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@cindyweinstein

All #Nazis are antisemitic, always, even up to #Israel.
#Antisemitism is significantly fueled by #KGB since decades now.
With this tool #Putin is atomizing Western countries, and it works fine, from Brexit to #Krasnov-#Trump coup.

In History, #Russia had always been antisemitic, from its pogroms to the Wagner militia.
The famous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" fake has been forged by Russians under tsar Nikolai II, before the 1917 revolution.

-> What happens now is not new.

#Trump achieved what the #USSR #KGB and #Russia #FSB never could - silencing #VoiceOfAmerica.

Neither Soviet agents nor global adversaries accomplished in 83 years what Trump did in one stroke, cutting a lifeline to 360 million listeners worldwide.

It's a self-inflicted wound, dismantling #America's most potent #SoftPower tool, celebrated by #Putin and autocrats, undermining decades of global influence.

moscowmigrant.com/posts/why-do

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@eunews

Europe must take up the torch of the free world?
It is far (right) too late, pal: #Putin's #KGB neo-Nazi agents are yet swarming like cockroaches in all countries.

The History tells since decades to whom pays a minimum of attention to it that there cannot be any free place managed by neo-Nazis or the KGB (that's the same thing).

Sorry for the disenchantment, I didn't make this crazy world.

John Bolton on how Putin plays Trump

Instead of approaching war in #Ukraine from geopolitical or moral perspective, #Trump is framing his policy on #Russia through lens of his personal relationship with #Putin, says former US National Security Advisor Bolton

“Trump thinks Putin is his friend. He trusts Putin,” Bolton said

Putin thinks Trump is an easy mark. As former #KGB agent, Putin knows exactly how to manipulate him

kyivindependent.com/putin-thin

The Kyiv Independent · ‘Putin thinks Trump is an easy mark,’ John Bolton says in interviewBy Kate Tsurkan
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@davetroy

Yet #Putin's plan is crystal clear since Jan. 20th, 2025: the KGB team which occupy the White House is requested to sow total chaos in as much Western countries as possible, USA first, until they can either be annexed, or atomized without being able to resist.

Illustration:

#Krasnov, July 1987, Moscow, URSS. Trump-Krasnov (his codename in KGB files) is 41.
He went to Moscow at the invitation of the USSR ambassador to the United States, Mr. Dubinin.
On his return from Moscow he suddenly receives loans from 16 banks and buys the Plaza Hotel - without negotiation - for 407.5 million dollars - a record price for a hotel ...

#Trump’s sinister affinity for Putin, has long been subject of intense speculation

Former #KGB officers say #Trump was recruited & cultivated as an asset in the years prior to his 2016 US election victory

2 retired #Russian #spies weighed alleging the then 40-year-old #Trump, codename #Krasnov, was compromised in an operation & danced to #Putin’s tune ever since

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Being Putin’s stooge won’t win Trump a peace prize. The Order of Lenin, though, is in the bagBy Simon Tisdall

Hmmmm... Why am I having #DejaVu?

From 2022: "Vladimir #Putin has mentioned 'gender freedoms' more than once to justify #Russia’s war against #Ukraine and simultaneously crack down on its own citizens.

"Most directly, he alleged that Russian citizens who seek '#GenderFreedoms' (alongside foie gras and oysters) are part of the anti-Russian 'fifth column.'

"Gender and sexuality freedoms — or rights, as they are more typically called — are about #BodilyAutonomy, #diversity and #inclusivity. #Feminist and #LGBTQ+ activists assert that every human being deserves respect, recognition and equal rights regardless of their gender or sexuality.

"What’s the connection between Putin’s animosity toward Ukraine and toward #gender and #sexuality rights in Russia and around the world?

Gender and Putin’s regime

"Putin’s regime has increasingly relied on very conventional gender and sexual norms.

"When he first ascended to the presidency, image-makers used Putin’s #KGB background and penchant for physical fitness to frame him as a #macho #strongman who could reverse Russia’s waning power and 'remasculinize' the country after a decade of supposed geopolitical flaccidity in the wake of the #Soviet collapse.

"In other words, an inflexible and clearly #patriarchal notion of masculinity has been central to the Putin regime’s legitimacy.

"Russia’s foreign policy has relied on rigid gender norms as well. When Ukraine underwent its first pro-democracy revolution in 2004, Russian media questioned its leaders’ masculinity.

"Putin likewise used homophobic terms to dismiss #Georgia’s #RoseRevolution in 2003, responding to a reporter’s question by saying: 'A rose revolution — next they’ll come up with a light blue one.' In Russian, 'light blue' or goluboi is slang for “gay male.”

Gender and appealing to constituencies

"Putin has often been represented as the unquestioned leader of the pack ruling Russia — a masculinity-driven image.

"However, even as the leader of a personalist #dictatorship — a regime in which there are few institutional limits on the leader’s power — Putin must balance competing interests among significant elites and maintain at least the appearance of public support in order to be considered a legitimate ruler.

"Until 2020, Putin was using gendered language in his speeches to signal his alignment with a variety of elites and public constituencies that supported him. He was sending mixed signals to both relatively progressive Russians who value women’s roles in the workplace and to #conservatives wishing for a return to '#TraditionalFamilyValues,' in order to keep everyone in his camp.

"But after July 2021, when he published an essay contending Ukrainians and Russians are a single people, Putin no longer shied away from making sexist and LGBTQ+-phobic comments in prominent settings.

"At an October 2021 meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club — a Moscow-based think tank and discussion forum that Putin is closely associated with — he said teaching children about #GenderFluidity was 'truly monstrous' and 'verging on a crime against humanity.'"

Read more:
theconversation.com/vladimir-p
#USPol #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #GBLTQRights #HumanRights #WomensRights #ToxicMasculinity #GenderFascists

The ConversationVladimir Putin, the czar of macho politics, is threatened by gender and sexuality rightsPutin has been consumed with presenting a hyper-macho image throughout his presidency. And in recent years, he’s ramped up sexist and LGBTQ-phobic rhetoric.
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Add to these two stories a big scoop on another DOGE staffer with Russia ties

Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB Spy

Edward “Big Balls” Coristine is the descendant of Valery Martynov, a KGB agent who spied for the US

#Musk #DOGE #Russia #KGB #EdwardCoristine #Coristine

jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent

Jacob Silverman · Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB SpyBy Jacob Silverman