We lived in a world where you could leave travelling and other leisure activities for the time of retirement.
No more, we do not even know we will reach such age and in which economic situation we will be, in spite of working hard through decades and not wasting our money in useless things.
There is no security for anything anymore, neither of life expectance, nor of an asured comfortable economic situation, even if you have managed well your economy so far.
It is really impossible to make long term plans with those psychos in charge, thus, make your dreams a reality as soon as possible, do not procastinate….
For Le Maire and bon vivants alike robbing the fruit of your years of hard work, at least spend it in your own amusement.
Pepe Escobar is moderating the Forum :
https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1762320633990402480
Russia is a great nation, but above all, the Russian people are a great people.
There are now 3 hit lists : Ukraine’s Myrotvorets and CCD hit lists, along with the newer Molfar blacklist. People must check these – this is not holiday season!
And now this, not yet independently confirmed : Iceland Intel Drop :
Arrest in Tucker Carlson Assassination Try: Ukrainian Intelligence Hired Russian ‘Hitman’ to Murder Journalist
https://www.theinteldrop.org/2024/02/26/russian-man-recruited-by-ukraine-intelligence-arrested-over-terror-plot-to-kill-tucker-carlson/
and
https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1762525965824012468
Tucker Carlson did meet Ed. Snowden, vowed to keep it secret, to be spied on by US and leaked.
If I were Russian, I’d be pissed. Not only does Britain supply long range missiles to Ukraine, it is supplying the personnel to operate these systems. How is this not a direct act of war, especially when these missiles target Russia cities? I think Britain deserves a good solid punch in the nose.
https://www.rt.com/news/593358-german-scholz-criticized-uk-ukraine-presence/
There it is incredible for UK to charge Chancellor Scholz with leaking British troop involvement.
Still Scholz did not do that by accident. So far Taurus is blocked as German troops would be deployed. We have already a video of captured German troops, The Judge with Larry, Sep. 2023 discussed that. So, will Scholz cave in to Strak-Kleinmetal?
I have been around Europe, Paris, Rome, etc, but my favorite trip was to Russia in 2017. St Petersburg is a stunning city with its architecture and canals. I was there during white nights and it is definitely something different. Lost all track of time. Moscow was also a great time but only had 2 days there. If you have the means, you need to go. Our leaders will never seek peace with Russia, its up to us to do it. These visits truly change peoples minds and hearts on both sides.
The history of Russiaphobia…
https://www.unz.com/article/great-variance/
It’s hard for most people in North America and Europe to admit that Russia and China are more advanced and successful societies than “we” arrogant to racist Westerners.
“Why Russia is winning
As Russia moves forward, the West, especially the US and Canada fall further and further behind. It’s a simple difference in governmental paradigms: in Russia the government exists for the public good; in Canada and the US government exists the good of their billionaires.
This is not about capitalism or socialism – it’s about common sense.”
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/why-russia-is-winning?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=837411&post_id=142166334&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=25grc2&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
“Russia’s victory in Ukraine resonates in Central Asia”
https://www.indianpunchline.com/russias-victory-in-ukraine-resonates-in-central-asia/
“As Russia moves forward, the West, especially the US and Canada fall further and further behind.”
Tell me about it, good times have turned us into fat slobs. When we go down it’ll be while holding a super-sized Big Gulp.
5 points for the “us” shtick, Genocide Lover.
But nor all “fat slobs” are lazy. The sow at the State Dept still has amazing energy.
Did I touch a nerve Ari?
Still pushing the genocide/starvation schtick?
If Israel wanted all Gazans dead they could, without firing a single shot, truly starve them to death by cutting off all food supplies. The normal-sized kids would die pretty quickly but their lard-ass/pot-belly parents and grand parents would take months to burn-off all their blubber.
Here’s the Texas way to get rid of the welfare-lifer Palestinians:
Thanks to suicidal Hamas leadership (for their citizens, not the Hamas leadership living like kings in Doha) there’s plenty of death in Gaza. Why the fake claim of thousands of Gazans starving to death when real bombs have killed real thousands?
