Posted on 11/25/2024 4:51:56 AM PST by Timber Rattler
An audio recording of a phone conversation has been circulating online, in which one speaker refers to Russian volunteers dying in Ukraine as “spare people” and dismisses their value “from a social perspective.” The voice on the recording is widely believed to be that of State Duma deputy Alexander Borodai, head of the “Union of Donbas Volunteers” and former leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. The exact date of the recording is unknown, though a version was posted on VK in mid-September. Pro-war supporters haven’t questioned the claim that it’s Borodai’s voice—in fact, last week, Mikhail Polynkov, a Russian fighter with the callsign “Khrustalik,” and even the ultra-nationalist outlet Tsargrad discussed the recording. Mediazona now publishes a transcript of this revealing monologue.
They’re seen as second-rate infantry. In reality, they’re positioned on the front lines as defensive units, set to hold the line. Their real task is to draw attention and exhaust enemy forces as much as possible while others in the rear prepare for the main offensive. Just wear them down, you understand? No one expects these forces to achieve some f****** incredible—or even small—victory. They’re simply cannon fodder.
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You sure Trump wasn’t also on the call.
Oh no, the Ukes must have already killed off all of the NORKS!
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Do you guys listen to the “Empire podcast”?
It’s run by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand and is a fun, yet very detailed history podcast.
Their series on the Russian empire is, like all their other series, incredible.
Russia’s history shows the same mentality among leaders that they consider the serfs as cannon fodder and don’t care too much about public sentiment - until it comes back to bite them in the rear. And Russian public sentiment is the same - they accept all the sh!# over and over again, until suddenly they don’t and they slaughter the boyars and the Tsar.
btw, the podcast — I really recommend it — has also guest historians joining - and these three are on it and are extremely well read and to an extent impartial historians of Russia:
Orlando Figes
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Anthony Beevor
And there is an earlier episode (on their “slavery” series - spoiler, it’s about the wider slavery entity, not the antebellum south) they have the archaeologist Cat Jarman who studied the Varangian and then Rus kingdoms in east slavic lands.
Do look for the podcast!
William Dalrymple isn’t related to Theodore Dalryimple is he?
The latter is a former psychiatrist who used to work within the prison system and his articles were always very insightful, but also depressing. He was a bit like reading Peter Hitchens. You know he’s right, but its a real black pill reading it all about how British society is essentially doomed to degeneration and decline, with all its best years firmly behind it forever.
I don’t know if they are related, but both are good authors - in very different genres!
T Dalrymple’s “life from below” is exceptional when he points out that the “white” underclass in the UK has the same problems as the “black” underclass in the US inner cities and due to (as he posits) similar welfare related reasons
Have you also read these two books on the related topic?
The Lost history of Christianity: the thousand-year golden age of the churhc in the middle east, africa, and asia - and how it died
and
Heirs to Forgotten kingdoms - by Gerard russell
Both are really good in the ways they talk about the complexity of the middle east before the obliterating effect of Islam
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