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Antonio Tajani. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons
The same boring drama has been playing out on the political stage for decades: the progressive liberal left already gets everything it wants, yet it demands more; the useless “conservative” “right” either puts up no resistance, or gleefully sides with the liberals. Another episode of this drama could be seen recently in the United States and in Italy.
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Slightly off-topic, but I’d be interested in what C-C readers think about Putin’s offer of “asylum” to conservative, traditionalist Westerners looking to escape the insanity in our countries. Is he genuine? Is it a propaganda coup? Does he need cannon fodder or the money western immigrants would bring with them? Is he trying to revitalize the Russian economy?
I don’t plan on leaving my country, but – what are your thoughts?
Years ago, before the invasion of Ukraine, some German retirees left the cities they lived in because of the rate of crime by Islamic immigrants. A lot of them moved to cities in Russia.
I think it is propaganda, part of a longstanding strategy of presenting Russia as a “based” and “trad” country to disaffected Right-wingers in the West. I hope no one is actually naive enough to take the offer.
I am an actual Russian, and I can give an answer briefly.
He is certainly NOT genuine. No chekist can be trusted, ever. If he tells us that today is Wednesday, you’d better check it out. 🙂
Putin sometimes says things which are good and true, but the actions largely do not follow the words. (I even suspect that it was his script from the beginning.) He is a “Russian Biden”, if we judge by his policies.
I can assure you that if some Russians gather openly and build an independent community somewhere, we would be raided by the police with a 95% probability.
It’s likely that they won’t have equal standards for you, because you are not a part of the Russian society and, therefore, do not have any leverage on the government whatsoever, but I’m not sure. What I am confident of is that they would try to force-vaccinate you, for example, if they are given an order to do it.
Concerning political participation – you would be offered none, and if you try to engage in political activities of Russia, they would certainly punish you.
If we compare to Germany, I have a personal anecdote – a good friend of mine has successfully received political asylum in BRD (in 2014). He was a municipal deputy in a large city at home and became a target of the state. They tried to sentence him, first with a totally fabricated issue – they raided his office in violation of the law and then claimed that he had beaten 19 police officers. 🙂 Then the prosecutors used Article 282 of the Penal Code, which is “promoting ethnic, racial, social discord”, under which essentially any living creature with two legs can be sentenced to prison, depending on the will of the state apparatus. Although it is a “fascist” article, my friend eventually was allowed asylum, even in Germany! (Today it is likely that the outcome would be different…)
There are, of course, benefits for Whites moving here from the West. We don’t have blacks (but there are too many people from Middle-Asian countries, who belong to the category of Pakistanis and Afganis). If you work in science, technology, engineering, actual production etc., you would most likely have 98-99% Russians as colleagues. Schools and universities are normal, even sociology and psychology departments. 🙂 People are normal, there is much less degeneracy present. They generally don’t trust the government or “the Science”. And people don’t give a damn about silly regulations. Nobody would call the police if you say that the Holocaust® narrative is absolutely laughable or if you call someone a nigger. During Covidiocy, the absolute majority of people didn’t give a damn about masks, vaccines amd distancing. If they were forced to take a vaccine, most likely they paid for a fake certificate, which is available everywhere. I know some Russlanddeutsche have flown here to obtain (fake) vaccination papers, so it must have been a problem in Germany to bypass all that. I think you get the idea.
In any case, running and hiding is not an option. I think that Germans can learn Russian faster than the English, but it is a difficult language nevertheless. And life is different, people are different. You have your countries, your relatives and friends are there; if you run, social life suffers greatly. Of course, it’s also a cowardly thing. So, running (anywhere, not only to Russia) is generally not recommended for you, unless you face criminal prosecution or severe threat of violence.
Anyway, it depends on the situation. If you have just released 2 million secret government documents, hiding in Russia would be highly reasonable… 😉
Not likely, unless I come across something really interesting during one of my researches. 😉
I actually started to learn Russian years ago (haven’t kept it up, so I’ve forgotten much of it by now) and didn’t think it was that difficult. Perhaps it’s a question of motivation. I needed it for a biography I was writing, so…
Yes, the vaccination paper tourism even made it into the news here. The establishment was not amused.
So what is your take on Putin’s motives? Is it only propaganda, or is there something else going on?
Like I said, I’m not leaving Germany. I thought about it long and hard, and I’ve come to the decision that this is where I will make my stand. It might kill me – probably quite literally – that those GINOs (Germans in name only) who have no sense of roots in the soil are doing their best to destroy my country, but at least I’ll die on said soil. 🙂
I think it’s mostly propaganda, but on behalf of the West.
Talk is cheap. They understand that 99,9999% this invitation won’t result in an influx of thousands. And I don’t believe that they would allow a lot of you in anyway.
