A serious nationalist dissident movement will be forced to contend with Globohomo agents using transit restrictions as weapons.
A serious network of such movements will prioritize erecting and maintaining parallel infrastructure specifically to counteract these tactics. One of them must be, by necessity, a transit network.
This network must be able to move men and material around quickly and quietly, both in small numbers and in large ones. Fortunately, there already exists successful models upon which a serious network of movements can employ to achieve this critical objective.
The Charter Network
Using the system of internationally-distributed legal frameworks to conceal ownership and move money around--the same one Globohomo uses--the nationalist network creates an array of private transit operations. These are front companies, preferably corporations established in jurisidictions with the strictest privacy regulations, who contract with other companies that own the vehicles used by the front companies.
The front business is to run chartered transits. This can be over the road (buses and trains), in the air (planes), or over the water (boats and ships, almost all yachts of some sort). These are all businesses that easily explain why such assets are privately owned and employed to move people and things around.
In addition to having an easily-explained parallel network of transit, this is also a source of meaningful employment for dissidents and their supporters; the wages/salaries for those in this field of work are far better than your typical office worker, retail wagie, etc. and far higher status to boot.
You will come into contact with monied and influential people on a far more frequent basis. Some will be friendly- recruit them; some will be enemies- surveil them; some will be neutral- befriend them.
In between the regular charter service will be concealed movements of dissidents, either as crew or as guests, moving where they are needed.
Capacities can start small and operate in a local area or region, such as an owner-operator of a coach bus that does scenic tours and chartered people-moves, and scale up from there as success and support allows. It sure beats trying to operate a retail-level coffee brand or a publishing operation for achieving operational objectives and financing same.
Different arms of the network should be arranged as separate legal entities that are ultimately under a common (offshore) holding company which it (again) based in a jurisdiction with the strictest privacy regulations. Corporate reorganization will happen more than once as the network grows into one of truly global reach.
Which leads to the first logical expansion.
The Residence Network
Dissidents need places to stay once they arrive. Real estate is hardly an uncommmon form of Foreign Direct Investment, and businesses hiring from abroad do include housing as part of the compensation package. This means it too is easily and readily explained.
The same legal framework and methodology applies; start small and local, scaling up over time and linking up with allies elsewhere, until it connects with the holding company that conceals the rest from Globohomo.
Houses, apartment blocks, cabins, palatial estates- whatever can be gotten can be used. This is going to piggyback off of what AirBNB started, and it means you're a landlord and need to deal with landlord things, but because (covertly) you know who's going to be staying in what (and for how long) a lot of typical tennant tantrums go away.
And we can import the talent needed to build and maintain that if necessary- and in some places, it is.
The Professional Network
All these operations require skilled professionals and tradesmen to make it work. This is not a movement that will succeed with unskilled retards in the ranks.
Both the hard and the soft expertise is necessary; we'll need both pilots to fly the planes and stewards to make the passengers happy with experience, and I don't just mean planes (or trains, or automobiles, or yachts).
The personnel in the front offices, the IT experts securing the networks (including the communications suites in the command centers), the chefs cooking up culinary excellence for clients and allies alike, the mechanics doing repairs and maintenance, and the mates running the tenders as well as making up the cabins- all of this is necessary for the entire thing to work.
The front operations are not shells; these are proper businesses and need to be handled as such.
If the dissidents had all of this up and running, and secured banking access out of Globohomo (and Russian, and Chinese) reach, Globohomo can't win.
And we can deliver people and parcels great and small, do so with speed and discretion, and ensure that Things Just Work (and don't without us)- something they can't do without us.
Then, with this massive exercise in personnel and logistics sorted and mastered, we can evacuate our vulnerable people out of danger on short notice. From there, Empire must fall.
I am looking at solving the as-yet-unadmitted problem of the Western Dissident Movement scene.
This is an insurgency. Insurgencies cannot succeed without external support. No worthwhile rival power to Globohomo would even think to try, so said movements will have to find a way to do it themselves.
This is not impossible. It has been done before. It is being done now. Globohomo usually call such successful self-support schemes "supporting terrorism" due to whom that support goes to and what they do with it.
The dissidents are aware of each other. They communicate. They occassionally collaborate now. This is good, even if it is in symbolic gestures of no substantive impact.
Rather than wait for Globohomo to counterpunch where it would hurt, I would like to see these movements demonstrate that they are serious about winning and begin moving to make use of these tools for their own ends.
