Israel Shamir – The Unz Review Sept 26, 2021
President Putin has gone into hiding. Well, sort of. On September 14, he said that many people (“dozens”) in his inner circle have tested positive for the virus, and as a result he has to self-isolate. His sudden seclusion has sent waves of anguish across this huge country. His explanation was met with disbelief. Everybody around Putin is vaccinated and so is Putin, or so he claimed. Why would he need to self-isolate; how could all these vaccinated people become sick? Is the vaccine – fake? Or should we look for another explanation. Did he fall, or was he pushed? Will he come back? Is this the end of Putin’s era? Is Putin ill, or was he forced into isolation? Is it a conspiracy? The Russian government is, and always was manual, not automatic; the absence of the ruler at the helm of the mighty ship of the Russian state could spell trouble. The Russians do not believe the official version, but what is the truth?
A week before his announcement, on September 8th, a close friend of Putin and his former bodyguard, the man considered as a probable successor, the Minister for Emergencies, Mr Yevgeny Zinichev, died in unusual circumstances during an Arctic drill. The head of RT Margarita Simonyan said he died while trying to save a cameraman who fell off a cliff. Perhaps he was targeted as Putin’s successor, said rumours. Just before that, on September 7th, Putin went to a Siberian retreat with his Defence Minister, Mr Shoygu. What did they discuss far away from eavesdroppers? There were rumours that Putin suspected or uncovered a plot against him and preferred to minimise his contacts with the outside world and even with his own bodyguards. A very cautious man, President Putin knows that there are many powerful people and organisations that would like to see him dead and he doesn’t want to give them this satisfaction. For this reason, his enemies call him ‘The Old Man in the Bunker”. Still, Putin appeared on TV from his hideaway.
Alternately, there are precedents of rulers claiming force majeure when they wanted to miss an event or to avoid a meeting.
President Gorbachev learned of a plot hatched by Soviet hardliners and decided to stay away hoping to enjoy the benefits should the plot succeed and have his alibi if the plot fails. He went to his Crimean Phoros Palace during a tumultuous August 1991 and claimed he was detained by plotters; the plot failed, he returned to the capital, but he never got his powers back.
Likewise, the last Russian Emperor, Tsar Nicolas II learned of the planned demo of peasants and workers who intended to come to the Winter Palace to plead with the Tsar. He decided to stay away from possible trouble and went to his country residence Tsarskoe Selo. His officials machine-gunned the pleaders on the Bloody Sunday. This massacre caused the first Russian revolution of 1905-07, and the Tsar’s absence didn’t help him at all. On a different scale, President Trump went to play golf while his supporters gathered at the White House. It didn’t help him: he had lost the White House and he was accused of illegal actions. In short, staying away is not a good option for the ruler, but it is done, sometimes.
Let us consider this possibility. What could move Putin to do a Phoros-2? Now is a very eventful time and a healthy Putin would have to visit Dushanbe and deal with Russian parliamentary elections, among other things.
Dushanbe Summit
On September 16 and 17, there was the double summit of the SCO and the CSTO in Dushanbe. The SCO and the CSTO are two different international organisations, though their membership partly coincides. Putin was expected to come in person and deal with post-Afghanistan arrangements; though it could be dealt with remotely. But he was also supposed to meet with the leaders of China, India and Iran. Especially important was the planned summit with Chairman Xi, as the two leaders haven’t met face to face for a long time. There were rumours in Moscow that Putin is avoiding meeting the Chinese leader, though it was pre-planned for immediately after Geneva summit with Joe Biden. The Putin – Xi summit had been planned even earlier, to coincide with 20th anniversary of Russo-Chinese Friendship Treaty; then it was postponed because of the Geneva summit, and then just cancelled. Xi was supposed to come to Dushanbe to the SCO summit. When he learned that Putin wouldn’t come, he stayed at home, too. Thus this very important summit of two leaders didn’t materialise. Could it be that Putin does not want to be seen siding with China, in the context of the fateful triangle Washington-Moscow-Beijing? Perhaps. The Russian elites are divided; some prefer close relations with China, and others want to throw Russia’s lot in with the West. Putin is balancing these groups. Who will be first to make a deal with Biden, Putin or Xi? Perhaps Putin prefers to sit it out and allow Xi to try his hand first, at the next summit of the G2.
