I was impressed today by several commentators on the War on the sites I follow daily.

Five categories of war-related rashists became increasingly key factors in the life of Russian Feudalization. Of course, if the rashists of some of these categories manage not to be killed in the war as the cheapest cannon fodder.
The only factory in Russian Feudalization that runs continuously and spews out a colossal amount of output, it's the cheapest cannon fodder factory.

The first of these five categories is the senior defense politicians and senior military ranks – from two general stars upwards. Thanks to the War, they broke into the first ranks of Power in Russian Feudalization and – in their eyes – got the revenge they had been so longed for almost 40 years against the Chekists (Kagebists, Servicemen, Efesbists). From now on, all that can be offered to them is little for their ambitions.
It is more than natural for them to be given high posts not just in the defense, but at the very top of the administration of Russian Feudalization. But even that is little for them. They want much more – they want to be closest to Putin in governance, and in wealth – to become oligarchs. Some of them – oligarchs of the First rank, others – of the Second rank, finally – of the Third rank. But oligarchs.
They are a stratum of over-satisfied people who allow themselves to think that without them Putin is doomed and the only thing he can do is negotiate with them!
For the first time, there is a stratum in Russian Feudalization who dares to believe that they can make a deal with Putin – for them to guarantee him to stay in office, for him to guarantee them all the benefits he has given so far or at least not taken away from the oligarchs and top Chekists.
Otherwise, let him think!

The second of these five categories are the leading representatives of the Military-Industrial Complex, the Commercial Companies for Heavy Weapons, Equipment, Small Arms and Ammunition, as well as the big bosses of private military companies. They made enormous money during the war, became colossally rich, acquired the self-esteem of being extremely important for Russian Feudalization, and want a place not simply and not only in politics, but also in the management of very high positions – at least deputy ministers, and after all – a minimum of deputy ministers.
These "newer Russhians" are so far extremely united and are becoming an unpredictable factor threatening the entire power architecture built by Putin.
To them, the very idea of ending the war quickly by any means is sacrilegious. Even if Putin wants to somehow end this inhumane war of his, declaring its goals achieved and the victory in it withheld, they won't let him. They want a long war because they profit from it fabulously.

The third of these five categories is the "bearers of orders" – the most distinguished in the battles of the war. They are puffed up with self-confidence, they consider themselves exceptional individuals, they claim to participate in local, regional and Feudalized governance, they do not accept the word "compromise", and they hate all those who shunned moGilization, they hate the parquet generals, they hate the bureaucrats from the power ministries that have "rubbed their asses in the cabinets".
They are a serious threat to the elites in the center and on the lower positions.
The "order bearers" are difficult to talk to and negotiate with, because they want much more than those whose places they claim can give them.

The fourth of these five categories is the rank-and-file combatants on the territory of Ukraine - from privates to junior officers. Russian Feudalization still remembers the Afghans who returned from Afghanistan with the severe "Afghan" syndrome - hot-tempered, ferocious, easily committing beatings and murders, quickly joining the ranks of the criminal world. Or just psychologically vulnerable, and most of them downright mentally ill. Russian Feudalization is already filled with them – in the cities, villages and hamlets they are visible to the naked eye – unruly, unshaven, wounded, armless or legless. They quickly smell each other and associate, organize themselves for racketeering and taking what they think is theirs from the civilians. They engage in shootouts, arrange meetings ("strelki") with "traditional" criminal groups.

The fifth of these five categories, these are hardened criminals from private military companies (of which there are quite a few in Russia and growing - at least 20, if not 30, maybe 40 - I'm talking about the private military companies, of course), remained alive despite being sent for extermination - cold-blooded and calculated by Putin and So. - in order to save budget funds for their care, feeding and clothing in the prisons of the wide and native country for them, where man breathed so freely.
With heavy sentences, these criminals - thugs and rapists, who "did their duty and went to atone for their sins with blood" return to Russian cities and villages, especially to the "two capitals" of Russian Feudalization. And already the "cold summer of 1953" (based on the crime film of the same name) is beginning to repeat itself. This means a 10-15 times increase in banditry, murders, robberies, violence and rapes, when it is scary to move in the dark, in the outermost neighborhoods, in the dubious places and in the small streets.

In conclusion, Putin scored not one but five own goals with this war.
And at some point he will realize that the situation for Russian Feudalization and for him is becoming too vulnerable and unpredictable, indefinite, unclear, unknown.
In the top of the state – powerful redistributive forces of supreme power, enormous influence, invaluable resources, universally recognized authority and colossal finances.
In the middle of the state – murky streams of ambitions for revenge and displacement of the faltering middle layers of power and business, imposing new rules of the game and new criteria and new hierarchies.
In the bottom of the state – mass criminalization of life, desecration of relations, brutal violence and blatant lawlessness, rather a new law – of the right to force, the gun and the dagger, the jungle, the war of all against all.
If ever, somewhere, all the evil secret services of the decaying West, bent (as Putin cried) on destroying Russia – CIA and FBI, Mi-5 and Mi-6, Shinbet and Mossad, BND and DRM – had scrambled to come up with a plan to break and ruining Russian Feudalization, they would not have been able to devise (let alone implement) anything even close to and rivaling in effectiveness what Putin did to Russian Feudalization by starting the cynical, brutal, cannibalistic, and totally unprovoked war against Ukraine!

02/09/2023