Immortal Regiment Cancelled: A massive victory for SAFETY in Russia
Convenience is also on the rise
Riley Waggaman
Readers of the blog know that Russian authorities stay up late every night brainstorming ways to make things more safe and convenient. It’s their top priority. You might even say it’s what they crave.
The very thought that someone might not be completely safe, or might be very slightly inconvenienced, is hateful to these saintly public servants. It’s probably the same in your own country, which is undoubtedly governed by the same breed of selfless cattle ranchers.
We are lucky to live in the best of all possible worlds.
Taking into account all of the facts I just listed above, it’s hardly surprising that the Immortal Regiment—an international event in which people are invited to mark Victory Day (today, May 9) by marching through the streets with photographs of relatives who participated in the Great Patriotic War—will not take place in Russia (again).
The march has been canceled nationwide due to “existing threats to public safety.” Instead, Russians are invited to tape photographs to their cars or share the portraits of their relatives on social networks. Yup.
The Great Patriotic War is Russia’s civic religion. Before the Immortal Regiment became Unsafe and Inconvenient, around a million Muscovites would fill the streets of Russia’s capital on May 9 to honor their veteran-ancestors.
This is no longer Safe, though.
Coincidentally, less than a month ago, on April 10, hundreds of thousands of Muslim worshippers poured into the streets of Moscow for Eid al-Fitr.
Authorities “recommended” that Muslims stay home and watch religious services on the internet (“for the convenience of believers”). This “recommendation” was ignored, of course. Thankfully, there were plenty of national guardsmen and OMON on duty to protect against any trouble-making. Too bad it can’t always be that way.
But why is it that Muslim worshippers are given a recommendation, while anyone with a relative who fought in the Great Patriotic War—i.e, the entire population of the Russian Federation—was issued an order?
Is it really so dangerous to walk down the street holding a photograph? Are things really that bad in Russia? If so, why did authorities allow hundreds of thousands of Muslims to congregate in the streets just three weeks ago? DOES THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT NOT CARE ABOUT MUSLIM LIVES? HASHTAG MUSLIM LIVES MATTER.
Also: Please keep in mind that Moscow is one of the most heavily surveilled cities on our pale blue landfill, Earth.
In conclusion: After two years of fighting the Nazi Satanists in Ukraine, Russians are prohibited from walking down the street in honor of their Nazi-fighting ancestors.
IT’S FOR YOUR SAFETY & CONVENIENCE.
Riley Waggaman is an American writer and journalist who has lived in Russia for close to a decade. He has contributed to many websites, including Anti-Empire, Russian Faith, Brownstone Institute, Unlimited Hangout, and Geopolitics & Empire. He worked for Press TV, Russia Insider, and RT before going solo. You can subscribe to his Substack here, or follow him on twitter or Telegram.
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The “I Hate Russia Glee Cub and Chorus”.
T’anks , Waggy!
So far as I can see they’re just reporting the facts, maybe a little sarcastically. When they do the same about the UK or Oz are they the ‘I hate the West Glee Club’? Why the double standard?
Fucking hell. Just caught up on the comments. All the usefuls flocking here to defend Russia doing what they would never defend if a western country did it.
Don’t you get it guys? Russia and the west are doing the same shit. They’re both oppressing ppl and poisoning them and lying about fake terror events and fake scary viruses. All the same. No different.
The clever bit is they’ve used the idea that Russia and the West are on some kind of collision course to persuade everyone to be totally ok with one side doing all this crap.
The Piers Morgan crowd say it’s ok for the West to do it and wrong for Russia to do it and the Scott Ritter crowd say it’s ok for Russia to do it and wrong for the West to do it. Either way we have a whole lot of people excusing tyranny on their own turf or someone else’s. Too busy arguing like dickheads with each other to think hang on I don’t really want anyone’s tyranny
Brilliant innit. You guys have been suckered. 100%. Anyone getting into that argument is a sucker. West and East are just fronts for creating division, As phony as Left and Right. And if you doubt that ask yourself what actual real difference are they standing for?
Go on tell me. In actual practical terms, what difference are they offering? Why will living in New York or London in 2030 be better than living in Moscow or Beijing? Or vice versa.
Do you live in Russia?
I don’t.
