Thread by @TimInHonolulu

1. I studied anarchists a bit in college. My undergrad legal studies professor at @UMassAmherst was one. I was his capitalist project. Anarchists were an alternative to Bolsheviks, emerging amid the Russian revolution advancing an anti-capitalist ideology focused on anti-

2. authoritarianism. I think it's an evolving modern political theory and I think would be a possible alternative to the criminal capitalism of the post-Soviet state. It occurred to me that Putin is afraid of that. He knows a lot about Russian political history and knows that

3. the Anarchists were the one leftist alternative to the authoritarian Bolsheviks. The concept of society engaged in self-rule was antithetical to the totalitarian dictatorship Lenin then Stalin advanced. Could the GRUs focus on Anarchists in the US be an artifact of the mortal

4. threat they posed to the Soviet communists? Putin is much easier to read than his former KGB persona might project. Russia was an economic and feudal basket-case in the early 21st century but it had a fairly advanced political and intellectual culture.

5. I grew up in a family that was never strident in any anti-Russian sense but my family included my dad who was with Chiang Kai-shek when he burned joss at his mother's grave and then flow to Formosa. My uncle was in the CIA class of 49, anti-communists were the rule but never

6. anti-Russian. We are a family of readers and Russian culture was always respected in my home. I think likely because the head of Soviet intelligence in China was in love my mother. She always spoke kindly of him. In the 1960's my oldest sister, our only Republican, became

7. fluent in Russian. She taught me a few words. The alliance in WWII and the realization of the massive scope of the Russian losses against the fascists left me with more than idle curiosity about Russians. Then in the late 1970s while attempting to break into NY acting career

8. I worked with two Russian immigrants who gave me a crash-course on the gulags and life for Soviet Jews. Later in the 1980s, when I decided to finally pursue a new career path, my Russian politics professor was a recently purged Tartar from Moscow University. He's the one who

9. most influence my current alarm over the post-Soviet mob culture. We need to offer Russians a road back to the days of political and cultural Russianism. The current mob culture that was formed in the gulags is not a future but simply a long and painful road to destruction.

10. Now that the Russian mob has burrowed into US culture and has control of our @WhiteHouse, if we are able to defeat them in November, a purge will come. We never considered the Sicilian Mafia a national security threat. They never openly allied with a foreign enemy.

11. But Putin's US Russian mob is a Kremlin affiliate. That makes every member and their families a potential national security threat. They have their families' futures in their hands. They can dig in and help Putin attack us again, or, go all in, and if they win they will rule

12. as our masters. But, as I suspect the @FBIWFO @NSAGov @CIA know and despite the Russian mob traitor in the @WhiteHouse, defend us and will defeat this threat, then the Americans who worked for our enemy will have no future in America. We are not becoming Russia's colony.

13. Even if we have to lock every Kremlin affiliated Russian here up in a Super Max, we never become Putin's dog. He gets to keep Trump and his family who I expect will flee in 2021. The rest of US Russian community needs to pick a side. And if it's Putin's side, start packing.