Russian Liberal Opposition

miketheterrible wrote:I notice dimmi at military Russia.ru is a fan of Zelensky and Navalny. Someone I follow got blocked by him when called out on it

Lots of anti-Russian poser slime out there.

I notice dimmi at military Russia.ru is a fan of Zelensky and Navalny wrote:

really? He creates an interesting blog with a lot of information about Russian weapons.

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magnumcromagnon wrote:

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kvs wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:I notice dimmi at military Russia.ru is a fan of Zelensky and Navalny. Someone I follow got blocked by him when called out on it

Lots of anti-Russian poser slime out there.

So I was wrong, it wasn't Dimmi. It's the owner of the site militaryrussia.ru Kornev.

I found it strange how on that site they (the admins) claimed that the INF Treaty ending was a great disadvantage for RU MOD, only to be refuted a week later by an absolute jewel of a rare interview by Yuri Solomonov, probably the foremost expert on hypersonic weaponry. So who (the admins of militaryrussia) do they think the people will believe, the random bloggers on their boutique forum, or the lead designer of Avantgarde lol?

Can you provide that interview please? For my sake at least.

As well, the issue is blogs are becoming rather very important in day to day activities in Russia. Bloggers are now able to obtain monetary gain but have to provide their real info. They get invited to key events, etc. A recent article was presented by Tass that 20% increase in finances was directed to NGO's in Russia from abroad and that they were having a meeting about it today in Duma regarding the foreign agents law (they want to tighten it further since there seems to be a continuous flow of money from abroad). I would not be surprised if such blogs are funded by such people.

Indeed. This is a prime example of soft power. Social media and bloggers are propaganda and culture distortion tools. Bloggers
spread all sorts of BS and twist facts. Social media generates mobs that shame and attack any dissident.

Here is an article relevant to this topic:

https://russia-insider.com/en/media-criticism/what-ever-happened-anti-war-liberals-crushed-mass-media-information-mafia/ri27080

magnumcromagnon wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:

kvs wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:I notice dimmi at military Russia.ru is a fan of Zelensky and Navalny. Someone I follow got blocked by him when called out on it

Lots of anti-Russian poser slime out there.

So I was wrong, it wasn't Dimmi. It's the owner of the site militaryrussia.ru Kornev.

I found it strange how on that site they (the admins) claimed that the INF Treaty ending was a great disadvantage for RU MOD, only to be refuted a week later by an absolute jewel of a rare interview by Yuri Solomonov, probably the foremost expert on hypersonic weaponry. So who (the admins of militaryrussia) do they think the people will believe, the random bloggers on their boutique forum, or the lead designer of Avantgarde lol?

Can you provide that interview please?  For my sake at least.

As well, the issue is blogs are becoming rather very important in day to day activities in Russia.  Bloggers are now able to obtain monetary gain but have to provide their real info.  They get invited to key events, etc.  A recent article was presented by Tass that 20% increase in finances was directed to NGO's in Russia from abroad and that they were having a meeting about it today in Duma regarding the foreign agents law (they want to tighten it further since there seems to be a continuous flow of money from abroad).  I would not be surprised if such blogs are funded by such people.

Solomonov may be a great rocket engineer, but he should stay away from moronic claims about how a few hundred megaton class ballistic missiles would
destroy the planet and civilization. This is an utterly inane claim. Those 600 hundred megaton warheads don't even have the energy of a mesoscale convective
complex. Their "global destruction" would have to come from fires that were ignited in the wake of their detonation. The notion that these fires would
even lead to "nuclear winter" is BS.

Pinatubo managed to produce a 2 year global anomaly thanks to its injection of 10 million tons of SO2 into the upper startosphere. There is no wet scavenging
in the stratosphere since it is bone dry (3-6 ppmv H2O) without any rain or snow. Even so, the sulfate that formed from the SO2 and partially blocked out sunlight
did not persist for more than two years. Surface fires will inject black carbon and organic and inorganic compounds that form aerosols and can temporarily block
out a fraction of the sunlight reaching the surface. But these aerosols cannot last for years or even most of a year in the troposphere since they will be wet
scavenged by rain and ice meteor formation from the clouds that form from the activation of those same aerosols (clouds do not form from homogeneous nucleation).
There is a vast amount of biomass burning on this planet but there is zero evidence of any "nuclear winter" since the whole concept is absurd.

This moronic nuclear winter myth is clearly affecting decision makers as evidenced by Solomonov's comments. So it is clear that it is a propaganda parasite
implanted to paralyze rational decision making. Disarmament is predicated on this pernicious myth.

miketheterrible wrote:Don't worry.  Russia like USA has supercomputers to calculate damage and what not of each weapon system.  So they base their needs upon what their tests state.

