#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #RUSSIA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Russia, avtonom: Kamikaze Drone: Trends in Order and Chaos Episode 76 (October 16) (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Hi all! Today is Sunday, October 16th and we continue our weekly podcast "Trends

of Order and Chaos". This is episode 76. So what have we seen and thought about
this week? ---- 1. The next stage of the war ---- In the last six months, it is
difficult not to start the review with the news of the war. It seems that after
the successful Ukrainian counter-offensive and the blowing up of the Crimean
bridge, this very war began a new stage. And it's even worse than before. Now
these are actually attempts to "bomb the enemy into the Stone Age." First of all,
of course, we are talking about massive Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilian
infrastructure, especially on power plants. Electricity is the blood of human
civilization in the 21st century, try to imagine life without electricity. Here,
residents of many Ukrainian cities now represent this very well. The destruction
of ordinary urban facilities just to make life worse for Ukrainians looks
especially cynical against the backdrop of official statements by the Kremlin
that it is going to "save" these same Ukrainians from Nazism.

But any war is an endless spiral of escalation, and the Ukrainian army responds
to Russia in the same coin. On Friday evening rockets flew over Belgorod's
electrical substation, and not for the first time. By the way, the day before, an
ammunition depot was shelled in the same area - three National Guardsmen died and
some were seriously injured there.

Could the Russian jingoistic patriots on February 24 imagine that already in
October on the "territory of the Russian Federation" itself, the watchdogs of the
Putin regime would die from Ukrainian strikes? Hardly.

Interestingly, there is no special reaction from the Russian authorities to all
this. Unless the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin,
instructed "to open a criminal case on the fact of the shelling of the territory
of the Belgorod region by the Armed Forces of Ukraine." This, of course, looks
very creepy. Hello, Bastrykin, the war is on, here every day somewhere they fire
at something and kill someone! Come on, open a criminal case for every killed and
wounded soldier of the Russian army even then. Maybe the investigators will
digress from the political repressions inside Russia. But in general, there is a
feeling that Bastrykin's "opening a criminal case" is just a reflex reaction to
any external stimuli. Probably, even when he himself will be tried for crimes
against humanity, even then he will instruct himself to "bring up a criminal case."

2. Russia as a kamikaze drone
So, the bridge is being blown up, the border areas are being shelled, and what
about the Kremlin, and the Kremlin somehow does not really draw public attention
to this. Why, in principle, is clear: the so-called "Russian Federation" is
obviously losing the war. The Ukrainian army is getting stronger every week,
because it is supplied by almost the whole world and it has a high motivation.
The Russian army is weaker every week, because it has no motivation, and it is
supplied only by Belarus and Iran - and they are afraid to admit it openly.

It is very symbolic that Iran is supplying the Russian army with kamikaze combat
drones under the code name Shahid-136. Already in Russia, they are renamed
"Geran-2", apparently, "Shahid" evokes some bad associations. So, the political
regime of modern Russia resembles such a shahid drone. After all, what is a
"drone" - it is an unmanned, unmanned aerial vehicle. Well, the "drone-kamikaze",
respectively, is a drone that can perform only one task - to blow something up.
In the process of completing this task, the drone itself dies.

So the Putin regime is now "unmanned". We doubt that even Putin himself now has
much control over what is happening: the System works on its own, sinking further
and further into destruction and chaos. This system is made up of an all-powerful
and corrupt FSB, billionaires clinging to the state trough, cynical and stupid
generals, and, moreover, of indifferent citizens who "are not interested in
politics." She works in her own logic, guided by short-term considerations such
as "if only they don't put me in jail now." It would seem obvious that no
"victory" in the war with Ukraine can be expected, and it will only get worse.
But no one controls the system, and its cogs do not know how to take the
initiative. So this kamikaze drone is heading straight for its goal: its own
destruction.

Desperate grasping at straws called "partial mobilization" here, of course, will
not help in any way, but will only speed up this process. The mobilization of the
homeless and mass roundups of young men in Moscow and St. Petersburg in no way
increase confidence in the authorities, but only reinforce the very "chaos
trends". The same is true with the recruitment of prisoners from the colonies for
the war. By the way, it is interesting that those convicted under "political"
articles are not recruited on principle. Too smart cannon fodder The system does
not need.
There are, however, pluses in the events around the diving kamikaze drone. Take
at least the wonderful story of the electric welder Levanov from Chelyabinsk.
After the administration gave 15 workers to be slaughtered in the military
registration and enlistment office, Levanov realized that "in my eyes, this
employer is just an enemy to me." And he quit, writing in a statement "Burn you
and your Tsar Putin in hell."

3. Train to Nuremberg
Whether Putin and his henchmen will burn in hell, and whether that same hell
exists - we, anarchists, are not religious people - we do not know. But lately,
more and more people are talking about the "new Nuremberg Tribunal", which
inevitably awaits those who unleashed aggression against Ukraine.

So, of course, we very much support the trial of all these ghouls. The only
question is "who are the judges?"

At the first Nuremberg 75 years ago, the winners judged - the USSR, the USA,
Great Britain, etc. As we now know, these states themselves have committed many
crimes before and subsequently. Has it gotten better now? Hardly. There is little
hope for international structures like the UN, and states and large corporations,
even in wars and tribunals, pursue their own interests, which do not coincide
with the interests of people.

