Relaxed SITREP on January 9
Added 2025-01-08 23:19:59 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - On the failed Ukrainian Kursk offensive
00:13:30 - SITREP. Kurakhovo and Toretsk conquered
00:21:30 - Deepstate & Greenland
00:26:15 - Lost Russian Nordic clay
00:31:45 - On Yakut 1v1 knife battle and culture
The DEEP DIVE into the Azeri plane crash, ethnic lobbies in Russia, the Chechen question and the ideology of Pan-Turkism is dropping very soon!
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The acquisition of Greenland actually goes back decades. Trump isn't the first one who has wanted to acquire Greenland, I think he's just been the loudest about it. I believe the US Air Force has a base on the Eastern part of the island
Zeke
2025-01-28 17:27:56 +0000 UTCViolence is necessary, as long it’s solving a problem.
Andrew Martiniuc
2025-01-15 07:12:19 +0000 UTCFantastic episode. Its fun hearing my 430 pound coworker saying Ukraine will 100% win this war and he gets red faced when I tell him Russia will obviously win (win as well as any modern war can be won) I’m in charge of him so on those days our mandatory exercises always go a lot longer than policy suggests.
James
2025-01-12 13:44:54 +0000 UTCMy bad for being an ass with my first comment.
Andrew Martiniuc
2025-01-11 02:56:38 +0000 UTCNick, the truth is, this is how so-called "civilization" and "civilized society" operate. They perpetuate these absurd tropes that violence is a necessary evil because the world before was supposedly far more violent and unruly. That narrative is one of the biggest lies ever told. Human nature is fundamentally collective, rooted in cooperation, care, empathy, and love. Humans are deeply social beings who thrive in collective societies. It goes against our nature to be cold, visceral, and conditioned to dehumanize others. This is why soldiers, universally, suffer from so many mental traumas. I’ve witnessed it firsthand as a combat medic in the Army. In addition to my military experience, I’ve also conducted extensive fieldwork as an anthropologist. I’ve observed the stark contrast between the mental and physical well-being of self-sufficient small tribal communities, particularly foragers and semi-nomads, and those living in industrialized or militarized societies. The former are often healthier and more balanced, while the latter frequently struggle with emotional deprivation and rampant mental illness. The brainwashing inherent in industrialized systems has profoundly damaged humanity, stripping individuals of their natural empathy and causing significant harm. I am actually see the wisdom in Animatones perspective, and I share a similar perspective actually.
Gökçe
2025-01-10 18:35:12 +0000 UTCThe people from the Yakut? Is their religion Tengrism by chance? Also the Finka you talked about during WWII. How they poked them in the butt to make them walk faster. One of my Aunts (by marriage), her father was a American WWII POW captured by the Nazis. She let me read this journal he had written about his experience and there was a similar story about that. How the Germans would poke the Americans with their knives on the butt to keep them moving along. I guess it was a common protocol back in those times or something.
Gökçe
2025-01-10 06:42:27 +0000 UTCMessage Sent as Direct Message. Please confirm you have recieved it.
Icca
2025-01-10 01:37:17 +0000 UTCBig thanks for another awesome episode 🤙👍
AtomicAutopsy
2025-01-09 21:07:01 +0000 UTCTotally agree. The ancients, tearing the guts of each other every year, and et they created poems like the Iliad, presenting together with the heroes, the tragedy of war.
Nick Pat
2025-01-09 20:58:31 +0000 UTCbornholm is near the blown up nord stream pipelines! so all scandinavian states broke the agreements. russia is the heir of the soviet union, so they still must uphold their treaties. germany is still occupied by the usa, so russia should just take back what they fought for. its really sad that putin let all that happen. we need a new hardliner like stalin in the kremlin.
Joe Ca
2025-01-09 20:01:49 +0000 UTCIt was brutal but it happens. Move on and dont dwell.
Andrew Martiniuc
2025-01-09 19:41:20 +0000 UTCI absolutely understand that it's the cold business of soldiers, to kill. But these soldiers were boys, men, and father's before they were soldiers and hopefully the warriors of both side can go back to that life once the conflict is over. That's what the Yakut warrior was implying IMO at least in the translated interview I saw. Good to see he's home and hope him and his family have a long and healthful life.
animatone
2025-01-09 18:52:59 +0000 UTCAnimatone, you're a good man. You're right in that regular upstanding people should probably feel exactly this way. No argument here. It's still an interesting and deep philosophical question, though.
Russians With Attitude
2025-01-09 18:08:18 +0000 UTCI'm seriously asking... You ever taken care of butchered men, women and children? I've never personally killed anyone, but see the end result of this kind of stuff over the last 25 years of my life and work. You're minimizing the seriousness of these things. They're not trivial transactions.
animatone
2025-01-09 17:49:57 +0000 UTCSo true.
