Exh Russsrudw

My thoughts on the USSR can be found here

My thoughts on modern Russia can be found here

My thoughts on the Russia-Ukraine conflict can be found here

I am a fan of Boris and Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle

I am a fan of Ludwig Von Siegfried from the 1960s show Get Smart 

I would really and strongly prefer (maybe even more than Caleb Mauphin does but don’t hold me to that) for Russia to legalize same sex marriage using Taiwan’s same sex marriage system sooner rather than later. 

My other views on Russia’s LGBTQ situation is similar to the views on that of Caleb Mauphin and Max Blumenthal (like the guy mentioned here and here is trying to do in Russia), along with what I wrote here here . In that link I touch on how to help protect LGBTQ people and spread their rights in non pro LGBTQ countries in general.

I un ironically wouldn’t mind seeing Russia become woke but ideally only after the woke buzz in the west settles down first (via George Santos type bill to cut aide to Russia incrementally to push them to be more woke)

I support Russia’s Anti Fascism if they are serious about stamping out Fascism. I already support Stalinist type of Anti Fascism

The Steele Dosier was false  .  There was no collusion with Donald Trump and Russia. I agree with these articles on this, this, this, this/this (if sub is deleted then search its archives for term 'russiagate'), this transcript from the Majority report for more

See this for more, this for more , this for more etc

The May 2023 Durham report finally proves that the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory is a LIE and a MYTH. Even Jake Tapper sort of agrees

NYT: Durham Report Finds Fault With FBI Over Trump-Russia 

From Glenn Greenwald:

"Watching Trump/Russia conspiracy dead-enders pretend that anonymous people claimed Barr withheld incriminating evidence about the conspiracy - when the WashPost explicitly says their complaints are about *obstruction* - is sad, but it's the behavior that drove the last 3 years."

"You don't say.

Russiagate was - and is - one of the most deranged and unhinged conspiracy theories in modern times. It wasn't spread by QAnon or 4Chan users but the vast majority of media corporations, "scholars," think tank frauds, and NYT/NBC's "disinformation units":

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craig newmark

@craignewmark

Jan 9

The Cybersecurity 202: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters

Via @timstarks @aaronjschaffer

https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/09/russian-trolls-twitter-had-little-influence-2016-voters/"

That the internet could be first weaponized for US foreign policy, then against the US population, began with Obama. But Russiagate and the shock of the 2016 election was the accelerant: elites concluded Americans can't be trusted to use the internet without information control.

However Adam Schiff on CNN in late January 2023 actually made a better case for and articulation on if, how and why there was Russia collusion between DJT and Russia than Schiff has ever done before. But I don't need the Democrats to tell me something I already know

At the end of the day Adam Schiff is a liar or just a deluded fool either way he owes us an apology for his false Russia collusion smears.  Matt Taibbi, Jimmy Dore, Max Blumenthal, Glenn Greenwald all showed how the Russia collusion thing was a hoax anyway.

I react to 1 example of Russophobic 'russian bot' conspiracy theories in this post

Hillary Clinton falsely smeared Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein etc of being Russian agents yet Russia had tried to at least work with Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election in some capacity. Also see this deleted thread from Walkaway 

Nearly everything the Democrats /Liberal 2.0ers don['t agree with they label as 'Russian bots', 'pro Russian' etc. These people see Russian boogeymen under their bed, in their closet. They have some weird hang up about Russia. The big bad Russia. It's like they shut down every debate with 'you are a Russian spy' 'you are getting paid by Russia' yada yada 

It is like hearing neo nazi antisemites talk about Jews all the time and blaming Jews for every bad thing.   If Russia does a lot of the stuff they blame them for (stopping a half assed medicare for all being passed, complaining about the East Palestine Ohio residents who were poisoned being ignored by the government, supporting Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard etc, being anti Hillary Clinton, opposing the US military industry complex's racist and islamaphobic oil grabbing imperialism warmongering having Edward Snowden expose the illegal and evil spying by the US government etc) then maybe the Russians are base and cool after all.