#WarInUkraine #Ukraine #Russia
Via @Free_Press
"#Putin said that modern #Russian weapons are far more superior than #NATO weapons. He held his chair tight while saying that."
s/: *Vlad, I"ve got a song for you: *
*Reality is a bitch, and then she bites you!*
#GoWest /s
@HistoPol Ukraine is just now getting long range equipment.
Pooty is going to go through some self realization very soon. SLAVA UKRAINE
Yes 
I prefer to call him #Putler *, though.
There are quite some parallels.
The most important one is hopefully imminent:
It did not end well for Adolf...as it hardly ever does for dictators who've outlived their usefulness. 
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putler
The really intelligent ones, like the #Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, (#Sulla) step down in time:
@HistoPol @palin I approve of the music AND the new to me name Putler. How appropriate.
An aside:
Did you see the headline in today's news about Can. Cons. demanding the Feds send rockets to Ukraine, yet in December they voted against sending any aid.
I feel for Zelensky having to cope with crazy Conservatives in North America!
#USpol #Russia #MilitaryStrategy #ColdWarII
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No, I haven't seen that.
IDK about #CAN, but the #DarkMoney trails to #US politicians and the #NRA are there. I think there is even a book by an investigative journalist.
TBH, if I were #Putler, I'd have done the same! Subverting the enemy is smart. #SunTzu spelled it out millennia ago; all strategies have been implemented for decades; #HybridWarfare is ON:
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SUN TZU'S PRINCIPLE OF SUBVERSION:
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https://sixthcolumn.typepad.com/duckwalls/2009/04/sun-tzus-steps-of-subversion.html
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#MilitaryStrategy #SunTzu #HybridWarfare #ColdWarII
...
1. COVER WITH RIDICULE ALL OF THE VALID TRADITIONS IN YOUR OPPONENT'S
COUNTRY.
2. IMPLICATE THEIR LEADERS IN CRIMINAL AFFAIRS AND TURN THEM OVER TO THE SCORN OFTHEIR POPULACE AT THE RIGHT TIME;
3. DISRUPT THE WORK OF THEIR GOVERNMENT BY EVERY MEANS;
4. DO NOT SHUN THE AID OF THE LOWEST AND MOST DESPICABLE INDIVIDUALS OF YOUR ENEMY'S COUNTRY;
5. SPREAD DISUNITY AND DiSPUTE AMONG THE CITIZENS;
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...
6. TURN THE YOUNG AGAINST THE OLD;
7. BE GENEROUS WITH PROMISES AND REWARDS TO COLLABORATORS."
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Source:
https://sixthcolumn.typepad.com/duckwalls/2009/04/sun-tzus-steps-of-subversion.html
I found one of my oldie but goodie posts on #Kremlin #DarkMoneyFlows to and in the #US again:
And on to the #Billionaire takeover of #America:
"#DarkMoney is an essential book for anyone who cares about the future of American #democracy."
"NATIONAL BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR"
...And then, there is one of the most discussed #DarkMoneyFlows that might still cost us our current civilization, that from #BigOil:
@Snowshadow
No problem, take your time.
OFC, I still have one ace up my sleeve, 
portraying the root of all evil by the corporate takeover of America.
It is a fascinating story of hugely successful long-range planing by a loose group with shared interests. I hope my thread is still there.
@HistoPol Cool. I hope you find it. thanks.
@Snowshadow
See above.
Let me know when you're through. As a goodie, I have a pod where this subject is being discussed with a former high-ranking public officer.
Ok, have to call it a day. CU.
@HistoPol lol..see my past last reply.
ok. Sleep well. Get some rest.
@HistoPol wow. that sounds wonderful. I will let you know when I have finished reading through everything.
Aside:
Do you sleep?
@Snowshadow
Not yet.
Haven't mastered sleep-typing yet.
But it is definitely on my shortlist.
@HistoPol 
Go now. Get some rest.
So, here you go. The root of all evil later-day #SupremeCourt #Justice, #LewisPowell's CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM
Attack on American Free Enterprise System" written in 1971:
@HistoPol 
Thank you once again.
#USpol #Economics
#MAGAnomics #MustReads
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As I was discussing the "root of all evil" in the #US present-day #Republican political thinking with
@Jeramee a while back, I had my misgivings about dating the Republican counterattack against #BigGovernment to the 1971 #LewisPowell "CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM Attack on American Free Enterprise System").
IMO, it was not. It started years earlier, at the latest in 1965,...
#USpol #Economics
#MAGAnomics #MustReads
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...when right-wing economist, #Republican economics strategist, and later-day #NobelLaureate #JamesBuchanan founded what would later be known as the #VirginiaSchool.
#Duke historian #NancyMacLean, has written a fascinating, apparently well-researched book, #DemocracyInChains 2), about #Buchanan and his little publicized but effective machinations on #US international relations and #economic...
#USpol #Economics
#MAGAnomics #MustReads
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...policy.
"She argues that unlike even the most property-friendly founders #AlexanderHamilton and #JamesMadison, #Buchanan wanted a private governing elite of corporate power that was wholly released from public accountability.
Suppressing voting, changing legislative processes so that a normal majority could no longer prevail, ...
#USpol #Economics
#MAGAnomics #MustReads
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...sowing public distrust of government institutions— all these were tactics toward the goal. But the Holy Grail was the #Constitution:
alter it and you could increase and secure the power of the wealthy in a way that no politician could ever challenge."
//
@Snowshadow:
"Project 2025 was not authored by some imaginative person or persons it is a guide to the end result of James Buchanan's economic theory and policy."
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Thanks for continuing to think about this. I'm tagging now to come back & read when I have some free moments.
Fwiw, I find that I always come away learning something from our conversations.
@Jeramee
Me, too. Me, too.
I did not like what I learned, though.
I can't wrap my mind around the thought that not only a centralized #ChineseCommunistParty #CCP managed a decades-long master plan, but also the, let's call them #Corporatists, on an international level. 
#USpol #GeoPol #DEpol #PoliticalSciences
#Longtermism
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As the two of you can see, I'm "at it" again.
I think that the two of you would enjoy the new blog article by Dr. Michael Blume, political and religious scientist university lecturer and author. It is in German, but I've summarized the recommendations in a thread:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113112061874455462
..so you could use the in-built translation function (or use the MS Word translation function for the complete article.
...
Enjoy. I think you'll see a lot of parallels b/w Germany and America...
Complete article:
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...well, and then there is also the investigation by the #House's #FinancialServicesCommittee:
My pleasure
@HistoPol @palin Thank you for this. It confirms what I have been thinking that if allowed, it could lead to too many problems. As much as I want Trump to be investigated and face consequences for his actions allowing this would unleash the potential for utter chaos. (and there is enough of that going on at present). It could be weaponized.
@HistoPol @palin "dark money and subvert the enemy" Yes. Exactly my thoughts.
Conservatives are distracting, distorting, and creating chaos. I think Putler is behind it. And The Heritage Foundation and IDU (S. Harper) are furthering the chaos.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/crv7-rockets-ukraine-canada-1.7103798?cmp=rss
They seem to be following every one of the seven steps of Sun Tzu
And China has been meddling in Canada.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10266471/ottawa-monitored-domestic-extremists-as-possible-threat-to-2021-election-docs/