Russia also conscripts criminals on the astral front

Russia is also trying to use prisoners to save its half-baked front in Ukraine, including self-styled astrologer Alexander Zaraev, who is reprieving his release from prison by babbling about guarantees of Russian victory written in the stars.

Neatkarīgā has already drawn attention to the large number of supposed clairvoyants, psychics, astrologers and the like in Russia who now preach Russian Nazism - Russian superiority, chosenness and the right to conquer the world. It is immediately clear to everyone else that this means nothing more than another confirmation of their inferiority complex and looks too blatant (naive, senseless, stupid) to be credible. However, this is the way and the only way to justify Russia's attack on Ukraine. If the Russians, in their majority, had been able to keep in mind historical, economic or political facts in their chronological and logical connection, they would not have started the war in Ukraine in the first place. More than that: if they are still unable, six months on, to understand that the war is not going to go the way their dictator, Vladimir Putin, promised them it would on the morning of February 24, the day the war began, then we must conclude that the words of their propagandists express what at least a hundred million people think. Latvia has to reckon that it is not only the Russian state that touches its borders. Due to historical circumstances, it also has to deal with the Russians inside the country, so we must be prepared for their peculiarities of mind here.

He who knows how to cheat an old lady, must cheat Russia

More than three months have passed since the publication of Neatkarīgā on April 10 "Clairvoyants, psychics, astrologers hired to propagandize Russian Nazism". Has anything that was promised by the bouquet of soothsayers and clairvoyants come true since then? Yes, "there is a prejudice against Russians, which will intensify". The man known by his pseudonym or trademark, Rami Bleckt, said this publicly on March 18, when it was not yet clear to the world, and even to Ukraine, that Russia was not waging war in Ukraine, but was committing war crimes, the evidence of which only the Russians were capable of overlooking and failing to recognize. Three other Russian war propagandists were also quoted, who were even more vague about the misfortunes of Russia and the Russians: "The situation is difficult for Russia from the human point of view, but divine intervention will take place;" "perhaps this is a stepping stone on the road to the golden age that awaits Russia;” “Russia will succeed in ridding the world of evil. The difficulties will continue until May, but beyond that growth and cultural and economic development will begin." Now May is long gone, but where is the end of difficulties and where is the sign of growth and development?

This time, let us look more closely at just one prediction, published on March 4, for 2022. Of course, the year is still just over half over, but the man who calls himself an astrologer has talked enough about the period from the outbreak of the war to the present day to make it clear that astrology, if there is such a thing, has not stood by this man or his words. This man is Alexander Zaraev, who has appointed himself President of the Russian Astrological School. By far the most remarkable - the most described - event in his life was going to prison for defrauding the mother of a deceased acquaintance of her flat. She was in her 80s at the time. He told the old lady that the spirit of her dead daughter demanded that her body be reburied in another cemetery and undertook to do so. He then invoiced three million Russian rubles, when in reality the reburial had cost around 150,000 rubles. As the mother of the woman who was buried did not have millions, she gave Zaraev her apartment, which had a market value of around six million rubles, for three million rubles. However, the old woman owned another apartment. When Zaraev tried to swindle her out of that too, someone raised a fuss and Zaraev ended up in prison.

Dozens of articles can still be accessed on the Russian Internet, which raise the painful question for all clairvoyance whether the life of a clairvoyant is sufficient proof of his ability to act now, on the basis of foreseeing future events, in a way that is at least for his own benefit. With Zaraev's imprisonment, it became clear that his ability to predict the future was difficult or impossible to believe. However, he did not serve the three years he was sentenced to and was out after just one year on the apparently invented pretext that he was very ill. Five years have passed since then and there is no sign of his illness. However, there is a noticeable determination to lie particularly blatantly, as this was probably a condition for his release from prison.