So, I am going balls-to-the-wall against the member of the Hegemon that affects me directly.
If you are not in Russia, yet complaining about their governance of their people, maybe look in the mirror and STFU.
Riley Wagaman lives in Russia doesn’t. Or he did until recently. But that doesn’t make him more credible for you does it?
What about the Russians who live in Russia and criticize their government like we criticize ours? Are they good blokes? Should we listen to what they say?
I’ve noticed that you can still upvote / down vote comments, but you can no longer rate the article.
Is this to protect the ego of hacks like Riley Waggaman who continue to produce trivial shite like this article?
Has anybody noticed that Mr. Waggaman has changed his biography? He is no longer our humble correspondent in Moscow. Is this because he is no longer in Moscow or because he is no longer humble?
My guess is that if R.F. authorities had allowed a public celebration of the Soviet Union’s magnificent victory against Nazism and those celebrations were attacked by Ukronazi terrorists, Mr. Waggaman would be telling us that the R.F. is incapable of protecting their own citizens in their own country.
Does Putin (or whoever’s playing him this week) need a new anthem?…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2KpEva4As4
It’d do for the whole NWO really – ‘Imagine’ is showing its age.
Angry young boys.
Are we witnessing signs of OffGuardian’s Pu-Tin Stress Disorder?
This crazed piece is not only poorly written and emotionally off the wall, but abysmally researched.
Maybe the choice to vote for the articles was removed because Mr.W was receiving too many ‘one stars’.
We have to have occasional crazed pieces to keep our powers of discrimination well oiled.
Same principle as George Carlin swimming in raw sewage in the Hudson River when he was a boy. He was proud of the fact that his immune system “got lots of practice”.
God bless him.
Here’s the whole sketch, if anybody wants a smile:
https://youtu.be/X29lF43mUlo?si=BQj80p3-rpKuQWUg
You left out the part where at least 115 were killed in the Crocus City Hall attack. Do you think that might have had something to do with it?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/22/moscow-concert-hall-shooting-blast
There’s definitely a connection but not in the way you imagine. Both are psyops designed to keep the Russian citizenry docile, afraid and believing that the government cares about them. The reasons are much the same when Western governments run fake terror events (and fake Russian poisonings). The Crocus attack was a fake staged event, there was no terror attack conducted by outsiders but rather a terror event staged by the Russian state. In all likelihood there were no casualties at all beyond the ear of one of the patsies. When you accept stories told to you by governments without any critical analysis, you will never understand anything.
One must never forget the number one rule of the modern world: Follow The Money. That is to say, what was accomplished by the event?
Vis-a-vis the Crocus attack: absolutely 100% NOTHING was accomplished which benefited Russia or anyone else in the least. It did add a few bricks to the wall being erected between Russia and “The West.” But that was all.
Not every instance of Much Ado About Nothing proves that Nothing at al was done.
If it was a false flag on the part of Russia, boy do they have a lot to learn!
Good one, Howard. Folks who dig Mr. Waggaman do not do cui bono analysis, like the author himself.
So, the Russian state doesn’t benefit from scaring their citizens into obedience? That’s just a thing in the West is it? Pal, listen to yourself.
All states that commit psyops on their citizens deserved to be repudiated by their citizens, as that experience is all their own.
Repudiate the shit that is projected upon you by the countries elite that clams ownership of you.
So like I said earlier, do we all support the Russian citizens who repudiate their government like we repudiate ours? The double standard I’m seeing bothers me
Just as the Moscow bombings in 1999 were used to get Russia into the second Chechen war. Putin also played a role in this of course.
Conjecture and bullshit.
I had dinner with Santa Claus last night.
Prove me wrong.
you left out that Crocus “attack” was done by Russian special servises, just as apartment buildings bombings in Russia in 1999. Have a look at “Riazan sugar” story.
Russian hollywood production team.
Staged as fuck the dates they use are perfect give away.
LOL
I was considering the same thing, maybe its a real concern.
But their insisting reference to Social media and Internet to place people’s photos of their ancient dead relatives and comments and name tagging for data collection reveals them.
Away from the streets and living personal contact and into the cold grey AI beast.
Question for you. If that terror incident happened in London or New York and was then used to excuse more surveillance and shutdowns what would you say?
