Ukrainian victory over Russia is inevitable

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Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

When confronted with hard truths, deflect with flaky unrelated whataboutisms about rainbows and trans bathrooms. What a loser you are, can't even stay on point.

What I’m saying is the US is kind of asking for it, engaging in unicorns and rainbows problems which have little to do with real challenges of today’s world.

You're hitting the wodka pretty hard tonight, Vlad!

It seems you can't point out obvious strategic flaws or seek to correct them without becoming a Russian.

Arestovich noted this has already happened in Ukraine:
"You say: "look, our enemy makes effective decisions, we don’t” - “you’re a Russian spy!" You say: "look, they did smart things there, there and there” - “that means you’re from Moscow!" It gets to the point where any sober thought, any critical thought – you are immediately labeled as a Russian spy.

People don’t understand what signal they are giving, what a hidden command: everything that is smart here, critical, self-reflective, automatically belongs to Russia.

That is, "a smart Ukrainian becomes Russian", as they write to us in chats.

Who created this trend? People who imposed a ban on thinking and a ban on understanding,” Arestovich said.

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Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

When confronted with hard truths, deflect with flaky unrelated whataboutisms about rainbows and trans bathrooms. What a loser you are, can't even stay on point.

What I’m saying is the US is kind of asking for it, engaging in unicorns and rainbows problems which have little to do with real challenges of today’s world.

You're hitting the wodka pretty hard tonight, Vlad!

It seems you can't point out obvious strategic flaws or seek to correct them without becoming a Russian.

Arestovich noted this has already happened in Ukraine:
"You say: "look, our enemy makes effective decisions, we don’t” - “you’re a Russian spy!" You say: "look, they did smart things there, there and there” - “that means you’re from Moscow!" It gets to the point where any sober thought, any critical thought – you are immediately labeled as a Russian spy.

People don’t understand what signal they are giving, what a hidden command: everything that is smart here, critical, self-reflective, automatically belongs to Russia.

That is, "a smart Ukrainian becomes Russian", as they write to us in chats.

Who created this trend? People who imposed a ban on thinking and a ban on understanding,” Arestovich said.

You have got to be joking - there is very little freedom of thought or press in Russia. Putin has eradicated all viable opposition and shuttered or hailed journalists with different views to himself.

if Trump gets back his extremist activist are already working on ensuring similar strategies will take place in the US.

Most of us don’t want his sloppy chaotic leadership or criminal tendencies back in the White House - let alone further erosion of democratic freedoms in deference to his delusions and misuse of power.

[Anonymous]

Putin Forced To Dispatch National Guard Against Uprising
By Kaitlin Lewis, 20 hrs ago

https://share.newsbreak.com/5uvbx89r

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has deployed nearly 35,000 national guardsmen to curb Ukrainian resistance in occupied territories under Moscow's control, according to Kyiv's National Resistance Center (CNR).

The Kremlin currently occupies large swathes of south and eastern Ukraine, where Putin has established illegitimate Russian districts after holding sham elections in the fall of 2022. Ukraine launched the CNR in March 2022 following Russia's full-scale invasion a month prior. The CNR, under the direction of Kyiv's Special Operation Forces, helps coordinate and train Ukrainian partisans living under Russian occupation.

According to the CNR, Russia's National Guard—also known as the Rosguard—is the "second-most important component" of Putin's forces in occupied Ukraine. Those deployed to the territories are tasked with suppressing Ukrainian civil resistance by "filtering activities among the civilian population and identifying members of the underground movement," according to Ukrainian sources. ..

While the war rages on along the frontlines, Ukrainian partisans living in Russian-occupied territories have carried out a number of attacks on Moscow's personnel appointed to the regions. The CNR has also reported instances of Kyiv's resistance sabotaging the Russian military , including disrupting supply railways and targeting Moscow's soldiers in several poisoning schemes .

Last week, the CNR reported that a movement of Ukrainian partisans living in Crimea carried out an attack on Russia's radar system and control center located on the peninsula, which Kyiv said was "responsible for the secure communication channel with the Kremlin, including the coordination of the entire peninsula's air defense."