The physical place of Putin at Dushanbe had been taken by Alexander Lukashenko, the stalwart President of Belarus, and he visibly enjoyed the task. Years ago, after Belarus and Russia entered the Union State agreement, people mused that Lukashenko would lead both states, or at least deal with Russian domestic affairs, too. There was a feeling that Lukashenko would be better for economics, for agriculture, industry and social structure than Putin, who was more involved with foreign affairs. If Russia and Belarus would vote for the president, Belarusians would vote for Putin, while Russians would vote for Lukashenko, it was said jokingly. However, it didn’t happen. Lukashenko managed the Dushanbe session just fine and Putin spoke to them via video link.
It seems they failed to bring some sense into the stubborn head of Mr Rahmon, though they tried. Russia is ready to defend Tajikistan in case of a Taliban offensive or infiltration. But the Tajik President has much more daring plans. He speaks against Taliban interference in Tajikistan, but has hopes to resurrect the Northern Alliance, the group of Northern warlords, the enemies of Taliban. They are predominantly members of ethnic minority groups; many of them Tajiks, the second biggest (after Pashtun) ethnic group of Afghanistan. It seems Rahmon would like to break Afghanistan up and create there the second Tajik state and it would mean a new bout of civil war, something nobody else wants.
There was a report that Rahmon received and entertained Ahmad Massoud, the ‘Panjshir rebel’, and the former vice-president of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh (who declared himself “acting president of Afghanistan”, after the flight of Ghani). It is not clear whether such a meeting actually took place. It may be just one of many examples of fake news from Afghanistan produced by Indian fake news factories. If it were true it would cross the red line in relations between the two neighbouring countries.
Russia would not like it, either: Russia has established working relations with the Taliban; the talibs asked Russia to help them to regain their lawful seat in the UN; they suggested a state visit to Moscow. The “Panjshir resistance” has been defeated without a battle. Some of the ‘resisters’ roam the mountains and appeal to warlike US politicians for support, but otherwise they lost their war. Apparently, Massoud and Saleh found a refuge in Tajikistan; it would be fine for a humanitarian gesture, unless the ambitious Rahmon turns his country into a base in the Afghan civil war.
However, this development wouldn’t justify Putin’s sheltering, unless there are some security issues.
The Russian Parliamentary Elections
Russia will “catch up with, and overtake America”, said Nikita Khrushchev in 1957. The recent (17-19 September, 2021) Parliamentary elections could be seen as a new attempt to catch up with America’s election fraud. The Russians couldn’t overtake the Shining City on the Hill: the last US Presidential elections were so profoundly dishonest that nobody could beat them. But the Russians had a good try.
Russia has a mixed system of electing Parliamentary members: some are elected by a Party list and some by majoritarian system. In the places where people were allowed to vote freely and their voices were decently counted, – mainly in Siberia – the Communists won. Elsewhere, the ruling party United Russia got the seats. They utilised all the methods successfully applied by the US Dems. People were allowed to vote at home and the collecting teams harvested a lot of votes. More people voted than there were registered. The opposition was kept away from the count. The seals of the voting boxes were often broken. But the best method was digital voting, allowed in a few cities including Moscow.
Like the postal vote in Detroit, the digital vote in Moscow was totally at variance with the real paper vote. Here is the picture of the Moscow vote, on the left – the real vote only, on the right – the real and digital vote; green for opposition (predominantly Communist), blue for the government candidates. The digital vote in Moscow had an unusual feature: voters were allowed to change their mind and re-vote. So the government could see the results and “re-vote” as much as they wanted.
Russia’s ‘democracy’ is as limited as anywhere. The political process is controlled by a governing body called AP (Administration of the President); it is not even mentioned in the constitution, but they decide who can take part in the elections and who will make it to the parliament. They do dirty tricks, too, by creating splinter parties to steal votes from the opposition. The AP decided that the Communists should not get more than 20 per cent of the vote, while the ruling United Russia should have about 50 per cent. These were the instructions given to local bosses and they just followed orders. In a few districts where the local bosses decided to ignore the AP orders, the Communists got up to 30 per cent, and United Russia below 30%. Together with the Socialists, the Russian Reds could form the new government. They would gladly serve under Putin.
The Russian Reds are not similar to the US (and European) Left. They are against identity politics, against gender and race discourse, they love Christ and Stalin. The Russian Reds differ from the US (and European) Right, for they support massive nationalization, a comprehensive health service and free education; they are against oligarchs and do not like immigration. In short, they are much more Putin than Putin. And they are not West-friendly. Their rise would change things on the world scale. Now, for the first time since 1996, they became popular among young people as well as among the older citizens. Though they are very different from the pro-Western liberal opposition, they learned to do things together against the AP diktat. CPRF is basically a social-democratic party, perfectly fit to rule; but the AP considers them too independent.
