by John Helmer, Moscow
@bears_with
When is a politician’s state of being in two minds a sign of his trying to balance the views of competing constituencies or a sign of his indecisiveness, vacillation, weakness?
Since the start of the Kursk invasion on August 6, the argument in Moscow over what happened before and followed in the Kremlin, and what President Vladimir Putin has agreed will happen next is the most momentous debate in Russian politics since February 2014, when the Obama Administration pulled its putsch in Kiev; and then in January 2022, when the Biden Administration rejected Putin’s offer of terms for non-aggression and mutual security in Europe.
Don’t look for understanding of this debate from podcasting US military and CIA retirees or Ivy League professors whose service careers and promotions have depended on their misreading and mistaking Russian politics for thirty years.
Chris Cook of Gorilla Radio directs a special podcast to open the closed Kremlin doors and look past the Anglo-American propaganda.
For background on the breaking news in the discussion:
- The new Ukrainian rocket-powered long-range drone, the Palyanytsia:
Left, the traditional Palyanytsia bread; right, the proposed new Palyanytsia rocket drone.
- The Kanak rebellion against French colonial rule in New Caledonia, and rioting in Noumea, since May and French government efforts to silence the social media platforms supporting the Kanaks, starting with Tik Tok and now Telegram. The official version of the French prosecutors’ charges – necessary in order to keep Durov in jail until Wednesday evening – are reported in Le Monde and just as uninformatively by Mediapart. For the “Russian connexion”, here’s a semi-official source from Brussels.
Listen to Chris Cook lead the discussion on the only independent talk show in Canada, Gorilla Radio.
Source: https://gradio.substack.com/
For the introduction to this broadcast, access to the 20-year Gorilla Radio archive, and Chris Cook’s blog, click here and here.
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