[Anonymous]

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Putin Forced To Dispatch National Guard Against Uprising
By Kaitlin Lewis, 20 hrs ago

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has deployed nearly 35,000 national guardsmen to curb Ukrainian resistance in occupied territories under Moscow's control, according to Kyiv's National Resistance Center (CNR).

The Kremlin currently occupies large swathes of south and eastern Ukraine, where Putin has established illegitimate Russian districts after holding sham elections in the fall of 2022. Ukraine launched the CNR in March 2022 following Russia's full-scale invasion a month prior. The CNR, under the direction of Kyiv's Special Operation Forces, helps coordinate and train Ukrainian partisans living under Russian occupation.

According to the CNR, Russia's National Guard—also known as the Rosguard—is the "second-most important component" of Putin's forces in occupied Ukraine. Those deployed to the territories are tasked with suppressing Ukrainian civil resistance by "filtering activities among the civilian population and identifying members of the underground movement," according to Ukrainian sources. ..

While the war rages on along the frontlines, Ukrainian partisans living in Russian-occupied territories have carried out a number of attacks on Moscow's personnel appointed to the regions. The CNR has also reported instances of Kyiv's resistance sabotaging the Russian military , including disrupting supply railways and targeting Moscow's soldiers in several poisoning schemes .

Last week, the CNR reported that a movement of Ukrainian partisans living in Crimea carried out an attack on Russia's radar system and control center located on the peninsula, which Kyiv said was "responsible for the secure communication channel with the Kremlin, including the coordination of the entire peninsula's air defense."

This is great news for Ukraine. 35,000 would have made a difference on Russia's front lines. Instead they're tied up in the Rear protecting... hold on. What are these 35,000 crack troops protecting again?

Oh, right!!!

And while the Champagne glasses clinked in Moscow on New Years Eve, something else was happening in St. Petersburg...

"St. Petersburg police rounded up thousands of Central Asian migrants on New Year’s Eve and pressured them into signing military contracts"
"The officers cordoned off entire streets in these areas as people were gathering to celebrate and watch fireworks. Then they detained crowds of people, many of them still wearing New Year’s costumes, and forced them onto waiting buses. In total, more than 3,000 people were arrested, with women and children sent to lower security petty crime detention centres, while men were sent to criminal pre-trial detention centres run by the Interior Ministry. "
"The officers cordoned off entire streets in these areas as people were gathering to celebrate and watch fireworks. Then they detained crowds of people, many of them still wearing New Year’s costumes, and forced them onto waiting buses. In total, more than 3,000 people were arrested, with women and children sent to lower security petty crime detention centres, while men were sent to criminal pre-trial detention centres run by the Interior Ministry. "
"The following morning, army recruiters came to the centres and urged the men to join to army, promising people without citizenship that they would receive Russian passports upon the completion of their service and warning people who hesitated that if they did not agree to sign contracts, their entire families could be deported from Russia and legal proceedings would be opened against them for violating migration legislation."
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/01/08/new-years-nightmare-en

[Anonymous]

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Putin Forced To Dispatch National Guard Against Uprising
By Kaitlin Lewis, 20 hrs ago

https://share.newsbreak.com/5uvbx89r

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has deployed nearly 35,000 national guardsmen to curb Ukrainian resistance in occupied territories under Moscow's control, according to Kyiv's National Resistance Center (CNR).

The Kremlin currently occupies large swathes of south and eastern Ukraine, where Putin has established illegitimate Russian districts after holding sham elections in the fall of 2022. Ukraine launched the CNR in March 2022 following Russia's full-scale invasion a month prior. The CNR, under the direction of Kyiv's Special Operation Forces, helps coordinate and train Ukrainian partisans living under Russian occupation.

According to the CNR, Russia's National Guard—also known as the Rosguard—is the "second-most important component" of Putin's forces in occupied Ukraine. Those deployed to the territories are tasked with suppressing Ukrainian civil resistance by "filtering activities among the civilian population and identifying members of the underground movement," according to Ukrainian sources. ..