The Communists rejected the results of the digital vote; the government responded in force. Many Communist candidates and their staff were arrested. The government forbade the protest demos and rallies, using the Coronavirus as their preferred pretext. What would they do without the Corona, I wonder! The West correctly accused the Russian authorities of manipulating the electoral results; wrongly they attributed the opposition success to Navalny and his pro-Western liberals. But the Reds are quite timid, for two reasons: they are rather supportive of Putin and his foreign policy, and they are afraid of being outlawed and banned, as happened under Yeltsin. The liberals overthrew the communists and shelled the parliament in the 1990s, and they aren’t going to allow the Red Return, I was told by a member of the Russian parliament, the Duma.
Moreover, the people took the outcome in their stride. There were no big rallies or demos; true, they were forbidden, but people accepted the prohibition rather meekly. There is no revolution coming, not even big protests. Apparently, the Russians have reconciled themselves to this ‘limited democracy’. So did we all: from Australia to the US, from France to Germany, real democracy has died. Instead, we have sanitary tyranny with some face-saving ‘elections’ corrected by massive election fraud.
Russians think they are doing fine. People have their salaries, their cars, their country houses; the cities are in good shape, there is not much of unemployment. Before the elections, the obedient Covid almost vanished; now it is likely to reappear, but that is the case everywhere in the world. So there are no strong motives for protest, like it was in 1991 or even in 2011. More and more people come to conclusion that the elections are just a farce. But it is not enough to move people for revolution.
I spoke to some people close to the Kremlin; they told me that they think Putin went into hiding because of the elections, as his security people weren’t certain how the masses would respond to the election fraud. It could be a replay of 1991, when huge masses of people overthrew Soviet rule. Now we see that it did not happen. People took it laying down. But security likes to overplay their hand. In Washington, London and Moscow, there are more police than protesters at practically any rally.
One week after the elections, and they were totally forgotten. On the day the results were published, there was a mass shooting; an 18-year-old man took a hunting gun and shot six students in his school. Such terrorist attacks conveniently occur when there is a need for drastic change of the agenda, and there are enough mentally troubled men to do a massacre unless stopped.
Conclusion
We do not know for sure why Putin decided to claim that he has to self-isolate. It is not totally impossible (though unlikely) that there is indeed an outbreak of Covid. Otherwise, it could be connected with the election uncertainty or with the pending Putin-Xi summit, or, indeed, a plot was discovered. Most probably Putin will emerge out of his shelter by September 29th, for his summit with President Erdogan, as they have much to discuss. But his seclusion won’t gain him brownie points in the eyes of Russians.
Israel Shamir can be reached at adam@israelshamir.net
This article was first published at The Unz Review.
The death of democracy is nothing new in the UK
when Rothschild installed Churchill for the planned 3 world wars we saw nothing of anyone else in Churchills cabinet
they were all warned to stay silent
Churchill was a big a dictator here at Stalin Mussolini Hitler etc
he was no different and in many ways worse
Here we have your typical presstitute. I’ve not read this beyond the headline with Russia as the last word.
WTF are we doing talking about elections and democracy? This is old hat, it’s boring. I don’t care about elections. There’s never been a real democracy. The purpose of giving sheeple the vote is to fool them into believing that they’ve got some sort of influence.
As to Russian democracy, again, I don’t give a toss. If Putin hadn’t come to power, Russia would’ve been raped of its resources and it would be as poor as a typical African backwater state.
If China had a western style shell democracy, it to would also be a fragmented raped multi state backwater.
There are good and bad leaders. I’m not going to list them, I think the good ones are obvious. When I say ‘good’, I don’t mean perfect or saintly. I mean, they are substantially better than the alternatives.
Just take a look at the so called liberal (tyrannical) democracies. They are all led by idiots and the alternatives are just as bad, by design.
So say truther presstitute joins the fake news pack attacking Russia. We’re in a world where you ‘literally’ can’t trust anyone who writes. As Richard Hall says: “Don’t believe anything that you read and only half of what you see.” Of course, Richard probably coined this line before CGI became so pervasive in faking fake news media.
Probably an MI6 sponsored assassination/coup attempt. The British have along and dirty history of interfering in Russian affairs. Putin previously acknowledged 13 previous attempts on his life, and made no secret of the fact that the British were behind most of them.
Churchill was foisted onto the people after the murder of Neville Chamberlian
he was never popular and he told his bodygaurds he felt in more danger of assassination by his own people than Germans for getting us into 2 needless wars
Slowly but surely, the scenario predicted by the Fatima prophecy of 1917 is unfolding before our very eyes. I myself never imagined that the “errors of Russia” would spread to the United States under the guise of “political correctness”, but it’s happened. The neo-Bolsheviks have even succeeded in hijacking the American presidency!
