Phil Butler - Putin's Praetorians - Confessions of the Top Kremlin Trolls

The list of western journalists, analysts, professors, bureaucrats, military figures, bankers, and politicians who’ve thrown in on the bashing of Putin and Russia is longer than both my arms and legs. I cannot begin to even list them, and especially not their roles here. The sheer numerical superiority these globalist pundits maintain dwarfs and muster of alleged Kremlin trolls.

This brings me to the final confessional of the book — my own. But first let me say that I really admired how Pepe Escobar handled the introduction to this book. Though we’ve never been close friends, he answered my request to contribute to the book like a true comrade and caring pal. The “piss off” ending was as close to perfect as I can imagine. Somehow though, just telling the denizens of Russophobic darkness to “stick it,” it just does not say it all for me. So, let me be clear on my message in writing this book.

First and foremost, I decided that someone should chronicle the real people that stood up to one of the most powerful propaganda narratives ever leveled onto humanity. The idea that Putin and Russia have been in anything but defense mode these last years, it is preposterous. The only reason anybody on the globe even considers Putin or Russia as aggressors is due solely to the humongous investments and resources that power the anti-Russia message. Many decent people, and especially those mentioned herein, could not stand by and see this lie accepted. I believe I have helped to show this in the book you just read. In my way, I hope I have added a footnote to history, a footnote that acknowledges the extraordinary people who defeated an omnipotent and stoic, ultimately evil media empire. If the 300 Spartans are looking down observing what unbelievable odds are these days, then “Kremlin Trolls” are modern heroes. This facet paves the path for my final confession — my utter and ghastly hatred for the purveyors of humanity’s suffering.

These purveyors of humankind’s suffering are tyrannical on a global scale. My utter contempt for them comes from my father and his father, and from the decent human beings I’ve known all my life. America and Americans were supposed to stand up for righteousness and truth, at least according to my father and his peers. But the same people setting fire to the world today, and their institutions, are the same ones that murdered the millions since before the modern age. My personal contempt for each of them and my deep desire that they fail in every endeavor, lies in the hope and the prayer that justice might prevail. So here is my message to them.

If I were a George Soros, or a Rothschild banker, a Rockefeller clone, or some German industrialist son of an escaped Nazi war criminal, I’d be appalled at the utter inefficiency and uselessness my money had wrought. If a trillion dollars or more could not buy me absolute media control, if thousands of paid journalists, professors, activists, CEOs, bureaucrats, judges, and movie stars could not secure my omnipotence against RT television and the walking wounded of the world, I’d fire every single, solitary henchman I’d employed. You failed my dear sirs, and you failed miserably. All your machinations, money, and mind-boggling skullduggery against one man supported only by a relative few. Why, Vladimir Putin, with one ten thousandths of your media, corporate, and organizational resources, he bashed you to smithereens these last few years. You are pitiful.

Absolutely horrid were your efforts. Not only have your economics, and your pseudo-democracies failed, but you cannot even hire decent rats to row your ships of fools. Your names really do not matter. Whether you are Jeff Bezos types, technocrats who think buying the news puts you above the law of man, or even if you are super cool billionaires like Sir Richard Branson, hanging with former presidents, the stain of mediocrity and failure is upon you, just the same. Like every other group of two-bit tyrants that ever lived, you’ve underestimated the little people, but there’s more.

It is so difficult to describe the basal and personal level at which I and others have taken all these machinations for ruling the world we live in. I guess I am like most of the others if they’d have just played a bit fairly at Sochi. Or if only we never knew about the new Ukraine Nazis controlling Odessa with an iron fist. Maybe if at least some of the bombs and artillery shells had fallen outside the Donbass or Gaza, or Yemen, if the NSA and the president had never lied, then just maybe me and others like me could have stomached their Orwellian rule over us all. But we did watch and see an American president shame us before the world, only to call it “exceptionalism.” So, this is why I hope the opposition takes my book and my message deeply personally, just like I’ve taken all their evil bullshit the last four years. And you wonder why so many admire Vladimir Putin?

The obviousness of excellence amid mediocrity is the reason. Watching Vladimir Putin operate among today’s amoral misfit leaders is like seeing Usain Bolt running against a mannequin, or an eagle flying above a penguin. The most powerful leader in the last half century, Putin never hesitates to walk alongside his people, as in his participation with the Immortal Regiment at Moscow’s May 9th ceremonies in memory of the Great Patriotic War. He’s also widely admired for being dignified when other world leaders act up in a juvenile manner at solemn occasions. When American or French leaders have their aids hold umbrellas over their heads, Putin lays wreaths before slain heroes standing stoically alone beneath the storm like a real man — solemn in his respectfulness and correctness. [57] Putin stands in the rain in front of honour guards during a wreath-laying ceremony marking the anniversary of the Nazi German invasion in 1941, Pictures of the Day, The Telegraph , June 23, 2017 While his detractors proclaim such “Putin moments” are contrived photo ops, the man is seen as genuine by the people. It took me quite a bit of time to find the idea that might crystalize the essence of all the people mentioned in this book, but I finally did find it in a passage from the Japanese culture. The idea also conveys how many people feel about Vladimir Putin.

“Bushido as an independent code of ethics may vanish, but its power will not perish from the earth; its schools of martial prowess or civic honor may be demolished, but its light and its glory will long survive their ruins. Like its symbolic flower, after it is blown to the four winds, it will still bless mankind with the perfume with which it will enrich life.”

I’ve studied Putin as much as anyone has these last three years and I can tell you honestly, he identifies with both the martial prowess and the blessings honor bestows. Vladimir Putin finds favor by something carried on the wind, something no one can really describe. Perhaps this is why the ne’er-do-well seem to hate him so much. Human beings have always held out hope in leadership. It is spiritual mostly, the way we cling to the hierarchical way — God, family, and country — this is who we shall always be. So, understanding how Putin never seems to lose to the globalists becomes easy when one considers his defending of Russia against the onslaught of the opportunists who want to tear her apart.

Finally, for those who have disgraced and dishonored us with lies, war, waste, and crisis there is but one elegant reprieve. I leave this gift offering for them. May the unjust and those who trod heavily on us, who killed, us, and who were disdainful of all honor, here is your emancipation. If you have one ounce of decency and courage from your forebears, you’ll take this opportunity to salvage honor. A single bullet is dreadful cheap after all you’ve wasted.