While the war rages on along the frontlines, Ukrainian partisans living in Russian-occupied territories have carried out a number of attacks on Moscow's personnel appointed to the regions. The CNR has also reported instances of Kyiv's resistance sabotaging the Russian military , including disrupting supply railways and targeting Moscow's soldiers in several poisoning schemes .

Last week, the CNR reported that a movement of Ukrainian partisans living in Crimea carried out an attack on Russia's radar system and control center located on the peninsula, which Kyiv said was "responsible for the secure communication channel with the Kremlin, including the coordination of the entire peninsula's air defense."

This is great news for Ukraine. 35,000 would have made a difference on Russia's front lines. Instead they're tied up in the Rear protecting... hold on. What are these 35,000 crack troops protecting again?

Oh, right!!!

And while the Champagne glasses clinked in Moscow on New Years Eve, something else was happening in St. Petersburg...

"St. Petersburg police rounded up thousands of Central Asian migrants on New Year’s Eve and pressured them into signing military contracts"
"The officers cordoned off entire streets in these areas as people were gathering to celebrate and watch fireworks. Then they detained crowds of people, many of them still wearing New Year’s costumes, and forced them onto waiting buses. In total, more than 3,000 people were arrested, with women and children sent to lower security petty crime detention centres, while men were sent to criminal pre-trial detention centres run by the Interior Ministry. "
"The officers cordoned off entire streets in these areas as people were gathering to celebrate and watch fireworks. Then they detained crowds of people, many of them still wearing New Year’s costumes, and forced them onto waiting buses. In total, more than 3,000 people were arrested, with women and children sent to lower security petty crime detention centres, while men were sent to criminal pre-trial detention centres run by the Interior Ministry. "
"The following morning, army recruiters came to the centres and urged the men to join to army, promising people without citizenship that they would receive Russian passports upon the completion of their service and warning people who hesitated that if they did not agree to sign contracts, their entire families could be deported from Russia and legal proceedings would be opened against them for violating migration legislation."
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/01/08/new-years-nightmare-en

I’m certainly no expert on any aspect of this war and apart from one great grandparent born somewhere in the region I have no personal connections to anything either but that doesn’t sound like it’s going as decisively for Russia as some of their cheerleaders on here suggest.

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Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

When confronted with hard truths, deflect with flaky unrelated whataboutisms about rainbows and trans bathrooms. What a loser you are, can't even stay on point.

What I’m saying is the US is kind of asking for it, engaging in unicorns and rainbows problems which have little to do with real challenges of today’s world.

You're hitting the wodka pretty hard tonight, Vlad!

It seems you can't point out obvious strategic flaws or seek to correct them without becoming a Russian.

Arestovich noted this has already happened in Ukraine:
"You say: "look, our enemy makes effective decisions, we don’t” - “you’re a Russian spy!" You say: "look, they did smart things there, there and there” - “that means you’re from Moscow!" It gets to the point where any sober thought, any critical thought – you are immediately labeled as a Russian spy.

People don’t understand what signal they are giving, what a hidden command: everything that is smart here, critical, self-reflective, automatically belongs to Russia.

That is, "a smart Ukrainian becomes Russian", as they write to us in chats.

Who created this trend? People who imposed a ban on thinking and a ban on understanding,” Arestovich said.

You have got to be joking - there is very little freedom of thought or press in Russia. Putin has eradicated all viable opposition and shuttered or hailed journalists with different views to himself.

if Trump gets back his extremist activist are already working on ensuring similar strategies will take place in the US.

Most of us don’t want his sloppy chaotic leadership or criminal tendencies back in the White House - let alone further erosion of democratic freedoms in deference to his delusions and misuse of power.

YET ANOTHER Russian journalist exposing massive Kremlin corruption - found dead. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12941871/Alexander-Rybin-Russian-war-journalist-dead-roadside.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Putin Forced To Dispatch National Guard Against Uprising
By Kaitlin Lewis, 20 hrs ago

https://share.newsbreak.com/5uvbx89r

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has deployed nearly 35,000 national guardsmen to curb Ukrainian resistance in occupied territories under Moscow's control, according to Kyiv's National Resistance Center (CNR).

