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It's Tuesday, May 19th, 2026. And as I read Russian news and look at Russian propaganda, I'm seeing a very clear, discernable trend that propagandists, uh, mill bloggers, even now state duma representatives are all talking about Putin maybe removing Putin or he can't stop strikes or this sort of thing. It's it's really remarkable to see and that's amped up over the last month or so. So, let's look at what's going on.
So, here we see Z blogger Andre Clintovich urges Russians to brace for up to 1,000 UAVs per day by summer, warning that Russian air defenses are losing effectiveness. Even Kremlin aligned voices now admit the scale of incoming strikes is about to dramatically increase. Okay. Well, look, I can't tell you if it's going to be by summer or when it's going to be what's going to happen exactly, but certainly by the end of 2026 or beginning of 2027, if the war continues, you'll see that level of strikes. But here he is. Let's let's look at what he has to say. He says this and the main task is now is well let's say to equalize par with the enemy in certain technologies and to find solutions to stop for example drones which are starting to fly more and more in our direction. Well, you you knew it was going to happen like it wasn't going to be just a one-sided war where you get to hit Ukraine and they don't get to hit you back. I think that starting from midsummer and by autumn the number of daily polls in Ukraine could reach a thousand. Polls I think was a mistranslation. The drones I think is what he was trying to say could reach a thousand. Unfortunately regularly you mean not massive but regular. Well maybe not every day every other day somewhere else something tension. The question is are we producing the same number of anti-aircraft missiles? I asked myself this question. Are anti-aircraft missiles expensive? He asks. Most likely the answer is no. Because it is expensive. It's complicated. I've been to production facilities and seen a lot of things done by hand there. Like the Russians aren't really good at mass-producing things. It's like you think about mass production, you're thinking the Chinese, not so much the Russians. And they have very complex gyroscopes. Very cool. It's all expensive and it's complicated. And it was never intended to be used as artillery shells. Yeah, that's what they know how to do. Artillery shells to blow up, you know, the the city in front of you. Just just raise it to the ground and then move forward for millions of pieces. We need to move on to some other technologies, lasers and everything else. Here we are lagging behind. We need help from our allies there. Your allies? Who are your allies? North Korea. You're going to get laser help from North Korea. Is that really what you're suggesting? Ballistic missiles will fly and that's already a ton a ton of warheads. This is very serious. It is difficult here. If we move on to 2027, we will see not only flying and crawling robots on the line of contact. That's true. You're going to see that and you're seeing more and more of that on the line of contact, we will see the mass use of robot dogs, anthropomorphic robots, and the war will begin to move into a completely different stage. And well, unfortunately, there is also the reality of the LBS zone is now beginning to rapidly expand in two directions. And soon, cities like Detsk and other populated areas will simply become a line of combat contact. That is the future. He's right that that I mean they're recognizing that Ukraine's going to have the ability to send a thousand drones into Russia and robots are going to be all over the battlefield. Those are going to be the line of contact where drones with artificial intelligence will fly in the air destroying everything. And when you said if we enter 2027 we might not enter. Listen to this. The these are mill bloggers who are pro-Russia and this is what they're saying. >> 2 seconds in short. Uh the 27th means a in a state of war >> because the high probability and I would like to hope so >> that we will find a common ground and stop this war. They want to stop the war. Listen to like the mill bloggers.
Okay, so let's look at this. Uh, furious amid Putin's refusal to address the Russian people after the largest scale bombing of Moscow since World War II. Popular Russian bloggers are calling for the dictator to be removed. That's not the guys I was just talking about. Some people for uh pushing for Putin to be replaced by deputy head of the presidential administration Sergey Krienko the architect and manager of everything from Kremlin's foreign disinformation operations to uh taking people away from the earth and not having them come back alive kind of programs elections interference in Hungary Romania Muldova even accused by US justice department of large-scale attacks in 2024 for American elections. Okay. Uh Sergey Curyenko, we'll come back to him in a little bit. Okay.
So Putin still hasn't here's Roman Romangh saying Putin still hasn't come out to the Russian people today after the Ukrainian armed forces carried out the largest bombing campaign since the great patriotic war, the bombing of the country's capital. Like they're they're upset about this. The entire elite is pretending as if nothing has happened. Some are afraid to leave their bunkers. Others don't want to be in the spotlight during the war without drawing attention to their high ranking to their high-ranking person. But perhaps we should finally ask ourselves, why do we need a president who's afraid to be with his people in a war he himself started? Listen to the way that they're talking about this. This is very unusual. Remember, people went to jail for holding up a sign that said nothing. It said nothing. It was just a white sign, right? And people would go to jail for that. for denigrating the Russian military in such a way. He doesn't know how to win it. He how to end it, how to get out of it. And it's simply biting his time in the hopes that everything will resolve itself. I think that's right. Putin is doing that. He's biting his time in the hopes that everything will resolve itself. But is this how leaders and chieftains behave? Do they hide in bunkers when their capitals are bombed? Or are they with the people at the most difficult moment? Putin is afraid and is unwilling to risk his life which is why he doesn't visit Belgarod, Kursk, Touabsi, Ksk. Putin is afraid to even meet with his own ministers and diplomats without the president presence of the Federal Protective Service. Putin is afraid to go to Red Square after May 9th without Trump's security guarantees. Look, these are pro-Russian mill bloggers saying Putin is afraid to go to Red Square on May 9th without Trump's security guarantees. Like like wow that's that's the state that we're in right now.