Offshore Access
As things are, Globohomo can cripple the dissidents by shutting off their banking access. This is already on the table, thanks to Canada vs. the Truckers. Rather than wait for the hammer to drop, now is the time to get someone to a place where (a) an achievable investment can secure offshore banking access that (b) also permits dissidents legal Residency to that location. That place is Dubai, UAE; the means is to erect a Freezone company, put someone there to run it, and use it to establish banking access.
Red Ice Creations could, within about 30 days, relocate their entire operations to Dubai and live there fulltime. Associated people (and their spouses/minor children) could be hired on, up to the limit the UAE allows, and everyone gets Residency there- and protection from extradition.
This is not cheap; Dubai is an expensive place, but it is out of Globohomo's reach, and keeps both the Russians and the Chinese at arm's length.
Exile Colonies
There are places that (a) welcome Westerners with skills, (b) are not shitholes, and (c) have good education systems that remain out of Globohomo's reach while maintaining some degree of neutrality in geopolitical terms. Mauritius just east of Madagascar is one such place; Uruguay in South America is another. The purpose of these locations is to have refuges for your vulnerable supporters and/or their children, which takes Globohomo threats against them to get to dissidents off the table; those working in these locations should be expected to remit some of their income back home to fund operations.
This can be cheap, or at least no less costly, than living at home; the specifics will vary- and vulnerable elderly have a lot of options for dissidents to hide them due to how many countries have Retirement visa regimes.
Tactical Citizenship
Dissidents must admit that citizenship is nothing more than legal status with regard to a state, separate and distinct from nationality. (N.B.: The United States already does this.) Therefore, those dissidents that can acquire multiple citizenships should using any means at their disposal- including buying it via Citizenship By Investment.
Having multiple passports means that the home state can't lock you down, or lock you out of financial access abroad. Furthermore, by comparising passports, the savvy dissident can cover gaps in his home state's passport access by choosing citizenships that do so.
Furthermore, some citizenships confer advantages in other countries. (e.g. a Commmonwealth citizen gets accelerated routes to Citizenship in Colombia and Mauritius, and several Caribbean states that do CBI are Commonwealth states) All European dissidents are well aware of the benefits of European Union membership; similar benefits exist for Mercosur, the Caribbean Community, and Communidad Andina states. Western citizens in general enjoy a certain favoritism vs. other foreigners in several Asian states (e.g. the Phillipines).
Using this legal status for tactical and strategic ends to faciliate operations against Globohomo is entirely licit and should be embraced; it's no different than stacking legal Residencies to secure access to foreign countries.
A Self-Supported Nationalist Insurgency
Once mature, the Western nationalist dissident network will be a hardened target against the Globohomo elites at home. Unable to be debanked due to having accounts in places the enemy can't (or don't dare) touch, unable to intimidate via targetting vulnerable dependents or supporters (because they are abroad indefinitely), and unable to control transit due to nationalists having parallel infrastructure in place (erecting charter businesses and media companies are obvious Expat Colony business options, pays big money, legitimizes owning planes and (big) boats (etc.), and permits networking with sympathetic elites) means that competing and winning becomes probable- if the dissident leadership is serious.
Show me that they are serious. Then we can stop talking about making Empire fall and start doing it.
Many years ago, The Simpsons aired an episode wherein Homer went into prize fighting. He didn't win because he was better than his opponent. He won because he outlasted his opponent, simply taking the beating until the opponent got too tired to continue--"gassing out" as some say--and then knocked the man out with a single piss-poor punch.
That episode was, in part, a parody of Muhammed Ali's famed "Rope-A-Dope" approach. It is as simple as it sounds; you minimize your energy expenditure, go full defensive, and make the other guy exhaust himself trying to get at you- and then when he's spent you take him out with ruthless efficiency as a flex.
This is what Globohomo is doing to Russia and the CCP. It is working. It is going to give Globohomo the win unless leadership in either or both rival Imperial states wise up and counteract before it's too late.
What It Is
In tabletop and electronic wargames, there is the concept known as "Damage Over Time". Abbrieviated as "DOT" (with "HOT" as its counterpart, for healing and recovery), a player whose man is optimized for playing a DOT strategy ensures that his opponent is too busy dealing with immediate concerns to properly address the DOT effects that erode the opponent's capacity to resist and ultimately lead to his defeat.
For this strategy to work, the opponent has to be rendered unable to address the damage accumulating over time to his capacity to resist. This means presenting some immediate threat or bait that proves bothersome to deal with, yet cannot be abandoned due to some non-trivial threat or penalty to doing so. As bait in fishing is best applied by tailoring the bait to the catch, so must baiting an opponent be tailored to the target.
