Posted by: shadowbanned
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I know I am getting irritating with constantly pointing it out, but that makes it no less true — if you get your info from The Duran, Ritter, McGregor, Lira, Martyanov, etc., you are completely misinformed about the actual situation in Russia, where the patriotic portions of the population are in complete despair for more than a year now watching how the Kremlin is conducting this strange “not war”. Because they remember the late 1980s, when the biggest act of treason in human history was committed, they remember the three decades that followed, during which it was never reversed, and they can clearly see that the same kind of shady dealings are going on behind the scenes now too. Meanwhile, not only is the war not fought seriously, but now Russia is humiliated daily, and there is no reaction. So there is deep, existential fear that the country will be sold out by its elites once again, and there will be no recovery.
If you take out Zelensky and co., that will send a very strong message that see, we are going to be fighting the war seriously from now on, nobody will take a dump on the honor of the country again, let’s all mobilize and finish this thing off. Right now you have soldiers out there who have no idea what it is they are fighting for, and a substantial reason for why all these sabotage acts are so successful is that locally people are resigned to their fate and not on their guard.
Fourth, that will burn the bridges with the West for good too, because from here on the Russian elite will be a target too. That is precisely why they are afraid of taking out Zelensky, but if they finally do it, then it is an existential fight for them too, one they will have to win.
For all these reasons, it should have been done a long time ago, and the second best time to do it is now.
There should also have been a denunciation of the Belovezh accords and a derecognition of Ukraine. To hell with whether it makes e.g. Kazakhstan angry, Kazakhstan will have to be dealt with separately anyway sooner or later.
As long as these things are not done, the leading hypothesis for what is happening remains that Russia is still governed by traitors and nothing has really changed since the late 1980s.
P.S. This illustrates the situation perfectly:
May 3. There can be no negotiations with the Zelenskyy regime – Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian Parliament.
May 4. Delegations of Russia, Ukraine and Turkey are scheduled to meet on Friday in Istanbul to discuss the issue of transporting Russian ammonia through Ukrainian ports.
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It needs to be always remembered that ultimately it was Hollywood that won the cold war.
Soviet citizens didn’t have it substantially worse than the typical working class grunt in the US when you account for all the things they took for granted (guaranteed housing, guaranteed employment, early retirement and generous pensions relative to salaries, free healthcare, free education, etc.) that poor and working class people in the US didn’t have. What difference there remained even after that was due to the fact that the US was sucking in resources from much of the globe, while the USSR was not, and due to the very low starting point of the USSR in the 1920s and the destruction of WWII.
But nobody actually explained that to the Soviet people, and there was always a trickle of Western movies that painted an extremely unrealistic picture of life in the West, as most such movies have always primarily portrayed the lives of the rich and privileged (in no small part because very few of the people making them came from the working class). So the average Soviet citizen got it in their head that the West was some kind of paradise of unlimited consumption and everyone was a millionaire, which of course had nothing to do with reality.
Worse, the elite became compromised too, and even earlier than the general population. Khrushchev’s trip the US in the 1950s is the starting point.
In retrospect, if the USSR really wanted to survive, it should have walled itself off the West the way North Korea has. Which is why North Korea is still around and the USSR is not…
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It’s not out of date, that mentality still persists regardless of actual reality (how many people in Russia do you think are aware of what San Francisco of Philadelphia actually look like?), and it is only the top 10% in Russia that are really prosperous. Inequality is extreme, and all those things that I listed as guaranteed/free in the USSR are no longer either guaranteed, free or affordable. Western cultural influence is still pervasive and deeply corrosive, especially on the young.
P.S. The main reason there are tent cities in the US now is that the USSR is no longer there to indirectly prevent it.
Let’s remember how the US entered WWII — with tent cities and abject poverty for much of the population. Same in the UK. Then the main enemy became the USSR while internally there were millions of men well trained to fight. Dangerous combination (the much less numerous and less well trained WWI veterans had marched on DC only a decade earlier), so concessions had to be made, and the tent cities disappeared. Plus that coincided with the period before the US ran out of oil, so the redistribution problem was solved through uncontrolled expansion. In the 1970s US oil production peaked, outsourcing began, neoliberalism entered the scene, and around that time Soviet elites agreed to commit treason. The result was devastation for the East, massive transfer of real wealth from East to West, which created another redistribution cushion, but eventually western elites got what they were dreaming of for so many decades – a return to the conditions of the 19th century in terms of social inequality and oppression of the masses.
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Have you ever even seen what’s available in Russia, even without VPN’s ? Do you know what the youth there listen to and emulate ? Have you seen the talk and game shows ? Its all modeled after Western filth. Additionally, the main target of this mind control slop is the youth and future generations, just like in most other nations.
If you think this doesn’t affect anything you’re extremely naive.