Okay, I've got to keep moving. Sergey Cureno. Okay, we're just talking about all right I I I I don't know a lot about the guy. So he's the first deputy Kremlin chief of staff and an incumbent. He's a he's a pal of Putin's. I know that. But uh so I asked AI to summarize about him like I fed him fed some information summarize. Okay. So would he be better or worse than Putin? So let's say he was replacing Putin. What would happen? So less emotional, less imperialistic, romantic than Putin. Probably more coldly managerial, likely more effective administratively, not necessarily more liberal, not necessarily less authoritarian. That distinction matters. A lot of analysts think Kurano would pursue Russian power more through information operations, political engineering, controlled elections, media manipulation, elite management, hybrid warfare rather than Putin's often theatrical historical nationalist framing. But he's already directly overseen occupied Ukrainian territories and Kremlin political machinery during the war. So calling him a moderate would probably be misleading. A better description is that he would be a disciplined technocrat authoritarian rather than a nationalist idologue. So he's not going to be much of an improvement even if that was the case. But you don't have to worry about this. Anton Geroshenko points this out. Meanwhile, Russian Zbloggers have begun suggesting that Putin might be removed and be replaced by Cure Yenko. Uh statements like these never appear out of nowhere. Okay. Uh Gerkin and other ZBloggers generally say exactly what they're told to say. At this point, such statements are most likely part of a campaign against Kuryenko in the hope that Putin himself will remove him. Power in Russia is built on a carefully maintained balance among the elites. And for now, Putin alone controls and sustains the stability of that balance. But there's little doubt that his throne is beginning to shake. His throne being Putin's throne. Now beginning to shake.
Why? deputies in a Duma. Listen to this. Russia Parliament, a rare call has been made to wind down the war. State Duma deputy from the Communist Party said that the Russian economy cannot sustain a long war against Ukraine and that swift end to the special military operation is necessary. Look, people have gone to jail for less, right? Okay. He added that around 40% of the federal budget is now spent on defense and security which is driving inflation reducing social investment spending. So I mean it's just one thing after another. A podcaster you can ignore a state duma member not as easily. New record a Russian man received 18 years. This is the context in which this guy is saying this. Russian man received 18 years in prison for just one word. Such a sentence was handed to uh Ariam Ascal Huden over the comment handsome. He that all he said was the word handsome which he posted under a news report about an attack on a military recruitment officer during mobilization. He was initially and you could have read that a couple of ways. Maybe he thought the guy was dreamy or something, right? He was initially charged with justifying tea and later. Okay, so 18 years for one word, but yet this is happening.
Okay, so now Margaret Simon, she's still trying to tow the party line. Like she's she's all in on this, right? Let's listen to what she has to say. We understood that in a hot war, we would defeat Ukraine within two days. Remember when she used to say that? This is an old clip. You can tell by her hair. Okay. What was there to defeat? It's Ukraine. Well, we suppress those firing points. We're discussing this in the adbreak a little bit later. Drones are flying. It's unpleasant. It's scary. >> My children who have been sleeping in the corridor for a month now in the corridor and also in the walk-in wardrobe. Now, she's talking about present day realities. Uh, and yes, indeed. Actually, on the 9th of May, little six-year-old, she of course already knows everything about the war, our heroic feat. She doesn't know the details because she's still too little to be told. She pinned a St. George ribbon not only on herself but also on her favorite doll just like this on the right of the chest. And she asked me, "Okay, now this is her trying to justify the war in Ukraine still in spite of the rising tide of opposition." Mom, well, I know that we defeated the fascists in the war, but who are the fascists? Are fascists the ones who send us drones? Huh? Now, that is absolutely fascinating that she's telling this story because if that's the case, then the Russians have been fascists since 2022, sending these drones or 2022, 2023, whenever it was, sending drones into Ukraine. They would be the fascists. But the Russians, this actually ties into the next day, Russians and Ukrainians are the same, aren't they? Right. Okay. Well, we'll come back to that. So, she she makes the point that saying yes, I said yes, darling. Well done. Absolutely. What a clever girl you are. That's exactly right. Spot on, I say. Yes, darling. >> Yes, because the she's tying Ukrainians who are attacking Moscow to being the fascists.
Okay, now let's look at the Ukrainians and uh and Russians are one people. Russian mafia billionaire Constantine Malof suddenly changed his tune. He said this, this is a quote. Losing to Ukraine isn't shameful. Ukrainians are really Russians. And that's what Russians believe about Ukrainians. They're just Russians who have this mind virus of this political thing of Ukraine. Ukrainians are really Russians just like us. Russians never lose and never give up. That's how he's that's how he's kind of making this okay that they're getting their head handed to him by the Ukrainians. So, there's that.
All right. Things that we just never thought that we would be seeing. My shout out is to Douglas Chang, undergraduate student, YouTube member. Thank you, Douglas. Trump must pressure Putin. And Darth Putin says, "Day for 1546 of my three-day war. Russia never loses. Ukraine is Russia and Ukrainians are Russians. Therefore, Russia is winning this war while it's losing it." I remain master strategist.
All right, my friends. That's all that I have. Tell me what you think about the the change in tone in the comments below. Thank you for the time, the likes, the shares, and the subscribes. And thank you for being the kind of person who cares about Ukraine.