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Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 24, 2025

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

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A few updates. The bloggers in question are Strateg Divannogo Legiona (aka Sofa Legion Strategist) on YouTube, also NeoFeudal Review and Slavland Chronicles (aka Rolo Slavskiy / Rurik Skywalker) on Substack.

Mind you, what Stateg is saying (Dnieper bridges, Donbass assaults) is overall a widely accepted truth in Russia (judging by such personalities as Igor Strelkov and Maxim Kalashnikov, probably others). But it's completely absent from the Anglosphere because America has a total information blackout, with both parties serving the same centre (liberals saying Putin is satan, and paid CIA shills saying Putin is a Russian patriot angelic Christian warrior). There are some differences with Strelkov conceding that Putin may be a rusty nail - rotten but the only thing keeping Russia from a bloody civil war. Whereas Strateg says Putin is intentionally disarming Russia for a NATO invasion.

All in all, if the war is fake theatrics to a significant extent, it puts in question the entire presuppositions about the currently existing civilisations. Maybe it's being used as a bogeyman to scare the EU into rearming. Maybe it's used to genocide the Slavs. Maybe America intends to capture the Russian nuclear arsenal intact to use against China. Maybe America wants to destroy Russia because Russia is China's nuclear shield (and China for whatever reason isn't increasing its own stockpile).

Whereas Strateg says Putin is intentionally disarming Russia for a NATO invasion.

This is hilarious. But I hope whoever that fine specimen of humanity is, he's not in Russia, or hides well, because Putin's oprichniks does not care which place you criticize it from, be it from the right, from the left or from the depths of derangement only accessible to a devoted Lovecraftian. The mere fact of criticizing the Boss is enough. Girkin got how much, 4 years I think? I am not sure I will be sad when that specimen is declared Foreign Agent and shut down too, but I would probably prefer it to continue to exist - somewhere far, far away from me - as a proof that the Universe is capable of producing more wonders that I would ever be able to comprehend.

All in all, if the war is fake theatrics

Anything can be derived from a false premise.