Some are asking, why should even care about Darya Dugina's assassination? Because:
1. It is almost certainly the FSB false flag operation 2. Most likely, it will be used as a pretext for strikes that had been already pre-scheduled for the Ukrainian Independence Day this Thursday
Once again. Strikes later this week are highly likely, they have must been prescheduled long ago. Most probably, on Thursday-Friday. It's quite probable that Putin wants to scale up and sacrificed Dugina to needs justify future strikes as counter-terrorist action or sth like that
Assuming this is true, why was Dugina chosen as a sacrificial lamb? Presidential plenipotentiary Schegolev's speech on her funerals gives some idea:
1. Alexander (and Darya) Dugina were nobody in the Russian system of power 2. But the West believed they were somebody
AMAZING
If Putin planned a false flag operation to get a pretext for escalation, than Darya made a better sacrificial lamb than Alexander. *Exactly* because she is young woman. Her death would trigger more outrage. Legions of pornocephals gonna flood the internet with pro-Russian content
Alexander Dugin is playing exactly this game:
"We need only the Victory. My daughter put her maiden's life on its altar"
Indeed, theme of sacrifice is very common for Dugin. He was obsessed with the idea of ritual sacrifice for the greater good. Constantly thinking about it
Some hints on Dugin's views on the sacrifice. He's quoting a Jung's argument that for the sake of ritual, the sacrificer and the sacrificed, must be one.
For some reason other pro-war activists also tend to use the language of ritual sacrifice to describe what happened. Consider Prilepin. This pro-war writer used to be a member of the National Bolshevik Party with all its death worshipping esotericism
If it was the FSB false flag operation (which is almost certain), than it was most likely Darya and not Alexander who was the real target. If Alexander knew it all beforehand, I won't be much surprised. See him on Darya's funerals
The FSB false flag attack probably aimed to trigger exactly this type of reaction from the Western useful idiots. Preparing to launch massive strikes later this week, Russia needs to present its actions as "retaliatory". That's the most likely reason for them killing Darya Dugina
Putin, Parliament, key propagandists are trying to elevate previously virtually unknown Darya to the key martyr of the state cult:
"One country, one President, one Victory"
declares MP Slutsky on her funerals. Russia is kinda starting resembling a bad Third Reich cosplay
In Russian conditions nobody would speak against a new Horst Wessel campaign. But some gonna keep silence. What is interesting, neither Shoygu, nor Ramzan Kadyrov did not express any condolescences, threats or warnings regarding Darya's death. Just silence
To sum up. Most likely:
1. FSB killed Darya 2. as a pretext for escalation pre-planned for the end of this week 3. Why now? August 24, Ukrainian Independence Day. August 25, the Russian parliament session. Some expect significant changes in policy to be announced there. The end
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For decades, any resistance to the Reaganomics has been suppressed using the false dichotomy: it is either “capitalism” (= which meant Reaganomics) or socialism, and socialism doesn’t work
Now, as there is the growing feeling that Reaganomics don’t work, the full rehabilitation of socialism looks pretty much inevitable
I find it oddly similar to how it worked in the USSR. For decades, the whole propaganda apparatus had been advancing the false dichotomy: it is either socialism, or capitalism (= meaning robber barons)
Now, as there is a growing feeling that the current model does not work, we must try out capitalism instead. And, as capitalism means robber barons, we must create robber barons
We have to distribute all the large enterprises between the organized crime members. This is the way
Truth is: the words like Rus/Russian had many and many ambiguous and often mutually exclusive meanings, and not only throughout history, but, like, simultaneously.
For example, in the middle ages, the word "Rus" could mean:
1. All the lands that use Church Slavonic in liturgy. That is pretty much everything from what is now Central Russia, to what is now Romania. Wallachians, being the speakers of a Romance language were Orthodox, and used Slavonic in church -> they're a part of Rus, too
2. Some ambiguous, undefined region that encompasses what is now northwest Russia & Ukraine, but does not include lands further east. So, Kiev & Novgorod are a part of Rus, but Vladimir (-> region of Moscow) isn't
These two mutually exclusive notions exist simultaneously
The greatest Western delusion about China is, and always has been, greatly exaggerating the importance of plan. Like, in this case, for example. It sounds as if there is some kind of continuous industrial policy, for decades
1. Mao Zedong dies. His successors be like, wow, he is dead. Now we can build a normal, sane economy. That means, like in the Soviet Union
2. Fuck, we run out of oil. And the entire development plan was based upon an assumption that we have huge deposits of it
3. All the prior plans of development, and all the prior industrial policies go into the trashbin. Because again, they were based upon an assumption that we will be soon exporting more oil than Saudi Arabia, and without that revenue we cannot fund our mega-projects
Yes. Behind all the breaking news about the capture of small villages, we are missing the bigger pattern which is:
The Soviet American war was supposed to be fought to somewhere to the west of Rhine. What you got instead is a Soviet Civil War happening to the east of Dnieper
If you said that the battles of the great European war will not be fought in Dunkirk and La Rochelle, but somewhere in Kupyansk (that is here) and Rabotino, you would have been once put into a psych ward, or, at least, not taken as a serious person
The behemoth military machine had been built, once, for a thunderbolt strike towards the English Channel. Whatever remained from it, is now decimating itself in the useless battles over the useless coal towns of the Donetsk Oblast
Yes, and that is super duper quadruper important to understand
Koreans are poor (don't have an empire) and, therefore, must do productive work to earn their living. So, if the Americans want to learn how to do anything productive they must learn it from Koreans etc
There is this stupid idea that the ultra high level of life and consumption in the United States has something to do with their productivity. That is of course a complete sham. An average American doesn't do anything useful or important to justify (or earn!) his kingly lifestyle
The kingly lifestyle of an average American is not based on his "productivity" (what a BS, lol) but on the global empire Americans are holding currently. Part of the imperial dynamics being, all the actually useful work, all the material production is getting outsourced abroad
Reading Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Set in southwest England, somewhere in the late 1800s. And the first thing you need to know is that Tess is bilingual. He speaks a local dialect she learnt at home, and the standard English she picked at school from a London-trained teacher
So, basically, "normal" language doesn't come out of nowhere. Under the normal conditions, people on the ground speak all the incomprehensible patois, wildly different from each other
"Regular", "correct" English is the creation of state
So, basically, the state chooses a standard (usually, based on one of the dialects), cleanses it a bit, and then shoves down everyone's throats via the standardized education
Purely artificial construct, of a super mega state that really appeared only by the late 1800s