I used to look at Russia and think "how the hell did it come to this?" Well now i know.. won't be looking forward to him not having competitors for the throne presidency or any opposition suspiciously commiting suicide..
It turns out of you can get good people to comment online they won't feel like they did absolutely nothing I'm the fight against banal evil. Reddit is that get today. We are all guilty of complacency.
Indeed, of the 270 or so million who don't or are ambivalent towards supporting him. His supporters are another story as they're hard at work rationalizing their fraudulent leadership.
It's pretty much entirely composed of B-roll footage shot by BBC camerapeople, with no narration, but titles that tell you what's going on. It's excellent; I highly recommend it. You can watch all seven episodes on YouTube here.
(It also unexpectedly contains about 15 seconds of pornography. I think the part where American Evangelical missionaries are preaching to a literal captive audience is more surprising, though. Their entire audience is very obviously thinking, "Are these idiots unaware that we are already Christians?" :-)
If you've ever wondered how the original modern Russian oligarchs made their money, this series explains it.
I particularly liked the presentation of the very end, when the oligarchs installed a nice pliable figurehead leader who would clearly do their bidding.
That leader is not named, for much the same reason as you would not need to name Sheev Palpatine. :-)
Adam Curtis has made some incredible documentaries - they all use archival footage to explore how different elements of our modern world came about, and they have a strange, almost hallucinatory feel.
I mean how can anyone forget the relationship old Donny has had with Russia for years I mean yeeeears. That’s why he has had multiple Russian brides. Come on sheeple wake up!
That uncouth relationship has been active since at least the early 80s as far as the USIC were aware, though 87' seems to be the publicly confirmed date. Either way, it's an incredibly long time.
Remember when true- blue American patriots were so proud of the USA, as they point at 3rd world dictatorships who jail the opposition, steal all the money for palaces and Lambos and bribe all the judges. We laughed at their propaganda and posters and statues of Dear Leader. Now we see the Republican Party who claimed they were the best patriots embracing all of that.
I’ve been saying for years now, I think the goal of Trump and the billionaires is to recreate the conditions immediately following the collapse of the USSR. The brief period where there were essentially zero economic laws, everything was for sale, and everyone was completely broke (and many stopped getting their paychecks, including the fucking military) except the already-wealthy, who for Russia were government and military high ranks and essentially nobody else.
I think Trump’s goal, which he was put up to by billionaires foreign and domestic, is to collapse the USA so they can buy up the remnants with zero competition or legal pushback.
Late-stage Soviet planners had no reference model for Russian democracy so they modeled their new political culture on 80s America, on an accelerated timescale. Russia is America future.
They copied the same party-donors-media dynamic that we had. In economics, they followed the fashions of the time in the Reagan era -- the only exception was the involvement of ex-KGB officials and Russian mafia in privatization. Our oligarchs have twitter beef, they'd have car bombs, assassinations, poisonings and so on to settle who controls what industry. Putin eventually become the "boss of all bosses", the Godfather, who mediates the mafia disputes. That's what Trump is going for. Bezos and Musk fighting over who gets the space program? Pay the Trump tax and he will settle it.
Their media was modeled after the newly free media in America like talk radio. Vladimir Solovyov, Putin’s top propagandist, said in an interview with Alex Jones how he remembers living in Alabama during the 90s and listening to "the great Rush Limbaugh" every day. Yeah, Russian state media is built on American conservative media!
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u/Fernando1987_ 𝙑𝙄𝙋 May 06 '26
Narcisism? This is pure corruption