Fifty-second post since the war started. I sleep or work, guided not by the time of day, but by spontaneous blackouts. We are lucky - winter is warm. While it's thawing, I rode my bike around Slavyansk. Cars on the roads as in pre-war times, now again you have to be careful when driving. Sometimes you can hear the shooting, but not to compare with how it was in the summer. There are hits to Slavyansk, but more often - to Kramatorsk.
Now the whole burden of the war falls on Bakhmut. It is right near it where the invaders concentrated all their forces. Well, it's still very hot near Avdiivka. If Bakhmut is abandoned, the next line of defense will pass near us. But I don't believe it will be abandoned.
I thought that after fleeing from Kherson, the occupiers would throw all their forces at Ugledar, since a breakthrough in this sector would allow them to enter the rear of the Ukrainian troops near Donetsk. However, the Russian command is guided not by a strategic perspective, but by Putin's mood. They need to rehabilitate themselves for the defeat near Kherson, and now it is easier for them to attack than to explain the need to change another offensive direction.
The Bakhmut meat grinder has been going on for several months, and the occupiers are paying for every hundred meters of advance with thousands of dead. And this without any strategic perspective, solely for the ego of just one person. The battle of Bakhmut resembles the Verdun meat grinder of World War I, and will end the same way: it is here that Russia will use up its last offensive potential, after which Ukraine will be able to liberate all its lands. This will end the first stage of the war and begin the second, remote, by mutual firing of missiles and kamikaze drones. No matter how much we want the war to end as soon as possible, it will continue in any case until the total collapse of the necro-empire.
Soldiers are thrown into the attack on Bakhmut in continuous waves, regardless of losses. This is their necrophilic offensive tactics. The more people die, the more space will be freed up for the new mobilized. They are deliberately sent to death.
In 1991, the KGB allowed the democratic revolution to win in Russia in order to get rid of the control of the CPSU. Surely they already had a plan to come to power and restore the totalitarian empire. They correctly calculated that there are enough military and economic resources for this purpose. But people's consciousness is changing, becoming indifferent to the old ideologies. Therefore, the imposition of imperial ideology after the KGB coup in 1999 led to its mutation into necro-imperialism.
I think when in 1991 the chekists were making plans for revanche, they could not even imagine that in three decades their protege would go further, aiming not at conquering, but at destroying the neighboring peoples. Putin himself said that the purpose of the special military operation is the denazification of Ukraine and showed in practice that this word means the destruction of the Ukrainian cultural consciousness, the Ukrainian language and the Ukrainian ethnic group.
If for the totalitarian imperialist the main goal is power, for the necro-imperialist it is destruction. And there are three reasons why the mass consciousness in Russia accepted necro-imperialism so easily: indifference to any political ideologies other than the ideology of finding an enemy, fear of the complexity of the world, and lumpenization.
In this context, an event that I only learned about yesterday is symbolic. My friend, Maxim Evstropov, was put on the federal wanted list. I've known Maksim since he was a student, we worked in the same department with him for a while. Formally, he is being persecuted under the article on insulting the feelings of believers. Maxim expressed what he thought about Patriarch Kirill and his support for the war. This criminal article is false, because it is not used to prosecute for insulting religious feelings, but for dissent and protesting against the regime. Because if it really was used to prosecute for insulting religious feelings, then first of all they should have brought to justice Patriarch Kirill himself, Sergei Ryakhovsky, Talgat Tatjudin, Bhakti Rasayana Sagar Swami and other religious authorities. From a religious standpoint, any use of the authority of religion to justify Russia's actions in Ukraine is an insult to God and introducing their fellow believers into demonic temptation.
In fact, they want to put Maxim in jail for something completely different - for the fact that he created the Party of the Dead, known for its public actions. He created it in 2017 in response to an attempt of the authorities to appropriate the dead and use them for their political purposes, such as voter fraud or events like the Immortal Regiment.
Of course, there is epatage in the party's actions, but Maxim is not the kind of person who would joke about death. For the necro-imperialists, death is the last point of triumph of their undivided power, because they fear even their own victims, as long as they are alive. Therefore, necro-imperialists look at death from the angle of their right to kill and see it as a way to free themselves from the fear of the complexity of the world. However, Maxim, from his life experience, knows death from the opposite side - from the side of an unjustified senseless tragedy.
Maxim has his own philosophical position, different from mine; he can tell about it himself, but I will only say how I see his actions from my standpoint. I believe Maxim has the right to speak on behalf of the dead, for his existential experience allows him to remain himself both among the living and the dead. In the actions of Maxim, death ceases to be what necrophiles seek - a way to simplify the world and confirm their absolute power. Necrophiles in power want to turn people into nothing, and he let the dead refuse, at least in a symbolic form, to be victims and turn into nothingness. Therefore, even in such a symbolic demonstration, necrophiles feel danger.
Most of all, necrophiles are afraid of being among the dead themselves, and Putin is ready to send everyone to death in order to prolong his life at least a little. Thus, he has already condemned the living to death and perceives them as dead, and therefore is also afraid to be among them, fencing himself off with a giant table. It turns out that he has no place either among the living or among the dead.
