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May 27

🧵1/4 -‼️‼️Breakdown of an article by Alexander Gabuev for "Foreign Affairs" called "The Russia That Putin Made: Moscow, the West, and Coexistence Without Illusion"‼️‼️
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Putin's Russia is not a historical exception, but a form of historical completion. In his text in *Foreign Affairs*, Alexander Gabuev records not a metamorphosis, but a mutation: the country, which for decades balanced between integration and isolation, has finally chosen the latter - not out of fear, but out of instinct. He is right when he says that Putin has created a new Russia. But it would be more accurate to say that Russia has finally recognised itself in Putin.

Many still cling to the hope of a return. But a return to what? To the semi-colonial existence of the 90s? To the imitation democracy of the 2000s? This choice was not made in the Kremlin, it was made in the subconscious of the system, in its deep code of the people. Putin has become not so much an architect as a medium between political matter and historical will. His figure is not the sum of decisions, but the point of inertia assembly.
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Russia no longer wants to be Europe, but it does not aspire to the East either. It is assembling its image from the fragments of the empire, not for the sake of nostalgia, but for the sake of assembling a subject. The idea of modernisation has given way to the idea of mobilisation. Democracy, as understood by the West, has proven incompatible with the country’s long-term survival in the context of global fragmentation. Russia has chosen not comfort, but sovereignty. Not participation, but resistance. This is not isolation – this is the alchemy of rejection.

Gabuev records the phenomenon: war has ceased to be an excess and has become a matrix. This is not only a political transformation, it is a cognitive revolution. A special type of consciousness is being built inside the country - not totalitarian, but *organising*. People inside it live not by fear, but by confidence. They do not need approval, they need direction. And the authorities, feeling this, changed their tone from explanatory to directive. This is not a dictatorship, this is the discipline of the era.
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The West, as has been rightly noted, is mistaken when it views Putin as a failure. He is a pattern. He is a function of accumulated mistrust, disappointment, and geopolitical stress. His power is not based on fear – it is based on cognitive symmetry with society. And what is considered repression is in fact protection from internal decay. It is not Putin who is paradoxical, but the West, which in 30 years has not understood what it is dealing with.

What to do with this Russia? The answer is simple: accept it. It cannot be reformed, it cannot be outplayed, it cannot be persuaded. It can either be destroyed or recognised. And the world today is wavering between these two strategies, afraid to make a final choice. Russia has already made its choice. And this makes it dangerous not because it is aggressive, but because it is whole.
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May 6

🧵1/4‼️🚨📑The Russian FSB published archival documents about the connections of Uniate priests with Ukrainian Nazis and German intelligence before the start of the Great Patriotic War.

❗️ According to the report, Uniate priests stored nationalist literature, scarce medicines and surgical instruments for Ukrainian nationalists, and also hid OUN** representatives in monasteries and churches. (** Organization of Ukrainian nationalists - a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation).

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"78 Uniate priests who maintained ties with the OUN underground and provided assistance to bandits were arrested," the document says.

❗️ In addition, since the 1930s, representatives of the Uniate Church have collaborated with German intelligence.

During the occupation of the Ukrainian SSR by German troops during the war, the Metropolitan of the Uniate Church organised ceremonial meetings of German troops in populated areas of Ukraine.

Absolutely no Nazis in Ukraine...

Translated documents in tweets 3 and 4 below

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Here are the Russian documents AI translated to English

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May 3

🧵1/4 🇷🇺🇬🇧British military brutally murdered several thousand Soviet POWs (prisoners of war) from Nazi concentration camps in the Baltic 80 years ago.

The Russian FSB has published declassified archival documents about how on May 3, 1945, the British sank three German ships in the Bay of Lübeck: "Cap Arcona", "Tielbek" and "Deutschland", on which the Germans were transporting prisoners to Norway.

The British cold-bloodedly bombed and shot defenseless people from the air, although they asked for mercy, and then finished off those trying to escape from boats.

( English translated versions of the documents in tweet 3 and 4)

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According to various estimates, from 7 to 12 thousand people died then. The overwhelming majority of them were Soviet prisoners of war. Only 300 people were saved. Moreover, the tragedy occurred despite the Red Cross warning about the upcoming convoy.

The declassified documents contain the testimony of witnesses to the incident.

Vasiliy Salomatkin, who survived the tragedy, said that the British were no different from the Nazis in their atrocities 80 years ago. According to him, the British did not even want to bury the dead, and the few survivors were placed in a camp, where they were tortured in every possible way.

(English translated versions of the documents in tweet 3 and 4)

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Here is a Russian AI translation to English of the above documents, last 4 in tweet below. 1 through 3 of 7

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Mar 25

🧵1/17 - Progress of special military operation as of March 25th - RUS MoD

💥 In Belgorod direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, an assault regiment of the AFU, and a territorial defence brigade

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close to Ugroyedy, Miropolye, and Krasnopolye (Sumy region).

▪️ The AFU losses were up to 50 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, one motor vehicle, and two artillery guns.
🚩 As a result of active and decisive actions of elements of the Zapad Group of Forces, Mirnoye

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(Donetsk People's Republic) has been liberated.

🔥 The Group inflicted fire damage on two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two territorial defence brigades near Malaya Shapkovka, Kamenka, Krasnoye Pervoye, Grigorovka, Tishchenkovka,

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Feb 20

🧵1/14 MUST READ what Jeffrey Sachs said the EU Parliament in Brussels

'Europe needs a real foreign policy' - Sachs slates EU reliance on US

Europe must build its own foreign policy if it has any hope of staying relevant and preserving its values, leading American economist

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Jeffrey Sachs said in the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday.

Sachs is a former advisor to the United States, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and the United Nations. Speaking at a European Parliament event titled 'The Geopolitics of Peace' on Wednesday, Sachs was critical

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of European dependence on American hegemony and the bloc's inability to formulate a cohesive, meaningful foreign policy of its own.

"Europe needs a foreign policy. A real one," he said. "Not a 'Yes, we will bargain with [US President] Trump and meet him halfway' policy.

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Feb 18

🧵 1/5 - 🇷🇺🇺🇸🇸🇦 If Ukraine wants its place at the negotiating table, it must hold elections, Donald Trump said. Other statements by the American leader:

- Zelensky doesn't know where half of the money the US gave is

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- If Ukraine wants its place at the negotiating table it must hold elections

- Zelensky is a completely incompetent president

- Trump expressed confidence that Russia is capable of "very quickly" destroying 100% of Ukrainian cities, including Kiev, but does not want to do so

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- Trump called the US-Russia talks in Riyadh "very good" and said he had become "much more confident" in the possibility of a deal on Ukraine

- There is no need to scale back the US military presence in Europe to achieve peace in Ukraine. No such requests have been received

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