Thread by @dogemperor

Your gentle reminders that pretty much *every* party engaging in physical shit-stirring today (from the pro-Trump ILA leadership, to Iran and its client army in Hezbollah, to Likud in Israel, to Hamas, to MAGAtbots and tankiebots on this hellsite) all have Russian links

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This is where, I again, implore you all to research the roots of Putinism and Putin's international policy, specifically in KGB-turned-religio-fascist Aleksandr Dugin's "Foundations of Geopolitics"

This is literally Putin's playbook.

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I'm going to include some screenshots of the wiki article on "Foundations", and also excerpts from this PDF

So re Dugin--again, started out as KGB, recruited by literal neofascists circa 70s, was deep in EU neofascist circles by 90s

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By 2001, he'd deeply infiltrated himself in Russian politics, including in Putin's inner circle at that time

And posited expansion of a new Russian Empire from Ireland to India to Vladivostok, and also portraying a new Russian Empire as kind of a Holy War against the West

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And one of the tactics that "Foundations of Geopolitics" *explicitly* promotes is to turn all allies against the US--including firing up religious extremism, and painting the US as a scapegoat--and firing up "Active Measures" targeting US extremists

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In addition to literally pumping up every extremist group from neo-Nazis & KKK to Nation of Islam to tankies to make the US ungovernable, this also includes destabilization of both Africa and Central and South America (and recruitment into Russian axis)

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There are also specific targeting policies involving Berlin, Tokyo, and Teheran to bring them into the Russian axis, and eventually all of Europe save for the UK (to be split off by "Brexit")--oh and this also includes the present invasion of Ukraine:

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Interestingly, the PRC is seen as a threat, and Japan is being encouraged to restart the Japanese Empire (and there is evidence "active measures" are targeting the Japanese far-right)--and India IS explicitly noted as a client state:

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(Of particular note here: Russia having to peg the ruble to the yuan renminbi and being forced into closer partnership with the PRC in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine and discovering the consequences of their own actions gives you an actual clue how the war is going.)

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In regards to Extremely Recent World Politics, again talks a functional anschluss with Iran, and firing up religious conflicts specifically--working its way to Pakistan, and targeting both Saudi Arabia and Turkiye:

(Of note: Erdogan seems to be used as a "useful idiot")

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So that's at least PART of Putin's playbook, but there's also...a part *not* covered in "Foundations", specifically how Putinists have links with Likud, and how Putin recruited Christian Nationalists in the US as his own Fifth Column

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As it turns out, New Apostolic Reformation Christian Nationalists tried to infiltrate Russia, Putinists and Russian religio-fascists proceeded to recruit NAR Christian Nationalists, and they now basically work together and share tactics including front groups

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And some of the earliest documentation of clear links to Putin's inner circle, aside from attempts at recruitment of members of the Russian mob in prisons in 2006...is all the way back in 2007, in Israel, and involves Oleg Deripaska.

Yes, THAT Oleg Deripaska.

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@Barthsnotes (in a Talk to Action article from 2007) notes how Jewish people in Israel of Russian origin (including members of Likud) had worked with Christian Nationalists (including Japanese NAR types) as far back as 2003. And yes, there are Vory links

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@Barthsnotes Now. This history of criming gets pretty Important when we discuss Bibi Netanyahu in a few (and why even if all aid were cut off it's *extremely* unlikely to stop the war).

So, Oleg Deripaska was a protege of Michael Cherney and this came out in a lawsuit:

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@Barthsnotes And Deripaska and Cherney eventually had a falling-out, and a rather nasty lawsuit in UK courts, claims of kidnappings, staged shootings, ACTUAL shootings, and shit you'd expect from gangland operations

Which brings us to the whole Jerusalem Summit thing

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@Barthsnotes So @Barthsnotes has another article on the actual conference itself, and one of the star attractions was Binyamin Elon, who was at the time MK in the party National Union, a coalition of far-right parties in Israel

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@Barthsnotes National Union (during its existence) took a hard line against a two-state solution and withdrawal from Gaza, and its members have in past pushed calls for violence (like advocating persons seeking asylum in Israel be shot)

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@Barthsnotes And I note this because it's coalitions of parties like this that have given Likud enough of a power base that Bibi Netanyahu can even *be* a PM in the first place, and it's this and ultra-orthodox parties that keep other parties from a call for no-confidence vote.

