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They tell you “this is not a proxy war with Russia.”
They they feed you this:
When you are actually funding groups to invade Russia, or to rise up inside of Russia, and then bragging about it, saying “we’re not trying to have a war with Russia” sounds sorta kinda like a lie.
The commander of the Freedom of Russia Legion says his fighters are planning another cross-border raid into Russia and are seeking to capitalise on disarray inside the Kremlin following the mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin.
“There will be a further surprise in the next month or so,” Caesar, a spokesperson for the anti-Putin paramilitary group, said in an interview with the Observer in Kyiv. “It will be our third operation. After that there will be a fourth, and fifth. We have ambitious plans. We want to free all our territory.”
Who announces attacks like this?
It only makes sense if this “war” is like a scripted TV show.
It is a fake war.
The legion, consisting of a few hundred Russian military volunteers, carried out attacks in May and early June. It occupied border villages near the Russian city of Belgorod, skirmished with the Russian army, and took 10 Russian soldiers captive. Two members of the anti-Kremlin militia were killed, Caesar said.
He described the recent incursion near the town of Shebekino as a “local raid and reconnaissance operation”. Caesar, who moved to Ukraine when Moscow’s full-scale invasion began, said he packed his Russian passport. “The border guards ran away. There was no one to show it to,” he joked.
People often say “one man’s terrorist is another man’s guerrilla,” but this is not guerrilla warfare because there is no strategic purpose beyond inflicting terror. “Guerrilla warfare” is what the Taliban did: sending small groups for quick hits on roads to blow up trucks carrying supplies. If you’re just demonstrating your ability to cross the border in order to make people afraid, your strategy is terror.
You can debate whether or not terrorism is a valid strategy of warfare, but in general, the “rules-based order” has constantly preached against terrorism. Except when they are publishing puff pieces supporting it.
A former fitness coach from Sochi and St Petersburg, Caesar’s real name is Maximillian Andronnikov. Critics have ridiculed the legion as a tinpot PR project run by Ukraine’s capable military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov. Russian state media has dubbed the 49-year-old Caesar an extremist and a Nazi. Prosecutors have charged him with crimes including treason to the motherland.
Well.
At least they give a pretty accurate version of the Russian side.
Kudos, Guardian.
He acknowledged his militia could only function with Ukrainian military help but said once on Russian territory they made their own independent decisions.
(Please note that the Ukrainian military could only operate with US military help, and therefore, the US is openly funding attacks on pre-war Russia and then bragging about it. Insofar as I can theorize as to the purpose of this strategy, it is solely intended to make Russia look weak. However, the upshot is that it makes America look like evil liars who will use terrorism for psychological warfare purposes.)
The legion’s armoured vehicles were mostly seized from Russian stocks captured in Ukraine, he said. He added that Kremlin reports of heavy losses among his guerrillas were ridiculous and exaggerated, asserting: “They dressed up dead bodies in Ukrainian uniforms and put them on TV. Ours look different. It was all a dumb lie.”
Ah, yes.
Crisis actors and staged video.
I’m old enough to remember when anyone saying that was considered an insane kook (or a malicious Russian agent) and they were banned from everything. Alex Jones got sued for a billion dollars for promoting such ideas.
There have been accusations that the legion and another paramilitary force operating in Ukraine, the Russian Volunteer Corps, have connections with far-right organisations. Caesar was previously a member of the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM), an ultranationalist group that is publicly opposed to Putin but has also fielded pro-Russian fighters in the war since 2014.
We don’t really need to go into details here.
Everyone knows that just like the CIA funds Wahabbists in the Middle East, atheists in Burma, and weird pseudo-Christian cults in China, they fund neo-Nazis in the Slavic world.
They are good at working with whatever they have.
Speaking to the Observer, Caesar called himself a “constitutional monarchist”. He said he admired Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, and stressed that the legion’s fighters included people with left- and right-wing views, as well as disenchanted supporters of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader poisoned by the FSB spy agency and now in jail.
It’s so goofy to refer to “the FSB poisoning Navalny” as if it’s a fact. It’s just wild, how far into editorialization the supposed news media has gone. This was never proved, and it made zero sense, and… I can’t go into that whole story right now. You can check the archives. But yeah, it was a hoax, and Germany admits there is no proof the FSB did it.
It’s also funny that they just don’t mention the fact that Navalny is himself (or was, that’s not clear) a neo-Nazi.
Remember that the media was at one point claiming that the Moslem Brotherhood was “pro-democracy.”
They will just say anything.
“We are a prototype of a future Russian society. There are different perspectives,” Caesar said. He was outraged by the Kremlin’s murderous bombing of civilians. The legion was “fighting and dying” for Ukraine’s future as well as Russia’s, he said.
“It’s a common struggle, a common tragedy,” he noted.
Caesar said Prigozhin’s uprising had weakened Putin. He said the Wagner mercenary leader had originally intended to capture and remove Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, and commander in chief, Valery Gerasimov, last month, when he began an armed uprising.
No one has explained why. They just keep saying that.
I can explain why: in theory, it makes it more likely that some ethnic militia would attempt a coup. That’s why a lot of people feel Putin should have made sure Prigozhin was dead. That is my instinct as well, but I’ve grown to trust Putin’s instinct.
The glowing article celebrating the neo-Nazi terrorist goes on to quote him spouting various State Department talking points, including really goofy stuff like “Putin is refusing to pay the military.”
The level of disinformation in the media is so far beyond the pale it is impossible for a normal person to wrap their head around it. But we are reaching a boy wolf-crier type scenario. The US media saying in June that the Ukraine was days away from conquering Crimea, while German and American tanks were getting blown up in open fields, was really a bridge too far. Everyone has to know they’re being lied to, save for of course white women, who do not judge information based on the factual veracity, but rather on how it makes them feel.
To white women, Putin is the same thing as Donald Trump: a stand-in for their fathers.
