In his book "Baptism on Fire", Russian Nazi and books author Maxim Kalashnikov, who met Medvedev and advised him, presents a framework for winning a war against NATO. He has no illusions that NATO will beat Russia on battlefield, that is why he recommends to go asymmetrically. /1
Kalashnikov urges to surpass technological superiority of the West by using Western weaknesses: long time needed for political decisions, indecisiveness of the leaders, and lack of Western readiness to accept losses on its own civilians. /2
Kalashnikov also urges to use terrorist groups, formed from "southern migrants", staring demonstratively brutal attacks on schools, kindergartens, hospitals, in order to provoke mass-response of the police against migrants, racial profiling, mass control, paralysing the West. /3
I wonder, if any Western politician read his books? Again - this guy is an influential thinker, flooding the minds of Russian military and intelligence officers since two decades with his ideas. They openly talked of massacring our schools, while we talked of "diplomacy". /4
Kalashnikov also developed (book "Forward to the USSR 2.0") blueprints for weaponising of ANY Russian company: from UAV to cargo, and even seafood producers. Every Russian business should have its aim to infiltrate the West in order to strike when needed. /5
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THREAD Did you know that the Soviet Union had a wide-spread culture of Nazis, fully integrated into the Soviet cultural life, painting sieg-heiling heroes? If you have not, read this THREAD. (Picture: Konstantin Vassiliev, "A Valkyrie over a fallen warrior", USSR, 1971). /1
The Soviets pictured themselves (like Russia now) as "anti-Nazis", because they were forced to fight Nazis in 1941. In fact, they were allies of the Nazis from 1939, divided Poland together, and could never forgive Hitler's betrayal. They dream until today on Hitler's loyalty. /2
In 1970s, a strong Russian Nazi movement formed in the Soviet Union. They believed, the Nazism was a tool to regain Russian nation's influence. They believed, the Russians were "better Nazis", more pure, more brutal, more powerful. Painter Konstantin Vassiliev was one of them. /3
THREAD Many Western journalists and think tankers have found a new icon: Russian "anti-war" presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin. In absence of Navalny, Nadezhdin absorbs all the Western delusion for "peaceful democratic Russia". This is an ignorant and a wrong assessment. /1
I will not address questions, if Nadezhdin is a Kremlin project (I personally believe - yes, he is, exactly as Ksenia Sobchak was amid the last "election"). It is enough just to have a look at Nadezhdin's statements. Is he anti-war? No way, he is not. /2
Nadezhdin's official site criticises the war against Ukraine on one single point: the goals of the war have not been reached, and it costs Russia too much. He is not anti-war, he is anti-losing-war. /3
A technical THREAD on today's destruction of a Russian #IL76 military cargo plane, why Russia pushes the topic of Ukrainian POWs, and how this story is an impotence symptom for our Western media. 1) There is no reason to believe there were Ukrainian POWs on board of IL-76. /1
1.1) Russia indeed used cargo planes before to transport POWs to Belgorod for later exchange. Still, the Russians say, there were 65 POWs accompanied by 3 guards. This ratio is unrealistic;
1.2) The "POWs list" Russia's head propagandist Simony published in her TG channel... /2
...contains several names of POWs already exchanged on January 3rd. And anyone needs to ask themself: why the heck do I rely on some "leaked document" published by a person who is non-stop lying since years, and lying is her job? /3
Hi @CIA, I watched your ad aiming potential Russian defectors. It's cheap #bullshit. You will be laughed out. Let me explain. 1) Intro: it's a 1960s USSR kitsch from the Hollywood 1970s movies, inc. background music. I understand you guys like Bolshoi, but GRU officers don't. /1
2) A vinyl plate player, really? I don't buy it again. It can be found either at a babushka apartment (but still old money), or at a young hipster's apartment (it will be different players). Your defector is neither nor: a 35 y.o. GRU guy from an orphan provincial family. FAIL /2
3) The guy's memories of how he started to serve at the GRU. You @CIA guys really do not recognise goddam Marshall Zhukov on the left? The guy died in 1974, fourteen years before your defector was born. As I said: your ad is a 1970s Hollywood kitsch, outdated before production /3
A market in Russia-occupied Ukrainian Donetsk being hit today looks like a 💯Russia-staged provocation: 1) There is no history of UA hitting civilian targets; 2) RU FM Lavrov arrives to the UN this week, RU needs arguments against ams deliveries to UA; 3) Compare Bilhorod case ⬇️
3.1) In Dec 2023, Russia shelled its city of Bilhorod with artillery shells, a Christmas market was hit, multiple civilians killed, incl kids. Russia blamed Ukraine for using attack drones to hit the city. But the photos clearly showed traces of artillery shelling ⬇️
3.2) So as the next step, the Russians said, the Ukrainians hit Bilhorod with Western(Czechia)-supplied "Vampire" MLRS rockets. The problem: Vampire have double as short range, can not reach Bilhorod. Maria Zakharova from Russian FM still requested a UN SC meeting. ⬇️
A THREAD on Germany's complicated and often dark relations with the ethnic heritage of its citizens, including legal consequences for those so to say "not aryan" until now.
First, some context: hundreds of thousands demonstrate today in Germany against the far-right #AfD party /1
This is a reaction on a leak published by a German media "Correctiv". According to Correctiv, the #AfD reps plus some business tycoons held a meeting discussing how to force those ethnically non-German people living in Germany to leave the country. /2 correctiv.org/aktuelles/neue…
According to Correctiv, they also discussed how to force naturalised German citizens to leave Germany, what is clearly against the law. This triggered protest (what is good), but as a naturalised German, I wonder how less those who protest against AfD know about acting laws /3