Thread by @sumlenny

OTD four years ago, in a small town of Sibay, Russia-occupied Bashkortostan, I saw these hundreds of perfectly drilled school kids marching in perfect groups, and said: "in top 5 years, many will return home in body bags, but before they will kill a lot of civilians". /1

I my age of 19-20, I had my obligatory military drill at my university, and after two years of that drill, I have not marched nearly as good as these school kids. It was obvious for me, they have undergone at least 200-300 hours of marching drill (and 200-400 of other drill) /2

I said back then: it is clear that Russia is on war path. These kids will be cannon fodder in a few years, they will kill civilians, and than die, and come back as "200th" (Russian slang for KIA), if RU decided to bring their bodies back. I was right in every single assessment /3

I also put attention to a girl on the left, who hasn't got a rifle for this rehearsal, but she perfectly simulated the holding position. "She will be a reliable soldier" - I wrote. I showed this video to dozens of German politicians and diplomats as a warning. Nobody believed /4

All signs were visible. Russia was hiding in plain sight. It was a cynical decision by the West to ignore each and every alarm bell, and to silence those who tried to warn the public: private persons or the whole nations like the Poles, the Ukrainians or the Baltic nations. /END

I remember how Germany's government-funded @DeutscheWelle TV mocked the US and Ukraine as "war mongers", indirectly accusing the US and Ukraine of being aggressors who were to attack Russia, in Feb2022, 10 days before the Russian full-scale invasion

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