Also, making up crap is a ploy straight out of the Holocaust Industry’s playbook. Next you’ll be telling me that the Israelis are making soap and lampshade out of dead Palestinians.
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More Gazan women are unhealthy from overeating than from under eating. I’ve seen lots of fat Gazans, like the two women in the photo below, but not a single starving one:
Projecting again, Genocide Lover. Obviously I touched a nerve by insulting the Sinister Sow (SS) at the State Dept so you jump again, scalded, and rush to button up more tightly your costume in your impersonation of what you think is a White American conservative.
You figure it is the kind that says “A pox on both their houses! I don’t care about either side in the Gaza conflict, which is not a big deal anyway, I am against immigrants, I hate Muslims, “we” are Americans, I weep for the statue of G-ral Lee. Look, I have in-laws who cook bacalao, not gefilte fish. ”
I believe, and said so repeatedly, that you are many things that can be said about all your litter mates in the teratomatous nest of supremacists. But I never said you are stupid. At your scale you are a clever little guttersniper. When the disguise fails you pull the biggie: you playact being a “denier” of the Holo! Wow… So you say that the Palestinians lie about their suffering (which you call the “genocide/starvation shtick”) just as the jews lied about the lampshades and soap in their Holocaust industry playbook. (it’s safe because even Yad Vashem quietly withdrew those “soap” exhibits)
Why, if that does not work you don’t know what would. You know something? Nothing would. Here’s why:
A genocide-loving jewish supremacist could not pull off impersonating what he thinks is an all-American “conservative” goy because no matter how loudly you bark “A pox on both their houses” your specific tribal hatred bursts through:
(1) The Palestinians lie. But the Israeli goons who kill them like fish in a barrel and claim they killed each other in stampedes? No word.
(2) The Palestinians are welfare queens. But the entire nuclear rogue, apartheid theocracy subsidized by American taxpayers? No word from the Genocide Lover who plays an “American conservative” on the internet.
(3) The Palestinians have no place to go because they are despised, even their Arab brothers refuse to take them in, you claim.
Wouldn’t an “American conservative” like you remember that those who really hate the Palestinians have been kicked out of all European countries more than 100 times?
The difference between being clever and not being clever enough is one you’ll never make up. You can’t because you lack both self-awareness and the minimal capacity to understand “Amaleks” enough to impersonate them. So you threw in those lampshades to no effect, Genocide Lover.
Your comments are boring.
You rehash the same old, well-worn, gripes. Do yourself and your readers a favor, be more like DanFromCT, a commenter at The Unz Review.
Compare his interesting jewish-complaint comment to yours. His are enjoyable to read, plus they’re informative, while yours are almost painfully B O R I N G.
So how did you guess that I live to be “enjoyable to read” by genocide-loving reprehensible liars like you!
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/starvation-gaza-if-we-stay-another-week-we-will-die-en-masse
Starvation in Gaza: ‘If we stay like this for another week, we will die en masse’
A Palestinian from northern Gaza, where over half a million live in Israeli-imposed famine, speaks about the fear of imminent death from starvation
By Lubna Masarwa in Jerusalem Published date: 25 February 2024 12:52 GMT
All this talk, talk, talk of mass starvation yet not a single photo to prove it.
I’m calling BS.
This war has been going on for almost 5 months, that’s 150 days, yes, the food supply has greatly diminished and these fatties are losing weight but they’re still months away from genuine starvation.
Saying that Gazans have been starving to death is an insult to starvation, an insult to those who have truly starved, like the child in the photo below.
I’d bet that even after 150 days of war, that you can’t find a single Gazan child remotely close to the dire straights the kid (in the photo) is in for lack of food.
I guarantee you that long BEFORE the Gazans get close to genuine starvation there’ll be an intervention.
Genocide Lover, joins the Israeli chorus that not enough Palestinians are dying and they are not dying fast enough.
He shows us photos of what Palestinian babies need to look like before dying.
