Russia launches invasion of Ukraine - MASTER THREAD

[GrandpaBernard]

Nasty torture performed, filmed and published by Russian FSB. Gross.

good propaganda to discourage terrorists for hire

electrocuted genitals scares all

[Batko10]

This guy's video is spot on and explains a lot if people would open their ears.

[GrandpaBernard]

[GrandpaBernard]

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This guy's video is spot on and explains a lot if people would open their ears.

Central Asians or Arabs?

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[Prince Madison]

This guy's video is spot on and explains a lot if people would open their ears.

america always has to have 'enemy' to fight... usually its russia but it was a china for a bit... it acts as a distraction for the population and they demonise these countries to make themselves look better and the population think they are living in 'the good country', same as orwell wrote in 1984... i bet the chinese and russians consider themselves on the side of good too

[GrandpaBernard]

BattlingNelson maybe it was isis. The Russian Empire is active in Syria and made enemies out of isis

for what it’s worth the terrorists in Moscow don’t look like Arabs
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[GrandpaBernard]

america always has to have 'enemy' to fight... usually its russia but it was a china for a bit... it acts as a distraction for the population and they demonise these countries to make themselves look better and the population think they are living in 'the good country', same as orwell wrote in 1984... i bet the chinese and russians consider themselves on the side of good too

The terrorists have Central Asian names rather than Arabic names

[GrandpaBernard]

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[GrandpaBernard]

two Russians knocked out a terrorist and didn’t get fired at in the process

[Citizen Koba]

This guy's video is spot on and explains a lot if people would open their ears.

Watched that one myself and his ideas are actually very much along the same lines as various themes I've introduced to this thread over the course of the last two years. The goal of the US is to maintain global dominance in perpetuity in both the military and economic spheres and it's stated straight out over various iterations of the US National Security Strategy that they intend to prevent any nation or alliance ever being able to rival or threaten them. In this context Russia will always be a problem. Militarily it's size and distance from the world's oceans (where the US reigns supreme) make it prohibitive to assail conventionally, and it's nukes obviously make it an unacceptable threat to US freedom of action.

just as importantly though it's vast material resources create the potential for the growth of a Eurasian power block either with Europe or China which could if unchecked rival or exceed the economic and political power of the US and this too was seen as unacceptable by the Yank elites. In particular I think the growing cooperation between Germany and Russia in the noughties was viewed with great alarm in Washington.

So if you were a decision maker in the US policy elite and wished to make sure you prevented Europe from becoming too independent - even maybe a genuine economic rival - and particularly from cosying up to Russia, and you simultaneously wanted to isolate and weaken Russia, just how would you go about it?