I know what I’d say. I’d say it’s weird how these terror events like 9/11, 7/7, Boston, Berlin etc always end up justifying more and more state control. I’d say I’m pretty sceptical this was a genuine terror event and I’d want additional info before just believing what the bloody Guardian told me about it.
I bet you’d say that too, yeah? So, why is it different when it happens in Russia?
Russia is genuinely being attacked.
The propaganda and rhetoric from the Collective Waste reflects that rather well.
It’s not working what you are tryting to do.
This behaviour is very similar to the IIDF bullshit brigade.
There is much ado about self-fulfilling prophecies. Having already decided that ALL nations are in on some big plot which is just vague enough to pretend it’s real and that thousands of years of human history was just a bleep in the “All In It Together” dynamic, we can now just sit back and laugh at the silly folks who actually believe one nation might hurl a few missiles at someone they’re (pretending to be) fighting. .
Maybe there are one or two instances where the people of one nation really, truly don’t like the people of another nation and really, truly are out to get them? Or is that too human rather than oligarchic oriented to be possible?
In this debate or fight between NATO members and Russia, I am firmly on side with Russia.
There’s no doubt in my mind that the Russian president is as controlled by the Russian oligarchs as the Western head honchos are controlled by the Western oligarchal corporations and billionaires, however, the Western media spew nothing but propaganda against Russia and it is not to be believed.
Here’s an article by a Western journalist who actually lives in Russia and who translated a recent speech by Putin into German (those interested, can feed it into the machine to obtain the English version). The point of this translated speech was to overturn the Western propaganda that Putin was threatening Europe with nuclear war – which he was not.
And then there’s the Orwellian “peace” conference by western allies that excludes Russia… You can’t make this shit up!
It is both stupid and morally bankrupt to side with any state. The correct position is to side with the people. The very idea that people need to choose a side between two corrupt, tyrannical and all round criminal organisatiuons as the US?NATO and Russia is the ludicrous delusion of the thoroughly indoctrinated simpleton.
If you support Russia you are supporting a state that imprisons people (eg Igor Strelkov) on trumped up charges for having the temerity to notice that Russia has fought the Ukraine war in a half baked and half hearted way with no plan for victory.
If you support that then I have nothing to say to you. There is no hope.
People who claim that Russian state is not representative of people of Russian Federation are uninformed about Russian history as well as ignorant about Byzantine political tradition that even Soviets had to adopt being accused by clueless west of authoritarianism as they fought external aggression.
Also role of Eastern Orthodox Church that was always de facto a propaganda department for the state is completely misunderstood in the west as they ignore roots of Russian political system that cannot exist any other way or the state will disappear with historically proven catastrophic consequences to population as it would allow for uncontrollable pillaging by invading cohorts from west or east or south. it happen repeatedly in the past. (Mongols, Swedes, Poles, Lithuanians, Napoleon/French , British, American and Japanese invasions, Ottoman Empire, Kaiser and Hitler invasions to name major ones)
There can’t be Western style democracy in Russia for whatever it’s worth and Ukrainian war proves it again as it means disintegration of the state and that’s exactly what west wants and even expressed explicitly from 2022 on when Biden and other NATO leaders called for regime change in Russia while his lapdogs from Poland proclaimed that Russian must disintegrate into statelets controlled by the west if Europe was to be safe.
Strelkov represents exactly such a view of Western existential threat and hence his opposition to Putin who currently is most pro western politician in Russia west will ever get is that he did not nuke Kiev on day one and saved Russian lives an opinion that is shared by majority Russian nationalists.
Strelkov shares such delusional fanaticism with Ukrainian politicians like Timoshenko not to mention ultranationalists like Biletzky who also advocated NATO to nuke Moscow on day one but not in February 2022 but already in September 2014.
Strelkov is in jail because he repeatedly refused to back down and to really understand Putin initial plan that worked well by forcing Kiev regime to abandon NATO bid after defeat of NATO trained AFU following 45 day war that resulted in initialled Istanbul documents that laid foundation for previously unattainable strategic peace agreement with sacrifice of just about 1600 Russian military contractors dead.
Strelkov called him naive as he was blind to the Putin’s ploy to secure Russia, China, India and global south political support and most of all support for Russian economy facing unprecedented in history economic war waged by the west.
