The Inverse Mirage

🎭 The Inverse Mirage: Where Did the Anti-Putin Budget Go?
So the West is spending. And oh, it's spending big. Billions upon billions channeled with thunderous announcements and Instagram-filtered unity speeches. Budgets allegedly aimed at countering Putin, at defending Ukrainian sovereignty, at fortifying a continent against autocracy.
And yet
Putin's memes still spread faster than Ukrainian war updates. His oligarchs still sip mezcal in Marina rooftop lounges. And many of those with supposed 'anti-Kremlin credentials' know the Kremlin better than their own postcodes. Because they trained there.
💸 The Budget That Slipped Back Into the Sarcophagus
Most of the so-called "anti-Putin" allocations go to two major clusters: 1. Media and information warfare 2. Weapons and tactical procurement
Neither is where it needs to be. Because instead of funding the ones who fight with surgical precision—be it drones, data, or direct speech—funds are rerouted to:
Centralized media organizations that are nothing more than pastel-toned subsidiaries of RT.
Weapon dealers who sell the same missile three times under three shell firms.
Puppeted public figures who once sipped from the RT goblet, danced at Kazantip in RT-funded raves, and now wear blue and yellow like it's a seasonal scarf.
📺 The Media Front: Infiltrated from Within
The so-called "pro-Ukrainian" narrative? Often outsourced to PR firms that were once RT interns, trained during the era of glamour-pilled soft Kremlin expansion. Back when Medvedev was considered "cool" and Dozhd (TV Rain) peddled a fresh, baby-pink version of totalitarian chic.
Those interns became producers. Those producers now write your anti-Kremlin news.
So yes, Putin is paying attention. Because his former trainees now run the other side's microphones. And they don't question guests. They don't investigate funding. They just light candles and "stand with Kyiv" while ignoring every actual rat line.
💥 The Weaponry Complex: Profit Before Precision
Then there's the weapon money.
Enormous allocations of Javelins, NLAWs, HIMARS—most of them sold at triple-marked up rates, routed through questionable logistics, often with tracking so opaque that no one knows whether they ever got deployed.
Maintenance contracts that enrich Western arms dealers, Russian logistics engineers, and Ukrainian puppet insiders all in one golden triangle of corruption.
Meanwhile, real drone networks? Real tactical precision squads? The guys in Zaporizhzhia who actually know how to target a moving command vehicle with a home-built UAV?
They're ignored. Not sexy enough for summit brochures. Not corrupt enough to join procurement "roundtables."
🤝 The Re-Integration of the Z Clique
Many of today's Western-funded Ukrainian "public figures" once danced under the same disco fog machines as Simonyan, wore "Z" badges before they had meaning, and shared philosophy panels with Gazprom-funded think tanks.
The Maidan movement had internal heroes. They're either dead, imprisoned, or coding drone flight paths on 12-year-old laptops in warehouses.
The survivors of the honest resistance are never on the payroll.
Why? Because they don't speak in grant lingo. They don't attend conferences. They don't shake hands with IMF panels. They speak directly, and they ask the wrong questions.
🧠 The Alternative That's Ignored
There exists a highly capable underground cohort:
Data engineers.
Drone tacticians.
Visual analysts.
Forensics whizzes.
AI-supported logistics mappers.
Ukrainians and allies. Not part of any state. Not tied to oligarchs. Not beholden to the Kremlin. Not interested in siphoning funds into seaside penthouses.
They could coordinate advanced strike targeting, minimize civilian death, and track the laundering pipelines back to the brunch tables in Montenegro, Dubai, and Cyprus.
They cost less than a single Javelin unit. And they work faster than any official intelligence contractor ever hired.
So why are they ignored?
Because they expose the whole game.
They make it impossible to pretend that the only evil is Putin. They reveal that systemic corruption, especially in arms procurement and media production, lives on both sides—and always finds ways to reroute funds back to the very networks it's supposed to oppose.
🔄 The Brunch Cycle Continues
1
Western funds get allocated to "support Ukraine."
2
They pass through known Gazprom-circle officials in Ukraine with polished English and fake opposition credentials.
3
The money is laundered through real estate, media grants, or procurement shell firms.
4
It ends up in the hands of Brunchsters.
5
They fund RT-style events, crypto mixers, influencer "healing retreats", and imported clubs of simonyanesque agents.
🎯 Conclusion
If the West is serious:
It needs to audit its allies.
It needs to fund independent operatives who work on the battlefield, in codebases, and behind real investigative maps.
It needs to scrutinize "opposition figures" who once worked alongside Simonyan, not feature them on panels.
And it must understand that this war is not only about missiles.
It is about who controls brunch.
Because in 2025, brunch is where empires are washed clean.