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2025-02-07 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

SVR dedicates a video to Americans for whom freedom is not an empty phrase

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Posted by badanov 2025-02-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ] Top

#1 Does the tone of this article and video signal some kind of rapprochement between the USA and Russia? Smells like it, a whiff if nothing else. Also, I mistook the article about the SVR as one about SRV.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-02-07 05:33|| 2025-02-07 05:33|| Front Page Top

#2 See Mike, you were hoping for 'Texas Flood'.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-02-07 09:01|| 2025-02-07 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 “Dammit, the KGB plot almost succeeded, if it weren’t for those dumb DOGE kids? Quick, Yuri, send out a message congratulating America for winning against the people wittingly and unwittingly doing out bidding.”

That’s the piece we must not forget: the totalitarian bureaucratic deep state, the March Through The Institutions, was literally a Communist plot that they started working in the 1930s, a century ago. So even if former KGB officer Vladimir Putin had turned away from that effort, it was petty clear from posts we watched here that someone over there is still trying to move it along.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-07 13:27|| 2025-02-07 13:27|| Front Page Top

#4 At the ultimate strategic level, consider the Kissinger 70's world view of a three-superpower world, and the tactic of changing the triangulation nexus. While the world if far more complex and there are fractures in the old coalitions, the core component still has significant validity. Only now it is the Russians who are the very junior partner, but are very vulnerable to persuasion to limp over to a more Western relationship, with emphasis on shared culture, religion, history, and ethnicity. Not alliance, but peaceful, commercial, co-existence with the West. The Sino-Soviet connection was always flawed and unnatural, driven by necessity, not preference, and now, it is infuriatingly insolent for Russians I suspect. This video may be the opening, soft gambit, and I think it will see it as such.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-02-07 13:44|| 2025-02-07 13:44|| Front Page Top

#5 That’s the piece we must not forget: the totalitarian bureaucratic deep state, the March Through The Institutions, was literally a Communist plot that they started working in the 1930s, a century ago.

Yes, tw. Joe Stalin gave communists a bad name so now they call themselves Democrats. Maybe you can lump RINOs and/or globalists in there too. Ironic, though, that they're the ones who want war with Russia.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-02-07 13:54|| 2025-02-07 13:54|| Front Page Top

#6 There is that, my dear. But you are a more complex thinker than I.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-07 22:06|| 2025-02-07 22:06|| Front Page Top

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