🧵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"‼️‼️
(Link to article in last tweet below)

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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🧵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

🧵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)

🧵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 2/
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

🧵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 2/
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

🧵 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 2/
- 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

🧵1/7⚡️Maria Zakharova on the telephone conversation between Russian Foreign Minister S.V.Lavrov and US Secretary of State M.Rubio

🇷🇺🇺🇸📞 On February 15, at the initiative of the American side, a telephone conversation took place between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the 2/
Russian Federation S.V. Lavrov and the US Secretary of State M. Rubio.

Following the telephone conversation between the presidents of Russia and the United States on February 12, the heads of the foreign policy departments agreed to maintain a channel of communication to

🧵1/15 ⚔️Mineral wars: global conflicts fuelled by West's search for rare resources –

The coming years are shaping up to exacerbate the global geoeconomics and military competition for the world’s mineral resources, 2/
with President Trump openly eyeing 12 million sq km of territory containing untold riches. Here are the conflicts, present and future, to watch out for

➡️ Ukraine

🌏 The US “cannot afford” to let Moscow achieve victory in Ukraine, which is “sitting on $10-12 trln of critical

🧵1/16 - Dmitry Puchkov interview with Actual State Counselor of the 3rd class, member of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy of the Russian Federation Andrey Ilnitsky

Trump's New Empire Prepares for War 2/
• The Economist is the Rothschilds' magazine, setting certain trends, the organ of the globalists. Their charades are a way of drawing people into the agenda, a very correct cognitive technology.
• Trump in the charade is the figure of the year, mixing up all the

🧵1/7 - 🇷🇺December 23rd is Long-Range Aviation Day, today it turns 110 years old.

❕Long-range aviation is a component of the strategic nuclear forces , an integral part of the Aerospace Forces and serves to solve problems in all strategic directions. 2/
🛫 The long-range aviation is armed with the strategic missile carriers Tu-160, Tu-95MS , the MiG-31i air missile system, long-range bombers Tu-22M3 , tanker aircraft Il-78 , training and transport aircraft of various modifications.

1/6 - ZALA T-16 Surveillance Drone will ensure law and order in the country's regions

Unmanned aerial systems ZALA T-16 have been delivered to the country's law enforcement agencies to perform operational service tasks. 2/
The company has fulfilled ahead of schedule the contract for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the supply of UAS to the departments of the department in the regions of the Far East, Siberia, as well as the Northwestern, Volga and Southern Federal Districts.

🧵1/6 - 🇬🇪Little thread about Salome Zurabishvili's rich family past.

Was her grandfather Mikhail Kedia was a Nazi criminal and collaborator? 🤔

It's not even close 🥱

After all, the Nazi criminal and collaborator Mikhail Kedia is her uncle, not her grandfather. 2/
Salome's grandfather was Meki (Mekhisedek) Kedia, until 1921 he served as the head of the secret police of Georgia and fought against the USSR. This is written in the biography of Zurabishvili herself.

Unfortunately, it is not written there that Meka also had a son,

🧵1/4 - To solve its problems, the West will resort to the actual occupation of Ukraine under the guise of deploying peacekeepers.

The main points from the SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation) statement: 2/
▪️to restore Ukraine’s combat capability, the West will deploy about 100 thousand so-called peacekeepers in the country;

▪️NATO's plan essentially means the occupation of Ukraine, its territories will be divided between Britain, Romania, Poland and Germany;

🧵1/13 - 🇷🇺🇺🇦 Primary results of a MASSIVE strike on enemy ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE facilities: November 28, 2024 as of 11:30 (12:30 MSC)

On November 28, 2024, Russian forces conducted a combined massive attack using strike drones, operational-tactical missile systems, 2/
Kh-101/Kh-BD cruise missiles, and Kalibr missiles. The main targets were strategic energy infrastructure facilities and enterprises of the enemy's military-industrial complex.

🔻 Trihatki, Nikolaev region (05:14, 28.11.2024)
The missile "Kalibr" hit the substation substation

🧵1/5🤬🤬In the middle of summer in 1980, Paris Match magazine published a photo called "Road to the Sea." This photo reflected the tradition of the French, who always like to go on vacation at this time of year. They head en masse to rest at the seaside and resorts. 2/
However, when leaving, many did not know where to place their pets, since there was not enough space in the shelters. As a result, some owners were forced to decide to euthanize their dogs.

To draw public attention to the unpunished extermination of dogs,

🧵1/6 - TALE OF 2 HEROES🔥

This video shows an evacuation.

As you can see, the soldier is carrying a wounded comrade. The full video lasts more than 13 minutes. For all 13 minutes, the soldier is still carrying another soldier. In order not to risk the entire evacuation group, 2/
one of the soldiers with the call sign Kipish decided to pull the wounded comrade out of the gray zone himself. The act was certainly correct and heroic, but something else is interesting here.

The wounded soldier took part in the assault on the AFU positions two days ago.

‼️NORDSTREAM 2: VERY INTERESTING READ

First of all, it's beautiful! The famous American investor Stephen Lynch has approached the US government. He wants a license to participate in the auction if the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is put up for auction, writes The Wall Street Journal. 2/
And who knows what these hostile pseudo-analytical media write there. But, here we all even choked on black caviar and vodka. Because what would a smart investor claim that cannot exist? So it can... Apparently, the Swiss liquidator is selling in parts.

🧵1/5 - RIP Scott Bennett (53)🙏🕯️🕯️
(his 🎬🎥documentary is in the last tweet)

Margarita Simonyan, RT boss on her Telegram page:

It is quite possible that Scott Bennett was killed. It is quite possible that he was killed for telling the truth about the conflict in Ukraine. 2/
Scott is the author of our documentary films and one of the best military experts. He regularly appeared on RT and Sputnik. A retired Pentagon military intelligence officer, he traveled to Donbass and showed what was really going on there.

🧵1/5 - On November 22, 1909, Mikhail Leontyevich Mil, one of the founders of domestic helicopter engineering, was born.

Mikhail was interested in aviation since childhood. In the late 1920s, he became interested in autogyros. 2/
While still a student, he took part in the creation of the first Soviet autogyro, the KASKR-1. Then he worked on the A-7, A-12, and A-15 autogyros.

After the war, M.L. Mil ardently defended the idea of ​​producing rotary-wing aircraft. The result of these efforts was the

🧵1/16 - 🇷🇺Putin Full speech (Nov 21st 2024):
⚡️ Statement by the President of the Russian Federation

💬 V.V. Putin: I would like to inform the personnel of the Russian Armed Forces, the citizens of our country, our friends around the world, as well as 2/
those who continue to harbor illusions about the possibility of inflicting a “strategic defeat on Russia”, about the events that are taking place today in the area of ​​the special military operation, namely after the use of long-range weapons of Western manufacture on

🚨‼️BREAKING‼️🚨 (reported by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

🧵1/7 - 🇷🇺🇩🇪📞 At the initiative of the German side, the first telephone conversation since December 2022 took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz . 2/
A detailed and frank exchange of opinions on the situation in Ukraine was held. Vladimir Putin recalled that the current crisis was a direct result of NATO's long-standing aggressive policy aimed at creating an anti-Russian foothold on Ukrainian territory while ignoring our