“Rank has its privileges.” (Captain Queeg, from The Caine Mutiny)
Dear Readers:
At my own peril… I say this because I have at least one reader who is dissatisfied with these incessant Joker stories. And even challenges me to authenticate this Joker’s hacks and prove they are not Photoshop fakes. Which I am unable to do. I’m a blogger, dammit! not an investigative reporter. Nor do I have an account on Telegram or Instagram, so I cannot even go in there and see for myself.
So, yes, I stipulate that I have no idea whether these communications are photoshops or not photoshops. All I can do is pass on these “tweets” and maybe enjoy a guilty giggle or two, while always remembering to insert the word “allegedly” before every verb. Also, in my own defense, I tried to not do this story; it was a last-minute insert when I had really planned to do a serious story on the Kherson situation. [Which I reckon will have to wait until tomorrow.]
See, every time I try to pull away from this Joker business, it keeps pulling me back in. Recall that, two days ago, this hacker, who calls himself “Joker DPR” allegedly hacked into General Zaluzhny’s social media, as shown in the screenshot above.
The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General
Well, that joke doesn’t quite work, because Zaluzhny a full General. Not to mention The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. And for that very reason it is shocking, absolutely shocking, to read the Joker’s follow-up tweet this morning, on his Telegram Channel. His tweet looks something like this:
Seems like this Joker fellow put together a video [which I am unable to play on my computer] showing images of General Zaluzhny’s harem of girlfriends. Seems like the honest General is a bit of a hound-dog on the side. He communicates separately with each girl; but they are not meant to know of the others’ existence. Joker explains all of this with a long text in Russian. Proving that he has a moral conscience, Joker stipulates that he holds back from including too much personal information about the girls and their families.
Like I said, I am only able to see the above three photos and not the whole video. But just from these three, it is clear that the General has a type: Despite differences in hair color (blue, platinum, brown), lips (puffy, thinner, rosebud) and eyebrows (hooked vs arched), these girls all have the same nose! Is that what one would call, in English, a button-nose??
Anyhow, here is my translation into English:
TRANSLATION
This video should be of interest not only to Russian spies and to the Sunburn database [Russian Solntsepyok, an analogue of Ukrainian Mirotvorets?], but also to Ukrainian soldiers, whose rights I am going to defend. While they are perishing in the hundreds on a daily basis, their Commander-in-Chief spends whole days in tender rendezvous with sweet young heifers from various military units. He allocates to them very cool service cars and the best jobs. It goes without saying that a brand new Mitsubishi L-200 is needed more by a beautiful brunette who holds a desk job in Aviation; then by soldiers out there on the front lines. Such soldiers are not nearly as beautiful or sweet.
In these communications there is much that is interesting. And [in my video review] I have nothing involving the family [families?], only work-related issues. It’s just that, now these young heifers will know about the existence of each other, but that’s not so horrible; on the contrary, it’s even a kind of advertisement. And yes, these photographs do not even show all the Favorites.
And in general, one can say that this guy is a gigachad [красавчик]. He lives the good life in full, he does not stint himself in anything, in every city he has a sweet young girl who awaits his arrival, the American magazines put his face on every cover, the mass deaths of a bunch of Nazi idiots do not bother him one whit. And he has good taste as well.
It even looks sort of like a plan. The more Ukrainian young bucks who perish, the more young Ukrainian women for the General – Bravo!
Soldier! If you want to get your hands on a new car, a better job, a promotion, to be taken out to dinner and caressed, then call this number, or text it to Whatsapp: +38-068-063-00-00 (This number is available 24/7.)
END OF TRANSLATION
And it just occurred to me, maybe that is one way to authenticate or de-authenticate this hack. If somebody was brave enough to call that number and ask for General Zaluzhny. It won’t be me, though. Needs to be a sweet young thing with a sexy voice. Any volunteers out there?
Awful Avalanche 
Suppose there was no hack, and this is all photoshopped. It’s still a potentially devastating psy-op aimed at undermining Ukrainian soldiers’ morale.
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Not so sure! What if ordinary Ukrainian soldiers just go, “Wow, our boss is a real hound-dog!” and admire him even more than before?
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Agree. God help the average soldier from Ukrainia who has a good looking wife…you’re going to be sent off for maiming or slaughter while the good general helps your wife fill out one of the “Dear John” form letters he keeps handy in his briefcase.
After all the propaganda spewed forth from DC/London/Kiev the average soldier* from Ukrainia is as misinformed as the remnants of the 3rd Reich defending Berlin in it’s final hours. And the average soldier in Ukrainia is now 45-65 years old as most of the soldier aged men of means have fled for Europe but hey, they’re cheering their countrymen on from the sidelines!
Just like the US, if you don’t serve, you don’t care about the carnage being carried out by national “leaders”.
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I think it’s rather inspiring that a 65-year-old man can still hold a rifle and fight in the trenches! Just one generation ago he would have been just sitting in a rocking chair on the porch, and whittling some piece of wood, while complaining about his rheumatism and yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off his lawn.
I only pray when the geezer finally gets home from the battle, tired and weary and in need of a good meal and a soft bed, he doesn’t walk in the door only to find General Zaluzhny in the bed with his wife or (more likely), his daughter!