How It Works
With the bait taken, the conflict is managed. The objective is to fully occupy the target's attention, and if the target can be induced to devote resources towards the distraction so much the better; the bait's safety is irrelevant, and once its usefulness is spent it is discarded- to be replaced if another is required.
The conflict is to be managed--sustained, massaged, tinkered with--until the DOT reaches a Point Of No Return past which defeat is a fait accompli. Once the target collapses due to the consequences of accumulative damage sustained, the survivor finishes off the target and takes his spoils from the defeated enemy.
The DOTs used to damage the target include damage to its ability to execute financial transactions, damage to its demography, damage to its cultural or narrative control, damage to its political capacity, and damage to its industrial output. Notice that these are all easily overlooked, especially if the target is distracted.
The geopolitical form of this strategy aims not only to bring a present regime to heel, but to sever it from its posterity; this is what the cultural attacks are for, to convert a critical mass of the target's population to Globohomo's position and thus groom a cadre of Globohomo-loyal elites to insert into place once the present regime falls.
This is, in fact, going on right now; YouTube is lousy with Globohomo shill channels fronted in earnest by Russian converts. This is what a lot of people thinking that Russia will win the peace do not comprehend; once you have a large enough cadre of cultural influencers, you can turn some of them into replacement Establishment figures and thus turn a defeated enemy into a loyal satrapy inside a generation post-defeat.
Why It Succeeds
It is this simple. This is from a Zeihan presentation made six years ago.
It has only gotten worse since then, and the very military action Peter talked about then is now going down.
Ukraine, for Russia, was the bait. That's why Globohomo put Zelensky into Kiev, covered up all the scummy shit his regime pulled (and pulls), and used it as a catspaw to provoke Moscow. They knew ALL ABOUT this very scenario.
Globohomo decided to force the issue on their terms, and those terms means using one terminal nation (Ukrainians) against another (Russians) for the purpose of poisoning a rival Imperial power (Russia) to death- and then to put a satrap in power in Moscow.
But not just Moscow. They fully intend to break up the Russian Federation into upward of a dozen smaller states, each of which too weak to resist Globohomo or the third Imperial power: China.
(We'll get back to Beijing below.)
The real DOT here is not economic or political. It's cultural.
Contra what Vox Day, Jackson Hinkle, The Duran, et. al. want people to believe the Russian demographic THAT MATTERS is already Globohom-aligned. That would be the folks comprising Russian's professional, technical, and managerial elite who are--at most--neutral or apathetic to Putin's regime and therefore the cohort of the population that would slide right back into government and corporate positions in Russia once Putin and his cohort fall from power.
Why?
Again, it is this simple:
He's someone that works with a Globohomo company (YouTube) and other such companies, which is part of the aforementioned cohort of Westernized Russians. He, and others who went abroad either for work or other reasons, did so because they could get the higher Western standard of living without having to be in a handful of locations in Russia.
You'll find similar stories with every single Russian expatriate, especially those working in the cultural end of things, and these people (and their families) tend to have skills, wealth, or both- as evidenced by the massive influx of Russia capital into Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
When Zeihan talks about Russian demography, he includes all of these skilled and educated people dipping out leaving only fuckups, hardcore regime loyalists, and those still on the make behind to fill in the gaps- and the consequences of institutional incompetence take time to fully manfiest.
Globohomo knows that if it can keep Moscow focused on the Ukraine War long enough, there won't be anything left to rebuild with at home. All of the skill and acumen needed is out of their reach and loyal to Globohomo, so when they return they will be happy to (as a class) seize power and rebuild Russia (and whatever splits off it of this time) into a Globohomo satrapy that they run and enjoy being the boss(es) of.
It almost worked in the 1990s. This time it will succeed.
About That China Issue
The CCP has a serious problem in that a lot of its most talented and skilled people tend to leave China and not come back. Once settled, usually in the West or Southeast Asia, they begin bringing family over; this swiftly forms Mainlander Chinese enclaves in those countries.
Why do they come West? Some of it is earnest believe in Globohomo propaganda about freedom, liberty, and Enlightenment values. Most of it is flat-out Securing The Bag; they're here for the money, specifically to take what they slipped out of China and making it work for them via investments into even more money.
The CCP, knowing how this settlement pattern works, exploits it to attempt counter-operations via "Overseas Police" operations in addition to other fronts such as the Confucious Institutes (found on or near university campuses) and classic honeypot operations targetting Western officials.
