The Durak Report January 14, Anno Domini 2026

First a sip to Scott.

Scott is my inspiration for starting this. We lost Scott yesterday, and I am once again motivated to contribute back to the world. If I help or entertain just one person, I'll have done my duty.

So who are we?

We are, The Durak Report (doubt you'd have figured that out!). We intend to be a daily publication of recent events and whatever interests me.

Ideally I'd like to include a video format, but that'll likely wait until summer or later.

The Durak Report is intended to provide a quick list of headlines referencing recent events with some initial light commentary, and, on occasion, more in depth analysis at the end.

That's enough about us, let's get started!

And yes, I write this in Org mode.

So, the two articles from RT regarding Iran are very interesting. If you are familiar with RT, they are clearly state run and biased towards the state.

However, this makes RT very easy to read. There are no gimmicks. Their primary persuasion method is repeating state narrative at the end of every article. Read any of their recent articles on Ukraine and you'll see what I mean.

But I've noticed something different here. I noticed the same thing in reference to Venezuela before; Moscow doesn't care.

They didn't care about Venezuela, and they don't give a blin about Iran. The only reason they buddy up with Iran is lack of options. They are the only thing close to Russia that has meaningful power that isn't against them. Thanks for that Mr. Clinton.

If we go back to the 90's Clinton really dropped the ball by not fast tracking Russia into NATO. Russia wanted to come in, but Clinton didn't push for it. It may be an entirely different world today if he had.

Anyway, let's look at these RT articles.

Color revolution - Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says Russia condemns disruptive foreign interference.

So we have our talking point to repeat forever, however, the end of the article just repeats President Trump's message to Iran. So does Russia really care?

On to the next article.

Basically, the article just says what we already know. Trump warns Iran. Additionally, he tells protestors to take over institutions (presumably instead of burning them), and to take "the names of the killers and the abusers that are abusing you" so they can get justice.

But back to my point, this is an exact quote from the end of the RT article:

""" Moscow has accused the West of seeking to “destroy the Iranian state” by exploiting economic protests to engineer a color revolution. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova blamed US sanctions for causing the social crisis and condemned Trump’s threats of force as “absolutely unacceptable.” """

This sounds an awful lot like an American judge making a judgement that says something like "I rule in favor of the plaintiffs in STATE vs ICE. Thus is my judgment: ICE agents must follow the law."

All that to say. It means nothing.

The Russians don't care about Iran. They never have. People say that Russia can't help Iran due to the Ukraine war, but really, I doubt they would have done anything anyway. Russia is historically anti-terrorist (See: 9/11). I doubt Russia is happy that Iran is all they could choose. There's a reason they didn't enter into a defense pack and decided to stay just friends.

So if the Supreme Leader of Iran really does flee to Moscow, I don't see him surviving long.

What good does he do Russia? Russia will want to deal with the new Iran. Even if the protests succeed in a way that brings the United States, Iran, and Isreal close together, Russia is still going to want to be friendly with Iran. Likely benefiting even more than with the current regime.

Thanks to everyone who reads my little posts here. May you all have a blessed day.

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