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To: rintintin

[Russia is not our enemy.]


It certainly acts like our enemy, by spreading disinformation against us. Russian-sponsored websites like Veterans Today are promoting the theory that the virus is an American weapon designed to exterminate Orientals:

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article177744986.html
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/03/02/postulating-covid-19-a-weapon-against-china/

Frankly a lot of Veterans Today is recycled Soviet and Tsarist propaganda. As Richard Pipes, the old Kremlinologist once said, the problem with the Soviet Union wasn’t Communism, but the fact that it was Imperial Russia with a Red veneer. Without Imperial Russia’s world-conquering ethos, no one would care, as long as Russians kept their butchery within their borders. Unfortunately, the Russians had to attempt to expand their borders. That’s ultimately what Russia’s issues with its neighbors have been all about - its relentless lust for new lands to annex.

BTW, I’ve been following Veterans Today since for almost 20 years, pretty much since the website started up. I posted the McClatchy thing just to provide a 3rd Party assessment. The Oxford academics quoted by McClatchy filled in some of the blanks on where VT got their pre-written essays, many of which had this really foreign-sounding perspective and verbiage.


18 posted on 03/21/2020 9:13:45 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

“It certainly acts like our enemy, by spreading disinformation against us”

Yes, that’s what Hillary, Schiff and the Democrats say. Russiagate!


19 posted on 03/21/2020 9:15:10 PM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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