Unpleasant to think that his ilk are having offspring of their own, making more like him, may all their names be forgotten. ***.
Big mouth but zero starvation photos.
Show me. Don’t tell me.
Oh, that’s right, after 150 days of “mass starvation” there still aren’t any photos to show of it.
You are a remarkable case of compulsive psychopathologic exhibitionism. Not unique, of course: the terrorist genocidal state is full of the likes of you.
But the way you insist on celebrating the symptoms of your tribal sociopathy in comment after comment is at least unique on this site.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mass-civilian-casualties-after-israel-opens-fire-crowd-rushing-aid-trucks-gaza
Aid Truck Stampede ‘Massacre’ In Gaza: Israel Accused Of Opening Fire On Crowd
Imposed Famine, starvation.
Also see MoA on this
Where’s the photos or videos of the skin-and-bones starving Gazans?
There aren’t any. If they had them we’d be seeing them non-stop 24 hours a day. I’ve been told for many months that Gazans are starving to death. So far, it has been a blatant lie.
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This is real starvation, not fake Gaza “starvation”:
A very sick creature you are. Physiology studies suggest that sustained, obsessive hatred like yours is one probable cause of pancreatic cancer. Watch out for the appearance of nausea, sugar spikes and pain jabs in the upper right quadrant.
Don’t worry about me.
I’m in better shape than most men half my age, like the slovenly spitting Moroccan I punched out a few years back inside a grocery store in Brussels. Nobody, if I can help it, gets away with spitting on “infidel” women while calling them whores in my presence.
You prove my point EVERY time you resort to throwing a name-calling hissy fit about my evilness in disbelieving there’s mass starvation in Gaza instead of proving this starvation by posting a single photo of a starving Gazan.
The subject is serious but your childish reaction to it is laughable.
Worried about you,Genocide Lover? Not I. If you disappeared from the comment section as a couple of your liter mates did before I wouldn’t remember your name. I might remember some of the reprehensible israelisms in your post as typical of your ilk but not your fake bio, nor wonder if you dropped dead or just gave up.
The little anecdote of your bravely punching a Muslim in the face in defense of a woman (oy!) is getting shopworn. If you plan to linger on maybe you’ll think of adding more such anecdotes to enrich your bio, Genocide Lover?
I agree but for the use of the term racist. It’s an overused term which I immediately recoil from. The dumb rubes who hate Russians also hate themselves. They are just imbibing propaganda and reflexively reacting to it.
Who doesn’t love Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, …
I wonder when the Ruskies will take Odessa?
It needs to be done before negotiations.
Possession is 9/10 of the law.
It shall remove Ukraine foot-dragging about conceding this area.
Consensus is that Russia will bypass Odessa as they move west to link with Tansnistria. Odessa will be separated from Ukraine proper and, hopefully, surrender without firing a shot.
That’s the best-case scenario.
Of course, no one would be surprised if the Ukrainians, in pure vengeful spite, try to burn the entire Russian jewel-city of Odessa to the ground. If able, they’ll also destroy all statues honoring Russian history; they’ll do to the statues of Katherine the Great what we did to the statues of Robert E. Lee.
There’s some clown-world truth in satire:
https://babylonbee.com/news/robert-e-lee-statue-melted-down-to-make-bombs-for-ukraine/
Of course you like Babylon Bee. What’s not to like? When it first started it seemed daring and even funny but it was defanged fast and brought o heel.
It publishes “satires” approved by the ADL, like this one:
QATAR — In a promising development for over 230 innocent civilians held captive in Gaza, Chief Ismail Haniyeh extended an offer to release all the hostages. In exchange, he has asked for the nation of Israel to no longer exist.
“My terms are simple and reasonable,” said Haniyeh from a jacuzzi tub in his massive Qatar mansion. “I will let all the hostages go, and all I ask in return is for the entire state of Israel to disappear from the face of the earth, and all the Jews who live therein to die painful deaths, praise be to Allah.”
“I shall graciously provide 24 hours for the world to fulfill my request. Thank you.”