But, while not to be dismissed, the real tell that the CCP is more aware of Globohomo's real strategy comes from its pervasic media controls.
The Mainlanders love Hollywood; media piracy is still endemic, despite the Great Firewall, and it is no surprise that bootleg copies of Top Gun: Maverick can be found sold on disc therein- along with other censored or banned movies, shows, and other media from outside the mainland.
There are exit bans in place, but they are not properly used or enforced.
This contributes to China's own worsening economic and political instability, not at all helped by the disasters made worse by incompetent land and water management.
Globohomo knows it has superior cultural appeal over China. That's why monied Mainlanders all flee into the West as fast as they can with as much as they can, legally or not, despite how terrible the Chinese passport is. It's also more difficult to get the better visas for Mainlanders than for diasporan Chinese.
Therefore, Globohomo knows that China is in the same boat as Russia: a young would-be elite cohort culturally aligned with the West and disfavored by the regime, biding its time in exile, and willing to go back once the CCP is gone to (for all intents and purposes) turn China into a Glohomo satrapy.
All Globohomo has to do is wait, and it uses the bait of Taiwan as well as potential naval conflicts elsewhere in waters it claims, to keep Beijing distracted from the eroding cultural control it's suffering from. Economic damage comes from disinvesting from the Mainland and into its nearby rivals instead, such as Vietnam, rerouting global trade influx and maximizing outflows from China. If Beijing doesn't resort to war soon--within the next year or two--it will slip past its No Return point and become unable to do so.
And Then We Wait For Them To Gas Out
The final part of the strategy is the most dangerous because if you don't wait for the target to hit total exhaustion, you can screw it up and give them the win by allowing them a shot at you that takes you out before they go down. This is a Fabian-style strategy, which is why Globohomo conceals its presence entirely and denies that it's doing anything of the sort; maintaining deniability ensures that no one can throw wrenches into the works, at home or abroad.
It doesn't matter how much gear you throw into the grinder. It doesn't matter how many insults you take. It doesn't matter how much money you throw at the fake problem. You get all of that back with interest when they gas out and you roll them over to take everything, put your puppets into position, and reconfigure the land, the people, the polities, and the economies into Globohomo-prefered forms.
And once you have your hooks into a target polity's elites, you can guarantee control by ensuring that their elites attend your universities and train alongside your Imperial leadership classes- because once you've converted their culture to accept yours as greater, then they accept that your morality is superior to theirs and you can convert the elites. Then the elites will convert the masses for you and thus enforce your Imperial rule invisibily. Neither Russia nor the CCP truly comprehend this, which is why they'll both die to DOTs.
Conclusion
This is why I write of Empire as something separate and distinct from any polity; it can, and it does, sit above it as a competing force in human existence. Its power comes from presenting a compelling moral paradigm to those it holds as Thralls. If you have a strong and resilient moral force--a religion--than you can do great things so long as that force can back the effort and thus make the costs worthwhile, including justification for subjugating one's own kind to the yoke of an alien religion or a foreign power.
If you want to defeat Empire, you must have a superior religion. I know of only one.
First, a bit of Globohomo alarmism propaganda to set the stage.
Second, a reminder to revisit last week's post because I will build on what I introduced there.
Now, to get on with it.
The War Is Already Here
I say that those arguing that Globohomo is not ready to wage war against peer powers misses the point. The real way that Globohomo wages war got laid out almost 20 years ago in Confessions of an Economic HitMan by John Perkins. This process is something that came up again with this recent Niger crisis.
Summarized, Globohomo wages war primarily by means of subversion and patronage. It uses private actors (corporations, NGOs, charities, etc.) as fronts for Intelligence operations whose objective is to re-engineer entire nations, countries, and states into being compliant client states--into being satrapies--tied to Globohomo's imperial power for physical, economic, and cultural security.
Yes, cultural. I'll get back to that below.
Globohomo does not merely dominate the global financial system (and with it the global economy), it OWNS the system and thus defines what it is and how it works. They are The Money.
How Globohomo Handlers Deal With Their Jackals
Perkins outlines that Globohomo has three tiers to its operations: Economic Hitmen, Jackals, and Mercenaries.
Perkins was the former. His job, using a Non-Official Cover via working for a multinational corporation or NGO, would be to find corrupt local elites (or would-be elites) and give them sweetheart deals: in return for running the targetted area as a satrapy, they get to enjoy a share of the spoils and hands-off for local affairs so long as the Imperial Core wasn't made to look.