My point is that MAD is effective and the best anti-war "device" ever. To have MAD you need an excess of nuclear weapons and not "just the right amount".
You can see how cocky Uncle Scumbag got with his ABM delusion as the number of Russian warheads went down. If Uncle Scumbag was facing 1980s levels
of warheads he would be peeing his bed and not claiming he could take Russia out with a pre-emptive strike and "stealthy" B-2s (cf The Diplomat magazine).
Solomonov and anyone else who yaps about "destroying the world several times over" is an ignoramus.

BTW, since I do HPC atmospheric chemistry and dynamics simulations for a living, I know the limitations of models. Estimating the impact of
nuclear weapons on the environment is challenging since predicting the extent of fires and the associated spectrum of aerosol precursor emissions
is hard/impossible. Not all cities will burn to the ground after being nuked. Not every forest in the vicinity will ignite and burn. It all depends on the
relative humidity and the location of petrochemical facilities, oil depots, and any other points of ignition. Panchevo was bombed by NATO in 1999 and
burned, but no fire spread to Belgrade. So fire spreading is a critical parameter. An air burst does mostly mechanical damage in spite of the intense
radiation spike (that burns the skin badly). This radiation spike is too short lived to really ignite wood and plastics but long enough to damage the skin.
So I highly doubt that top level policy people are even requesting such simulations. They just lap up the BS about nuclear winter as clearly is the
case with Solomonov.

miketheterrible wrote:Russians love to complain.

So I noticed on Twitter that so many of them are bitching about all the liberal hamsters as they call them, insulting the dead sailors (some news writer for echo of moskow glorified their deaths) and some shithead running in politics in Moscow pretty much trashing the whole Russian army during WW2. Anyway, they complain and ask "why isn't authorities doing anything?"

There is a reason why the liberals will win. They do what they want and the rest of the public is so fucking lazy they complain on Twitter but does absolutely nothing outside.

Why don't they go protest? They don't.

You see, you have to hand it to Muslims. They don't take shit even if their belief may not be correct. They at least stand up for what they believe in. Russians are just annoying and after Putin is gone, that country will be Ukraine 2.0

You are using a poor metric. By the same token the current SJW mobs in the USA and the west are also "lazy and doing nothing". They
love to complain on Twitter too. How do you propose that the complainers "demonstrate"? Do they lay siege to the offices and homes of
the kreakls? Maybe Russians should just kill them on the spot for daring to have the wrong opinions?

You miss the most important detail. All these complainers tell us that the vast Russian majority will never vote for Navalny and any
other NATO stooge candidates. So the only way the liberasts will win is via some coup. Do you seriously see a chance for a coup in
Russia today? From who? The army? Academia? No freaking way. Russia has had a national consensus on the political front for almost
20 years. No amount of effort by NATO to stir discontent and to break this consensus has succeeded.

I'll be frank.
Destroying Russia isn't too difficult.

One way is with Immigration, but it's very long term.

All you need to do is convince "1" administration to implement something like a "Hard Seller Act", and wait.
The trick is to have enough immigrants flood Russia and to become "their" representatives, and slowly yet surely you will rise to power and take over the nation, and this will send the displaced locals against you, which will divide the nation and eventually lead to major conflict.

Another way is to crash the nation Economically, this would be even simpler and more short term.

All you need to do is offer Free-Stuff (Welfare).
Basically you hook the people up on Welfare and make that the determining factor for an election victory, in short, bribe the entire nation.
This will then cause massive Debt-Spiral that cannot be stopped.
Because all those in power swore to give more Welfare.

Another way is through Subverting Russian Culture and Morals.

We already know this one, simply put, it's the rise of a Russian Proggressivism (Utopian Cultural Socialism).

Luckily, the Russian Orthodoxy is still very strong in Russia as well as Patriotism still being strong as well.

BTW, the story being missed is how social media has utterly failed to undermine Russia. Russians were supposed to lap up western
excrement with relish on Facebook, Twitter, etc. But instead of joining the circle jerk club, they have instead created their own
pro-Russian mind-space. This is an epic failure for NATO. It means any regime agenda it had is dead, dead, dead. The Russian
youth is not drinking NATO propaganda koolaid. The reason is that NATO propaganda against Russia is a wad of cheesball lies
that insult the intelligence of Russian citizens. Back during the USSR period, NATO propaganda had a hook in that the USSR
was a dictatorship and a sub-optimal regime for Russia. But the USSR is dead and any propaganda that tries to pretend it is
not, which is what NATO propaganda is doing all the time, is doomed to failure.

Ok, let me clarify
Destroying Russia "from within" isn't too difficult.