A-Infos (en) Russia, Patriot Blood: Trends in Order and Chaos Episode 88 (January 15) (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Here are the highlights on the agenda for the past week. ---- Who loves Russia 
---- Olivier basins are eaten, the first working week is over. Certainty in the 
life of Russians has not increased: it is impossible to make plans for the next 
six months or a year. For almost 11 months of the war, the inefficiency of the 
state system of the Russian Federation has become obvious to everyone: the 
authorities are not able to provide the army of invaders not only with modern 
weapons, but even with high-quality bulletproof vests. Total corruption, 
inefficient hierarchy built on eyewash from the lowest to the highest ranks. 
Leaders are not held accountable for their failures, but move from one high 
position to another.
It is not clear whether the system will break down literally in the coming weeks, 
or whether all this will drag on for a year or two or three. And most 
importantly, what will happen next. The option is quite real that the new regime 
will be even crazier, in the spirit of Kadyrov-Prigozhin. Or, at least to some 
extent, democratization and restoration of relations with the rest of the world 
will begin.

Against the backdrop of political instability, the hysteria is growing that 
anyone who publicly does not support military aggression, and even more so dares 
not only to set fire to the military registration and enlistment office, but to 
make a post for peace on social networks or leave mobilization, is a traitor to 
the Motherland. This is repeated so often that even we begin to believe.

Nothing like this. Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Medvedev are not defending 
birches, Gzhel and World War II veterans. Hand in hand with the bloody meat 
grinder that the Wagner PMC is doing in Africa, Syria and Ukraine, the interests 
of Prigozhin's business are being promoted. The film "He is not Dimon to you" has 
been hanging on YouTube for five years and has been forgotten a little. Review it 
and remember what palaces, yachts and vineyards the former President of the 
Russian Federation Medvedev is fighting for in his telegram channel.

Kadyrov not only threatens the United States with nuclear war, but also brings 
champions of the American Mixed Martial Arts League UFC to the 15th anniversary 
of his son. Ksenia Shoigu, the daughter of the Russian Defense Minister, spends 
the New Year holidays in the United Arab Emirates, a US ally.

Turchak, Khinshtein - you don't poke at anyone, you can google for 10 minutes and 
it becomes clear that they are fighting for their wealth, and not the interests 
of Russia. They are not patriots. They are dirty scum who have turned Russia into 
the world's scarecrow.

In my opinion, real patriots are those who want Russia to develop in the 
interests of its people, and not according to the logic of the phantom pains of a 
dead empire. For many years, at the risk of criminal prosecution, we have been 
working for changes in our country. Russian society is a society of talented IT 
people, excellent writers and musicians, hardworking farmers and workers, and 
many other good people. Although now we cannot express our point of view inside 
the Russian Federation, and many of us are in exile, but sooner or later we will 
return and rebuild Russia in the interests of its people. And this restructuring 
cannot but be based on radical democracy and the pursuit of social justice.

Borders of Ukraine
Do we want the defeat of the Russian army? Yes, we wish. If it doesn't happen 
now, the next generations of Russians will go to occupy Moldova, the Baltic 
countries, Finland, Poland, Kazakhstan, Mongolia. Imperial militarism can only be 
killed through military defeat. We are for the war to end immediately. Of course, 
we urge the Russians not to join the army at all, and if they ended up at the 
front due to a misunderstanding, to abandon their positions at the first opportunity.

Zelensky declares that Ukraine intends to restore its 1991 borders. That is, to 
take control of the Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk. This looks like a very realistic 
plan. How do we treat it? This is where things are not so clear.

From the point of view of international law, Zelensky is absolutely right. 
Virtually no one in the world supported the annexation of Crimea and the Donbas 
pro-Russian separatism of 2014. Because the seizure of the lands of a neighboring 
state by military force is not the method of the 21st century. And the world 
community absolutely rightly severely condemns this. Mobilization in the DPR and 
LPR took place in February-March 2022. And it was even more monstrous than the 
autumn one in the Russian Federation: they also recruited all the men who had a 
head, two legs and arms, gave out Soviet helmets, antediluvian machine guns, and 
so on. But they did not go over to the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On 
the contrary, the military formations recruited in Donetsk and Lugansk are, 
according to a number of Russian analysts, the most motivated at the front.

Are the Donbass people really like this - "stupid quilted jackets" who need to be 
"reprogrammed" into "correct Ukrainians"? Unlikely. It is more honest to admit 
that there are hundreds of thousands of people in Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk who 
are not ready to live in Ukraine. Because they are not ready to speak Ukrainian, 
or their relatives and friends died under the shelling of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine.

If Crimea and Donbass remain Russian, hundreds of thousands of local residents 
will be outlawed. If Crimea and Donbass go to Ukraine, other hundreds of 
thousands of local residents will be outlawed. In any case, it's a tragedy, none 
of these scenarios are correct.

Ideally, there should be international control, some kind of transitional social 
structure. Neither the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine, nor the 
imperial ambitions of the Russian Federation are an adequate reason for the death 
of civilians under shelling. The interests of local communities, and not of any 
states, should be paramount.

Repression and emigration
For the second time in a row we quote "Masyanya" in our podcast, what to do if 
the quotes are good: "It's always such a disaster with dictators. First you kill 
everyone who is against you. Then those who are slightly against you. Then those 
who wanted to remain silent. Then all those who are not loud enough champing, 
kissing the ass. Here, you know, it's impossible to stop."

Especially against the backdrop of an incomprehensible political situation, 
repressions in the Russian Federation are not going to stop. Sentences of nine 
years to Ilya Yashin and Daria Polyudova, bullying of Alexei Navalny in the 
ShIZO, torture of anarchists in Tyumen.

Every day there is new information about increasingly violent political criminal 
cases. To prevent citizens from raising their heads at a difficult moment for the 
authorities. Emigration is one of the most common responses to what is happening. 
Finding yourself in Western countries, you experience a culture shock from the 
fact that you can write on the Internet, talk on the street, stand with a poster, 
almost anything you want. And in order for you to strain the local cops with 
this, you have to try very hard.

Just recently we had the same thing in Russia. At the turn of the 1990s and 
2000s, it was the norm at protests to block the railway or tear the national flag 
from the roof of the district administration building. For this, even 
administrative punishment usually did not follow.

But we must understand that any social change is always the sum of the actions of 
a large number of people. Yes, emigrants have one hundred and five hundred 
everyday problems. But if nothing is done, freedom of speech, assembly and 
conscience will not return to Russia.

Simply sitting out the Kremlin's madness, doing nothing to change the situation 
in the Motherland, will not work. Then it is better to forget about Russia and 
become citizens of Kazakhstan, Armenia, Germany, Argentina, Israel - who ran where.

Well, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order and Chaos" the 
participants of "Autonomous Action" give anarchist assessments of current events. 
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Issue prepared by Leaves

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