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@Barthsnotes (Note: This is where we get into Israel going full Dynamite Monkey with its neighbours as of late.)

So, Bibi has been in a fair amount of legal trouble as of late--in 2019, cases were filed charging him with fraud, bribery, and breach of trust while in office.

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@Barthsnotes The first case (opened December 2016) involved bribery of Netanyahu and his wife by businessmen; in a second case Netanyahu and the editor of Yedioth Ahronoth were caught on tape colluding to have legislation passed to harm Yedioth's main competitor paper

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@Barthsnotes A third case involves when Netanyahu was head of the communications ministry of Israel and involved bribery and kickbacks to Bezeq (one of the biggest telecoms in Israel).

Suffice it to say there has been quite a lot of Criming

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@Barthsnotes It is also important to note here for context that Israel does not have a concept of impeachment of a PM; generally the best that can be done is a vote of no-confidence (which results in new elections)

And this is a prelude for a LOT of what comes next

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@Barthsnotes So even the indictments got delayed until 2019 because Bibi Netanyahu had installed his own friendly AG (Avichal Mandelblit)--this led to the first rounds of protests against Bibi in 2017

In 2018, Israeli police recommended charges, in 2019, he was charged

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@Barthsnotes At which point Bibi Netanyahu submitted a request for immunity (on the grounds that he was PM), the 2020 election basically became a *de facto* referendum on whether enough members of the Knesset could be elected who would grant immunity

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@Barthsnotes and on 12 January the legal advisor for the Knesset noted that there was "no impediment to forming a Knesset community that could prevent Netanyahu from receiving immunity" (meaning Bibi had basically failed in his first bid for immunity from prosecution for criming)

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@Barthsnotes So began a series of delays due to the Plague Times, and this in turn led to a series of protests against Netanyahu in 2020 and 2021, again asking him to step down

Which led to Bibi trying to ban protests in Israel as a whole

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@Barthsnotes And in the meantime, Bibi Netanyahu worked on a Plan B to try to keep his ass out of jail--namely, in January 2023 he proposed a massive reform of the courts including stripping the Israeli Supreme Court of most of its authority and allowing him to appoint judges directly

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@Barthsnotes And this "reform" was basically meant to prevent the Israeli Supreme Court from ruling any parliamentary means to give Netanyahu immunity were unconstitutional

This led to multiple rounds of MASSIVE protests in Israel

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@Barthsnotes On 27 March, he claimed "oh we'll put a pause on it", but on 24 July the Knesset passed the "reform" anyways, which led to MASSIVE protests in Israel calling for the Knesset to declare a no-confidence motion and for Netanyahu to step down

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@Barthsnotes And it was right when the protests were pretty much shutting down cities at night and the IDF was starting to join the protests against Netanyahu that the October 7th attacks happened, and it's widely speculated Bibi *let* them happen to give a casus belli for war

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@Barthsnotes And so as a result his corruption trial has been delayed even further due to war, even though in 2024 the Israeli Supreme Court ruled the judicial "reform" to be unconstitutional and struck it down



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@Barthsnotes And fairly recently (especially from September 2024), Bibi Netanyahu has been the subject of EVEN MORE mass protests in Israel itself, calling for an end to the war AND for Bibi to step down or for a no-confidence vote in the Knesset

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@Barthsnotes It is probably not a huge coincidence, if a coincidence at all, that Bibi Netanyahu started bombing the shit out of the neighbours right around the time those mass protests were actually starting to spill over into general strikes.

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@Barthsnotes And, as it turns out, Bibi has international friends who ALSO have a history of criming, and who ALSO have had a history of attempting to burn down their country to keep out of prison

Why yes, we are talking about Bibi's relationship with The Former Guy.