Russians moved on and Strelkov was left behind. If you think that it is because of authoritarians in Russia removed political opponent from the scenes via means of court think about Trump being sued exactly for that purpose.
Thanks for that reply re Strelkov. He was one of my heroes of Resistance to the 2014 “Nudelman cookie” Ukraine, and I must admit that I thought Putin should have taken over Kiev as well as Crimea in 2014. But Putin is a man of peace and a builder, not a destroyer.
“Be slow to quarrel but once in
Let they opponent look to thee” — Shakespeare, Hamlet.
Ah right. Putin started the war and sent his troops in but he doesn’t want to win because he’s a man of peace. So he just keeps letting people die indefinitely. That makes total sense man, thanks for clearing it up.
No, Putin did not start the war. But you know that.
No argument with you, but can you fix the faux quote please.
Ah, there is nothing like an arrogant person insulting another by informing the other what they mean according to how they themselves view the world and it is only they, themselves, who is not the fuckwit.
The people are only interested in money. They dont even care where the money come from.
You wanna side with them? Good luck.
You have a point there.
You are both stupid and morally corrupt for pushing this overvalued ideas of equivalency between Russia and the west. You’ve not the interest or intellect to make any claims about Russia, let alone imagining you side with Strelkov. Citing foolish Americans (RW) with a clear agenda makes it clear what you are, just another part of the idiot machinery of the west.
No hope indeed.
I support Humanity., that includes the defense by one country against another.
You are an indoctrinated simpleton of you think that there is not an existential conflict between the “values of the “West” and those of the “East”.
I am surprised you haven’t written instead,
“If you don’t think that Palestine deserves what Israel gives “then I have nothing to say to you. There is no hope.”
It has been interesting to listen to Alistair Crooke, Larry Johnson, Scott Ritter and Pepe Escobar on recent visits to Moscow for conventions speak very highly of what they saw and experienced .
Indeed, so what did they learn?
Dont ask. Its not part of the propaganda. Just say “ohhh thats interesting that it was interesting”.
I didn’t read the others but I remember an interesting observation by Ritter on the difference between Chechnya and his U$ home: Chechnyan troops are not ordered to take the bullets out of their guns before their Leader arrives at a Jamboree. So different, so very different, from the home lives of our own dear Presidents!
No doubt OffG will ask Riley to inform us when Chechyan bureaucrats begin to change things in the interestes of SAFETY.
“And from this nettle, DANGER,
We pluck this flower, SAFETY” — Shakespeare, Henry IV
Why would US leaders demand US soldiers to present themselves bullet free before they arrive? (asking a stupid question).
Where do get your quotes from? A world-wide google search comes back with one quote – from you. Or am I missing some subtle quirk where you have changed the quote?
What an idiotic and inherently nasty article. Incoming missiles and drones from Ukraine are clearly the worry – a justified and sensible worry; why give the Zelensky and his NATO spotters such an easy target and (for them and the gullible readers of the western ‘press’) a PR superstory of killing the ‘evil Ruskies’ on their own soil. Is this an attempt to sow racial discord or Islamaphobia in Russia? Me thinks the writer either has an agenda or lacks any awareness of real dangers. My money is on the former.
How patently obvious has this been from the very start! The author’s (RW) purpose is to push the Russia is equivalent or even worse than the west meme. Tedious and arrogant Americans.
Admittedly, the sight of millions of Russians crowding on to the public streets and into public squares would make a juicy target for “Ukraine’s strategic missile plan”. Having lost the military battle, NATZO’s plan now is to imitate Israel’s genocide of Palestinians by killing as many Russian civilians as possible using missiles supplied by U$UK and Germany.
But isn’t that Riley’s point? The Russian government has chosen SAFETY. They should not countermand a genuine grass roots urge to go out and celebrate the FREEDOM which they attained by their heroic victory over Fascism in WW2.
“A nation which chooses SAFETY over FREEDOM will achieve neither SAFETY nor FREEDOM” — Benjamin Franklin.
“What an idiotic and inherently nasty article.”
Visit his substack. It’s all of a kind. The guy grinds his axe from the belly of the beast, apparently unconcerned about what happened to Gonzalo Lira under similar circumstances. Not comparing him to Lira of course. Courage and banality don’t share the same suite, but it does tell you something about freedom of speech in Russia.
