If Putin Was a 5th Column Traitor, What Would He Be Doing Any Differently?
Anything?
Yesterday I sat down for a beer with a long-serving former journalist from my country. He was a globe-trotting reporter who had rubbed shoulders with tribesmen in Waziristan and Maoist rebels in Nepal. He was working for the national print media, but his thing was always trying to get alternative viewpoints into our local mainstream. Eventually, he quit after he got tired of having to fight his editors over nearly every story.
In any case, as we were talking about the Russo-Ukrainian situation he expressed disbelief that Russia should be doing so poorly. He was convinced that the Russian army was in some way being intentionally held back or intentionally set up to fail in order to prolong the war and make it as bloody as possible. In other words, to kill as many of Russians and Ukrainians in the long run as possible, and maximally set back Russia.
He is now convinced that Kremlin is not an independent player, but is beholden to the same powers-that-be that also run the West and who do not have Russia’s best interest in mind.
I thought his view was very interesting because it expresses the same sentiment I have noticed many times in my comment section.
I constantly ridicule the 5D clowns who will spin every Putin’s indecision, under-resourcing, and blunder as solid judo gold, but that is really giving these jokers too much credit. It makes it appear as if they are the main game in town when that really isn’t true.
The opposite viewpoint that VVP is engaging in judo to ruin Russia, or at least to advance interests that are not Russian is at least as prevalent in the alternative if not more so, and increasingly so. Since 2020 I am not seeing Moscow picking up new fans. I am seeing international well-wishers who lined up behind Donbass and Syria with heart and soul becoming increasingly confused and disillusioned and wondering whose side is the Kremlin even on?
It is merely that while the unfazed 5D simpletons continue to churn out their hagiographical garbage with the fanaticism of an idiot. The people like my ex-journalist friend are, on the contrary, slowly dropping out of reading and writing on geopolitics and moving on to more fundamental questions.
As my friend said “This multipolar stuff used to be a lot more hopeful.”
Personally, I am not a huge conspiracy theorist. Perhaps I am naive, but almost always I find that incentive, self-delusion, and willful ignorance already sufficiently explain various mindboggling decisions of our political classes and that no formal conspiracy is required.
That said, I do like people who get slandered as conspiracy theorists because time and time again we find ourselves in the same trench. If you’re in my foxhole I’m not going to be splitting hairs over how you got here, I’m just grateful you did.
And the truth is that if you assume that Putin is a secret lizard the story of the last 2 years works a lot better, than if you assume that he is a 5D judo genius.
For many months now I have been toying with the idea of penning a tongue-in-cheek article that would be titled “If Putin Was a 5th Column Traitor, What Would He Be Doing Any Differently?”. The article would just be a long list of all the Russian self-inflicted wounds of the past two years courtesy of what seems like common-sense defying levels of stupidity emanating from the Kremlin recently.
Just the three most glaringly dumb, self-harming, incompetent, irresponsible, and dilettantish decisions would be:
Subjecting Russia to the unprecedented economic assault that were the benefit-free COVID lockdowns
Leaving $300 billion in Western banks just asking for them to be confiscated
Sending the Russian army into the largest European war after WW2 in a piecemeal fashion
The reason I haven’t started writing the text is that I fear that it would quickly balloon to 15,000 words and consume two weeks of my life, so much Kremlin retardation has there been lately.
As I said, the piece would be tongue-in-cheek because I do not personally believe that Putin is a 5th column lizard (he just acts like one). But there is an undeniable pattern now where he constantly underestimates enemy resolve. Constantly procrastinates on making the tough calls until it is all but too late. And where he constantly under-resources his gambles to a comical degree putting his men in extraordinarily and needlessly difficult and lethal situations, and generally making Russia seem hapless and incompetent while also exhausting her energies for the most minimal gains possible.
What could be more simple than that either you leave Ukraine completely alone, or else you pounce on it with everything at once? Doing anything in between just gets you the worst of both worlds.
Whom he increasingly reminds me of is the August 1991 putschists. The geriatric Soviet hardliners who attempted a coup against Gorbachev to save the Soviet Union. But who were so low-energy that all they succeeded in was to weaken the liberal but pro-Soviet Gorbachev, in favor of the liberal but anti-Soviet Yeltsin.
Like they, he seems like a man determined to grab the worst possible outcome, with all the downsides of all the possible approaches.