Only this prayer will bring lasting peace:
“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now Your Spirit over the earth.
Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of all nations, that they may be preserved from degeneration, disaster and war.
May the Lady of All Nations, who once was Mary, be our Advocate.
Amen.”
FYI: exactly ten years before communism came to an end in Eastern Europe in 1989, Pope John-Paul II made the following invocation during an outdoor Mass in Warsaw (June 2nd 1979):
“And I cry — I who am a Son of the land of Poland and who am also Pope John Paul II — I cry from all the depths of this Millennium, I cry on the vigil of Pentecost:
Let your Spirit descend.
Let your Spirit descend,
and renew the face of the earth,
the face of this land.
Amen.”
It’s all a waste of time,
Just daft, ALL of it,
Does it matter which nation or culture we now find ourselves in, ? None of them function,
Nowhere seems settled or of a positive nature.
He then (the writer) tries to tell us the Young reds “Love Jesus & Stalin ?
WHAT ?
Didn’t Stalin carry on with the policies of Trotsky/Lenin & obliterate anyone who had a spiritual belief in Christianity & GULAGED & murdered Millions – Yes,
‘reds’ young or old, Too daft to laugh at.
The picture about data election in Moscow (with or without electronic votes) is completely out of context. Namely, people who in majority vote for Communists are from older generations voting mostly in person. I’m from former communist country and elections were kind of celebration. People would dress the best suit they had and go to the polling stations. The same people today prefer to go in person in bank and wait in lines instead to use online banking.
Just search for ‘Putin wears yarmulke’ to see who it really works for…another Zionist shill like Trump, duping the white wing morons…
“the British were behind most of them”
Please, don’t write such things. The ‘british’, such that they are, are as helpless as the rest of the world, entirely under the cosh of the slime that own and control everything. The ‘british’ never tried to kill putin – if it happened, then it was the slime in the ‘palace’ and/or the house of ‘lords’ that did it, every one of which would be strung up if the ‘british’ had their way.
The Great Vladimir Putin makes preparations in the far east for its people because the western part of Russia will be inundated far beyond Moscow. Conservative elements in his government do not agree. Emergency Minister Zinichev, retired General Kazantsev and head of the Investigative Committee Sarapultsev were all assasinated. Putin is focused on the coming Earth Changes. When a coup attempt is discovered the perpetetrators are executed immediately, covid is a good cover- up for this process.
dont worry about putin. all jews in governments
have to step down + their supporters, no putin jew
no merkill jew, no johnson jew, no macron jew
no trudeau jew, no arden jew etc. ONLY
AUTHENTIC PEOPLE OF THEIR TRIBE
SHOULD RULE ! only germans, only real
white french, only real white english with
no second passport. NO FALSE RULERS
ANYMORE AND NO KORRUPTOS !
and the traitors should meet their END !
and surely only real authentic russians
should rule russia and now jewish mafia !
damned tastatur :
russians and NO jewish mafia !
FUCK YOU JEW AI DELETING ME !
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU1
@ ellis c taylor
“Churchill was a big a dictator here at Stalin Mussolini Hitler etche was no different and in many ways worse.”
You have a very superficial grasp of history.
The original Greek definition of democracy is: Government of the people; by the people; for the people.
The NSDAP came to power through the ballot box as they were the largest party in the Reichstag; but did not have an overall majority so relied in smaller parties for an overall majority.
Germany was in chaos with mass unemployment (over six million unemployed), poverty, and wide spread degeneracy. It should also be noted that there were over 100,000 armed communists who did not accept these radical changes at first.
In response to this Adolf Hitler instituted the enabling act giving him dictatorial powers to Govern in a direct way to bring about the transformational changes he set about imposing.
On August 19 1934 a plebiscite was held with a straight forward question, do you support the new system of Government or do you wish to return to a multi-party system of government? About 95 percent of registered voters in Germany went to the polls and gave Hitler 38 million votes of approval (90 percent of the vote). Thus Adolf Hitler could claim he was Führer of the German nation by direct will of the people.
These elections were overseen by international observers, some of whom would have been hostile to the new regime. They all concluded that the election process met all the conditions expected.
So how can you Compare Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini to the Psychopath and alcoholic homosexual fister and rimmer Churchill; or Stalin and his mass murderous regime.
Or do you prefer the dictatorship of parliamentary (Jew) elections which are corrupt and rigged to serve the Jews and not the people they are meant to serve. And defy the will of the people and impose multi-racialism multi-culturalism and other impositions and all the sickness that is unfolding before our very eyes.
