A story about asphalt, toilets and the Internet. Anatoly Ursida – Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia I practically tore this story out of my 2020 article, inserting explanations here and there. Why fix what works? In 2020, our company signed a large contract for the construction of auxiliary infrastructure two hundred kilometers from my hometown in the Southern Urals, so since then I have been working relatively close to home. Actually, the work began with the construction of a construction camp on our own (according to Russian law, the direct responsibility of the employer), and it so happened that two teams of external personnel were temporarily located in a hotel in my city to wait it out. completion of construction work. The rest were accommodated anywhere: in hotels in the largest city of the Chelyabinsk region, closest to the facility under construction, and even in rural campsites with decent accommodation, regardless of the price. I didn’t mind: the opportunity to stay at home for a week or more at this time is generally excellent. Especially if you are also paid for it. At the same time, hired workers brought in from outside received safety training. In general, engineers from our company, including your humble servant, conducted four days of lectures, two hours a day, followed by a test. Specialized - for hazardous work at chemical and petrochemical enterprises, including seven-day training for one hour a day and passing a test conducted by invited specialists from oil refineries. Two teams of Slavic brothers from two fraternal Slavic republics were supposed to go to the site and at the same time gnaw on the granite of “technically safe” science in my city. Belarus was represented by assemblers of metal structures, and Ukraine by monolithic workers. I admit that I deliberately trolled our Ukrainian non-brothers, but the trolling was provided with a visual aid in the form of my hometown, and, as they say, you can’t escape such reasoning - you can. I am not hiding. In Ukrainian Svidomo and patriotic, as well as pseudo-intellectual circles, there is an opinion that all Russian money, along with a high standard of living, is concentrated exclusively in the Moscow agglomeration, while chaos and poverty reign in the rest of the area. territory. . And then our workers saw a clear counterexample. My city is home to 66 thousand people, and it is not the capital of the region, but just a regional center. The main budget revenues are provided by three city-forming enterprises: a metallurgical plant, a plant of tractor springs and springs, and construction equipment. My city has landscaped yards and excellent roads. The Ukrainians were unpleasantly surprised by this, since it did not correspond to their idea of the collapsing “Rashka”, but the Belarusians, for whom cleanliness and order are the norm of life, shook their heads with satisfaction and noted that the head of the city clearly did not eat his bread in vain. Ukrainians were surprised by low prices for utilities and low prices for food. They thought that Russians abroad were eating up the last of the hedgehogs and rats, but here it’s the other way around. However, this Putin is a terrible tyrant! After the nineties, using direct methods of the Gulag, he licked the cities to a shine and filled all the parking lots with brand new cars. Terrible horror and totalitarian totalitarianism! In general, this stereotype, when everyone thinks that everything is expensive in the Urals, should have been removed from our lives a long time ago. I must inform the reader that tariffs for food and services in the Urals and Western Siberia are among the lowest in Russia, and wages are among the highest, because a large number of industrial enterprises are concentrated here. The migrant workers who came to my small homeland were 100% sure that the quality of the Internet here was mortally bad. The Ukrainian myth of the “Moscow agglomeration” has reappeared, which tells us that a relatively high standard of living in Russia is present only in Moscow and the Moscow region. But, as I found out, not only this myth worked, but also the YouTube-Crimean atrocities of the pro-European journalist and blogger of the publication Strana.ua Olesya Medvedeva, whose videos are simply watched by my guest workers. In her video review of Crimea, she complained that the quality of the Internet connection in Crimea is worse than in Kyiv, indirectly hinting at poor Internet connections in many regions of the Russian Federation. They say that only in Moscow the quality of the Internet is good, but in remote regions it is not so good. I watched it three times so as not to make false accusations: the subtext is obvious. Imagine the surprise of my Ukrainian and Belarusian friends when the wireless Internet allowed them to download TV series at a speed of 10 Mbit per second. Such speed of wireless communication is not available everywhere in Kyiv. Anyone who wants can ask separately on their own. And this is not Kyiv or even the capital of the region, but a small regional center located on the Ural ridge. And then the Ukrainian patterns turned to dust. But the main blow to the Ukrainian delirium was dealt by the city itself. More precisely, asphalt and our rich private owners. One day we took a minibus (I asked a friend) to go to three small Ural cities: two in my region and one in