Astrology faker sees no weapons behind the stars

So let's quote what his speech "The end of the 2022 special military operation", published on YouTube on March 4, might have sounded like if it had been stripped of the repetitions of words and sounds that are characteristic of the language of speech and if the words were ordered according to grammatical norms:

- At the end of April, negotiations on Ukraine's new status will begin in a much less realistic way, and it is likely that Ukraine will enter into its new status as a confederation integrating different regions. It is not clear whether the anti-terrorist operation will succeed in bringing Lviv, Uzhhorod and similar regions into the confederation. That is why the US sponsors will leave a horde of bandit wasps there and terrorist acts will be organized from there throughout 2022. The second half of this year will be quite dynamic; it will be the last period of Biden's rule. By my calculations, he will step down or die in October 2022. Only then will a real change in the US attitude towards Ukraine begin. I have already said about the Year of the Tiger that the tiger prepares to leap in the first half of the year, but leaps in the second half. March will be very, very “hot” in Ukraine, but after June, when the situation has more or less stabilized, Ukraine has been pacified, disarmament has taken place, etc., our politicians will rebuild the missile base in Cuba or Nicaragua. Then the Americans will be enlightened and they will oust Biden. Then, by the end of the year, the situation in Ukraine will turn calmer. Military operations will be most active in March, and in April, fairly constructive negotiations will already have begun... (etc. repetition of what has already been said). After the lunar eclipse of April 30 to May 1, the negotiations [between Russia and the USA] that began last December will be brought to an end. Many will only then see that Russia has once again shown itself to be a country that is fighting Nazism and terrorism. Opinions will change, attitudes will change and the economy will slowly but inevitably return to its natural course.

Zaraev topped his verbal dung heap by claiming that if Russia had not launched the “special operation” on February 22, Ukraine would have invaded its own Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which Russia had previously seized, on February 23 (dates as in the original, with inaccurate dates for the Russian attack). "In that case, Russia would start a war with Ukraine. It would not be a special operation, but a large-scale war, and the world community would see it differently. The situation is now unfolding with little bloodshed and less political turmoil than it would have been if the [Donetsk and Luhansk] republics had not been recognized and the operation had not been launched."

Such a statement is unlikely to not be recognized as absurd even by the Russians, because Ukraine is only now beginning to receive the weapons from the US and other countries with which to launch a real attack against an adversary as serious as Russia. That is why the Russians are now making a huge fuss about the weapons supplied to Ukraine, saying that this is an “escalation of the war”, because from now on not only they will be able to attack, but they will also be able to be attacked. If that is the case, then it must be admitted that, at the beginning of this year, Ukraine was not capable of any attack.

It will, of course, only be possible to say at the end of October what happened to US President Joe Biden in October or whether this might have an impact on US policy towards Ukraine and Russia. However, so much of what was promised has not materialized, i.e. has happened as if specifically contrary to what Zaraev said, that a normal person would have had cause to think and keep quiet. Such restrictions do not apply to the professional in astrology and in conning old ladies. His next public "Political forecasts for Ukraine, Europe and the USA for August 2022" are dated July 18:

- As far as the operation in Ukraine is concerned, there will be one of the last surges of military counter-stability and, as I said on March 1, the republics of Donetsk and Luhansk will not be fully liberated until June. July is already different and by mid-August, cities or areas could also be liberated from Nazi elements. All this will be accompanied by a very negative reaction from Europe. The groundwork will be laid for a series of economic crises, the meaning of which we will see at the end of August. What is not resolved at that point will enter another phase...

Here is one example of Russian war propaganda, the meaning of which has been simplified to a single idea, regardless of the means by which it is supposed to have been obtained and the manner in which it is presented. Economists and psychics alike come to the same conclusion: that the “next phase” will be a cold winter and Russia's right to supply or not to supply European countries with natural gas. If Europe comes to such dependence so directly, it will suffer for its own folly in not supplying arms to Ukraine in time for it to defeat Russia before winter and to impose Russian gas supplies as ransom for the crimes committed by Russia.