TheNebulator

Japan sperging out over the Kuril Islands is a symptom of a greater problem. Japan took these islands and Sakhalin as spoils of war in 1905, after defeating Imperial Russia, just as they had seized Korea and Taiwan from China in 1895. All those lands were given up in 1945, after Tokyo capitulated to the Allies. While it was the Soviets who broke the back of the Japanese army in Manchuria, the US got to occupy the Home Islands after dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Douglas MacArthur got to be the de facto viceroy of Japan for years, the Americans wrote the Japanese constitution, and basically reprogrammed the entire country’s thinking for decades to come. The programming has been so successful, to this day the Japanese don’t even dare mention who nuked them. Tokyo never makes claims to Taiwan, or Korea (North or South), even though it ruled them longer than the Kurils. Maybe because doing so would draw the ire of Americans? But it has no problem with disputing Russian territory. That’s seen as “safe.” That right there is the problem. Not so much the brainwashing of Japan, but the perception that it is safe and acceptable to dispute Russian territory, because Moscow is too nice. For a brief spell after 2008, nobody actually thought this, due to the swiftness and ferocity of the Russian victory over Saakashvili’s regime in Tbilisi. Arguably, that’s why the Maidan was engineered, to avoid the direct confrontation with Russia and instead subvert it through “democratic” Ukrainian nationalism. That gambit backfired when Russia took action in Crimea and the Donbass rebellion kicked off, so the West reverted (literally) to the Yugoslav script of the 1990s. Only at this point did Ukraine became a proxy war trap. While reasonable people perceive the SMO as proof that one should absolutely not mess with Russia because it will systematically dismantle your economy, industry, army and eventually statehood, Moscow is still perceived as too nice, unwilling to slap the NATO hand clearly visible out from under the bloodied Ukrainian meat-puppet. This perception may not be the problem, but it is a problem, urgently in need of fixing.

Западноевропейские псы истошно лают про так называемый российский теневой флот. Давайте разберёмся, о чём это? Под ним подразумеваются обычные торговые суда, которые ходят под нероссийским флагом, но выполняют перевозки в наших интересах. Подобный флаг обычно называют «удобным», или «благоприятным». Это такая система, где судно регистрируется в стране, отличной от страны владельца, ради экономии на налогах и регулировании. К ним относятся Панама, Либерия, Маршалловы Острова, Багамы, Белиз, Бермуды, Каймановы Острова, Кипр, Мальта, Сейшелы. Конечно, никаких прав у европейских собак задерживать такие суда ни в соответствии с Конвенцией по международному морскому праву 1982 года, ни в соответствии с национальным законодательством нет. Это чистой воды произвол. Но отсюда вытекает один важный вывод: абсолютное большинство западноевропейских судов также ходят под удобными флагами. А значит что? Значит, руководствуясь симметричным подходом (что справедливо), Россия вправе атаковать любое торговое судно вражеских стран, находящееся как в наших, так и в нейтральных водах при наличии достаточных подозрений, что оно перевозит груз в интересах противника. То есть любой груз! И таких судов очень много. Наши Вооружённые силы способны резко расширить работу за границы Черноморского бассейна! Ровно об этом и доложил сегодня командующий Тихоокеанским флотом Верховному главнокомандующему.

This means we will soon see the VMF capturing some Westoid ships on the high seas, right? ... Right?

🧿 The next Substack is out. Anyone else remember when Jolani (aka Al Sharaa, the former head-chopping head of ISIL) came to Moscow to visit Putin, and his terrorist generals got tours from the Russian General Staff? Not sure if that is worse or better than hosting Zelenski. ▶️ https://workingbrother.substack.com/p/russian-hysteria-as-zelenski-visits ◀️ Buymeacoffee Patreon @WorkingBrother 😎

Here’s a Serbian take on the Vucic-Zelensky controversy and the Russian reaction. The Serbs as a general rule shoot from the hip while the Russians go through elaborate procedures. What we have here is an interesting exception.

I don't know, maybe there can't be peace in Europe until Germany is reset to factory settings (i.e. pre-1871).

"Tell us, Europeans, what can we do to help you kill more Russians?" This isn't a scene from a Hollywood movie. This is German journalist Michael Martens of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asking Zelensky how Europeans can help him kill more Russians, at a joint press conference. Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić couldn't even hide his astonishment. I am not often at a loss for words. This is one of those rare times. Unfuckingreal. 😡

Aleksandar Vucic, the president of Serbia, just hosted Vladimir Zelensky of 404 in Belgrade. The Serbian public is generally disgusted, and the whole thing is being dragged into domestic political disputes. Vucic's Progressives now insist that they love Russia but having Zelensky over isn't hostile to Moscow (LOL), while their detractors — who normally genuflect before Brussels — suddenly pretend they like Russia now. It's uncanny, how friend/enemy distinction overrides everything else. If only it could be applied externally... Rather than offer any kind of divination of what Zelensky's visit might have meant, I will tell you this: within hours of his departure, Vucic was visiting a rural church in Vojvodina. Make of that what you will.

Russian hackers have obtained evidence of NATO's direct involvement in strikes on Russian territory, according to documents they anonymously provided to TASS. "Bart De Wachter is a specialist in hybrid warfare. He currently works for HAVN (Hybrid Analyse…

Russian hackers have obtained evidence of NATO's direct involvement in strikes on Russian territory, according to documents they anonymously provided to TASS. "Bart De Wachter is a specialist in hybrid warfare. He currently works for HAVN (Hybrid Analyse Vigilant Network), an organization linked to [Ukraine's] Special Operations Forces and NATO intelligence," the hackers' statement reads. They claim De Wachter sent intelligence to the SBU with the coordinates of oil and gas terminals in the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions, as well as a Gazprom tanker transporting liquefied natural gas.

The "40-day influence campaign" was obviously a PR stunt. The equivalent of V-2 attacks on London. Doing as much damage militarily (i.e. none) but terrorizing civilians. Didn't matter then, won't matter now. The Empire and its minions are out of missiles, according to their own media (possible psyop, but they do hate the Bad Orange Man enough to wish him harm with such disclosures, so draw your own conclusions), so 404 won't get any, The important part now is to not give in to "niceness." Reading just how much Zelensky was able to bank from grain exports for YEARS, while ukrodrones were sinking Russian ships and bombing refineries may not be enough to make a normie Russian's blood boil, but I can tell you the Serbs are appalled. Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. The gloves are finally off. Took long enough. I feel like we're about to watch the endgame.

An Ukrainian drone killed seven people, three of them children, and injured more than a dozen at a beach in Gelendzhik, in Russia. On Saturday evening, they bombed a restaurant in Moscow, reportedly aiming at an Air Force general celebrating his birthday. Killed a bunch of innocents instead. Kiev is now asking for a ceasefire. I wouldn't give it to them.