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30+ years later and they're still blaming the soviets for everything bad. It's the same they're doing with China.
Stubbed my toe? Stalin's fault.
Lost my keys? It was Xi.
Dog bit me? It was a DPRK plot.
My wife left me? Khrushchev convinced her through brainwashing to do it.
It's all deeply unserious.
Video game has black character? Mao has overthrown the government.
Yeah I'm sure Putin is calling up all the retiree-age ex-soviet gladio fighters to instigate the global proletarian revolution
There was a daily mail article about Trump being a KGB asset recruited during the Cold War. It was all over r/politics and everyone was freaking out lol
“We are experiencing the early stages of a systematic activation of Russian sleeper cells worldwide,” Joseph Fitsanakis, professor of Intelligence and National Security Studies at Coastal Carolina University, told Al Jazeera.
They’re just recycling War on Terror buzzwords now.
Also, according to the Coastal Carolina website:
He also serves as regional vice president for the South Carolina chapter of the InfraGard Members Alliance, a Federal Bureau of Investigation initiative for the protection of the United States’ critical infrastructure.
I remember when Al Qaeda cells were going to be activated in the US and you'd have to worry about getting bombed in the supermarket in your small town
Reality is you get to worry about a mass shooting happening instead
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Oh you’re going to activate YOUR sleeper cells? (They aren’t) Well I’m going to activate MY sleeper cells (they’ve always acted in the open)
Was literally going like this when I read the 'intelligence expert' quotes.
You know, I don't actually doubt that this is true on some level, given that the entire of nato is working against them it entirely makes sense that russia would be performing widespread attempts at fucking with nato.
With that said.
The author of that report told Al Jazeera that Russia has a scattershot of aims, including causing trouble just to see what will happen.
“Russia has this view of security where anything they do to damage us is relatively speaking good for them because it makes them stronger,” said Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House. “That in itself is an incentive to do things which are disruptive.”
I know this has long been a belief of liberals and to a degree I do think they're correct in the sense that Russia kinda plays both sides of everything. You can see it between RT and Redfish and other media russia is putting out intended to target specific interest groups that often hold ideologically opposite views.
I do hope that Russia figures out that certain things it should not support because it will lead to fascists winning which will NOT strengthen Russia as they'll be dangerous, less predictable and do what fascists have done throughout history. Unfortunately I don't think they're thinking far enough ahead to realise that. They're following the american formula of just boosting whatever might cause instability in their opponents... That formula consistently caused blowback for america and it will also cause blowback for Russia eventually.
“Russia has this view of security where anything they do to damage us is relatively speaking good for them because it makes them stronger,” said Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House. “That in itself is an incentive to do things which are disruptive.”
I think this is clearly true, but it's also true of the US and NATO. Like, the US goal in funding and prolonging the war in Ukraine is
sometimes explicitly, in the beginning
simply to damage Russia. It's not as if there's any realistic strategic objective for Ukraine that this US funding will allow them to achieve. It's just that drawing out the war damages Russia.
But also, never trust anyone named Keir.
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