The real proxy war

Recorded a podcast with Andrey Martyanov. We discussed his recent trip to Moscow, Russian restaurants and cigars. It will be out in a few days

Now i'm eating a big marbled steak that was cut out of an Udmurt bull. You mad?

picrel: me after eating good

Andrey Martyanov and Nikolay sat down, discussed and argued about the state of affairs in modern day Russia, Special Military Operation, Soviet engineering and Americanization while puffing on Dominican cigars and clinking our glasses with jack on the rocks

Full episode on Patreon
Full episode on our Gumroad
21 min on youtube

I have just baptized my son at a local church. Now he's a proper Orthodox Christian with Godparents! He almost did not cry.

Two days ago Azeri soldiers have ambushed a car of a Russian peacekeeping force unit in Karabakh. All of the Russian peacekeepers inside the car were killed. Azeri president has issued an apology to Putin for "mistakenly" killing Russian troops. It happened during the latest attempted Azeri Reconquista of the majority Armenian region

No idea what to say on the matter really. It's foolish to have a peacekeeping force on the ground that lacks any purpose and is instructed not to fire first. It's tragic to die in Karabakh for no reason whatsoever when there are tens of thousands of men who successfully return home from the actual frontline in Ukraine. The disregard for human life and the swamp of diplomatic relations go together, i guess

But it's also important to understand that the very same scenario would have happened in Lugansk and Donetsk if Russia had not intervened and started the SMO. As of January of 2022, Ukraine could have easily conquered the entirety of LDNR - and they did express their willingness to do so at every step of the way. They have ramped up the shelling of the breakaway region in February 2022 as a preparation for an invasion. If the Ukrainians had dealt the first blow in full force, the LDNR defences would crumble. The few and far between Russian soldiers of fortune and military specialists would have been slaughtered along the way - just like our peacekeeping unit in Karabakh. And Russian Federation would have done exactly nothing about it

Thanks to SMO, we have pushed back the "fist" of Armed Forces of Ukraine and achieved a relative operational depth on their soil. Which is why the Ukrainian army - which is much more powerful than the Azeri forces - cannot just roll in and blast away any given Russian target. Because we have served the first serious blow to them and, more importantly, we have outlined what we're actually fighting for in this area

In "Karabakh", though, Russian peacekeepers have no agenda of their own. They're just stuck in there - hated by both armenians and azeris. The place itself is of no crucial interest to us and i really do hope that we either pull back altogether or establish our position clearly. As of now though it's just two Anti-Russian countries fighting for an irrelevant mountain range deep down in Southern Caucasus. Russian peacekeeping force is caught up there like deer in the headlights. I think it's time snap the fuck out of it

Russian MOD starting to give less of a shit with respect to the footage they publish. Usually they never show closeups of dead bodies. This is from Klesheyevka south of Bakhmut, which, despite claims to the contrary, is still very much in the grey zone, not under Ukrainian control. Don't watch if you are sensitive to this kind of thing https://t.me/ukraina_ru/170287

UPD: There were troubles with yootoob so i had to private the stream. It will be up tomorrow in audio form and with light editing for those who didn't catch it live!

Improved version of yesterday's stream where we discussed interesting events of the last week and answered your questions. Enjoy!

00:00:00 - Greek vacation & Baptism of my boy
00:11:43 - Digital mobilization
00:22:35 - SMO, sanctions and the Russian Economy
00:38:20 - Bosphorus strait. Surovikin. Digital Ruble.
00:52:00 - Soy Hitlerism
01:07:45 - Invasion of Karabakh
01:22:43 - Guest: M Book. NAFO cryptozoology
01:37:21 - Sara Cyrillo's downfall & US military culture

Also available on Patreon and Gumroad

This is crazy, man. RWA NEWS: Armenian Blues, Soy Hitlerism & Bogdan Effect is up on youtoob! https://youtu.be/lZmZTBmeq4g

"I noticed a strange coincidence.

Whenever Ukrainians strike at some significant Russian target, a peculiar retaliation follows in a day or two: either a hotel with tourists is hit, or some abandoned facility in an industrial area is destroyed. Open the news a week later, and you'll see that a yacht has sunk with a group of Western intelligence agents somewhere in Italy, or an American general crashes in a light aircraft, or a group of high-ranking NATO officers get into a fatal car accident.

It's all very mysterious." https://t.me/istrkalkglk/4706

Putin teaches president of South Sudan how to use translation earpiece

From NAFO gentlemen's magazines to endless merchandise, M. Book discusses the various attempts at convincing an increasingly skeptical Western population that the Ukraine deserves more money

Read our new article on RWA Samizdat:
https://rwasamizdat.substack.com/p/a-brief-foray-into-ukrainian-propaganda

"When Russian troops come to liberate Kazakhstan"

Kazakh tiktok is wild...

The two types of RWA followers

"Fuck it, one struggle"

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How often do you think of the Waffen SS?

Time and necessity can normalize anything, no matter how absurd or vile it is. After seven decades, it is the turn of the post-WW2 consensus that Nazis were the bad guys to be upended, and the very same Nazis and their allies, particularly the Baltic and Ukrainian Waffen SS volunteers, to be seen in another, positive light, their numerous crimes excused, all in the name of serving the new unifying cause-fighting Russia.

Perhaps, and contrary to the immediate aftermath of this very telling incident, the presence of an SS volunteer on the Canadian parliament will be remembered as the turning point. Here, we delve on the vectors and processes that seem to inexorably lead to this normalization

Read our new article by Ioannis Andris on RWA Samizdat substack: https://rwasamizdat.substack.com/p/how-often-do-you-think-of-the-waffen

Musk launches his first Ukrainian zrada-propelled rocket into space 🇺🇦 🚀