Russians With Attitude
2025-01-09 17:46:54 +0000 UTCPrisoners make better shanks than that one
Andrew Martiniuc
2025-01-09 17:30:35 +0000 UTCKiril doesnt know much about knife fights :)
Nick Pat
2025-01-09 14:16:03 +0000 UTCI can't help disagree with you guys about the the Yakut knife fight. It's a very visceral and honest reminder of what war is. Not that there hasn't been others, but once again to take notice of. The Yakut soldier when interviewed says two important things, "I went because they'd come for my children otherwise" (his sone being 17), and remember "we're all humans" implying some shared dignity. Professional anything (warrior, surgeon, police, etc.) that deals with intimate human life and death needs these reminders to bridge the gap between "the job" and the people and interactions involved. This is a brutal reminder of what is happening, and now has a face, name and very human and real sense of honor, violence and loss. There's a reason why for hundreds of years prolific literature has been written about war in reflection to the actual events and human understanding of such. These kinds of moments and their recording/documentation are akin to that. We need things like this to remind us that we fight for our humanity and souls even in war. Imagine how the Yakut warrior felt when he saw his son and family after all this. You know all the soldiers of the SMO will close their eyes at some point and relive these moments. We (humanity) should romanticize these moments and take them to heart, otherwise we'll commoditize them and blow the whole fucking would up tomorrow (we still might). The death of one is a tragedy. The death of millions is just a statistic... We forgot that's another tragic thing.
animatone
2025-01-09 12:49:04 +0000 UTCThank you Nikolay and Kirill for a fun and interesting SITREP. I learn so much every time I listen to you.
Arktika
2025-01-09 10:24:56 +0000 UTCI think that knife video is just terrible. I can’t watch it. I am so saddened by the possibility that the Ukrainian’s mother might see that video. The whole SMO is a failure of policy and negotiation over the last 25 years. It is a war between the same people, and in many cases actual brother versus brother and son versus father. Whatever happens I hope this is going to be thought of a low point of Russian civilisation and that the Russian people and state should strive for more.
spetsnaz
2025-01-09 10:21:41 +0000 UTCNo, that was a Danish ship: ”On September 26, a group of Danish journalists (Danish newspaper Politiken) published an investigation into the causes of the Nord Stream explosions. The captain of the island port of Kristiansø (located in the archipelago of the same name, 18 km northeast of Bornholm), Jon Anker Nielsen, directly states that for the past two years he has been forced to remain silent about what he saw on the evening of the explosion: "In the early days, the harbor master, according to his own account, was forced to "not say a word." But today Jon Anker Nielsen can well report that four or five days before the Nord Stream explosions, he accompanied the rescue service to Christiansø, because several unidentified ships were discovered there with their transponders turned off and did not respond to requests. It turned out that these were American warships. When the rescue mission approached them, the command ordered them to turn back."
Arktika
2025-01-09 10:00:03 +0000 UTCThe Arctic is going to become a very important area. Russia has been building bases and ice breakers for decades. Trump annexing Greenland makes a lot of sense. However it does give Putin the opportunity to act as a defender of European sovereignty. Maybe he can send the Northern Fleet to sail around Greenland in exchange for Denmark supporting Russia? Longshot but honestly europe is so weak and pathetic, they have zero ability to defend themselves
spetsnaz
2025-01-09 09:12:17 +0000 UTCI think F16 shooting down a bunch cruise missiles or shahed drones is quite possible. What it means is that Ukr air defence is basically non-existent if they are using fighter jets
spetsnaz
2025-01-09 09:02:45 +0000 UTCSure, please do
Russians With Attitude
2025-01-09 08:16:23 +0000 UTCWasn’t Bornholm where a Swedish coastguard ship approached a US Navy ship that hadn’t announced it presence a couple days before the Nord stream bombing?
Citizen_Drab
2025-01-09 03:57:14 +0000 UTCI will send a formal message with reasons to show the effort I made in consideration, not just an impulsive thought.
Icca
2025-01-09 01:43:35 +0000 UTCWho do you have in mind?? Just direct message them on pateron or send them message on telegram they are good they actually reply back right away!!…
Garry H
2025-01-09 01:30:24 +0000 UTCHow do we make suggestions about guests to your show please? Any particular medium of contact, fur example email address?
Icca
2025-01-09 00:41:08 +0000 UTCHell yeah!
Chris Hensley
2025-01-08 23:32:22 +0000 UTCThank you RWA ( Nikolay, and Kirill ) For your hard-work and efforts.. Looking forward to this..
Garry H
2025-01-08 23:22:04 +0000 UTC