Oy! Those obese, greedy Palestinians who only want to kill all the Jews!
Now THAT’S FUNNY… well, not the Babylon Bee crap…
The spectacle of you and Martin arguing over “humour”…
The ultimate Pot calling the Kettle black. The lost leading the blind.
Two ideologues fighting over whose worldview is the most screwed up…
Ya can’t make this shit up.
“Ya” can’t but you can.
Biliary tract problems again?
There will be no “negotiations”. Whoever is still running the Kiev Junta by then will sign Unconditional Surrender Terms. Russia will decide what is to happen to Rump Ukraine after that.
It has been made clear that the last “negotiation” chance the Ukie Nazis and their Rothschild backers had was at Istanbul. The US/Bribe’em/Nuland and Bojo crowd followed Rothschild/AIPAC orders and forced Zelensky to carry on with the war.
The subsequent 50-70,000 Russian soldier deaths/casualties MUST be answered for. The war criminals WILL be brought to justice and the Rothschild Nazis will never threaten Russia again.
Putin said it outright: “Admit Ukraine into NATO and you won’t have time to blink or invoke Chapter 5”. Whether that means conventional strikes or nukes at 10 paces isn’t made clear, but even the Rothschilds like staying alive.
The more the Ukies and Nutty-yahoo destroy on the Rothschild’s behalf, the worse the punishments against those responsible will be. Eventually the US/ZATO will have to hand over the Rothschilds for War-crimes, Crimes Against Humanity trials, or suffer a complete destruction of their US$ Reserve Currency-dependent economies.
Macron’s desperation is the Rothschild’s desperation.
“There will be no “negotiations”. Whoever is still running the Kiev Junta by then will sign Unconditional Surrender Terms. Russia will decide what is to happen to Rump Ukraine after that.”
Don’t exaggerate. There are still plenty of details that will have to be negotiated:
— What date to present the surrender papers?
Pres. Putin is a very busy man. It will have to be accommodated in his schedule.
— Should the document be written in Russian with accompanying translations in what languages?
— If Zelensky is still alive and will sign the documents, will he be allowed to appear in his khaki track suit or (a) in suit and tie or (b) in one of his signature outfits of old, including high heels?
As you said… details… insignificant details.
I doubt Putin will be there. I’d guess it will be the Generals administering the coup de grace. It is a military operation, not a political meeting.
And it is nothing to joke about. This has cost millions of innocent people death, destruction and a chance at a free and fruitful life.
To lose sight of that, even for a moment, is to disrespect those who have been so unfairly subjected for no rational reason.
We come here to read truth and and to speak that truth to power.
You don’t speak truth to power. You don’t even exist for them.
“I” may not matter, but “WE the People” here certainly do, otherwise there would be no obvious plants here trying to discredit, distract and otherwise fill the comments with trash posts.
The Rothschilds can only do their work from behind the curtain of their shills and dupes.
“You will own nothing…” in their own words, explain THAT away. Schwab bragging the WEF has “penetrated” 50% of the Canadian gov’t… more of THEIR words and deeds… keep explaining…
Lynn de Rothschild and Killary Klinton are best buds, Lynn funding Killary’s efforts… explain that away… “The Clintons are good people”, after it was “Lock her up” chants.
If “we” here don’t matter, WHY ARE YOU HERE? Too clever by half. Given enough rope…
“Too clever by half.”
I would not go so far as to say that about you.
On the other hand, just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean that I don’t work for the Rothschilds…who knows? :-)))
You poor man with delusions of grandeur…
Germany had to surrender twice since Western Allies jumped the gun
Simplicius now has a few paragraphs on that.
When will the people of Odessa rise up and take their destiny into their own hands? Then they can choose to join Russia, or Kiev, or have complete independence. My feeling is that they will be better off with Russia, but it is their right to choose, without intimidation from any side.
They already did :
https://ersieesist.livejournal.com/813.html
How the thugs killed Odessa inhabitants in the Trade Unions House – the details of bloody scenario
Great tragedy happened to the port city of Odessa at Friday, May 2nd, 2014.