They are definitely not doing it for economic reasons. Even if 1 million conservatives from the West come here, it won’t influence our economy so much – it depends on other sources. And I would tell that it operates in a different mode now, but generally it doesn’t look like war condition. Inflation is approximately on the prewar level, there are no shortages. So, that’s not it.
It’s also not for the war efforts. I have served conscription, and I know that they are VERY hesitant to give weapons to normal people. And they don’t know much about those coming in. Imagine a KKK division with tanks and artillery, which gets pissed off by the regime – it would be very funny, but unlikely to see… 🙂
On the contrary, the Ukrainian side uses explicitly Right-wing organisations in the conflict from the beginning in 2014. And they were instrumental and essential in the coup of 2013-2014 (I saw their agitation two months before the Maidan actually started). I also know that they have been using foreign volunteers – Poles, Swedes, Germans. The principle is to let them fight, while the Ukrainian government can focus on snorting cocaine and stealing your money. Logically, it looks more probable that the Ukrainians would try to invite more, but it’s also not very likely.
Your rulers also want normal countries like Poland and Baltic states to get involved in the war, but that’s a different matter.
By “propaganda on behalf of the West” I mean that Putin is not independent as a politician. It’s a long story, so I’ll just state some theses.
Russia has been under occupation governments since 3 March, 1917. They have had different stock holders (Great Britain, Germany, America etc.) in different proportions at different times, but that’s the case. After 1991 it became clear with Yeltsin, but Putin is this regime’s continuation. He was elected with the help of a Jewish oligarch Berezovskiy – there is a good book about him by Pavel Khlebnikov, which I recommend to get an idea of our politics in the nineties. Then Putin purged some oligarchs (including Berezovskiy himself), but it doesn’t mean he is not their puppet. And of course, there are a lot of ties between him and foreign oligarchy. I don’t know how they control Putin and high-level government officials exactly – maybe it’s a combination of blackmail and some personal bonuses. Whatever, they have got property and money in the Western countries and can be influenced from abroad. For example, remember the start of the plandemic – first Putin said that they are not going to perform lockdowns, but then, all of a sudden, changed his decision.
A part of Putin’s role has been to play a “Russian Hitler” for the West, at least since 2008. It’s one thing if he acted according to his words, but he doesn’t! And it would be beneficial for him to employ what people want – nationalist policies. He could also position himself for the West as some kind of Biden, which would be mush more accurate, thus having favours there. Instead, it looks as if he is trying to troll as much Western regime media as possible. 🙂 Therefore, I conclude that the rulers of the West need him as a scarecrow. Remember, when people in America elected Trump, they were talking about some “Russian hackers” for his whole term! For me, this narrative was ridiculous from the very beginning, and I have experience working for Russian three-letter agencies (we have engineered some surveillance devices for them on my previous job). Or when he financed the National Front in France. He could give this money to Russian nationalistic organisations, like RONS. Instead, RONS was banned in 2011. But some stupid journalist from NYT can claim that, if you support X, you are for Putin=literally Hitler… In fact, this “Putin” trick explains all. I have even seen claims that Putin ordered to develop and release CoV-19. Or that he is responsible for the Japanese earthquake of 2011 (he must have blown a nuclear warhead). Literally!
All his invitations and speeches should be approached with these considerations in mind. Most of them are just talk. Some are deliberately misleading. Generally the aim is to taint the subject with Putin’s name.
And there is also another aspect. It’s true that there are some political parties and media outlets (like RT) in several countries financed by the Russian sources. I know that there was a party called “Die Einheit” in Germany, which aimed explicitly at the Russlanddeutsche. They had money from Kremlin, flew here to discuss something. They didn’t gain enough votes in the elections, but at least the efforts are clear. There are also a lot of bloggers, for example, Sergey Filbert with his channel “Голос Германии” (The Voice of Germany), who were invited to Russia some time ago. I think it’s done not to influence the policies, but mostly to intimidate your governments and get some dividends from them. “If you don’t approve the project of Nordstream pipeline, we publish something nasty about Herr X, Y and Z, and get people to the streets to protest next time”. Something like that. It’s unlikely that Putin has higher considerations than some material gains for him and oligarchs’ team.
Also, the situation is changing now. Maybe the Chinese bought him, or something else happened – I don’t know. Maybe it’s just this crappy post-WWII system finally disintegrating. But even if the masters have changed, the playbook has not, and it won’t change for several years, probably.
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One of the worst arguments for allowing in immigrants is that they have good athletes who can help various sport teams. Another bad argument is that they provide different types of food for people to eat.
That’s just what I was about to say. “We need African migrants because sportsball.” How precious.
‘Tajani’. The giveaway is that J is not part of the formal Italian alphabet.
On Friday, former President Trump posted to Truth Social: “My Administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.”
Can you trust anything this guy says? (Rhetorical question).
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