you confuse Russia with some middle-east/asia countries
those hollywood stories about mercs acting as in cia/jason-bourne movie in reality won't fly in Russia
those hollywood stories about mercs acting as in cia/jason-bourne movie in reality won't fly in Russia
Black OPs are not necessary, and would likely be too messy, what is more effective is flooding weapons into a border nation (like Ukraine) currently at conflict with Russia and then tapping into the local dissenting populace (aptly justified) and allowing them to infiltrate a porous border.
While I'm not stupid enough to think that the CIA aren't above such things, the truth is just like with Cuba/Castro they cannot resort to such tactics anymore: land invasions end up like Afghanistan and Iraq, Stuxnet leads to further instability for almost no gain (blame Israel/Mossad) and this seems more like what they did in the Iran-contra situation mixed in with operation fast and furious. This allows for nearly absolute plausible deniability, while also letting Russia know it's not beyond the West's touch.
The Pentagon/DoD supplying the weapons is just the right amount of overt message that gets the pint across.
Geopolitics and War are absolutely disgusting, but at least their is a logic behind it instead of Red scare BS they were once so headlong to follow; what I ultimately fear is the path these psychopaths are likely to lead us as a Species down if this doesn't end soon.
Hollywood fantasies not withstanding, partisans have been operational in Russia and Belarus since at least the war began. In fact the counter offensive heavily relies on the use of Partisan [0] for sabotage, intel, and counter intelligence and likely will remain until the War ends, and possibly longer.
I think this will end in the end o the greater Russian Federation, last weekend it got close to showing what it will take: there too many warring factions with oligarchs, personal interest and access to private paramilitaries/mercenaries (Wagner being the most obvious) will not allow their standing as the effective ruling class be let go because they no longer support Putin and will back anyone who keeps them in their lofty positions--the collapse of the Soviet Union proved that many times over.
In short, a corrupt Mafia petrol-state has many enemies in and out of it's borders; to think their aren't people ready and willing to kill for vengeance is the real sense of fiction here. Hell, throughout the war their have been many examples of these 'Bourne' types, before the rounding up of fighting age men during the mobilization last year that led to millions of men fleeing Russia, recruitment centers were set ablaze in defiance to the war.
What gets me is if everyone knows this is the inevitable outcome, wouldn't the most logical thing to do is to back Nadya from Pussy riot or Alexi's forced escape and subsequent political aspirations or campaign. (I don't personally care who governs what will likely be a smaller Russia so long as they're contained, and their nuclear weapons are static).
ps no offence and I don't expect you to change your opinion or how you view the world
>> Just by typing this out it reveals ignorance regarding this topic. The people who actually know how it's settled in Moscow and D.C. don't write replies on HN.
Funny, I was is in Ukraine in the Fall of '21 and I felt and knew Russia was going to invade by November, which was when Belarus and Poland were in a proxy war and I had to return into the EU during that debacle and saw how Hungary was locking it's borders.
By contrast no one was mentioning the possibility of Russia invading at that time, despite having put 75k troops in the Spring on the Ukrainian border in Belarus being a major contributor, with any real seriousness.
I'm well aware of what I don't know on these matters, but unlike most of you I have been involved in this matter since the Maidan Revolution. The creation of Uniterd24 was the manifestation of the technology WE in the Bitcoin community built, while you FAANG lackeys patted yourself on the back in creating a digital panopticon.
Let me remind you: we are not the same thing, so I'm not offended. I'm just aghast of how little you people grasp of the World and what is possible with allocating human capital to more noble causes. But since it isn't lucrative or even looked down as it is here (see my post history for examples of this laughable arrogance), if this weren't the case then maybe your opinion would have some value to me.
Just to be clear: I'm not a shot-caller, nor do I consider myself one as I'm an anarchist for a reason and detest the nature of politics/geopolitics to my very core; however, it's clear that COVID and this war has shown the horrendous nature of sleeping with despots these last 3 decades has and is mired with long term consequences for short term (but lucrative gains) for corporations and politicians.
Until you know what it feels like to see Fukushima and then seeing these moronic mobiks digging up trenches in Chernobyl and living in dread as they start shelling Zaporizhzhia while living on mainland Europe I will just never see any value in your opinions either.
Are you talking about https://u24.gov.ua/ ? Not a trace of crypto... (obviously since all crypto is a scam.)