It’s interesting to compare and contrast 2 foreign Moscow/ Russian based journalists. One uses a copy and paste technique with some text in between the various pasted images whilst another writes a detailed analysis of the subject at hand.
https://johnhelmer.net/russias-aluminium-strategy-sanctions-force-oleg-deripaskas-rusal-to-reverse-course-twenty-years-too/
Your Link is to a long article about the intricacies of Aluminium production: ought the process to be vertically integrated like ALCOA or ought it to be horizontally multipolar ie, broken up into autonomous groups such as Miners selling their raw product to Exporters who sell their ore to Refiners who sell their raw ingots to Fabricators who sell their Finished Products (eg, Aluminium saucepans) to Wholesalers who parcel them out to Retailers? An important question that has been stirring in to the surface in “primary producer” countries such as Africa, South America and Arabia.
Russia no longer wants to be a Primary Producer “a gas station masquerading as a nation”.
I used this article by Helmer to illustrate the profound difference in the quality, research and analysis of course 2 foreign Moscow/ Russian based journalists. It is stark as night and day.
Yet, there seems to be a tendency on this site to continually offer up post and paste articles concerning Russia. As Terry Thomas used to say a “ complete shower “ !
OffG has neither staff trained enough nor connections deep enough to do original investigative journalism (apart from Colin Todhunter). But it does very well the next best thing: analysis of the News. OffG is usually on the side of Truth and Decency, and one must admit that Russia and China have been no more truthful and decent than most other countries about Con-19.
Admittedly the editors have a bee buzzing away (“The PTB are all in it together”) but even so, OffG will print a contrary opinion.. But I take your point: Since the death of the White Russian site, Saker Vineyard, there has been a dearth of original and informative articles about modern Russia; this reborn country which is reshaping a new, multi-polar world.
Don’t be a pompous, patronising ass, NickM. I mean this affectionately. Hehe A2
Fuck you Off Guardian!
What an argument!
“What! The Old Blue Pencil
Will put you at your ease.”
https://open.spotify.com/track/0nWqVBOa4PPsTsOrK3ff5o
I think their concerns are something to do with the UA targeting likely crowds with missiles and drones. This might be an “overabundance of caution” but its probably expensive to keep air defenses on high alert to cover them. (There were reports of a number of missile attacks yesterday which were mostly countered — ‘mostly’.
Or it only goes to show how Russia is 100% on board with the NWO which appears to be the point of the article.
Alternative media says its Putin’s 5 dimensional judo to copy paste everything 110% the globalist do.
Putin has said, who wins the AI race will win. What they intend to win I dont know. Power? Enhanced soldiers? Hybrid humans? Cyborgs? E-money?
The above story doesn’t seem real. If you was to add the Russian Tommy 10 names payriot / journalist jailed for journalism story to the story. I would of believed it more. Has U.K colon repeated the story..? Bullshit Brian loves the Russia is different grift.
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The reason for the Muslim Eid al-Fitr is ancient tradition since first celebrated in the year 624 CE.
75 years WWII history versus 1400 years religious history. Difference.
But as we all know, all religions will be gathered into one inside the digital Beast..
fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me – fool me three times- YOUR fully mindcontrolled.
During covid the deadest plague to ever hit the planet, They cancelled D day. They cancelled Easter then they cancelled and did the day of lockdown which started on eid. if anyone been about for longer than orchestrated banking collapse of 2008, Then the same old story’s line are being regurgitated – Bring out the moslems terrorists psyop.
Russia on March 2024 on 20th of March also known as 322 period has some ISIS shooters walk into a Russia church and shoot the place up killing 333 people or was it 133 people.?? One of the Isis shooters had a free Palestine sticker on his gun.!!!!
Your alt media also known as arrrrag media would of been able to break down the horseshit in that story, instead it repeats the mainstream narrative and gives it a alt media even more of a cooperate MSM suit the agenda twist.
from the same production company who brought you this.
one eye one armed preacher abu-hamza @ Finsbury mosque london. LOL
(new alt media and it viewers you must feel right c)nt’s for believing all of it back then)
Did you really say, “the deadliest plague to ever hit the planet”? I’ll refrain from a huge lol because you do deserve some sympathy for your deep zombie torpor.
