A Skillful Shot To The Leg

Anton Shvets
16.02.2026, 15:58
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Why the Kremlin's servants are squealing.

From the conversations I realized that many people didn't get a clue as to what the shot in the foot was with the banning of Telegram in the Russian Federation. And that's why most people don't understand why all sorts of Kremlin servants from the State Duma are squealing there. And it came out straight fire. And an additional explanation why Starlink shutdown hit them so hard.

Explanation. The direct command of the Russians very much where hung already on Starlink. For video transmission they used Diсkord (yes, until now), and for all kinds of text, reports, economic issues and recorded videos they used Telegram. At that time Diсkord was already blocked in Russia, and Telegram was not. But no one cared, because for Starlink there is no blocking. The same DiSkord worked for Russians, of course, through access to the general Internet.

Maybe Roskomlager asked top Russian military officers how they would feel about Telegram being blocked in Russia. And they may have answered that they don't give a shit, because if the commanders will have connectivity, they don't give a shit that Russians and ordinary infantry won't have Telegram. Just a plus, I guess. And that's why they planned to block Telegram quietly. And the top Russian military doesn't like "warlords" either, and so their Telegram network is more of a problem for them than a help.

But here Fedorov has sold a great friend of the Russian people Ilon Musk on shutting down Starlink. Of course, this can be fought, and it doesn't mean that the Russian military won't have connectivity in principle. They will. There are options. Direct radio bridge, mash-ups, and so on. But in order for everything to work as it used to, it all had to be pulled to the optics of Russian telecom operators and their access to the Internet, respectively. And they did, of course. But after that everyone realized that it still doesn't work anyway, because Disord is blocked in the Russian Federation. That is, the Internet is there, but everything has to be rebuilt, reinstalled, and other means of video transmission have to be found. Already less convenient, less known and less widespread. Comrade Major is aghast, because the IT people there are not all smart, most can only work according to instructions, and not everyone can build a streaming video transmission so that it does not fall off all the time.

And then Roskomposor began to cut off Telegram. Of course, this is not final, I think they will roll back everything now, and Telegram will be completely blocked in Russia after their "elections" to the State Duma. But while the tests are going on, the Russian military has lost all convenient communication. Well, on the plus side, it's also a blow to the "warlords," because their volunteer training camps there are also via Telegram.

A skillful shot in the foot. Especially since Russian generals can't come to the Kremlin's political bloc and say unblock everything backwards, because then they'll admit they're not hanging on their own "analognet" communications, but on foreign solutions. So there will be a "let's program it" down the chain of command. They will fix it, but it will take them some time to do so, and the solutions will not be universal. Which is a plus.

For all the "zradomaniacs" who say that shutting down Starlink had consequences for us too, I can say that there are more pluses (because Starlinkolots are the problem). Well, and a blow to enemy headquarters. And our minuses are getting fixed little by little. More comments, how there and what is now with Starlink - it is forbidden to write, so I will not write. You want - suffer, but I know how it is really there. I advise you to express your suggestions to move away from dependence on Starlink to your direct commander. Or the unit you're in charge of. If you still don't have one, you don't need any suggestions.

A Skillful Shot To The Leg

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