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Suppose there was no hack, and this is all photoshopped. It’s still a potentially devastating psy-op aimed at undermining Ukrainian soldiers’ morale.
Exactly. Psy-op os all it is.
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I think this was an actual factual hack, though. Just watched a video by Anatoly Shariy, who confirmed that users of Zaluzhny’s Telegram account saw the new thumbnail, and didn’t quite know what to make of it, at first…
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“when I had really planned to do a serious story on the Kherson situation. [Which I reckon will have to wait until tomorrow.]”
Kherson isn’t happening ever. It is a US talking point to last up till Nov 8th after which the Kiev collapse can finally be acknowledged.
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Boy, I sure hope you’re right!
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Its sure turning into a tempest in a tea pot. As you say Mr. Avalanch reducing the civilian population reduces the logistics for the Alliance. Thats definately strategic thinking. I cant imagine the empire of lies is anything but genuinely worried the Russians are quite capable of completing the Donbas Arc by sweeping up the remaining coastal territory to Odessa. And how in the scope of events Odessa is undeniably such a valuable Russian strategic and cultural territory.
Particularly how the Russian Alliance has accomplished the singular most critical element of war. If i got the essence of it right, “…you can bomb a piece of land from the air, you can saturate it with artillary, kill all the enemy in it, but until you put a young man with a rifle and boots on it to hold and defend it you ain’t won anything. Its one thing historically the Russian’s are very good at. That should worry any enemy facing the Russian army.
Putin did state they have not done anything much yet.
That Joker regardless who or what, lives rent free in the minds of the enemy now. Pretty serious digital mind job coup. Also gives Joker a certain street cred thats undeniable. Even if joker is running a faked hack, its still got counter osy-op value. Its not like the ukronazi’s would do it to themselves as some sort of counter intell operation. They aint that kind of sophisticated, they seem to go for the more crude and lude hateful and depraved, direct nazi approach. Then there’s the uestion of how far thru the conspiracy news of jokers hack gets, like all the way to those behind peedo joe POTUS running things?
The imolications appear pretty far ranging thru the empire of lies. Getting a belly full of what you do to others can’t sit right in their minds. May be Joker is sending a deeper message to those we dont see in places we dont know of.
One thing thats consistant since the SPO began is the Russians have consistantly surprised and caught the empire/nato flat footed with prior unknown capabilities and advanced war technology.
Watched it myself, there’s been nothing about it i’ve seen more than a minute long V-clip early yesterday on rumble, something about the ukies finding 1300 Starlink sat’s that they been using going off line. No captions it was in Russian i think, haven’t seen anything else since, may be that news was clamped down on but hard by TPTB. That if true would put a serious kink in operations what with so much grid power down.
Might it be a prelude to a Russian offensive? Certainly a viable tactic you deny your enemy its secure comms when you go to attack, or denial of their comms is even better in some ways. The Russians are pretty slick and hold their cards real close.
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I had also read something about the Starlinks suddenly going offline.
NATO response is to try to switch the Ukrainians over to SATCOM.
Which they (NATO) say the Ukrainians should have been using all along, and not allowing themselves to get dependent on Musk’s Starlink.
See, Starlink was never supposed to be THE official link for the Ukrainian military, they were supposed to be using an official NATO product. Starlink was only supposed to be for regular Ukrainian consumers, to get access to internet and cable TV. But the Ukrainians loved this product so much that they all started using it, including their soldiers, and then it became semi-official and omnipresent. Up until now.
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Wow. Thanks, did not know all that. Good info.
But does the nato comms conglomerate really want them on their network, inside it and all? Realistically everything but the kitchen sink that is not top line technology nato weapons is been shoved into Ukraine. Holding back for reasons we can not really know for now. There can’t be much Warsaw Pack armaments and munitions left to send. Thinking theres a transition phase coming up pretty soon when there simply is not enough left to send, what are they going to do right? Give ukronazi’s Abrams MBT’s and Bradleys FV’s?
The escalation dynamic here seems like its become a reluctant red line, and the Russian’s are just waiting ready with some special Russian gifts to give in return, capabilities that may be nato is not cognizant of. Appears to me the Russians have given this whole battle a lot of pre-consideration before committing, weapons and material wise. Particularly cost efficient counter armor and electronics warfare, and on the cheap, with innovative relatively cheap weapons for defeating armor, nato is not even in the same ballpark with Russia in that way. I’d give it pretty fair odds if they can shut down Starlink SATCOM being its been around long enough they shut it down also. How that would be particularly embarrassing for nato.
Be a pretty humiliating thing for those vaunted western weapons to end up with the rest of the mountain of ukie scrap metal.
What man makie man breakie.
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“Man makie man breakie” – so true! I am guessing that is one of those wise Confucius sayings.
And still another wise prophet recommended to do to all these weapons what this young fellow with the nice buns is trying to do:
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At least The Joker didn’t Photoshop a Mr. Potato Head onto a pic of Zaluzhny. Because that would be stooping too low! And Mr. Potato Head usually has a mustache, where Gen. Horndoguzhny doesn’t.
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True. Mr. Potato Head not only has a moustache, but a rather luxuriant one, if I recall. Probably oils it every day, using some expensive Italian product.
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