That was sarcasm. If you read the whole comment (painful as it is to wade through I admit) he was clearly joking there.
Try to wake up from your own “deep zombie torpor” before commenting on a post.
I have been about since WWI and the big Wall Street crack in 1929 and seen it all.
All what is bad in Islam is Western inspired and financed from the City of London. Its all a theater.
The flat screen is eating up everything with soul and spirit.
In the morning you reach out for your Smart phone to see down into virtual reality
In your school and job you look down into a Laptop to see virtual reality.
In the afternoon you look down into a PowerPoint to see virtual reality.
When you get home you lay your smartphone down, open your flat TV and look down into virtual reality.
10 hours/day week after week, month after month, year after year, you receive only virtual reality information in a 2-dimensional synthetic state.
We can only get a grip of the organic world by physically looking OUT and UP in heaven with our physical eyes, the 3-dimensional real state.
If a plant, tree, vegetable, flower outside or inside dont get access to heaven and cosmic waves, they die.
What happens to these virtual humans I dont know, other than I meet only infantilized idiots who believe in jabs and boosters, clima change, green wave, CO2 is a problem, women in power, m.m.
Wow… Nice one.
This makes me feel safer, even in the US, remote from Russia. 😂
Thanks, Riley.
Looks like a test to see how easily they’ll get the public to cooperate and obey. And to assess whether there’s pushback from giving up traditional war propaganda parades and replacing them with authoritative directives around climate change and faux emergencies.
Possibly, but ialways worth a trip down to the real world from time to time.
A world where everything isn’t always fake and where physical reality doesn’t need to be continuously denied.
May be a refreshing change
War isn’t glorious. And orchestrated military maneuvers designed to cull soldiers and civilians to further transfer wealth to the central planners isn’t the real world it’s criminal fraud, and conspiracy to commit mass murder.
Your inability to deviate from your AI generated cyber warrior scripts and multiple screen names is as interesting and real as watching a video of paint drying.
So the real world is boring. Got it
No, you did not begin to get “it” or anything else.
Sure. You seem always up for a non-contribution.
There must be something in that life of yours worth sharing. Don’t be shy…
Go get some more nudge docs from the Behavioral Insights Team and jerk off to those.
I’ve said I don’t trust you in the past, but I think you’re on to something real here. They have canceled May 9 EVERY YEAR since 2020. Different reasons. Same result. It’s got psy experiment written all over it
I’ve never noticed your comments before the other day, and I’ve been here since 2020.
Everything the central planners and their subsidiary corps (faux nation states and government depts) do is data scraping, mass mind control, psychological warfare, intelligence gathering operations: Ordo ab Chao. They create all the chaos.
With voting for instance, the faux governments don’t need to count votes, they decide the winners and losers *before* elections. They pre-pick the candidates for the political theater *and* own all political parties.
They’re just taking the temperature of the slaves. Whilst psychologically shackling them to the lie that a corporation masquerading as a government has any lawful authority over a single soul.
Texan with (supposedly) “German” name (“Krieger” means warrior) conceives offspring with Hispanic, Hispanic deprived of custody (why?), kills herself and child. As always, the Jewish media portray the murderer as “actually loving”, while a man is always seen as a monster. In this Jew York Post article, the father is practically non-existent, all the photos are dedicated to the murderess. Well, we have long known what this focus means. https://nypost.com/2024/05/06/us-news/mom-made-son-3-say-goodbye-to-daddy-before-murder-suicide/
I believe most of us here have more pressing matters to deal with, closer to home than Russia. Are there many Russian readers?
I believe the entire “slavsquat” substack exists solely to serve as a BRICS-is-not-your-saviour message service.
Indeed. Squatting amidst the Slavs. What’s in a name
That is a comment of remarkable ignorance and stupidity. I can only assume that you were joking. But you didn’t seem to be.
Well, you said it. The mirror isn’t always the best interlocutor. Try the real world
If this march is really a Russian grass roots movement then, in the same way that Eid is a Muslim grass roots movement, the Russian people will cancel its cancellation.
Meanwhile, anti-Russian propaganda media — such as Moscow Times, Radio Free Europe and British Intel — are having a ball, and living the life of Riley jeering at Russia.