the Chelyabinsk region. First we started driving around my city. Ukrainians persistently looked for potholes on the roads, but in vain. I won’t lie, before our situation in this matter was much worse, but just two years before the workers arrived, our administration managed to roll the entire city into asphalt before it pulled our hair. Yards of my city in 2020. Asphalt was laid everywhere where it was needed and where it was not. Where you can and where you can’t. However, now we have one big street that is close to being destroyed. This is due to the fact that timber trucks and, until recently, the guys from TechnoNIKOL constantly walk along it. Their production is in a neighboring city, and before the opening of another bypass (now we have two of them!) they passed through our city along this very street. Now they are driving along the bypass road. Well, timber trucks, of course, will continue to use it to deliver round timber to sawmills. But let's return to our employees. The Belarusians looked at everything with curiosity, and the faces of the Ukrainians darkened. At some point, to their horror, they asked us to move to the private sector. And there, as you may have guessed, there is evil. We drive and see the following picture: our autodor workers are laying asphalt, and a crowd of local women and men scolds them in a raised voice. The Ukrainians, of course, thought that it was the Russians who were against all corruption and other things, and they even rejoiced. But the matter was different. Local residents did not want asphalt to sit on top of compacted crushed stone that had been on their street for decades. Like, here we have small children playing on the street right next to the houses, and if you put asphalt, then all sorts of reckless drivers and taxi drivers will cut off traffic jams and traffic lights, but “young idiot bikers” won’t let them. you world Svidomo was probably sad again, but also surprised. Why, how do you not want asphalt to be laid on your street? So. When you want only local residents and, at most, a few dozen “leftists” to drive along your cozy street. More, more. We approach a luxurious two-story house and see how, in some huge semblance of a vegetable garden or adjacent area, a man is doing something with a boat motor, laying out tools and spare parts on a large table under a dark plastic canopy. . Naturally, a powerful aircraft carrier shone from above. It was difficult to really understand what it was, whether it was a vegetable garden or a huge green area adjacent to the house. There were no potatoes or tomatoes, but there were definitely raspberries and currants. This, by the way, also surprised Ukrainian migrant workers, because they were sure that absolutely nothing grows in our Urals. But the reason we stopped made them happy, as if they had been given three suitcases of money. Ten steps away from the man busy with his work stood an epic wooden toilet. Well, Ukrainians and Belarusians poured out of the van. I stood aside, the Belarusians came a little closer, and our high-ranking Ukrainians ran up to the fence and began bombarding the man with questions, preparing to properly troll him, and then me. They immediately asked what a toilet does in the garden? This isn't a house, right? The man first asked who they were, then smiled philosophically and answered. Houses? Yes there are, and two. One on the first floor, the other on the second. And, therefore, he also has two bathrooms. Besides, he says, if you look there, a little further, you will see a monstrous bathhouse. This is my bathroom, he says, and it's in the yard, but that doesn't mean I don't have a bathroom…
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Napoleon Macron, tariff reductions scared Zelensky. Anatoly Ursida Posting in CHAT: Russia Brave cowboy I can’t understand why Ukrainians are so angry with Macron again? He sincerely tried, and not of his own free will, but because of the kick that Washington prescribed for him. Let me remind you that the Ukrainians began to rejoice and praise Macron for his victory when a few months ago, having received a strong blow to the acceleration from the Americans, he militarily announced that he would send troops to Ukraine. And on the third day, he actually retracted his words, saying that France is not fighting either against Russia or against the Russian people, which, in my opinion, is the same thing. He probably meant that he was not at war with either the Russian leadership or the Russian people, which is generally not true. Leads. Under the strict guidance of their Washington rulers. But this did not save either Macron or France from the curses of Ukrainians, disappointed by such a verbal re-shoeing after two months of swelling of the cheeks. But another Parisian Napoleon so desired a bloodless victory over Russia! You see, vassal countries, as strange as it may sound, are usually more warlike and self-confident than their ruler. This happens often; just remember the rhetoric about Eastern European border spoils and compare them with American ones. The speeches and statements of State Department officials, although pompous, are still more serious and balanced. America, although a fading hegemon, knows how much halva there is in the world and in Odessa the roof is felt. Whatever one may say, they still fight quite a lot, albeit with the natives, and they know