ВК и Одноклассники не пропускают публикацию этого интервью на страницах Рассела там. ВК пишет, что видео обрабатывается. А Одноклассники вообще не дают загрузить - кнопка 'поделиться' вообще неактивна.

UPD: В ВК загрузилось 1 апреля 🤣, в Одноклассниках - нет, только ссылка на Ютуб.

Спасибо Н.С. Михалкову, что не боится говорить правду и гоняет бесов в новом выпуске "Ложь как стратегия". А отец лжи - сами знаете кто.
https://rutube.ru/video/2c04790a4d9f8af79357674d431a46df/

Iran continues epic Trump trolling. Truth in its lyrics.

Translation:
We've been kicked in the balls again. The port in Ust-Luga on the Gulf of Finland is on fire again. I remember when it was hit earlier, there was information that the drones came from the Baltic states, but there were no official statements. I'm not talking about the need for a response. I'm talking about the loss of confidence that Russia is standing behind the Russian soldier.
I'll add something I haven't written about before. When a Ukrainian drone struck the center of the Moscow Kremlin, our soldiers in the trenches were overjoyed. It was unexpected, wasn't it? Our soldiers said, "Finally, the top brass will wake up and strike for real." They were expecting a revival and iron-fisted determination from the top.
But we started hitting Ukraine's infrastructure two years later, and we did it gently, so as not to upset the enemy. Isn't that right? Isn't that true? We're trying to make our military response slightly weaker than the enemy's. Why is that? I don't know.
I have complete confidence in our strength, and I fully support the goals of the special military operation. However, in order to achieve these goals, we need to move forward. Not in a "goose-step" manner, but by actually advancing and inflicting unbearable pain on the enemy every day.
This is not a personal concern of mine. I have to report on the growing frustration among ordinary people, especially the military. They are frustrated by the fact that soldiers are willing to die for their homeland, but someone else is being cautious, protecting something, or protecting themselves.
Soldiers are starting to question whether we are moving forward as a unified force, or if someone is hesitant, while they, the soldiers, are being sent forward.
There is a lot of talk behind the scenes about our possible cunning plan. However, some people are skeptical about this cunning plan, which allows the enemy to strike our businesses like a fly swatter, while we only allowed private businesses to defend themselves two weeks ago, as there were not enough government forces. We allowed private security companies to use commercial air defense systems.
If we have a plan, we should maintain the public's confidence in its existence.

Иран продолжает эпичный троллинг в адрес Трампа. В словах - правда. Видно, что перевод на русский язык выполнен с помощью ИИ, поэтому есть несколько существенных неточностей, но смысл сохраняется, можно понять.

Ура-а-а! Сбор закрыт. Всем, кто присылал денежку и репостил, большое спасибо 🤠👍✊ Все вместе одолеваем врага!
https://xn--r1a.website/friend_blog/63664

02.04.2024 г.
Сегодня день рождения моей любимой Людмилы. Она для меня — всё, как моя душа. Если бы не она, меня бы сегодня здесь не было. Владимир Владимирович с этим согласен и хочет сказать ей несколько слов...
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https://xn--r1a.website/TXDPR/13342

TRUMP AND THE THREADS OF FATE

Donald Trump published the following post on his social media (and at first I could hardly believe what I was reading in the original language until I verified it through three major international news agencies):

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day – all at once, in Iran. You have never seen anything like it!!! Open that f**g strait, you crazy bastards, or you will be living in hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President Donald J. Trump.”

I remember telling one of my friends in February 2022: “a period of hot wars is beginning, an era of people coming off the rails, and I don’t like it.” I spent the following six months with a camera in my hands in my native Donbass, filming numerous reports – from Donetsk to Mariupol – and even making a film for Al Jazeera, and not once did I feel any excitement about this new era, this frenzy that so captivates armchair and office-bound commentators. I still remember one funeral I could not help but attend in Donetsk – at the cemetery called the Donetsk Sea – when the sky was covered with leaden clouds, heavy rain began to pour, and the thunder, the Grad rocket salvos and the incoming strikes near the cemetery were drowned out by the terrible cry of a mother as her son’s coffin was lowered into the ground. That is the true image of war – not the triumphant reports on the main television channels nor the adrenaline-filled scenes of Hollywood action films. There is also something else in that image – a terrible smell in the air, but I will not elaborate here. Those who know will understand.

War has also never “excited” me because, due to my army specialty as a first-class chemical decontamination specialist, I could clearly imagine what the world and the people would look like “the next day” if war were ever to reach its final stage. Our 2018 film New York – Donetsk and Back Again, featuring my friend, actor Peter von Berg, ends with these words:

“I don’t know about you, but I would choose the fragrance of roses over the metallic taste of a new world war. When I left Donetsk, I had the feeling I was leaving an almost biblical place. But Armageddon must not begin in Donbass. To me, it seems quite the opposite. If the Song of Songs of Solomon were written today, perhaps it would sound like this: I am the rose of Donbass. And my banner is love.”

We did not yet know that soon after the premiere of our film Alexander Zakharchenko, who appeared in it, would be killed, that in 2022 the fragrance of roses in the air would be replaced by the “smell of war,” that a few years later 'Texas' would be murdered and many of the protagonists of our films would also die. And that not only in Donbass but also in Iran – where in 2019, as part of the Moscow–Doha motor rally team, we enjoyed the heavenly scent of orange trees in the Delgosha Garden – the smell of gunpowder would also one day fill the air.

After Trump’s post I could not help but recalling the British film Threads (sometimes translated in Russian as Threads of Fate), released in 1984 – perhaps the most realistic film about nuclear war ever made. It is noteworthy that World War III in this film does not begin with a nuclear strike or with a direct confrontation between superpowers. It begins with a regional crisis around Iran that gradually spirals out of control.

The film shows the mechanism of escalation with remarkable accuracy. First comes a regional conflict. Then politicians begin making increasingly harsh statements because no one wants to appear weak. This is followed by military preparations which each side considers defensive, while the other interprets them as preparations for attack. Then comes the first exchange of strikes. Then come mistakes, fear, and the pressure of decision-making systems. And at some point events begin to develop according to their own internal logic.
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The central idea of the film is especially disturbing. Nuclear wars are not started by clinical madmen. They are started by “rational” politicians making rational decisions within an inevitably irrational system. This is precisely why the film is called Threads — because it shows how human destinies, political decisions, fears, coincidences and mistakes are connected by invisible threads. And when those threads are pulled too tight, the very fabric of civilisation begins to tear. I very much hope that when the astronauts returning from their lunar mission on April 10, two days before Orthodox Easter and Cosmonautics Day, look back at Earth, they will find it in the same condition in which they left it.

Alexander Korobko,
the head of 'Russian Hour' media company