We’ve also become a sort of a go to place for some whistleblowers or some double agents pretending to be whistleblowers. So we receive a lot of data from Russian sources, including from Russian civics or the term that is used for the FSB. Last year you whoever belongs to the militarized elite in Russia. So it’s almost a year ago received some credible sounding information that things will change in Russia this year 2022 That it will be like nothing we’ve seen before that Russia will become a dictatorship. There’ll be North Korea 2.0 that journalists will be jailed and free media will the remaining on the islands of free media will be shut down. And that the country will become an army or it will run like an army. This is exactly verbatim the descriptions we got that was valuable insight. Of course, we couldn’t validate that. But it was context it was something that allowed us to watch out for what data would prove or disprove in the future. More recently, it was December when another whistleblower again a civic source told us that more war with Ukraine is on the agenda told us that Putin had decided and boasted to his small circle of loyalists that he was going to start a war in Ukraine and that he was going to actually consider using tactical nuclear weapons, and that this has actually frightened everybody well. Except for a very small, militarized elite. That he trusted, that he had stopped just stopped trusting the larger elite economic elites that are traditionally his buddies and childhood friends. And he only trusted a few really corrupt militarized, gung ho nut cases. Again, this was a source we couldn’t use that but it allowed us to or it scared us, and it forced us to look for the data that would support or disprove this and the data started coming in started coming in January February of this year we sold the aggregation of of large Armed Forces units around the border when we saw the movements of our units from around the country to Ukraine under the guise of a with exercises, and then we were sure that this is what it seems to be not just exercises, not just a sort of a show of force when Russia started lying about whether or not they were sending weapons to the border, and it was saying the factory was moving weapons for the border.
Isn’t that where Pooty Poot and the other oligarchs keep a huge chunk of their money?
Not terrifying at all…
She doesn’t think there should be sanctions on Russia or the oligarchs.
Less-compromised media outlets are exposing the ties between right-wing news and these oligarchs:
https://news.yahoo.com/ex-fox-news-producer-broke-130107836.html
There’s pre-existing weirdness. From 2014:
BG is amazing. I do hope she gets out of there safely.
I also wonder if the Russians who have detained her realize just how badass she is. I mean, I wouldn’t want to have to guard her, whether on a basketball court or in a little room somewhere. She’s really badass.
Yeah, it is basically a hollowed out zombie brand at this point, like Forbes. Basically anyone can get an article put up on it. I would not trust anything on it just because of that. There will be some stuff there that is accurate, some that is absolute garbage and there is no way to know going in. Better to just stay away
It seems that the Ukrainians have flooded the plains north of Kyiv to slow down the Russian advance.
The old Soviet Army gets a lot of credit for being ruthless badasses, but of course Ukrainians can claim that legacy just like Russians can
I can think of worse reasons to shoot him.
“In order to stop people from saying we are at war, we have declared martial law”
The WWII Soviet Army moved on American Studebaker trucks and had allied convoys coming into Murmansk.
But they have other options due to training missions from other countries.
What’s this all about?
The Russian-Serbian connection is pretty strong as both are slavic cultures. The Russian government backed the Serbian ultra-nationalists during the dissolution of Yugoslavia, which included acts of genocide, especially in Bosnia, by Kosovar Serbian militias (not just, but like the Sbrernica massacre, etc). Russia was pissed about the air raids that ended the Kosovo leg of those conflicts, and still deny Kosovo independence.
Thanks for the context. I had forgotten all about that, but I guess for a lot of people there, it never really ended.