I don’t think it’s a conspiracy, but if it was one, — tell me, what would he be doing any different?
Can you think of anything?
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Putin is working for the global cabal - while pretending (as he absolutely must, to keep Russian patriots on board) to be a patriot and a lover of Russia.
Consider this: the hiking of energy prices in the West was an absolutely essential objective to be achieved by the globalists - in order to devastate Western economies, along with a cataclysmic financial crisis, so as to create sufficient fear and desperation among Western populations for them to submit to the Great Reset - which would be presented to them as 'the only solution' to that crisis and collapse.
The ONLY way that the global cabal which controls almost all Western governments could get away with sending energy prices sky high, so as to achieve this devastating destruction of Western economies would be via a 'Narrative' (something the globalists always use to achieve their objectives) that these sky high energy prices were due to outside forces and events beyond the control of Western governments.
The invasion of Ukraine was chosen by them as the tool to provide that pretext: it enabled them to impose the sanctions which are supposedly against Russia - but which are actually against the West, which they used to drive energy prices through the roof, and thereby to destroy Western (particularly) economies, and to drive living standards dramatically downwards - an operation which is now underway.
Simultaneously, driving energy prices sky high achieved another globalist objective: to create massive food shortages and famines next year. Massive fertilizer manufacturers like BASF are shutting down fertilizer production - exactly as planned - and fertilizer shortages, along with sky high prices for fertilizer, are the way to create a global food shortage next year.
The cabal only required Putin to make an incursion of some depth into Russia - so as to provide the pretext to drive energy prices through the roof. They do not want him going deeper into Ukraine, which is a globalist power center and money-laundering center - and so, Putin will continue to mess around, just keeping the war going, while the global cartel put most of the tens of billions of Western 'aid money' into their offshore bank accounts - a very nice earner to accompany the hundreds of billions made by the cabal from their fake 'Covid crisis', fake 'Covid vaccines', and (very juicy) fake 'Covid tests' operations.
The fact that Putin has followed exactly the same Covid and Covid 'vaccines' scams operations as all Western governments, doing and saying exactly the same as all of them at every stage, further demonstrates that he is a globalist puppet, just like almost every Western leader and government.
And now, when the Covid crisis scam is over, Putin is forcing the people mobilized to be injected with the toxic and pathogenic Covid 'vaccines' - which contrary to media BS in Russia, are basically the same as the Astrazeneca fake 'vaccines'!
The new tactic of the globalists is to have some of their puppets mouth anti-globalist sentiments: thus, you have both Putin and Meloni raging against the globalists' destruction of people's sense of identity, etc. - while Meloni, having raged against the globalist operation, then says that she supports the EU - the globalists' European HQ! - and supports NATO's operation supporting Ukraine!
https://putinism.wordpress.com/2021/05/18/zaches/
In the 1990s and early 2000s, the NTV channel aired such a program-"Dolls". Dolls of famous politicians played out satirical plots among themselves, often based on literary works. When Putin came to power, he destroyed the old NTV channel. Now it's a propaganda dump like all of Putin's TV. But when NTV was still independent, on January 30, 2000, the most famous program "Dolls" was released there, which many people probably remember. It was called "Baby Zaches".
In a German fairy tale by Hoffmann, a simple poor peasant woman gives birth to a dwarf freak. And both internally and externally. The dwarf causes everyone to be disgusted, but the good fairy decides to help him and gives him magical power: others do not see that this is a freak, but attribute various imaginary virtues to him. He becomes a privy councillor to the king, etc. Then the witch's deception is dispelled, and everyone sees the true face of the freak.
According to the plot of "Dolls" in January 2000, the dwarf freak is Putin, the fairy is Berezovsky, who sculpts a fictional hero out of him with the help of a TV set. Berezovsky in the story nurses baby Tsakhes, teaches him to speak, he shouts from the cradle "Wet in the toilet!". Berezovsky lets him suck his finger, but the dwarf tries to bite it off, etc. Yeltsin sits at the cradle, complains that the baby has a dark past, but then falls asleep soundly.
The plot, in general, was clear: Berezovsky nurtures a monster. Which will also devour it. The plot was prophetic. It remains to add that all this was possible only because the people of Russia did not say their word on the streets and in other forms of active protest. Not in 1999, not since. So they let the Camarilla sit and decide what will rule Russia: either Tsakhes, or Primus.