Posted on 06/08/2022 3:03:28 AM PDT by FarCenter
Nicolai Patrushev is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest advisers and wields considerable influence on government policy as the head of the powerful Security Council of Russia.
The council is where Russia’s security policy is formulated, and it is the center where intelligence from Russian sources and networks from abroad are received. Patrushev is the one who interprets that intelligence.
Patrushev often gives interviews to state-owned media about his conspiratorial views of the West and what the Kremlin describes as Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.
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It is those close to Putin, such as Patrushev, who continue to repeat the disinformation that Ukraine is full of Nazis and that Russia needs to protect itself from the nefarious designs of the West.
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During the interview, Patrushev talks about a made-up “criminal community who fled Ukraine” and “who are now engaged in the widespread business of the sale of orphans taken out of Ukraine.”
Meanwhile, the West, Patrushev asserts, “has already revived the shadow market for the purchase of human organs from the socially vulnerable segments of the Ukrainian population for clandestine transplant operations for European patients.”
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In Patrushev’s worldview, the West seeks to reduce the “world’s population in various ways.” One of which is the creation of “an empire of lies, involving the humiliation and destruction of Russia and other objectionable states.”
(Excerpt) Read more at asiatimes.com ...
Paranoia...
I must agree with him however that I do find Russia objectionable.
Alexandr Dugin is who Putin quotes.
It is those close to Putin, such as Patrushev, who continue to repeat the disinformation that Ukraine is full of Nazis and that Russia needs to protect itself from the nefarious designs of the West.
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The problem with this view is that today’s “West” is no longer the West of the cold war era. It has fallen under the LGBT, marxist, and destructive environmental ideologies adhered-to by woke rulers like Biden, Trudeau, and Macron. Sure, Putin has his delusions, but Biden’s are worse.
Marx? Trotsky? Stalin? Engels? Who can it be?
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