Mass murder followed by incineration in the building.
Web, and archive almost scrubbed since.
http://web.archive.org/web/20140720043458/http://orientalreview.org/2014/05/14/bloodbath-in-odessa-guided-by-interim-rulers-of-ukraine/
https://crimes-of-ukraine.ru/
Of course, but I see the Trades Union House tragedy as part of the violent coup by which the bulk of the country was seized. We are yet to see a real rising up for liberation.
Why rise up now and get shot? All they have to do is wait and Russia will come to them.
Because mobilization gang will come to them before Russians do.
That’s different than “rising up,” that’s defending yourself when being attacked.
Up to and including Transnistria or the Swampite vermin will only skulk back to their Potomac sewers and squander more tax money on some racket foundation to plan yet another bloodletting.
The Ruskies should allow them no quarter, not so much as a handful of soil, and not just to obviate future malicious mischief in that region but to spare us being forcibly ripped off again in blood and treasure to fatten Pentagon chickens and assorted Swampite vermin.
Swampite parasites are destroying the whole planet because they cannot put in one day’s honest work, and have the added gall of sticking us with the blood and treasure bills, in addition to broken and grief stricken families and all the exponential issues that stalk their lives forever.
Your average psychotic Mexican narcotics cartel has more respect for its local populations. The mafia from the old days had more class than these DC Neanderthals.
The Russian-hating part of Ukraine is destined to be a miserable, land-locked, piss-ant of a country. Rump-state Ukraine will be a nation of widows and orphans. So much for their American-hyped dream of mindless consumerism and free-dumb; they’ll be lucky if they can get enough to eat.
It should be renamed Nuland’s Rump.
That’s Funny.
But won’t the Sinister Sow who distributed cookies in the Maidan be heart broken?
You moron.
You don’t seem to understand that if Victoria Nuland, her fat-ass husband, Robert Kagan, and her fat-assed neocon brother-in-law were the next humans to get the cluster-bomb treatment in Ukraine I’d consider it good news.
Want to vomit? Read how Victoria Nuland and Robert Kagan fell in love:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-politico-50-robert-kagan-and-victoria-nuland/
Obviously I don’t have the same rapt interest that you do in the private lives of other Genocide Lovers like yourself.
Send the link to others in your hasbara eating circle.
So after howling like a hot rod had been inserted in your nether parts when I posted a photo of the Sinister Sow not too long ago, you are now desperate enough to claim you hate her??!!! Why? Is it because the “look, I even diss the Holo” bit fell flat?
Härligt att höra dina kommentarer om hur bra det är i Ryssland. Har själv varit där( St Petersburg) ett antal gånger, en härlig stad!
Gift med en Ryska, så..dom sista gångerna körde vi ditt. Stockholm, Helsingfors…och vidare över gränsen. Absolut inga problem!
Hjälpsamt och snällt folk!
Men nu…tack vare detta förbannade EU ,väst och deras skit…är det jättetrassligt!
Man kan via Estland…men man får gå över gränsen, lämna bilen och ta buss!
Vem fan litar på att bilen är kvar sedan??
Allt rättar säkert till sig…när Ryssland gjort jobbet klart i Ukraina, och väst har fattat…vinken. för väst kan inte vara utan Ryssland! 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺💪💪💪
Would love to go to Russia, to see more than the gems. I just do not have the means to make a tourist trip.
If I ever end up in Russia, it means I’ve moved there.
That is actually an opportunity for a tour group. Just the airfare alone is daunting but a bargain package deal for a week or so in a safe, no frills hotel with breakfast, short tours to the highlights, and the rest of the day free would appeal to many visitors, especially younger ones.
“Putin is real.”
This is Julian Macfarlane conclusion.
He also says “emotionally perceptive, intelligent,” etc
I don’t know… Is he not is the dictator who carried out an unprovoked brutal (I may have forgotten an adjective here) invasion in Ukraine?