Perkins was very good at his job, but occassionally he failed. That's when a James Bond sort comes in to kill the target and clear the way for someone more pliable to get put into position.
When Hitmen and Jackals failed, the Mercenaries--often the U.S. military, in the guise of "protecting Democracy"--would run roughshod over the targetted country and finish the job.
Even when the military route failed in the present (Vietnam), Globohomo did not give up; Intelligence would not merely wait for a suitable target to come along- they engineered such puppets, and in a generation or two Hitmen would succeed with installing a Satrap or otherwise shaping local affairs to Globohomo's liking (again, see Vietnam).
The War Is Fought On The Moral Level
Economic and political control, while necessary, is insufficient for lasting Imperial control of a satrapy. You have to change the culture.
Both Russia and the CCP have noticed this, and other states' elites have done the same. Wherever one sees a surge in homosexuality's public expression, followed by legal action to compel first tolerance and then acquiesence, one sees Globohomo's cultural subversion campaigns in action. This past week saw one such success in Brazil.
"Fantastic news!"
If you say 'faggot' on a pitch or hoops court in Brazillian cities, the - I'm assuming Highly Theoretical as an honest broker - max penalty is 4 (?) years.
And Globohomo has been nothing but hostile to Uganda after its criminalization of homosexuality.
One can guess as to the motive, but the Shiba of Color notices a pattern: wherever this happens, homosexuals become Court Eunuchs and as in Imperial China's past they become eager agents of Globohomo ready, willing, and able to deal out rewards to friends and punishments to enemies with such glee as to make Carl Schimdt blush. They do so because they rely on the Globohomo Imperial Core for their cultural security as well as their physical, political, and economic security- they can't survive without it. They are the Cossacks of Globohomo. Troons are even more dependent than non-troon homos, so they are always pushed next; pedos troons are the final form of Globohomo's Court Eunuch caste of Spiteful Mutants.
In addition to this are the known Globohomo trends of atomizing populations using Enlightenment Individualism as a stalking horse to destroy every single institution that could stand against and defeat Globohomo's Leviathan, and then to exempt itself from the rules it promotes as Sacred Truth in another shrewed display that Schmidt was right: it rules by Unprincipled Exception, "breaking the rules to preserve them"- something seen this past week by the blatant and incompetent political prosecution of President Trump and his closest associates (including several of his lawyers).
That includes all forms of native culture, from its foundational mythology to its political economy, and very few can recognize the threat soon enough to organize and implement a counterattack. Imperium Press wrote a pair of fantastic articles about this a while back, "The Mithriadates Strategy" and "The Third World Is Going To Cop It"
"Power for me, rules for thee." extends into the cultural realm also.
The norms for mass media worldwide are formed and enforced by Globohomo's Imperial Core. The infrastructure that allows mass media to transmit worldwide? Held by the Core. The financial regime that lubricates all global media operations? Owned by the Core.
One can see how effective Globohomo is at cultural re-engineering by targetting the youth of a target population by how fast locals Westernize their dress, talk like whores and pimps on social media, and talk all the maddest of shit about their homelands and culture because they're zealous converts to the Globohomo Imperial Religion.
And if those youth go to a Globohomo-control school system they stand a good chance of coming out as Imperial priest(esse)s with the mission to rewrite their cultures to conform to the Globohomo Imperial Creed.
A reminder that translators who try to unsubtly insert their own politics into other people’s works isn’t just limited to the world of video games.
You don't need to say a single harsh word to conquer or destroy an enemy.
You need to control their key elements: culture, economics, and politics. Globohomo has this down to a science, as one expects of a competent religion, and it remains the most successful of Empire's three rival powers.
Globohomo has successfully contained Russia and the CCP. Despite Moscow and Beijing's efforts, Globohomo has successfully captured its youth cohorts for two generations and going on a third, so the poison that Globohomo has built up an immunity to is ravaging both rivals. Moscow lacks the will to commit to the extent required to counterattack against the cultural subversion, as it still does not yet comprehend it properly; Beijing is in the same boat for the same reasons- and because they cannot perceive the source of the peril, they will not counter it in time.
The financial encirlement matters more than the political one, as the latter lags behind the former, and despite sensible moves to mitigate and work around Globohomo's control of the system both cannot avoid dealing with the damage dealt to it via that same system- compounded by Globohomo accurately reading their individual cultural profiles to exploit known weaknesses.
