@Gerashchenko_en Key observations on #May9 Parade: 1. it was very SHORT - either scared in public or no spare military equipment - or both 2. minimal parade equipment: no tanks or helicopters - as much is obliterated 3. parade was STUDENTS from academies - not real soldiers: massive casualties
@Gerashchenko_en Some key questions: if the west is "all Nazi" 1) who is the Fuhrer? 2) where is the Hitler Youth? 3) which race do these Nazis want to hold supreme? 4) which empire has a siege mentality? 5) which bunker are they hiding in? 6) how will it end?
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@Gerashchenko_en Because the best answers to these questions I see are: 1) Putin 2) the Kremlin Youth 3) Muscovites, while exterminating everyone else 4) Russia 5) the Kremlin 6) when Putin self-destructs or is taken out
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@Gerashchenko_en How quickly Russia forgot that USSR only defeated real, live actual Nazism with enormous support from USA's Lend-Lease programme.
Russia is now fighting Ukraine using some of very same 80-yeard-old US equipment because so much of its own modern equipment has been destroyed.
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@Gerashchenko_en Putin: fighting imaginary Nazis with real Nazism - using American tools that defeated real Nazism, whilst telling the world everyone else is a Nazi.
THREAD: Conscripts are ordinary Russians - many with families - who are ripped from their working lives.
They go from Novosibirsk or Omsk, to the frontlines of Donestk within a week.
No training. No tent. No uniform. No food or even water. No money. No morale.
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Once on the front lines, they see truth of the situation: entire battalions have lost 70%, 80% or 90% of their men.
The carnage is insane.
Some conscripts die in a day.
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And the carnage is only worsening as 1) more Ukrainian troops get trained 2) more western weaponry arrives under Lend-lease
and 3) more Russian weaponry is captured by Ukraine from routed & fast-retreating Russian battalions.
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THREAD: England went first. It had its democratic revolution (the Civil War) in the 1600's. This began the long, slow & torturous process of establishing liberal democracy as a vastly better system than monarchy, dictatorship or autocracy. (1)
France went next. Its revolution in the mid 1700s created an alternative to the the English revolution by establishing republican democracy as replacement for the oppressions of aristocracy. (2)
America followed: it took inspiration from by fusing the English revolution (by keeping the common law) with the French revolution (by opting for a republican, rule-based system). (3)
1. Steve Bannon, during his time at Cambridge Analytica, learned Russian KGB techniques of psychological warfare
2. Bannon taught these techniques directly to Trump; it's why their rhetoric sounds exactly the same as the Kremlin's: "fake news", "your information is fake", "suffering from hysteria", "you're suffering from Trump derangement syndrome", "Democrats are commies", etc. etc.
3. Also around 2016 very archaic & highly-charged words entered public debate in UK & USA: "saboteur", "traitor", etc. These words are common in modern Russian but have not been used in the Anglosphere for decades. So you see the KGB psyops influence from the types of words used.