The moment #BLM has begun polling badly in focus groups Dem @RepAdamSchiff calls them Russian stooges. Take note rioters.
Obviously that's a very stupid thing to say. But there might be a grain of truth there. I'll explain...
Putin does want Trump over Biden. The riots are supposed to play into the hands of the law and order candidate. If they fail to help Trump to win electoral victory, they will have still left Biden's America scarred and weakened...
And it's a shot for nothing. The Republicans wont call him out on it, because that's bad election strategy. And the Dems shouldn't because it's stupid. It is the boy cried wolf par exallance.
Just guessing of course.
And on the other hand: Napoleon did say to make sure you dont harass the enemy as he is making a mistake.
Plus, I doubt Putin thinks the US needs any help being at each others throats right now.
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The most important things abt #Putin's speech and the executive orders (his and Shoigu's):
- #Russia will recognize the "referenda"
- Russia is at war with #NATO in the #Ukraine
- Partial mobilization of reservists
- Shoigu orders the mobillization of 300K conflict veterans.
- Reservists that are called up will have the status of "serving under contract" -> can be deployed outside Russia.
- The nuclear threat verbatim "if Russia's territorial integrity and her people are threatened, we will use all available means to" This is not new.
Analysis: this is a calculated escalation. So far, a relatively minor escalation, but opens the door for further rounds of mobilization, up to about 2 million men (roughly the number of reservists who can be said to have combat experience). Shoigu will have to order each round.
Many of you asked me to explain why #Hungary doesn't buy into the #Ukrainian "hero epic". I'll try to explain in this thread.
The issue is multifaceted, it'll take several posts. I'll be describing the general mood, individuals can and will have different views. Let's go.
Two elements stand out, in no particular order. We have a more complex picture of the issue. The closer you are to a problem, the less "black and white" it looks. If you object to this, stop reading now.
Hungarians do not hate the Russians more than Ukrainians.
A person in Portugal will (justifiably) just think that Russia attacked the Ukraine, therefore they are the bad guys, and Ukrainians deserve our help. Living here, right next to the biggest war in Europe since WW2, this is more complicated.
A🧵on why last month's Peace March in #Budapest was so important. Half a million #Hungarians marched through the streets of the capital in support of the #Orbán government, and against the #Left. Frantic phonecalls followed from western embassies to their capitals. Here's why:
They will deny this, but both #Brussels and #Washinfton are at the very least thinking of interfering with the outcome of the #HungarianElection. Since the government's performance is generally good, and the opposition is a rather farcical bunch prone to make unforced errors...
they are very unlikely to win in a fair fight, even with #LiberalGlobalist support. That leaves the technology called a "Color Revolution". Both Brussels and Washington will of course deny that they employ this tactic, but at this point that is just laughable...
Ten Shades of the Far-Left, prt 1: Universities.
Today no American college graduate goes thru his university years without coming face to face with #CriticalTheory and the postmodern – aka #CulturalMarxism. (THREAD) mandiner.hu/cikk/20200930_…
#CriticalTheory arrived in the USA when the #Marxist professors of the Institute of Sociology of Frankfurt were forced to flee Nazi Germany. They brought with themselves the barely disguised ambition to bring down the democratic order based on capitalism.
They believed that “In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches, and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.” (Antonio Gramsci)
In the introduction to our multi-part series on the ideological background of the postmodern revolution that has gripped the USA, my esteemed collegue @EParkanyi
and I identify #CulturalMarxism as the core of the problem. (THREAD) mandiner.hu/cikk/20200929_…
The series is titled "Ten Shades of the Far-Left" because we examine 10 levels of American society that Cultural Marxism has infiltrated and where it has caused great damage by undermining the pillars of American society...
We define Cultural Marxism as an amalgamation of the neomarxist #CriticalTheory first proposed by the Frankfurt School and the postmodern philosophies that aim to deconstruct all barriers to selfish wish fulfillment - be it social, institutional, legal or natural...