He also imprisons his political opponents and does it with sneaky deception, by picking only those who have less than 5% approval rating ands penal antecedents, hoping nobody realizes he aims to eliminate the leaders of the opposition.
He keeps trying to kill people with a lethal nerve agent that, fortunately for the intended victims, does not work.
Anyway, below is Julian’s impression, not mine…
Putin’s PresserRemember Putin’s 4 1/2 hour long year-end report? It covered a lot of territory and most people just read about it in the media, which focused on just a couple of points that editors thought were somehow relevant to their mandated orthodoxy of, y’know, “Russia on the Ropes.
I read the MSM too.
But I also went through the text several times, binning the sneers of the NYT and WaPo, as mental garbage.
I was motivated to watch the video to get a sense of what Putin was feelingas he answered questions– which was clearly confidence.
I saw a very human man.
He has none of Macron’s vanity. He is not an air-head like Trudeau. Unlike Biden, he knows where and who he is and what he is doing and he and his dogs are safe around children.
He is intelligent, emotionally perceptive, and appreciative of irony. He has a sense of humor. He doesn’t speechify– he talks— a rare thing in her political leader. A real person – unlike any British prime minister or the current Labour wannabe —those political caricatures who deserve a place in cartoons, rather than government.
Let’s just say– Putin is real!
Just to be certain… you wrote? (not Macfarlane) : “Is he not is the dictator who carried out an unprovoked brutal (I may have forgotten an adjective here) invasion in Ukraine?
He also imprisons his political opponents and does it with sneaky deception, by picking only those who have less than 5% approval rating ands penal antecedents, hoping nobody realizes he aims to eliminate the leaders of the opposition.
He keeps trying to kill people with a lethal nerve agent that, fortunately for the intended victims, does not work.”
More sarcastic double talk, or your actual position? OR??? It’s impossible to tell. Is this how you conduct your university lectures? Students are left to guess what you really mean to convey?
My “students” would see this:
“Anyway, below is Julian’s impression, not mine…”
as a strong indication that what Julian wrote is, as stated, BELOW.
Some people just like to argue. ariadna, can I be your student? 🙂
Again, a non-answer. Nice try though.
The “BELOW” section you attempt to divert attention to is clearly stated as Macfarlane’s work.
The bit in question is what I quoted. It’s simple, is the quoted section YOURS or HIS?
Your deflection attempt indicates it’s most probably yours even if you won’t admit it.
At this point only a link to Macfarlane actually posting what you claim to his substack will clear this up.
And I’m not buying the “coincidence” that “julianmacfarlane” just “happened” to post a link to his substack while you were posting your… whatever that was…
It doesn’t surprise me one bit that one with your sharp, unerring perception discovered the plot that Julian Macfarlane and I engaged in to divert attention from something. What? Maybe something having to do with the Rothschild family and all religions.It’s what your many enemies do…
Nothing gets by you!
Russia is civilized. NY is not. https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/why-russia-is-winning
Men visiting Russia as tourists should make an effort to acquaint themselves with some football milestones and names of more famous players. Admittedly this is harder for Americans who know little about what they call “soccer.” It is a safe topic that opens hearts.
I visited Russia with a Uruguyan friend who had lengthy, happy exchanges with taxi drivers, waiters, baristas while I, the ignorant mute, was watching water droplets coursing down the windows. They just couldn’t get enough of my friend and talked about players of various teams in many countries. The Russians are just as cray about football as the South Americans but they treat it with Russian seriousness.
Geopolitics is one thing but a country, even the size of a handkerchief, that won a World Cup (even 50 years ago) is indelibly marked on the Russians’ mental map.
And any true football fan would see a pretender coming from a mile away.
While on a bus trip in Italy, a few of our group got into football discussions with the tour guide and driver. When the rest of us didn’t join in, the tour guide rhetorically asked “why?”.
After getting it that Canadians mostly don’t follow football (soccer), I took him aside and had him ask the group if anyone knew who Valentino Rossi is. This was before the Marquez era began.