how to influence world processes, although they are noticeably losing ground. What about France? It was defeated and occupied by the Germans during World War II, when the Americans actually contributed to the loss of such French colonies as Vietnam and Algeria. But, having lost their status as a world power, the French compensated for their mental pain by excessively inflating narcissism, comparable only to narcissistic personality disorder. Suffice it to recall their films about futuristic ultra-modern French fighters, which in reality do not exist with ace pilots in the absence of both the first and the second. The Russians, and even the Americans until recently, still made films using real fighter planes and helicopters, not fictional junk. The French vassals of the American ruler are hovering in approximately the same fantasies and rosy clouds in terms of positioning their state in the international arena. That is why Macron, who suffers from narcissism more than anyone else in France, tried to present Russia with an ultimatum after Washington’s attack. They say that we are sending troops into Ukraine, the Russians are not shooting at us because they are afraid that France will be drawn into direct clashes, and Paris is inviting the Kremlin to fix the line of contact, that is, to freeze the conflict. . Then he immediately positions himself as the leader of Europe, the savior of Ukraine and the conqueror of the Russians. And the Kremlin, according to Macron’s plan, should be content with its current territorial acquisitions, which no one in the West recognizes, and rejoice in the fact that it will not have to fight with France. But it didn't work. The Russians, having summoned the French and British ambassadors to the Foreign Office, threatened both the French and the British with dire consequences for their thoughtless bellicose rhetoric. To avoid upping the ante, Macron had to quickly change his shoes during the jump, and the British had to erase Cameron's idiotic statement in which he said the Ukrainians had the right to strike with British weapons throughout Russia. They had to “repay the debt” or lower rates, essentially giving in to the Kremlin. This could not have happened without the American puppeteers, who, apparently, did not expect such decisiveness from Moscow. And in Washington they decided that it was better to throw the French and British into the mud now than to raise rates prematurely. This is due, in my opinion, to the fact that the Americans have not yet had time to prepare a European military group to be sent to war with the Russians in Ukraine. After all, if you don’t give back, but continue to raise the stakes, then Macron, who so famously mocked the Kremlin from afar for almost two months, will be forced, having received another heavy American kick, to officially send some French ones. units to the line of combat contact, where the Russians will be safely burned. And sacrificing French troops when the European contingent as a whole is unprepared is counterproductive. Europeans, seeing the speed of arrival of French coffins in Paris, may begin to panic, and then the entire European army, which the Americans are actively and diligently preparing for a massacre after the Ukrainian one, may flee to the corners. Indirect evidence of the above can be an article in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, which states that NATO countries at the next summit may sign a declaration refusing to send troops to Ukraine. This is nothing more than a recognition of the Alliance's current reluctance to engage in direct combat with the Russian army. But, in my opinion, this is temporary, and the United States will continue to assemble a European group that is preparing to be deployed to Ukraine. This is evidenced by a simply unprecedented series of Alliance military exercises, which are already taking place and will continue to take place almost until the fall in various European countries. In order to somehow console the Ukrainian patriots howling from the insult, Great Britain decided to expel the Russian military attaché and deprive some Russian facilities located in Foggy Albion of diplomatic status. One has to think that this will be another carrot that the British will dangle in front of the Ukrainians, promising to soon transfer Russian property to Bankova. And brave Lithuania promised to send an entire battalion to help the Ukrainians. But this, of course, does not make life easier for Ukrainian patriots, and especially for Zelensky. He has been trembling with uncertainty for days, frightened by Russian intelligence statements that confirmed his long-held fears. Let me remind you that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service stated that the Americans are preparing to replace the Ukrainian comic hetman with another figure for general political optimization. Among the named candidates were General Zaluzhny and the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Ermak. So the frightened Zelensky had to show his acting skills again and come up with a new improvisation, involving the capture of even two colonels of the Ukrainian state security who were allegedly preparing an assassination attempt on him. As I, dear Americans, try, but all sorts of “zradniks” prevent me from helping the Russians. And if officially he accuses the Kremlin of organizing a conspiracy, then