So long as the Rope-a-Dope holds, Globohomo cannot help but to win. Once the present parties in power are gone, suitable satraps will be installed and both rivals become naught but Imperial provinces of Globohomo- and no, the recent BRICS summit will do nothing to change this. I'll let Zeihan explain why.
Globohomo is on track to win the century. The only chance to upset this will be if the CCP goes hot and wages an open war, be it over Taiwan or to put down nascent military expansion of Japan or something else Beijing sees as an existential threat, but defeat will come out of victory so don't despair just yet. Things are going to suck, but as Imperium Press points out the means to its win also guarantee its fall.
It is that moment to prepare for, because that is when Empire Must Fall.
I think that Globohomo intends to solve a few problems using the Ukraine War. Filtering through the all-pervasive propaganda leads me to the following:
Globohomo's Thralls seek to degrade would-be rival Thralls in Europe and force them back into line, which is why the EU and NATO are doing most of the material transfer to Ukraine and shouldering both the brunt of the consequences and much of the costs. If the D.C. crowd can get some of their EU fellow travelers to follow Ukraine into the meatgrinder, so much the better; makes it easier to (a) replace those men with immigrants and (b) use those immigrants against dissidents.
Globohomo seeks to bring Russia (a rival Imperial power) down, and the D.C. crowd knows that Russia defaults to attrition warfare to wear the enemy down before counterattacking for the win. Therefore they seek to fix Russia's attention on the fighting while the real damage is done economically, especially by removing all the key personnel needed for its critical infrastructure (how does not matter), and as that has happened the Regime thinks it need only wait for that damage over time to add up.
Globohomo seeks to do the same for China. Now that the real data on China's real economy is getting out, D.C. and their European counterparts see that merely fixing them in place and letting the internal damage do the job for them is also a viable move here.
Hence the Globohomo faction of Empire's Thralls settled on a Rope-a-Dope policy. It's working, on all fronts. The EU is under far greater strain than expected (and the Niger situation is no help; if that blows up it will lead to more migration to Europe), Russia's lost a critical mass of technical talent with no means to replace it that it needs to keep its money-makers moving, and China's economy is a Potemkim village built on a fault line- and the ground is rumbling. The US has enough issues for a trade paperback volume, but it's the least bad by far and the Regime knows it.
As for the global collapse, this is no concern of D.C.- the (Globohomo) Imperial Core. The collapse is not from the Imperial Core out, it's the Core sucking everything else in- and straight to the Boomer Furnace. First Russia went to war because it had to. China has to follow soon or the CCP has no way out of the mess they are in.
Can Globohomo pull it off? Yes, it can and it is. Like him or not, Zeihan's reading on both rival Imperial powers has born itself out here; the institutional culture fosters incompetence and corruption in both countries, which hampers the ability to fulfill the functions that justify a state's existence.
What will happen if Globohomo succeeds? An attempted at a controlled crash as the Core sucks the Periphery dry, uses influxes of migrants to exterminate dissent in the Core, and keep the flow of sacrifices to Mammon and Molech flowing until instability in their control is eliminated. This happens to coincide with (a) automation providing the pretext to kill most of the population as "surplus to requirements", (b) economic system overhauls moving people into the prepared killboxes called "Smart Cities",
A Word On Propaganda
This war is all about unlimited electronic warfare- unlimited Narrative warfare.
Globohomo has a very sophisticated, refined, and extensive network of shills. The Russians and the CCP are not without skill or acumen, but they remain latecomers to the game and Globohomo isn't a sporting sort.
The rubric I've used, and so far has worked well enough, is this: "They lie about themselves, but tell the truth about their enemies."
The application, of course, leaves room to adjust for things like Rhetorical manipulation and--as I've found first-hand--letting things settle a bit before diving in allows the shills to slip up out of lax OpSec and let out details that they ought not to have revealed. Some of them include:
"I will talk shit about Ukraine and puff up Russia/China, but I only ever film in the most developed and well-off parts of the country that might as well be a tourist trap" is a common one. The Duran's Alex Christoforu did this recently in Russia, filming only from the nice parts of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Other pro-Russian channels do the same, and the CCP shills are notorious for this (and they get help from minders). In the reverse is every mainstream Globohomo outlet, still doing the "correspondant" gig from as far from the fighting as they can get- including blatant green screen bullshit or "on the phone from (X)" scams when the dude's calling from within the building (or, at most, a very comfy hotel vaguely in the area).
