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Does the average Russian know anything about these news stories? How could anyone want to serve in the Russian army knowing any of this, or the reasons for Progozhin's adventure last year?

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Money or ideological reasons not related to the Kremlins agenda.

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'Events in Ukraine' reports that the cops and crooks even extort the dead:

https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/the-cemetery-mafia-economy-newsletter

'Here is the situation: Kyiv cops and the funeral mafia have been working together in a good partnership for many years. However, the situation has drastically changed after the full-scale war began and with the growing number of casualties — both civilians and military personnel.

The police and mafia realized that they can earn much more and faster from the deaths of military personnel, so they established total control and monopolized the burial sector. These criminals know that the relatives receive large sums of money for a fallen soldier, and therefore, they try to extort the maximum amount from them.

Our brothers are trying to correct this injustice and blatant violation of the law so that families don’t have to pay tens of thousands of hryvnias to the mafia for a burial, and things can be handled much better.

But now, the Kyiv police have become heavily involved, threatening veterans with physical violence and defending the mafia. They even call the military units where these guys served to discredit the veterans in the eyes of their commanders, accusing them of becoming drug addicts and alcoholics (there’s video evidence).

Can you imagine how much money the police and mafia are making on deaths and this monopoly right now? Relatives of fallen heroes shouldn't have to pay anything for these services — that’s how it should work in a decent society. Instead, we see the mother or wife of a fallen soldier having to give the mafia and police 100,000 hryvnias just to bury their loved one with honor.

How do they make money? They create artificial obstacles (problems), endless paperwork, monopolize coffins, and control the burial process, and much more. Profiting from people's grief is beyond immoral, but this situation suits the law enforcement....'

What's the equivalent situation in Russia? Surely the spooks and crooks are no more decent and humanitarian on that side of the combat line? Are they just too busy with more lucrative scams and jailing those who failed to observe the 'rule' of the new decalogue 'Thou shalt not kill - but need'st not strive officiously to keep alive'

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The true motive of the Ukrainian War is to kill off as many ethnic Russians as possible so that they can be replaced with more compliant - and less intelligent - people, people who can easily be herded and controlled. And that's the motive of the current American regime in importing Mexican cartel members, Venezuelan gangsters, and other such worthies - to kick off a war in which the native population can be decimated, to be replaced with a more compliant, less intelligent, and herd-able population. And that's the case for every other National Security State in the world, presided over by the WEF (or whatever is behind that) - the goal is a large slave population, off of which a small group of oligarchs reap the benefits. In short, it's a return to monarchy and feudalism - worldwide. It goes directly against this:

"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable, that all men are created equal and independent; that from that equal creation they derive in rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. ... but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a distinguished period, and pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to subject them to arbitrary power, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776

It is not only their right, but it is their duty, to throw off such government - to consign the Spook States to the garbage dump of history - and the Second Amendment* enumerates the right and duty of citizens to be armed to gain and preserve their liberties. Governments, wherever situated, , neither grant nor guarantee liberties, they dispense privileges which may be withdrawn at will, whereas rights are inherent and can't be given away, and governments, unless prevented, will always invade, if possible, essential and inherent rights, not guarantee them. Government as the purported guarantor of rights, is like the fox who guarantees the lives of chickens in a coop - until he gets hungry... It is the people themselves who have the duty to enforce and preserve their inherent and inalienable rights against all comers - and governments primarily.

*: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The operative language - "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms" is not dependent on the precatory language, which speaks of Militias and States, regular practice in the use of arms produces the quality of "well regulation", the ability to use arms with skill and precision and to keep them in good order.

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I might agree with you if only you changed "ethnic Russians and native population" to "White". Until you do that you'll never understand whats truly going on.

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The criminalization of dissenting opinion; a truly "globalized" phenomenon regrettably. Precisely why the "BRICS" bloc hardly represents a desirable alternative to the prevailing global capitalist order. If anything; the actions undertaken by China (medical martial law and expanded "social credit" panopticon), Russia (expanded biometric identification, coerced medical intervention, criminalization of free expression/assembly/association) and Brasil (coerced medical intervention & criminalization of dissenting opinion & "disinformation") indicate to me that a "BRICS" dominated world order may arguably be even worse than our troubled present.

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The west is still paradise in comparison, the same problems apply but they are not so brazen and open about it. I still think China is a testing hub for these 1984 control measures they will apply in the west, apart from being the worlds cheap manufacturer. Russia looked and was an alternative to the western decadency, but now they are going down the drain even faster then the west with this not to win war.

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In my native language, Kots means Puke. So i always have a little chuckle when i read articles or telegram posts from this guy. Man, i used to think the west was bad but after reading these articles i actually still might be glad living here, even with all the multicultural, globo homo-feminist crap going on the corruption and maffia practice isn't that bad here actually. I am suprised there has not been a rebellion or mass protests yet after Prighozhin. If i was a Russian my blood would be boilling reading these articles.

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Rolo, you just can't help yourself can you? "Abrahamic Values Jihad?" The one element missing from all the collections of demon-possessed people who call themselves "government" is exactly the "values" Abraham had: Worship of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. What is current is the very diametric opposite of Christianity, not an expression of Christianity. The terms you should be using are "demon-possessed" and demonic. Given that God created Satan and all the fallen angels with the full knowledge that they would hate mankind and all that is good yet with the full knowledge that the inevitable apostate need to be shown what their ambitions will produce and the demons are the example of what to expect when turning away from God, who alone actually does know best what is good for people. Before you leap onto a sacrificial altar and start another diatribe against Christianity, realize that the ceremonial, sacrificial, and dietary laws were abrogated by the advent of Jesus the Christ, Son of God, Savior, very God and very man. So, stoning queers is still in, execution of murderers and kidnappers is still in, local government or elders and family patriarchs is in, national or "civil" government is out, everyone knows and follows the same law regardless of occupation and no, drug running (who would have any use for such bullshit in a Christian world?), organ trafficking and child molestation are not "occupations." Slavery in the biblical definition and under biblical rules is in.

Regardless of your temper tantrums, God's Kingdom on earth is the future for mankind and believe it or not, we are progressing toward that.

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I'm curious about what motivated the FSB, or whatever, to intercept and destroy the humanitarian aid to Donbass. The only reason I can think of is that they thought the shipments contained arms or ammunition or other items that could be sold on the black market. So they hijacked the shipments. They stole whatever could be sold, then buried the rest since it could function as evidence. I emphasize I have absolutely no knowledge about this so my idea is pure speculation.

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The state has a monopoly on violence or it isn't a state. Those weapons and gunpowder could be used to murder schoolchild or blow up precious infrastructure or cultural treasures. And they are marked in such a way that any decent forensics team could use them to prove that atrocities committed with these munitions are traceable to Russia.

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The items tossed in the landfill were humanitarian items, not explosives or ammunition.

"Zakutny discovered humanitarian aid for Russian troops in a landfill in Amvrosievka. He filmed jackets, medicines, home-made stretcher, as well as letters for the military, rolled into the ground with a bulldozer."

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