You Are Imprisoned Only By Your Concept Of Yourself (Part 1) - Neville Goddard

Welcome back. This is part two of an episode we started earlier this evening. This is the surreal physical reality of Moscow. This week, the Kivpost and AFP reporting on 5th May documented what is happening on the streets of the Russian capital. Mobile internet access began dropping sharply after 7am. Apps, websites, payment systems, all failing to load. Even the so-called "white list services" the ones the Kremlin had publicly committed to keeping accessible during shutdowns were unavailable. SMS messaging stopped working across both Moscow and St Petersburg. The disruption has now been continuous for days. AFP reporters watched shops in Moscow on Tuesday unable to process card payments. ATMs intermittent taxi services down online maps, failing Yandex apps, not loading. The mobile phone shows a strong signal but the data simply does not flow. As one Moscow guide service this week documented in its analysis, the most curious part is that your phone often shows a strong signal but pages and apps won't load. And messenger notifications arrive but you can't open the messages. Some Moscow businesses have, according to the Kivpost and corroborated by human rights watches earlier reporting lost approximately 1 billion rubles per day during previous waves of the same shutdowns. This is not a trivial amount of money. That is the daily revenue of a major commercial district and is being incurred not because of an attack but because of the regime's preemptive decision to break its own infrastructure to protect a parade. And of course to protect the regime and its ZAR. Human rights watch documented in its 31st of March 2026 report that during marches earlier rolling shutdowns users could not connect to messengers and apps. Use ATMs or taxi apps or pay for services via card machines if they were not connected to landline internet. Public Wi-Fi was inaccessible. Even the white listed websites report found would intermittently fail to load 29th of March alone, police detained at least 14 people at a peaceful protest against internet restrictions in Moscow with five more detained in two other cities. Two were reportedly beaten. They're not, however, protesting the war. They're protesting loss of their privileges and comforts, but these are russians in Russia. After all, Mayor Sergei Sabyanin's predicament is total. He has been issuing announcements about drones intercepted on the way to Moscow over the weekend, about 250 over Friday, and Saturday alone he has been simultaneously claiming to manage normal city operations. The result is a Moscow in which the mayor can neither admit how serious the situation is, because that would expose Putin's vulnerability, nor reassure residents that things are normal, because the visible chaos contradicts him in real time. One Moscow ite told NBC News this week the Kremlin was using the veneer of security to permanently roll out the white list internet that has been planned for many months. Chat him house analyst Mattia Bullyw and others have framed this pretty clearly. The outages are not just defensive measures. They're part of the Kremlin's broader campaign to cut off independent sources of information and horizontal networks of communication designed to protect the regime from civil unrest. It is being called a digital dictatorship. The drone defense is the cover. Security is the cover, but the actual purpose is information control, population control, not the population, the moment, because it's not revolting, but of course it is the paranoia of the regime, and the suspicion that this circumstance may arise. Telegram, the country's most popular messenger, was reportedly fully blocked from 1st April 2026. WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Discord, Signal, all already banned, and now even the mobile internet itself in the two largest cities of the Russian Federation is intermittent. This is what Putin has reduced Moscow to in May 2026, a city of 13 million people, the political and economic heart of the Russian Federation locked down digitally to protect a single parade. Citizens are unable to pay for groceries, tax drivers are unable to find passengers, workers are unable to receive office messages, business people are unable to submit their online tax reporting even though there is now no other way they can do it. And of course normal people, grandmothers, etc, families are unable to make video calls or keep in touch with their children when they're on the move, all because the supreme command in chief, the czar of the Kremlin needs his toy parade in Red Square to happen. Well let's ask ourselves why Putin needs this parade, the political psychology. To understand why Putin would tolerate all of this, the prisoner for parade offers the cease-fire begging, the city-wide digital lockdown, the visible humiliation of having no tanks on Red Square, you must understand what the May 9th parade is in the Putinist political system. Victory day is not a military commemoration, it is the founding ritual of post-Soviet Russian state identity. As the Kremlin's narrative