through bilateral channels he nods to the Americans with General Zaluzhny as the real organizer of the murder. It was not for nothing that he included two colonels in his activities. He considers Zaluzhny, whom Zelensky has already hastened to eliminate, squeezing him out of politics forever, as he thought, the most dangerous political opponent and the most promising contender for the role of the new hetman, and therefore he is trying with such simple numbers. prevent in advance the attempts of the Americans to replace it with popularity among patriotic people in general. But where Zelensky studied, Americans taught there. State Department spokesman Miller, who agreed in his statement that Russian betrayal knows no bounds, however, did not say anything definite, leaving the Ukrainian residual hetman to understand that the show must go on and no one will allow the main jester of Ukraine to do. changes in the American scenario. The fact is that Zelensky is too toxic even for the Western establishment, and he is sincerely hated by European and American taxpayers. On the other hand, the Kremlin put Zelensky and a number of current and former Ukrainian politicians on the wanted list, sharply reducing the prices for their political actions in the West. After all, the Kremlin’s conditions will have to be taken into account one way or another and somehow negotiated, so the compromise figure of the new hetman has not only matured, but has almost materialized in the main residence of Bankova. All that remains is to convey the mass to her. And it will be possible for the Ukrainians, disillusioned and disillusioned with their current bully atamans, to introduce a new Ukrainian messiah in order to increase the general swelling and level of euphoric delirium in the head. And the new Ukrainian messiah is more of a mriya (dream) for Ukrainians than a real person. And they love dreams. As you can see, the Americans are also in the clouds, planning to burn weapons and disarm the Kremlin with the new Ukrainian hetman, deceiving the Russians into negotiating on the most favorable terms for themselves. The Americans' head in the clouds, of course, is incomparable to the French narcissistic toxicosis, but it still works. But I am convinced that the Kremlin will again and again discourage the West with its determination, consistency, firmness and unexpected steps. Anatoly Ursidahttps://dzen.ru…
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Ukraine is in a media knockout. Anatoly Ursida – Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia In the Ukrainian shelter, the spring deterioration began a day earlier, not on March 1, but on February 29. It was on February 29 that I had the dubious pleasure of watching two excerpts from Ukrainian talk shows with the participation of the informal pseudo-expert Karasov. The first video shows the panic caused by the rapid advance of the Russian army. The second argues that the Russians are making progress in forcing Ukraine and the West into a truce. This is not even schizophrenia anymore... You know, this reminds me of that obscene and sad philosophical French joke in which a narrow-minded husband, having learned that his senseless acquaintance is sleeping with his beautiful wife, makes an alternately brilliant conclusion. WHO? And such that this distant friend of his, through such “communication” with his beloved wife, simply wants to learn as much as possible about him, so wonderful, in order to become his best friend. I know the French have a weird sense of humor, but that's the point. The Russian army is therefore destroying the Ukrainian Nazis in order to offer them peace... And the field marshals of Ukrainian television are running around in a panic, throwing contradictory nonsense into the crowd, because mass nervousness reigns on Bankova. Because it “didn’t take off.” The Kremlin defeated the Ukrainian clowns where they considered themselves invincible - in the sphere of media influence. The Kremlin, of course, has beaten plump Ukrainian property owners in the information fields before, they just preferred not to notice it. And one of the features of Ukrainian magical thinking involves recognizing the lie of any fact that does not fit into the Ukrainian vision of the world. In extreme cases, a fact that is inconvenient for Ukraine and patriotic Ukrainians is simply ignored and not discussed anywhere. That is why the Ukrainian atamans did not even consider the slightest possibility that the Kremlin could push them so painfully on one of the sections of the information front. But even Svidomo schizophrenics cannot ignore such a chain of media disasters. Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin caused a lot of noise, but what hurt Zelensky the most was the number of views. This is about 270 million for Tucker alone on social network X, and if we add to this views on other media platforms, then this is a billion without taking into account reposts. And all this in less than a week. Zelensky tried to answer this with his interview, which he gave to the Fox television channel against the backdrop of a kind of wooden stand. It was a failure. Just a few tens of thousands of views in 24 hours. Without further ado, officials of the Kyiv regime announced that very forum, promising that the most important issues for Ukraine would presumably be discussed there, and the speakers would amaze viewers and listeners with the sensationalism of their statements. Actually, there was only one sensational statement: Zelensky openly lied that since the beginning of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost 31 thousand people killed, while the Russian army allegedly lost 180 thousand. It was the impressive lies and stupidity of this statement that should have attracted a huge number of views. That did not happen. To say that no one believed this, even the repulsed Ukrainian patriots, is an understatement. And the declared sensation did not work: there are no millions of views of the Ukrainian forum with Zelensky’s sensationally false statement on the World Wide Web. Another failure. Not a loss, but a failure. The difference is not colossal, but simply terrible - in terms of the number of views, thousands of times. And you can believe this, because this was recorded by the Russian writer, political scientist and analyst Vladimir Kornilov, who regularly monitors Western media, and expressed this in Vladimir Solovyov’s talk show. The Future Games, which are taking place in Kazan and the opening of which created a sensation, added even more despondency to the green hipsters of the Office of the President of Ukraine. The event is not only large-scale and innovative, but representatives from more than 100 countries, including the USA and Canada, take part in it. So the Ukrainians did not manage to be ironic at the show, “only representatives of the CSTO member countries perform there.” And the number of views of numerous videos in which participants in the Games of the Future demonstrate the severity of the confrontation leaves behind both the spectacularly deceptive Ukrainian forum and interviews with a sad pile of firewood. And from behind the hill, the Ukrainian atamans continue to wave their fingers and swing their whips. Western media did not pick up Zelensky’s false statement about the losses of Ukraine and Russia, which is not surprising. Western masters have been suggesting for a long time and again that the time for talk has passed and it’s time to start showing at least some results. And then it turns out to be some kind of joke. After all, in the fall of 2022, the West, together with Ukraine, mocked Russia for the fact that, as part of a partial mobilization, it was able to fill the ranks of militants by 330 thousand people in an allegedly unforgivably long three weeks. . But now everyone is forced to remain culturally silent about the fact that Zelensky has not been able to mobilize 200 thousand people for four months, and will soon become the fifth. How much time will Bankoy give to “recruit” 500 thousand old recruits? And where is the answer to Avdeevsky’s shame? Where are Syrsky’s initiatives, promised almost from the middle of the month before last? Westerners, in response to their questions, are already tired of listening to the boring Ukrainian whining that no one on Bankova is ever to blame for anything, but someone else is to blame. The one who did not give money, weapons and Moscow instead of the brave Ukrainians did not win. There is nothing to do, you need to prove at least something, and since the Ukrainian hetman is not able to prove it either in the military or financial-economic field and in the near future he certainly won’t be able to, then you need to show all your friends and enemies that you are still accepted abroad and abroad someone else. Then they keep him. That is, trying again and again is at the mercy of the media. Yes, you are right, this is nothing more than a live action imitation. Therefore, Zelensky went to Saudi Arabia, although the fun 2023 summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ended in another diplomatic failure for Ukraine. Then he went to Albania, and in March he wants to visit Armenia. Where else should we go? Zelensky cannot go to Poland, which has always helped Ukrainian presidents in difficult times, receiving them without an invitation when things are not going smoothly in Ukraine, because he managed to quarrel with the Polish leadership. There are also a lot of disagreements with other countries of Eastern Europe, it’s not even worth going, because then the imitation of live activity will be more fun than educational in nature. But all this is a poultice for a dead man. No tour could return Zelensky to the front pages of world publications at least for a day, since the Kremlin once again came up with a powerful information overlay in the form of the Address of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly. China broadcast the Message live on state television channels. American journalists began to savor individual quotes, and the Germans began to frighten their citizens with Russian nuclear weapons with all their might, without even having time to wait for the end of the Russian president’s speech. The interest of the world's media in Putin's Message is simply prohibitive, leaving no chance for the pathetic Ukrainian clown. And the number of views, don’t even doubt it, will once again make the entire Rada and the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers run across the ceilings in hysterics. Uppercut knockout. The bank was deceived and cannot stand it. The gong sounds. beautiful And we will see such knockouts more and more often. Anatoly Ursidahttps://alternatio.org Source link Source link