Paula Hitler’s Last letter – May 1, 1947
https://dailystormer.su/paula-hitlers-last-letter-may-1-1947/
You can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived- John F Kennedy
He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him,” he added. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made John F Kennedy.
It is necessary that I should die for my people, but my spirit will rise from the grave, and the world will know that I was right – Adolf Hitler
The lies are crumbling and the truth is coming to the fore; and no amount of lies, and calumny will stop this entering the consciousness of the masses; because the truth cannot be stopped.
This is known as the hundredth monkey syndrome.
Without further evidence, we do not know what is the current situation. Vilification of Putin by the mainstream news media is a clue that the man has displeased the globalist oligarchy (you may call them by whatever name you want – many are well aware of who they are). Putin’s support of the Russian Orthodox Church and permitting the church leadership to speak of the Russian holocaust of 66 million and who responsible is antithetical to atheistic Communism.
It would not surprise me that this strikes a sour note with the satanists, who would be pleased to push another Holodomor upon the Russians, not to mention also the whole world now in progress. So if Putin falls, it would be a blow to many westerners who had more respect for him than the current crop of boot licking sycophants parading as political leaders of AU, UK, US, and etc.
https://redice.tv/news/holodomor-remembrance-day-why-the-past-matters-for-the-future
*****
The task, wrote historian Norman Davies, was to forever inter any notion of independence. The countryside was stripped not simply of grain but of anything remotely edible. Cooking utensils and farming tools were confiscated. The borders were sealed, and no food was allowed in. No one was allowed out. And not just in Ukraine, but also in the heavily Ukrainian ethnographic regions absorbed by neighboring Russia. Entire villages simply disappeared. A year later, one of Stalin’s sycophants, Pavel Postyshev boasted: “We have annihilated the nationalist counter-revolution during the past year, we have exposed and destroyed nationalist deviationism.”
*****
That explains fully the upcoming worldwide Holodomor in a nutshell, simply referred to as The Guidestone’s population reduction, with Australia leading the herd.
If Putin is removed from power, it is not hard to imagine that the next step will be to revoke Edward Snowdenś immigrant status for extradition to US, to be jabbed and euthanized in a US prison, a not so dissimilar fate now with Julian Assange, suffering in a “free world” UK prison.
I do not think we appreciate the depths of Controlled Opposition arrangements. If Putin can be really a member of the Cabal, why can’t Shekel-grubber? I tried to watch The Greatest story Never Told and could see how it worked on people.
these “Russian Reds” are quite to my liking, for the life of me I don’t see any difference between them and the German NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), the finest political movement of all times, led by the finest political leader of all times on behalf of the finest nation of all times.
+++++++consider the following text+++++++
The Tripartite Pact between Japan, Germany, and Italy, 1940
The Governments of Japan, Germany, and Italy consider it as the
CONDITION PRECEDENT OF ANY LASTING PEACE THAT ALL NATIONS IN THE WORLD BE GIVEN EACH ITS OWN PROPER PLACE,
have decided to stand by and co-operate with one another in their efforts in Greater East Asia and the regions of Europe respectively wherein it is their prime purpose to establish and maintain a new order of things, calculated to promote the mutual prosperity and welfare of the peoples concerned. It is, furthermore, the desire of the three Governments to
EXTEND COOPERATION TO NATIONS IN OTHER SPHERES OF THE WORLD THAT ARE INCLINED TO DIRECT THEIR EFFORTS ALONG LINES SIMILAR TO THEIR OWN FOR THE PURPOSE OF REALIZING THEIR ULTIMATE OBJECT, WORLD PEACE.
+++++++++
Damn Nadzees, threat to Jew world order and Yahweh’s imperative of neverending wars among goyim, must put a stop to this Nadzee abomination.
Today’s Belt and Road Initiative between Russia and China and Iran follows the exact same roadmap as the Tripartite Agreement and must be stopped at all costs, including a goy world war. (as always, Jew hyenas will sit on sidelines drooling in expectation of mounds of corpses).
@ CARL JONES
only the old german tribes had their
democracy called THING : everyone
had same votingrights, no intermediary.
never a king ! king they despised. so
they very jealousy watched about some
of them trying to get the upperhand as
leader. so Arminius (Hermann) who
helped them to conquer the roman troops
of Varus in the woods of Teutoburg in
manners of partisan war, had to step down
and later was killed in quarrels. so this
way helped the germans neither.
and this quarrelsome nature is still in all
germans + so they never will unite to the
advantage of the jews additional their tactics
of decomposing with communism, ecogreens,
multiculti, feminism + perverted propaganda .