is hardened since 2012, the entire ideological architecture of Putin's rule has been built around a mythologized version of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War. It is the center point of the grievance politics that Putin uses to stay in power. Putin's claim to legitimacy rests on the proposition that he is the heir of that victory, that his generation through him defeated fascism in 1945 and that his current war in Ukraine is a continuation of the same anti-fascist struggle, except of course, reality is that Russia is now the fascist invader. The parade is the ritual that makes that claim visible. The tanks rolling past Lenin's Mausoleum, the missile launchers, the aircraft overhead, the veterans saluting foreign leaders, watching the choreography of imperial confidence, that is what Putin has built his presidency around, and the confidence of his regime depends on the hardware on display. But in 2026, the ritual is dismantled in plain sight. No tanks, because Russia cannot guarantee their security and transit in staging or on display, and maybe because they have precious fuel left. As well, no veterans of the actual Great Patriotic War prominent on the platform, they are aging out. In St. Petersburg, the city of the 900-day siege, these have been displaced by men currently fighting in Ukraine, modern-day fascists. No foreign leaders worth speaking of, Lithuania Latvia, of course, have turned away, and now the Slovak Prime Minister's plane was blocked, but he announced that he had no intention of visiting in any case. No military aircraft flyovers cancel since 2022. No military column for the first time since 2007. What remains is infantry units on foot aviation teams without aircraft. SU-25 ground attack jets, if they fly at all, well, they may actually appear in some symbolic fashion. Instead of the regime can't take the risk, the substance has been hollowed out, the form remains, because Putin cannot afford the political cost of canceling it all together. That would be the visible admission. The war has come home, that the chickens have come home to roost, so the form is preserved as a husk. A parade that reveals the absence of everything that it is supposed to celebrate. Alexander Kuts, the Comso-Moscow-Prafte war correspondent, and one of Russia's most loyal Z bloggers, wrote on Telegram last week. This was captured by the Moscow Times that the parade might not have taken place at all due to the so-called terrorist threat, but the Supreme Commander has decided to honour tradition albeit in a scaled-down form. That phrase might not have taken place at all, reveals what the regime was probably considering behind closed doors, complete cancellation. The political calculation, however, cancelling the parade would have been a public confession that Putin could not survive, that his regime was on its last legs. Hosting its scaled down is a confession that he is forced to absorb, so the parade goes ahead, hollowed out with internet, blackouts, and prisoner exchange offers an air defence ringing the city, because the alternative to not hold at all is unthinkable. Then there is the bigger picture how the war has come home. In our previous episodes, we've documented every component of this pattern Russia paid 206 troops in casualties for every square kilometre of Ukrainian territory captured in March 2026. That's up from 61. Last year, the cost of Russian advance has tripled. Sweden's military intelligence service confirmed on 21st of April that Russia is faking its economic data and would need oil at over $100 a barrel for a full year to remedy its budget deficit. Russia's own economy minister, Maxim Ryshevnikov, admitted on 23rd April that the resources sustaining Russia were almost First exhausted, Bloomberg confirmed on 30 April that 90% of Russia's sanctioned military technology now flows through China up from 80% last year, making Russia a strategic dependent of Beijing. None of these stats are going in the right direction for Putin or for the sustainability of his war. The Zed blogger ecosystem has fractured Igor Strelkov, the man who started the war in 2014, writes from his Russian penal colony that "Victory is impossible." Maxim Kalashnikov has declared Putin a toxic figure who no longer suits the Russian elites. Yovgeny Golman, the Vagna PMC veteran, screams at his audience to plant potatoes. Mikhail Zvinshukov, Ribar, funded by Rustek, admits on air that the front is a "topic" or a "dead end." Yore Ketionuk writes that the presence of Russia is being lied to about the basic battlefields realities of his own army in the fifth year of the war. And Alexander Drazjanko, Putin's appointed governor of Lenin Gradovlblast, told the regional legislative assembly on 15th April that "our region has become not just a border region, but a frontline region." In the past two weeks, Ukrainian drones have hit two ups of five times, struck Lecoil's Purim refinery, 1500 kilometers into Russia, and hit the Moscow-Tawa apartment building in Central Moscow, as well as attacking Primorsk on the Baltic Sea, and forced Polkov airport in St. Petersburg to close repeatedly. We've