Posted on 04/08/2022 12:55:10 PM PDT by FreedomPoster
My background is that I have served in military intelligence for most of my career. I am an officer and an intelligence colonel who retired last fall. I started here in January at the university as a teacher. I teach intelligence. As I have spent most of my career in intelligence, Russia and the Soviet Union have always been my point of interest.
As a young lieutenant, I was sent to what was then Leningrad to study the Russian language. Even then I started to wonder why the Russians were doing things differently than we do? Why do they see the world differently than we see it? Since then, I have worked with the Russians and with the Soviets until my retirement. I’ve been to the Soviet Union and to Russia a lot during my career and have been in a lot of contact with them.
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I did as you suggested.
Ping.
“Russians”
Here we go. That disgusting word again. Do we really need to use it ? Do you leave your dog’s crap on the floor too ?
Russians have never been a free people. Their entire history has oppressed the commoner. Once the red revolution hit every leader and bureaucrat got where they were through brutality and corruption. That’s how their mind works. You get what you can by any means necessary. We Americans (well we use to before our own marxist revolution thanks to the progressive democrats) got money and power through hard work, luck, and innovation. (Unless you’re a corrupt politician like Clinton or Biden.) Russians, well, just look how Putin got his money and power. Killing, stealing, and intimidation.
The Germans who fought and died on the Eastern front probably thought otherwise. In any case, this thread does not appear to be for you.
For everyone else, here is where I stand. This repeats what I’ve been saying since early on:
Ukraine officials and media are lying to us.
Russian officials and media are lying to us.
USA officials and media are damn sure lying to us.
EU officials and media are lying to us.
UK officials and media are lying to us.
Etc.
In war, the first casualty is the truth.
I am completely uninterested in US involvement until this Administration comes clean on all the Hunter and James Biden, and Clinton, bribes from Ukraine. Which isn’t going to happen.
It is a good article. One bit f you read to the end the author notes two possible successors to Putin:
* Aleksey Dyumin
* Yevgeny Zinichev
Since this was written Zinichev accidentally fell off a cliff during military exercises.
A sign of what happens if anyone rises high enough to be a possible rival to Putin?
Excellent points. Good job.
Like Stalin did to Sergei Kirov, when Kirov became "too popular".
“ Since this was written Zinichev accidentally fell off a cliff during military exercises”
At least they didn’t arrest him for a fake insurrection 🤪
Thank you. Great insight as to how they see themselves.
“Russians have never been a free people. Their entire history has oppressed the commoner.”
So very, very true. And so very, very sad.
Good post.
Russia.
‘In today’s “I support the current thing” social-media hot-take factory, attempting to understand one’s adversaries is equated to sympathizing with them.’
Plenty of that here.
This article is good, but it is one of those that argues that a countries future is dictated by its past. There is truth to that, but also exceptions.
Poland had no real history of democracy, nor did any of the Baltic or Balkan states, but democracy has done well in those areas post-communism. Why did not in Russia?
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