The Kremlin currently occupies large swathes of south and eastern Ukraine, where Putin has established illegitimate Russian districts after holding sham elections in the fall of 2022. Ukraine launched the CNR in March 2022 following Russia's full-scale invasion a month prior. The CNR, under the direction of Kyiv's Special Operation Forces, helps coordinate and train Ukrainian partisans living under Russian occupation.

According to the CNR, Russia's National Guard—also known as the Rosguard—is the "second-most important component" of Putin's forces in occupied Ukraine. Those deployed to the territories are tasked with suppressing Ukrainian civil resistance by "filtering activities among the civilian population and identifying members of the underground movement," according to Ukrainian sources. ..

While the war rages on along the frontlines, Ukrainian partisans living in Russian-occupied territories have carried out a number of attacks on Moscow's personnel appointed to the regions. The CNR has also reported instances of Kyiv's resistance sabotaging the Russian military , including disrupting supply railways and targeting Moscow's soldiers in several poisoning schemes .

Last week, the CNR reported that a movement of Ukrainian partisans living in Crimea carried out an attack on Russia's radar system and control center located on the peninsula, which Kyiv said was "responsible for the secure communication channel with the Kremlin, including the coordination of the entire peninsula's air defense."

It's not just Rosgvardia having to be deployed to quell protests in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, there are deep angry rumblings coming from all across Russia itself. Russia is getting to the breaking point. https://www.newsweek.com/russians-armed-insurrection-warning-putin-mobilization-1859407

[Anonymous]

And... Russia's economy continues to fall apart... https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/putins-unsustainable-spending-spree

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Putin Forced To Dispatch National Guard Against Uprising
By Kaitlin Lewis, 20 hrs ago

https://share.newsbreak.com/5uvbx89r

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has deployed nearly 35,000 national guardsmen to curb Ukrainian resistance in occupied territories under Moscow's control, according to Kyiv's National Resistance Center (CNR).

The Kremlin currently occupies large swathes of south and eastern Ukraine, where Putin has established illegitimate Russian districts after holding sham elections in the fall of 2022. Ukraine launched the CNR in March 2022 following Russia's full-scale invasion a month prior. The CNR, under the direction of Kyiv's Special Operation Forces, helps coordinate and train Ukrainian partisans living under Russian occupation.

According to the CNR, Russia's National Guard—also known as the Rosguard—is the "second-most important component" of Putin's forces in occupied Ukraine. Those deployed to the territories are tasked with suppressing Ukrainian civil resistance by "filtering activities among the civilian population and identifying members of the underground movement," according to Ukrainian sources. ..

While the war rages on along the frontlines, Ukrainian partisans living in Russian-occupied territories have carried out a number of attacks on Moscow's personnel appointed to the regions. The CNR has also reported instances of Kyiv's resistance sabotaging the Russian military , including disrupting supply railways and targeting Moscow's soldiers in several poisoning schemes .

Last week, the CNR reported that a movement of Ukrainian partisans living in Crimea carried out an attack on Russia's radar system and control center located on the peninsula, which Kyiv said was "responsible for the secure communication channel with the Kremlin, including the coordination of the entire peninsula's air defense."

The walls are closing in on Putin. He's lost the war and may lost control of Russia itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And... Russia's economy continues to fall apart... https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/putins-unsustainable-spending-spree

I really feel sorry for innocent Russian civilians who never expected or wanted this war. They have not had a functioning democracy in many decades and most news is state controlled.

I don’t know how Putin and his cronies sleep at night knowing how much suffering and loss they have caused to so many - including their own people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

When confronted with hard truths, deflect with flaky unrelated whataboutisms about rainbows and trans bathrooms. What a loser you are, can't even stay on point.

What I’m saying is the US is kind of asking for it, engaging in unicorns and rainbows problems which have little to do with real challenges of today’s world.

You're hitting the wodka pretty hard tonight, Vlad!

It seems you can't point out obvious strategic flaws or seek to correct them without becoming a Russian.

