Plz read @mhmck report on Putin’s Ukraine strategy to understand America’s peril:
“A key tactic of..Putin’s war was to use organized mobs to seize public buildings. Americans are confronted now with same tactic of masked warfare..and they’ll see it in more cities in days ahead.”
OLD DIC: “Khodorkovsky said the arrest of Navalny was an attempt by Putin—whom he cast as an ‘ageing autocrat’—to show that he is still Russia’s top dog.
“Khodorkovsky said the West should impose sanctions on individuals involved in expanding Russia’s network of corrupt money across the world.”-@Reuters
“Putin feels he has to show he is the main animal in the herd or that people will believe that he is no longer the top dog,” Khodorkovsky, 57, told @Reuters in London when asked why @navalny had been targetted.
“History shows when extremist movements coalesce around a charismatic leader who focuses their anger..a tipping point is reached where extreme rhetoric is turned into violent action..violence tends to escalate unless..leadership [is] defeated.”@AOL aol.com/attack-capitol…
“Extremist movements also aggressively recruit from law enforcement and military communities to develop their hard power, a tactic perfected by the Islamic State, whose close alliance with Baathist military officers enabled it to launch a military-style juggernaut in 2014.”-@AOL