Alas, living the life of Riley from their man in Moscow, is no substitute for : solid, well researched, well written articles about Russia !
False equivalence fallacy. Riley’s stock in trade.
Unfortunately the globalists span the globe. The immortal regiment might not be allowed onto the streets but the Victory Parade went ahead. However Putin’s inauguration was minus some key embassy staff.
https://tass.com/politics/1785709
The snubbing of Putin by key embassy officials invited to the inauguration was lambasted by Lavrov. He indicated that diplomatic protocol had been ignored. Subsequently there has been a diplomatic war going on (you know the tit-for-tat stuff) with a Russian attache expelled and threats to remove diplomatic status to certain spy operation premises, sorry, diplomatic buildings, and Russian threats to target British assets in Russia and elsewhere if any British missiles land anywhere in Russia.
https://en.topwar.ru/242046-britanskij-ministr-podtverdil-vysylku-rossijskogo-voennogo-attashe-i-namerenie-lishit-diplomaticheskogo-statusa-rjad-rossijskih-zdanij-v-britanii.html
Worried?
All diplomats collect intelligence on the countries they’re posted to, its part of the job. The linguistic trick is to use the term ‘spying’ to describe these activities when they’re actually just reading the local media, meeting and greeting and generally acting as the spokespeople for the country.
“Spying” is when they go over and above these duties, recruiting people to covertly collect information that is supposed to be confidential (or just plain secret). Diplomatic staff do this as well — for example, the British “Secret Service” disguised their operatives (and incidentally financed their operations) by acting as passport control (visa) officers at UK embassies.
As far as ‘threats to target British assets’ you’ve got a rather weird situation in the UK where the government is not only supplying medium range missiles to Ukraine but openly encouraging them to use these missiles to attack things inside Russia. Under historical circumstances this would be “an act of war” but obviously this is an undesirable escalation. Its does feel to me that the UK government is living in the 1850s — everyone recognizes the historical figure Florence Nightingale on the old five pound note but few people in the UK know anything about the Crimean War, much less know anything about the who/what/why. (Same with “The Charge of the Light Brigade” — the brigade might have got wiped out heroically but nobody knows who did it and why.) They might remember that win or lose the whole Crimea War thing eventually wound down because of a total lack of interest by the British public — nobody could figure out what Britain was doing there and why.
The US embassy in Kiev organised the Maidan coup that overthrew Yanukovich. Geoffrey Pyatt was the ambassador. I think that goes over and above intelligence gathering. But it’s not spying!
Why have they not targeted British assets in Russia long time ago.
This Kremlin appeasement policy against their worst enemies and against their own Oligarchs selling out Russian assets to them is pathetic.
This has been said too many times the last 10 years, and the situation has only got worse.
Spoken like an ignorant American.
Do you imagine anyone outside of your own country would be interested in you fantasies?
Tempting to say “the Nazis won then” – but the ones behind this aren’t nationalist and aren’t much socialist either.
No doubt they’ll have “influencers” placed to deflect blame on to the Moslems and, hey presto!, you have a strategy of tension. Huxley wrote decades ago about Islam could be a very useful weapon. The parallel with the BLM “protests” during Convid should be obvious to anyone.
Well they couldn’t blame those ‘Commie Unionists’ once Thatcher had destroyed them.
Now the ‘enemy’ doesn’t look like us.
They don’t dress like us.
They don’t eat the same food.
And worst of all; they don’t worship the same god.
They MUST be bad.
They SHOULD be feared.
(Meanwhile, the government will feign tolerance to cultivate division).
That’s a pity. It was great event. All the way along Tverskaya Ulitsa to Red Square.
Somehow they always seemed to get perfect weather for it, which ended as soon as the ceremonies did (cue Silver Oxide spraying conspiracies).
I recall that there were a few phoneys in the parade mix, who’d bought suitable jackets & medals from local kiosks. WWII Veterans for the day. Well why not. We all play at being soldiers
The paranoia of the parasites is palpable.
Alliteration is always allowable.
So it should straws.
You should see the Icelandic version…
Rather rigid regulations, in fact.
After living in the country for 35 years, I have to admit my occasional attempts still fail miserably, whereas my Icelandic wife will happily coin a clever new verse on a daily basis – until I ask her please to stop, of course…