covered all of these, but bring them all together, and it is certainly a picture of a Russian regime under siege. The doctrine of Russian strategic depth, the assumption that Russian heartland is geographically untouchable, has collapsed. Putin's appointed governors are formally describing their own provinces as front lines. Putin's appointed propagandists are publicly conceding battlefield superiority to Ukraine, and conceding that Ukraine's drone tech development and scaling is starting outpace their own. Putin's own economy minister is admitting resource exhaustion. Putin's intelligence agencies are being caught, faking data as are the economic ministries. Putin's most loyal nationalist, calling him toxic, and on 5th of May, 2026, with all of this in the public domain, Vladimir Putin is offering to release Ukrainian prisoners of war, something he is always reluctant to do, in exchange for a Ukrainian agreement not to fly drones over a single parade on the most important and symbolic square in his own capital. Here is where we are. Four days before May 9th, 2026, a Russia that in February 22 launched the largest war in Europe since 1945 with the publicly stated objective of denotifying Ukraine and building Russian imperial power. It housed by May 2026, more or less, collapsed. Cut off mobile internet to its own capital city, forced shops to refuse card payments, crippled ATMs, taxes, public payment systems, workshops, video calls, etc. All in the name of protecting a single ceremonial event. It's lost an estimated 1 billion rubles per day in commercial activity and Moscow alone for the duration of the shutdowns. In addition, the regime has removed every column of military hardware from the Red Square Parade. No tanks for the first time since 2007, no aircraft flyovers since 2022, no traditional veterans of the Great Patriotic War in St. Petersburg's commemoration. Hundreds of air defense systems redeployed from the front to ring Moscow. Canceled or scaled back parades across Samara, Krasnodar, Toms, Kaliningrad, Korsk, Bilgorod and other regions. They have watched a Ukrainian drone strike the Mosfilm Tower in central Moscow on 4th of May, four kilometers from the Kremlin compound, five days before the parade. This is an elite complex of apartments. This is starting to reach the so-called upper echelons of Russian rich society. And the Kremlin has reportedly offered through unofficial channels to release Ukrainian prisoners of war in exchange for a Ukrainian agreement not to attack the parade on Red Square. They have declared a unilateral ceasefire on the dates of the parade and been publicly outmaneuvered by Zelensky, who declared his own ceasefire three days earlier. With the implicit message, if you really want peace, prove it now. Well, we know Putin does not genuinely want peace, so this is probably going to fall apart and blab in his face. This is not a regime in command of its narrative. This is a regime making concessions in panic in real time to manage the political consequences of a parade it cannot defend in a city it cannot secure for a war that it cannot win. And that war has come home. The fortress is cracking as we have documented across this channel for weeks. The cheerleaders panicking. Strelkov is calling the war lost. For a prison cell, the economy minister is admitting exhaustion. The governor of Leningrad Oblast has admitted the war is at his doorstep and on 9th May in four days Putin will stand on Red Square and salute a parade with no tanks in a city with no internet in a country which has used the prisoners of war of its neighboring country as a bargaining chip to be able to stage a hollow display of purely performative strength. Let's unpack the book The Dark Heart of Russia because it helps to explain how we got to this point. It's edited by Major Ethan Fink, the creator and host of The Silicon Curtain Podcast. It's published this month by Gibson Square in London and is already available for order and delivery online though officially the PR release will come inside with the Phantom Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9. 30 interviews, 30 voices selected from over a thousand interviews that have been conducted on this channel and the line up that we have put into this book reads like a who's who of the people in Moscow would most like to silence Bill Browder, Gary Kasparov, Fiona Hill, General David Patres, Peter Pomorantsov, Luke Harding, Mark Galiotti, Kier Giles and Dispuccaneelson, Alexander Edkin, Yorifershtinsky, General Ben Hodges and many, more and with a strong set of Ukrainian voices included it could be no other way, the Lord Emir Ermoilinka, Alenhalushka, Sasha Dozhik, Olga Takaryuk and Alexander Ramansva among several others. And the timing is not accidental, we are releasing this book precisely as the Kremlin's central myth, the myth of Russian victory, Russian strength, Russian inevitability is being shredded in real time. Ukraine matters and I think this book matters and our support for Ukraine is the only way of stopping Russian imperialism from its eternal outward expansion and the destruction that it brings in its wake.