Yulia Mendel's team has a new addition. Olya Polyakova is joining the team.

We’re looking forward to the joint broadcast featuring Yulia Latynina, Diana Panchenko, Yulia Mendel, and Olga Polyakova. That’s going to be a real intellectual treat.

The only thing is, Mendel is singing along with Russian propaganda from some backwater in Italy. And Polyakova, just like Kryukova, is walking around Kyiv and campaigning to derail the mobilization, calling for violent resistance to it. During the war. And she’s doing this in an attempt to divert attention from the fact that civil society has asked her legitimate questions about her contacts with Russians during the war with Russia. Strange questions, to be sure.

And nothing happens. She’s still out and about. If the rule of law existed in Ukraine, someone like Polyakova—along with all those people who physically attacked Ukrainian soldiers or police officers—would already be behind bars. But no. They’re still on the loose. Yet they keep harping on about concentration camps. They themselves post videos showing them physically assaulting Ukrainian soldiers. During the war. They’re proud of it. And yet they’re still on the loose.

Of course, social media lets everyone see your intellectual level. Even if they don’t want it to. But on the other hand, this creates bubbles of idiots who are capable of banding together, and then it becomes a collective problem. Especially if the state doesn’t prevent this unification, and Russia encourages it.

For some reason, Ukraine still hasn’t shut down the Telegram channels that spread enemy propaganda. And the authorities keep their mouths shut because, after all, idiots vote too, and those votes matter to them. Even Olya Polyakova has the right to vote in elections. As unfortunate as that may be.

It’s interesting to even imagine what would have happened during World War II in England or the U.S. to public figures who would have dared to spread enemy propaganda aimed at disrupting mobilization. She’s inciting people to resist the lawful actions of law enforcement. And it seems like just last week everyone was in a panic. But no—now the home front wants to go back to living as if there were no war. How does that all fit together in some people’s minds?

But of course, if everyone who dared to attack a Ukrainian soldier on duty during the war were either sent to prison as an example or shot on the spot, then people like Polyakova would keep quiet. But they see that such behavior is tolerated. And they’re trying to carve out a niche for themselves.

I wonder if Olya Polyakova would have liked it in Bucha. She was probably in a safer place at the time. Perhaps, should genocide happen again, she plans to be somewhere in Monaco. In that case, mobilization might indeed be irrelevant. And good Russians are very pleasant people. And, in principle, we should be friends—we’re brotherly nations, after all. Especially in Monaco…

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