Arestovich noted this has already happened in Ukraine:
"You say: "look, our enemy makes effective decisions, we don’t” - “you’re a Russian spy!" You say: "look, they did smart things there, there and there” - “that means you’re from Moscow!" It gets to the point where any sober thought, any critical thought – you are immediately labeled as a Russian spy.

People don’t understand what signal they are giving, what a hidden command: everything that is smart here, critical, self-reflective, automatically belongs to Russia.

That is, "a smart Ukrainian becomes Russian", as they write to us in chats.

Who created this trend? People who imposed a ban on thinking and a ban on understanding,” Arestovich said.

You have got to be joking - there is very little freedom of thought or press in Russia. Putin has eradicated all viable opposition and shuttered or hailed journalists with different views to himself.

if Trump gets back his extremist activist are already working on ensuring similar strategies will take place in the US.

Most of us don’t want his sloppy chaotic leadership or criminal tendencies back in the White House - let alone further erosion of democratic freedoms in deference to his delusions and misuse of power.

YET ANOTHER Russian journalist exposing massive Kremlin corruption - found dead. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12941871/Alexander-Rybin-Russian-war-journalist-dead-roadside.html

May he rest in peace.
“A Russian war journalist has been found dead after vowing to release new details of 'gigantic corruption' in the Vladimir Putin-invaded Ukrainian city Mariupol.”

I wonder whether the outcome may have been different if he had released the incriminating info without prior announcement alerting authorities ?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

When confronted with hard truths, deflect with flaky unrelated whataboutisms about rainbows and trans bathrooms. What a loser you are, can't even stay on point.

What I’m saying is the US is kind of asking for it, engaging in unicorns and rainbows problems which have little to do with real challenges of today’s world.

You're hitting the wodka pretty hard tonight, Vlad!

It seems you can't point out obvious strategic flaws or seek to correct them without becoming a Russian.

Arestovich noted this has already happened in Ukraine:
"You say: "look, our enemy makes effective decisions, we don’t” - “you’re a Russian spy!" You say: "look, they did smart things there, there and there” - “that means you’re from Moscow!" It gets to the point where any sober thought, any critical thought – you are immediately labeled as a Russian spy.

People don’t understand what signal they are giving, what a hidden command: everything that is smart here, critical, self-reflective, automatically belongs to Russia.

That is, "a smart Ukrainian becomes Russian", as they write to us in chats.

Who created this trend? People who imposed a ban on thinking and a ban on understanding,” Arestovich said.

You have got to be joking - there is very little freedom of thought or press in Russia. Putin has eradicated all viable opposition and shuttered or hailed journalists with different views to himself.

if Trump gets back his extremist activist are already working on ensuring similar strategies will take place in the US.

Most of us don’t want his sloppy chaotic leadership or criminal tendencies back in the White House - let alone further erosion of democratic freedoms in deference to his delusions and misuse of power.

YET ANOTHER Russian journalist exposing massive Kremlin corruption - found dead. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12941871/Alexander-Rybin-Russian-war-journalist-dead-roadside.html

May he rest in peace.
“A Russian war journalist has been found dead after vowing to release new details of 'gigantic corruption' in the Vladimir Putin-invaded Ukrainian city Mariupol.”

I wonder whether the outcome may have been different if he had released the incriminating info without prior announcement alerting authorities ?

Very telling that this poor fellow and many of the other Russian journalists murdered since the Ukraine war self identified as pro Putin or pro Donbas annexation etc - and even that was not enough to spare them From fatal retaliation to silence any critique of the Putin government - And yet, that is the job of the media in democratic societies - to inform and to hold powers that be accountable to the public.

[Anonymous]

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Putin Forced To Dispatch National Guard Against Uprising
By Kaitlin Lewis, 20 hrs ago

https://share.newsbreak.com/5uvbx89r

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has deployed nearly 35,000 national guardsmen to curb Ukrainian resistance in occupied territories under Moscow's control, according to Kyiv's National Resistance Center (CNR).