It's even kind of embarrassing to talk about Elon Musk on our podcast, but here's
a good example. As you know, his company SpaceX was very much PR on the fact that
it provided the Armed Forces with satellite Internet (StarLink). Reliable
communications helped a lot in the recent counter-offensive. But the other day,
Musk said that the freebie was over and now let Ukraine or the Pentagon pay him
at the full rate. That is, the supply of Starlinks to Ukraine is not a
disinterested "fight for freedom against empires", but a well-thought-out
advertising campaign. Well, a test in harsh combat conditions at the same time.
No wonder - businessmen want profits. But do you believe that the "elites" in the
US or Europe are concerned about the welfare of all living beings? It is unlikely
that they are concerned about strengthening their power.

It is important, however, that in the countries of the conditional West there are
still relatively many mechanisms by which people can somehow influence the
government. And although the bourgeois democracies of the "golden billion" are
not our political ideal, we can at least try to make the upcoming trial of
Russian war criminals more objective. Make it so that it does not become a tool
to consolidate the dominance of other criminals, but on the contrary: it gives
people in all countries of the world even more mechanisms to control their lives.
Now it seems far and unlikely, but anarchists need to prepare for these events
now, develop their attitude, their demands and ways to implement these
requirements. This is what is called "political subjectivity". Ultimately, our
goal is for the people themselves to become political subjects.

4. Horizontal links in society
To achieve this goal, people must be together. Just the movement "Spring" rolled
out a call to the Russians to massively create house and district chat rooms. And
what they write resonates with us very much. See: "A strong society is organized
local communities, solidarity and mutual assistance. It is awareness and solution
of common problems. And chats can help with that!"

Sounds very anarchist. And, in general, it is: this is Murray Bookchin's
"libertarian municipalism" or "communalism" in its purest form. It's just that
the word "anarchism" itself is not pronounced, but the meaning is the same.

Communicate, create and maintain social connections, do not limit yourself to
reading channels and news sites - and even listening to podcasts like ours. Power
can only be defeated together.

But don't forget safety. For large group chats where not everyone knows each
other personally, Telegram is really good because it allows you to hide your
phone number behind a pseudonym. Such chat rooms are analogous to public meetings
in the squares. But if you are going to discuss something very sensitive or
illegal in a narrow circle, it is better to use Signal. In Signal, unlike
Telegram, there is a normal end-to-end encryption, so even if the owners of the
Signal servers really want to, then purely technically they will not be able to
leak your correspondence to anyone. Telegram server owners can easily. And given
their Russian roots, putting pressure on them is likely to be very easy. Telegram
is known to have shared user data with the police in different countries.

Yes, you can't hide the phone number to which your account is registered in
Signal, but if you trust your interlocutors, then this is not necessary. In
addition, in Russia you can still buy a one-time SIM card for an anonymous
person, register a Signal for it and throw it away. Another option: ask a friend
from another country to register an account for you on a foreign number. In
general, be careful!
5. Everything will be Belarus
Previously, there was a popular opinion that all repressive mechanisms were being
tested in Belarus, which were then introduced in Russia. Well, just the other day
in Belarus they announced either a counter-terrorist operation regime, or a
regime of increased terrorist threat: officials are confused in definitions. One
thing is clear: this is actually martial law. And indeed, it is possible that
something similar will soon await at least the border Russian regions.

But there is another point of interest. If you think about it, why did Lukashenka
really just not call it all "martial law", but continues to mutter about some
kind of "terrorism"? Yes, because he did not come up with it, and not even Putin.
Terms like "counter-terrorist operation", "war on terrorism" and so on have long
been used by other states (including supposedly "democratic" ones). They are used
just not to call war a war, to attack civil liberties and human rights. All this
"anti-terrorism" is strongly associated with mass surveillance, torture,
kidnapping and killing of innocent people. It is very advantageous to call your
opponent not an adversary, but a terrorist. The authorities of Nazi Germany also
called members of the armed Resistance groups terrorists. So, yes, Lukashenka is
talking about a "counter-terrorist operation", Putin's generals are talking about
some kind of "Ukrainian militants" (and not about "soldiers"). But they are not
pioneers here, they had good teachers.

Well, since we are talking about Belarus. Our old comrade Igor Olinevich, an
anarcho-partisan, who was imprisoned for 20 years for participating in the
Belarusian uprising, went on a hunger strike. He is now on a prison regime, and
additionally placed in a punishment cell. The support group writes: "There is no
connection with Igor, but both his mother and friends hope that he is not broken.
For Igor, wrestling is a norm and a necessity. Rather, he should have been
worried if he had not tried to fight at least somehow.

(By the way, the picture for this episode of "Trends of Order and Chaos" is a
drawing by Sergei Romanov, another captured Belarusian anarchist partisan).

In Russia, more and more details about the detention of anarchists and
anti-fascists in Tyumen are emerging. As always, nameless masked security forces,
torture with electricity, bullying, indifferent doctors and lawyers by
appointment. All six guys are now still in jail. And they are accused, of course,
of participating in the so-called terrorist organization.

I would like to finish with the phrase of the same Igor Olinevich support group.
It applies to political prisoners in both countries:

"What can be done to help? Overthrow the regime."

Well, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order and Chaos" the
participants of "Autonomous Action" give anarchist assessments of current events.
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Issue No. 76 prepared by Money

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