"I will not talk shit about (Imperial Power)" is a big tell, usually of the CCPShillsphere; the Russian and Globohomo are smart enough to let their mouthpieces shittalk them from time to time- usually in ways that further internal factional objectives (e.g. shitting on the State Department to make the Pentagon look better). Globohomo shills parrot the line out of D.C., London, and Brussels; you could replace them with VTubers run by bot programs and no one would notice.
"I will talk big about an enemy error, and then ignore that nothing actually happened after I said it." Business Basics is terrible about this one, but you also see this from wu mao trying to puff up Russia.
"I will make a minor push into a major event, when the lines barely move" is another one both Globohomo and Russia do, but the former do it a lot more and it looks even worse when you get independent satellite imagery of the front lines and they barely moved.
Rampant dehumanization Rhetoric. The troon shilling for Ukraine is just the latest to do this, and all sides are guilty of it.
The absolute state of things is that there is sweet fuck-all space for people who are not in any Imperial orbit to get the word out on what the fuck is actually going down because all parties concerned have motivation to blather bullshit until the cows come home. Michael de la Broc's Telegram channel is still the best outlet for a neutral point of view that I have on hand, and his occassional livestreams hammer home that he's not having this propaganda either.
The war's winding down its Summer campaign season soon as Ukraine enters into the transitional mud period that ends all ground movement, and support abroad for Ukraine is already waning as domestic concerns take higher priority with Western nations- such as inflation and disaster response.
But Globohomo wants to win, so fuck the nations- Ukraine gets what it needs, and plenty of profit for Globohomo's Thralls are to be made in making it so.
Scott Ritter got banned off YouTube. His channel, and everything in it, is gone from YouTube. Certain others have privated related videos in response.
Recall that last week Ritter said that Gonzolo Lira had been turned by Ukraine's SBU into a Judas Goat and turned to the task of mapping out Western dissident opposition to Ukraine--not support for Russia, just opposition to Ukraine; those taking a neutral stance are considered enemies--with the aim of rolling up and taking out that dissident network.
I said that those shown to be most efffective would be targetted first. We have Proof Of Concept here with Ritter's banning. (He will relocate to Rumble presently as of this post.)
It’s interesting that they targeted Ritter now, though. This suggests that either a) something is going to happen in Ukraine or b) something is going to come out about Ukraine. He’s a fairly esoteric figure; if he was going to be deplatformed over the Special Military Operation, one would have expected it to happen about a year ago. So the question is not why, but why now? If Col. MacGregor is similarly deplatformed soon, that will tend to heighten suspicions.
Yes, I concur on MacGregor also. Keep an eye out for him being yeeted off Susan's Video Site along with everyone that's hosted or clipped him.
You don't do this unless (a) you're uncertain about your Narrative dominance and (b) you need it because you're going to do something that requires it to succeed and soon.
This also means watching for The Duran, George Galloway, Stephan Gardner, and many others--many of whom, alas, are in the CCP Shillsphere--to get shadowbanned or outright banned if this is indeed the case.
Also watch out for seemingly independent channels that nonethless parrot and echo the Globohomo line. Business Basics, several "I'm a Russia Liberal! Listen to me!" channels, several "I'm a military veteran! Listen to me!" channels, and some of the military history channels have all gone that way- if not to opportunistically game the system for higher ad payouts (LOL; get MILLIONS of views, get paid less than minimum fucking wage) then to play the mockingbird in hopes of getting funding or more (i.e. "I WANNA TAKE THE TICKET!")
Globohomo remains the most savvy Narrative Warfare fighter on the scene; as an institution they adapt faster than you'd expect, so don't be surprised when the dissident narrative starts getting jammed and drowned out through bans, shadowbans, and boosting of Globohomo Regime Loyalist voices on all forms of Globohom-controlled social media. Thralls know that Normies don't go to Gab, Bitchute, Odyssee, Rumble, Locals, or whatever- if it's not on Twitter or YouTube (etc.), it ain't seen.
You may not care for Ritter. That's fine. Just note that he said that something like was on the table regarding Lira's use as a counter-intelligence asset, and now something like this is happening. Don't be surprised if more goes down.
This past week, internet personality Gonzolo Lira emerged from his blackout after his second arrest by Ukraine's SBU.
This video is a stitched-together version of the three-parter he did prior to his attempt to leave Ukraine this past week.
If you prefer to read it, there is a Twitter thread starting here.
As the title says, this did not work out for Gonzolo. He is back in SBU hands as of this post and is unlikely to leave the country now unless he's deported- and that, at this time, is the best outcome he can hope for.