He was jaw-dropping shocked that only myself and my wife knew. Only one of the greatest, internationally-known motorcycle champions ever… Italian friends of my wife at home, when we told the story said, “even my grandmother knows who Rossi is!”
So be yourself, it’s always the best policy.
duh
Ya, DUH… your “advice” comes under the heading of “once you can fake sincerity, you’ve got it made”.
FFS, can’t grasp the simplest interpersonal honesty concepts.
Keep digging, the hole you’re in isn’t deep enough yet?
Your in-laws getting on your nerves again?
Every Italian must know who Valentino Rossi is, not to mention Rocco Siffredi.
Well ya got me there… what MotoGP team (did?) Siffredi ride for?
His rides were in a different kind of team sport, but his name is known to many that have never seen him in action. 🙂
We’ll have to take your word for that… given you seem to be the resident expert in observing that field of endeavour. You took your mind there all on your own.
Cute attempt at a smear tho’…
What’s that phrase for those who try such? Oh Ya,
“Lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut.”
It was an attempt at a joke. Nothing cute or smeary about it. I guess the audience is more into preaching from their high horse, than (bad) jokes.
Don’t pay too much attention. He is a troubled man.
Another way, is to take a flight to Estonia(changing planes in London, Paris or Amsterdam) and the 5h busride to St. Petersburg
Funny how all of the people who once wanted to be cia groupies rush here to show off. Hilarious. This site is too crowded and it’s way too hard to get comments posted here, anyway. I suspect that pretty soon pro-NATO and Israeli trolls will migrate here and the comment section will start getting junked up with lunacy like the comments at moon of alabama or smoothiex12. Oh well.
Does Russian Immigration seize your electronic devices and demand you divulge all passwords ?
Do you have to say you have never been a member of the U.S. Communist Party or Democratic Party ?
Only if you are Singaporean.
Don’t they eat westerner’s in Russia .?Larry. : ).
The famous basketball player almost got eaten in jail.
Larry, you said the Russian visa costs $451. My google search says it’s $160.
When you go thru the NYC Visa Center for expedited service via mail it is $451. If you go in person it is cheaper.
That’s what I saw, and it’s for a 3-year, multiple-entry, visa.
Sounds like you left before Putin’s Federal Assembly Address. It was a two-hour affair that focused mostly on the domestic vision for Putin’s remaining time as President–to 2030. There were several important remarks made, geopolitically and domestically. It’s all translated into English and can be read here, Leap Day: Putin’s Address to the Federal Assembly (substack.com)
So when do they assign you a commissar to ensure that you go into the well stocked grocery store that is not available to the locals? Those are the stores with the velvet line ropes to keep out the native Muscovites. (Only joking. I’m making fun of an old trope.)
Very good speech Mr. Johnson. And hello from old K.C. Like you I’m old enough to remember practicing “duck & cover” in grade school. Nothings changed since then. Russia is still reviled as an existential threat. To the world. But a few of us Americans realize now that it’s the United States that’s the threat monger in this world.
I extricated myself from Russia-phobia by reading and listening to the few intelligent and experienced people that have made sense of the twisted logic that prevails in corporate news and governmental propaganda. Thanks for your contribution in my education.
Israelis brought a tank to food distribution.
That’s how you know it was premeditated.
My guess is that they wanted to demonstrate that “Israel shoots Palestinians civilians indiscriminately” is a lie.
Most people suspected it before. Now they know: no scatter shooting, all methodical and concentrated.
The price of the visa is mirroring what the USA requests from Russians for a visa to the USA, Concerning the money issue – I think Ania K. (your blogger friend) has found a solution she shared with her fans some time ago.
The Indian Lady just doing the same as what Indians under Modi over the last 5 years have been doing. She keeps on harping on Terrorism . It’s the same old Indirect Pakistan baiting that India does in all International forums. It has seen US used terrorism as a tool to have it’s way around the world.
No matter what the ocassion Or agenda is India has only one song International terrorism indirectly attributing it to Pakistan. It’s unable to understand that this issue is way past it’s sell by date.