The Kremlin currently occupies large swathes of south and eastern Ukraine, where Putin has established illegitimate Russian districts after holding sham elections in the fall of 2022. Ukraine launched the CNR in March 2022 following Russia's full-scale invasion a month prior. The CNR, under the direction of Kyiv's Special Operation Forces, helps coordinate and train Ukrainian partisans living under Russian occupation.

According to the CNR, Russia's National Guard—also known as the Rosguard—is the "second-most important component" of Putin's forces in occupied Ukraine. Those deployed to the territories are tasked with suppressing Ukrainian civil resistance by "filtering activities among the civilian population and identifying members of the underground movement," according to Ukrainian sources. ..

While the war rages on along the frontlines, Ukrainian partisans living in Russian-occupied territories have carried out a number of attacks on Moscow's personnel appointed to the regions. The CNR has also reported instances of Kyiv's resistance sabotaging the Russian military , including disrupting supply railways and targeting Moscow's soldiers in several poisoning schemes .

Last week, the CNR reported that a movement of Ukrainian partisans living in Crimea carried out an attack on Russia's radar system and control center located on the peninsula, which Kyiv said was "responsible for the secure communication channel with the Kremlin, including the coordination of the entire peninsula's air defense."

This is great news for Ukraine. 35,000 would have made a difference on Russia's front lines. Instead they're tied up in the Rear protecting... hold on. What are these 35,000 crack troops protecting again?

Oh, right!!!

And while the Champagne glasses clinked in Moscow on New Years Eve, something else was happening in St. Petersburg...

"St. Petersburg police rounded up thousands of Central Asian migrants on New Year’s Eve and pressured them into signing military contracts"
"The officers cordoned off entire streets in these areas as people were gathering to celebrate and watch fireworks. Then they detained crowds of people, many of them still wearing New Year’s costumes, and forced them onto waiting buses. In total, more than 3,000 people were arrested, with women and children sent to lower security petty crime detention centres, while men were sent to criminal pre-trial detention centres run by the Interior Ministry. "
"The officers cordoned off entire streets in these areas as people were gathering to celebrate and watch fireworks. Then they detained crowds of people, many of them still wearing New Year’s costumes, and forced them onto waiting buses. In total, more than 3,000 people were arrested, with women and children sent to lower security petty crime detention centres, while men were sent to criminal pre-trial detention centres run by the Interior Ministry. "
"The following morning, army recruiters came to the centres and urged the men to join to army, promising people without citizenship that they would receive Russian passports upon the completion of their service and warning people who hesitated that if they did not agree to sign contracts, their entire families could be deported from Russia and legal proceedings would be opened against them for violating migration legislation."
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/01/08/new-years-nightmare-en

I’m certainly no expert on any aspect of this war and apart from one great grandparent born somewhere in the region I have no personal connections to anything either but that doesn’t sound like it’s going as decisively for Russia as some of their cheerleaders on here suggest.

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And the Zelensky regime gets another journalist. This one with an American passport.

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Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

When confronted with hard truths, deflect with flaky unrelated whataboutisms about rainbows and trans bathrooms. What a loser you are, can't even stay on point.

What I’m saying is the US is kind of asking for it, engaging in unicorns and rainbows problems which have little to do with real challenges of today’s world.

You're hitting the wodka pretty hard tonight, Vlad!

It seems you can't point out obvious strategic flaws or seek to correct them without becoming a Russian.

Arestovich noted this has already happened in Ukraine:
"You say: "look, our enemy makes effective decisions, we don’t” - “you’re a Russian spy!" You say: "look, they did smart things there, there and there” - “that means you’re from Moscow!" It gets to the point where any sober thought, any critical thought – you are immediately labeled as a Russian spy.

People don’t understand what signal they are giving, what a hidden command: everything that is smart here, critical, self-reflective, automatically belongs to Russia.

That is, "a smart Ukrainian becomes Russian", as they write to us in chats.

Who created this trend? People who imposed a ban on thinking and a ban on understanding,” Arestovich said.

Yeah yeah whatever. Arestovich just wants his former boss's job. So he tries to lob grenades from the sidelines but doesn't actually have any solutions.