Quick-and-dirty overview: Russia poisoned the West with communism; USSR fell & faked 'democratic reforms'; Russia sat back to watch communism destroy West; the aspiring communist West tried to absorb Ukraine; Putin invaded to stop it; Russia is now paying for its active measures.
You wonder why Putin is so hated by Western liberals? Look no further. He's not down with "the plan."🔻
Putin may be a war criminal, but how is that different than what the left called Bush? Or about Obama with his drone strikes? These Western elites don't care about Ukraine except as it is part of the plan to absorb the semi-periphery of Europe into a globalist "core."
Putin is bad. Globalist elites are bad. In this power struggle, there are no "good guys." There are no "winners." The only losers are the people of these countries who are caught in the middle.
You don't think Putin would spread communism abroad for the intention of destroying the West? Take a look at this "active measure":🔻 thehill.com/opinion/energy…
If you study the origins of Marxism in Russia, it was posed as a solution for the agrarian & industrializing Russia to 'leap frog' the West. The Western 'revolutions' in advanced capitalist economies didn't bear out...
International communism turned into a way for Russia to penetrate & weaken its enemies, while maintaining largely fascist policies at home (such as during World War II). The USSR eventually needed a 'makeover' so communism would take better hold in an unsuspecting West.
The Soviets were a little too successful with its active measures, however; the Western elites turned communism into a mutant form known as cultural Marxism; it became a form of propaganda that globalist elites could turn inward to divide political opposition & weaken societies.
The battle of our age is no longer the Cold War. It is not the USA vs. USSR. It is not Western Civilization vs. China & Russia. It is not Communism vs. Liberal Democracy.
The real power struggle is now Globalist Tyranny versus the rest of Humanity.
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Can someone at @YouTube, @Google or @Facebook explain how demonetizing Russian citizens will bring an end to the Ukraine invasion?
Seriously, lay out how this leads to Putin pulling out or brings a moderate president to power.
Otherwise, it's just cruelty for its own sake.
@YouTube@Google@Facebook I'm a political scientist by training. I don't understand the *linkage* in the policy response here. Can someone lay out the mechanism of how this brings about a positive resolution to the Ukraine crisis?
@YouTube@Google@Facebook If you're trying to get Putin toppled or assassinated, there is absolutely no guarantee a pro-Western leader takes over Russia. It's even or better odds that the next President would be *worse.*
Everything is following such a predictable playbook to destroy America that it's almost laughable at this point.
It's horrible and extremely serious what they are doing, but also so transparently destructive that it's obviously concerted and pre-planned.
People who know me closely can vouch that I talked extensively about this 'global fascist' effort over a decade ago. Things that may have seemed edgy and 'out there' at the time now would smack people as 'ho hum' and a given nowadays.
"[T]wo, to rebuild the backbone of this country — the middle class, hardworking people, and people struggling to get in the middle class. They built America, and unions built them.”
This is not only a lie, but inflation is now hammering the middle class. Another FAIL.
”The third reason I said I was running was to unite the country.... Well, I’ve not been able to unite the Congress, but I’ve been uniting the country, based on the polling data. We have to come together. We have to."
This is another massive FAIL. America is as divided as ever.