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:

Left, the traditional Palyanytsia bread; right, the proposed new Palyanytsia rocket drone.

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.  

by Editor - Wednesday, August 28th, 2024