But, while I would rather that he not had been in this situation at all, I am not surprised that it failed.
A Tale Of Hubris
Gonzolo has not been a humble man. Regardless of how you came to know of the man, or think of his past or present pursuits, soon you will see that he has a thirst for attention that would do him credit were he a shock jock on the radio trolling audiences to keep them engaged.
It is this need for attention, coupled with a complete disregard for operational security, that has bitten him in the ass time and again and is now looking to get him sent to either a defacto or dejure death sentance- barring a possibility that I will address below.
A former Intelligence analysis that has appeared with Black Pigeon Speaks in livestreams related to Ukraine (and is no fan of his) went on the Working Brother channel a while back to explain the SIGNIT capabilities that are the most likely explanation for how Gonzolo screwed himself.
Now, let us presume for the moment that everything Gonzolo said was true. (Why I doubt this is, again, below.)
Does it not strike you as monumentally stupid to (a) be a foreigner living a country whose government is as clean as a sewer drain, (b) to shit-talk that same government while within its reach to a growing audience, link up with an entire sphere of Western dissidents friendly to that government's enemies, and then do this while at that state is at war and making the enemy party look good in the process?
We acknowledge that this is not allowed in Russia. We already know that China doesn't allow this. Why are we surprised that a former Soviet state, now aligned with Globohomo, still has former Soviet practices in its governance style?
Principles aside, as a matter of pragmatic concern, you do not openly antagonize a state openly at war while within that state's territory unless you've thrown up enough barriers to conceal both your identity and your movements--literal and otherwise, including financial and communications--to avoid reprisals. That, folks, means knowing Tradecraft and good ol' Gonzolo here doesn't know shit about Tradecraft.
Even if he is above-board and clean as a fresh pack of tighty-whiteys, he was going to fail this flight because he couldn't keep his mouth shut long enough to get away. If he had any clue, he would have ditched his snitchbricks--the phone, the lappy, and likely his cards also--and used only cash for transactions (building that cashroll up slowly with small withdrawals on a daily basis, enough to get him over the line when he ran). Then, instead of going through a checkpoint, he would have slipped over open ground.
Don't tell me that's not an option. Anons geolocated where he shot that video. You can find it here.
I'll get back to that location in a moment, but for now just look at the wide open field RIGHT FUCKING THERE that he could have rode, run, or walked across instead of using an armed checkpoint.
Remember his stated goal: asylum. He need only get over the line and into the hands of someone with a badge (so to speak) on the other side. His bike is expendable if that can't get him over the line- and he just needs to get over the line. Crossing illegally, while a crime, would be forgivable in an asylum run.
Instead, he is back in SBU hands and we may never hear from him again.
But No, It's Never That Simple
I don't buy the story. Scott Ritter explains it best.
Given what Gonzolo has said and done, and comparing that against what is known to be possible to both the Ukrainian government by itself as well as with Globohomo intelligence support, I think that Ritter's got the right of it and Gonzolo's been turned by the SBU into a Judas Goat and he's meant to map out the Dissident support against Ukraine to take it apart one way or another- and one of the tools is the very financial tools likely used to tap Gonzolo's accounts.
What pushed me over the line to this position is that geolocated postion data. That's nowhere near Hungary; that's the Ukraine/Slovakia border.
One can be charitable and say that he attempted to dissuade pursuit by leaving a false lead on where he aimed to go, but he knows about Shia LaBuff's entire "He Will Not Divide Us" stunt that kept being found and trolled by the Chans. Gonzolo knows that Anons will geolocate LOLcows for shits and giggles, and he knows that KiwiFarms exists AND that he has a thread there, so he knows that the odds are good that where he shoots anywhere will be geolocated right quick by people who do it for the lulz.
He's a vainglorious man, and his acumen has holes you can sail a carrier through, but he is not stupid.
That's why I find the entire thing to be a work, down to his rearrest and the taunts of the troon speaking for the SBU included, and I think Ritter's got it right here.
Don't cry for Gonzolo Lira. He did this to himself, and now he's compromised. Do not give him money; it goes to your enemies. Cut him off, cut him out, and learn from his fall into the hands of the Thralls.
As a takeaway, this is the BPS stream George did after Gonzolo's second arrest that goes into some the details behind how Goznolo screwed himself.
You may want to review your own security and make changes, especially if you're serious about dissident movements or politics, and remember that all three Imperial powers have such capabilities. Don't proof yourself against Globohomo only to fall into the hands of a rival power.
