"This Ends Badly" - Igor Girkin Predicts Betrayal and Defeat for Russia - Silicon Wafers and Silicon Curtain

2026-02-03 | UPDATES #125 | Russia’s internal information front has never been more divided. You could go so far as to say it’s eating itself alive. On one side: the regime’s studio fanatics—smiling through war crimes, promising apocalypse, selling “victory” like they’re flogging a soda brand. On the other: Z-Patriots, milbloggers, and turbo-nationalists — some angry, some exhausted, some quietly terrified that the Kremlin is steering toward yet another illusory “deal” that looks like defeat in slow motion. They can see Russia bleeding out but do nothing to stop it.

As of February 3, 2026, this war has run about 1,440 days — longer than the USSR’s war against Nazi Germany, commonly cited as 1,418 days. The “Great Patriotic War” myth was supposed to be the Kremlin’s sacred measuring stick, the propagandist touchstone to justify every act of aggression, make sense of every horror and sacrifice. As well as being a universal vanishing point for all propaganda narratives. Now it’s a timer counting down the credibility of the entire project and putting the architecture of the Russian empire in doubt.