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@Barthsnotes This is where that hardline Christian Nationalist angle, Putin using Christian Nationalists as a Fifth Column, and the fact that NAR Christian Nationalists are *extremely hard* Christian Zionists comes in--and the fact that NAR Christian Nationalists are TFG's base.

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@Barthsnotes So we need to go back into the fruits of "active measures" here in the US, namely the Great Insurrection; it is little appreciated how much #J6 was in truth a New Apostolic Reformation Christian Nationalist coup attempt

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@Barthsnotes And there's starting to be quite a bit more writing on New Apostolic Reformation involvement in J6, especially considering JD Vance's links with NAR leader Lance Wallnau, but suffice it to say Christian Nationalists ARE Trump's primary base.

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@Barthsnotes And considering the deep linkages between NAR sorts and Putin's regime by that point, and considering that Trump himself has likely been played like a fiddle by the Russians since the 80s...

Well, yes, the Russians are going to ramp that shit up too

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@Barthsnotes So back to Bibi and TFG, they've been engaging in a lot of contacts that people have brought up almost certainly violate the Lacey Act, and which almost certainly can be confirmed to have national security implications

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@Barthsnotes (Logan Act, not Lacey Act, my correction)

And there have been claims of further calls (that Bibi has explicitly denied)

Including unconfirmed claims of a Reagan-esque "no peace before GOP presidency"

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@Barthsnotes (The Former Guy has claimed he was telling Bibi to "get your victory quickly" because "the killing has to stop", but the phrasing is suspicious enough I'd not be shocked if it wasn't a request to keep the war going)



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@Barthsnotes And, for his part, Bibi Netanyahu would MUCH rather have Trump in office because Trump's base not only will be perfectly OK with the forever war Israel is now in to save Bibi's ass, and a Harris presidency almost certainly means he goes to prison

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@Barthsnotes And right now, Bibi's alliance with the Israeli far right (who meets on the regular with the same New Apostolic Reformation Christian Nationalists responsible for things like Project 2025 and who stoked the fires for #J6) DEPENDS on a forever war

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@Barthsnotes And this is why I have stated all along "Even if we cut off all aid and trade with Israel *today*, the only thing that would happen is that Israel would be converted entirely to a war economy dedicated to making more bombs to keep Bibi Netanyahu out of prison".

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@Barthsnotes And realistically there's only 3 solutions:
a) have Seal Team 6 take out Netanyahu and his entire inner circle (not likely, and an act of war)
b) popular revolution in Israel
c) Knesset vote of no-confidence and Likud loses next election

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@Barthsnotes And yes, the Forever War is designed to keep b) and c) from happening, and Israel has something like anywhere from 90-400 undeclared nuclear warheads (and ICBMs, and cruise missiles) and a "fail-deadly" option to make sure a) doesn't happen either

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@Barthsnotes (Fun fact: One actual reason that military aid is provided to Israel at *all* is literally as a form of deterrance against it further developing its own homebrew arms industry--and even its nukes and what weapons it DOES build at home are on level of NATO countries.)

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@Barthsnotes (And considering that their nuclear "fail-deadly" option reportedly contains plans to nuke European capitals and major cities, pretty much it's given for the same reason North Korea gets food assistance when it threatens to nuke Seoul and Tokyo.)

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@Barthsnotes So yes, this is basically how we are in and have been in a multifocal war with Putinist Russia via MANY proxies. Putin has been quite explicitly goading all sides--and there will be a lot more "active measures", both online and quite possibly physical, before November.

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@Barthsnotes And this is where I warn you that this very hellsite is an epicentre of these online "active measures", both by reports from multinational groups busting botnet and sockfarm rings and campaigns *and* by admission of FSB itself

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@Barthsnotes And I will remind you that of the two candidates that have a CHANCE in the Electoral College, one will take a strong stand against Putin, and one is a cheeto-faced shitgibbon who has already proven himself to be Putin's сука

Vote accordingly.

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