Over
the course of the last several years I have been enjoying my blissful
ignorance of people like Saker and other Putinist or pro-Putin
propagandists, reducing my daily diet of toxic information mainly to
either Putin himself or to his advisers and officials. For the
Apollonian dictum "Everything with a measure" also applies to bullshit.
My bliss was interrupted (as usual) today in the morning when I was
directly asked to look at the latest opus in which
Saker and Dimitry Orlov combined forces to deliver a new drivel made of Putinist megalomania, disinformation, fiction, and strong BS. Saker himself
describes Orlov though as "the undisputed expert on social and political
collapse, Dmitry Orlov whom I have always admired for his very logical,
non-ideological, comparative analyses of the collapse of the USSR and
the US."
First of all, "Saker" (a product of the White
anti-Soviet emigration to the West) is a psy-op link between the Kremlin
mafia and Washington. And his article that has a form of Saker's
interview with Orlov starts off with categorical and stupefying claims
like this one: "After some amount of effort by NATO instructors to train
the Ukrainians, the instructors gave up. The Ukrainians simply laughed
in their faces because it was clear to them that the instructors did not
know how to fight at all..." Orlov is clever, but his intended audience
is clearly the stupid. Or this: "They have to win, and they have to win
without any help from the Russian military, which can squash the
Ukrainian military like a bug, but what would be the point of doing
that?" Or: "Therefore, we should expect most of the country to go dark
over time.... After that point the Ukraine will lose access to Russian
natural gas as well." Or: "Orchestrating a smallish but highly
publicized radiation leak from one of the ancient Ukrainian nuke plants
would probably work. Rather weirdly, Westerners think nothing of
poisoning themselves with glyphosphate but are deathly afraid of even a
little bit of ionizing radiation."
The combination of old trivia
with old heavily prejudiced stereotypes and above all concentrated
disinformation makes one puke. More of this utter nonsense: "We can
imagine that this swirling tide of humanity, ejected from Western
Europe, will head east, slosh against the Great Wall of Russia, and
flood back into the west, but now armed with Ukrainian weapons and
knowhow and entertaining thoughts of plunder rather than employment."
Now the creeping fascism and racism starts raising its head as well:
"Ethnoi (plural of “ethnos”) generally only last about a thousand years,
and at the end of their lifecycle they tend to exhibit certain telltale
trends: they stop breeding well and they become sexually depraved and
generally decadent in their tastes ... What will spark the next round of
Western European ethnogenesis is impossible to predict, but we can be
sure that at some point a mutant strain of zealots will arrive on the
scene, with a dampened instinct for self-preservation but an unslakable
thirst for mayhem, glory and death, and then it will be off to the races
again."
One of the many examples of unadulterated bullshit:
"They are of a new breed of thoroughly professional career politicians
with up-to-date managerial skills." Not even Soviet propaganda could get
as low and demented: "The recent initiatives to let everyone in and to
let non-citizens vote amply demonstrates that US citizenship, by itself,
counts for absolutely nothing. The only birthright of a US citizen is
to live as a bum on the street, surrounded by other bums, many of them
foreigners from what Trump has termed “shithole countries.”... shiny
young IT specialists skipping and whistling on the way to work past
piles of human near-corpses and their excrement; ... well-to-do older
couples dreaming of bugging out to some tropical gringo compound in a
mangrove swamp where they would be chopped up with machetes and fed to
the fish."
And I pass over the overly idiotic and utterly false
praises by Orlov for Putin and the terrible reality of his regime both
domestically and toward the world, the over the top falsifications and
crude lies. The article is an attempt at direct attack on intellect,
common sense, decency, and morals.