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Not just the usual racially-profiling broadsides at those nasty ‘Anglo-Saxons’ he also trots out the tired conspiracy theory of the ‘golden billion,’ the idea that there is a secret and deliberate plan to allow an elite will prosper at the expense of everyone else 2/

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(Sure, one could argue that in many ways this is the natural logic of market capitalism, but to present this as (a) a deliberate conspiracy and (b) something the Russians wouldn’t be eagerly embracing if they could, is pretty far-fetched, even for NP.) 3/

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US + UK (no proper anti-Russian conspiracy can be w/o Brits in Patrushevworld) are creating global econ crisis blocking grain, fertilizers + energy. Um, isn’t this more Russia’s blockade of the Black Sea, destruction of UKR infrastructure + decision to stop energy supplies…? 4/

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Oh, and by the way, as if all this were not enough, “some experts” believe that coronavirus was a Soros- and Clinton-funded US bioweapon. So there. 5/

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Interestingly, at a time when the official Kremlin narrative is stepping back from the ‘de-Nazification’ line, NP – perhaps auditioning for one of those toxic evening TV propaganda shows, doubles down. 6/

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But as an historian, I was particularly shocked/delighted not just by the blithe assurance of historical divine right but also citing Skobelev as an icon of Russian compassion in war. 7/

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Geok-Tepe Massacre: Forgetting To Remember In Turkmenistan

The “compassionate” tsarist Gen. Mikhail Skobelev commanded the 1881 massacre of Geok-Tepe in Turkmenistan 8/

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The Turkmen authorities' decision to move the date for commemorating an infamous massacre has raised eyebrows in the country, with many believing it has been done to appease the Kremlin.

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More specifically, he has ascribed to him the dictum “I hold it as a principle that the duration of the peace is in direct proportion to the slaughter you inflict upon the enemy. The harder you hit them, the longer they remain quiet.” 9/

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Hmm, maybe Skobelev is a better exemplar of Russian policy in Ukraine than NP realises… 10/

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Needless to say, though, none of this is likely to appear in the kind of renewed, monolithic, Kremlin-defined, nationalistic, statist and triumphalist official culture and education model NP espouses. 11/

So in conclusion, Patrushev has again managed to surprise me, bringing new layers of conspiracy theory – ones which, unlike the majority of cynical RU propagandists – I fear this smart and driven man actually believes into his analysis of current global events. 12/

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And this is the man who is in effect Putin’s National Security Adviser. How marvellous. If anyone wants more of my take on Patrushev, I talk about ‘The Most Dangerous Man in Russia’ in my podcast in 2020: 13/end

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And what's really scary is the rumors he's Putin's handpicked successor.

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In his mad world, ‘global capital’ =

In fairness haven't come across any anti-Israel sentiment in his oeuvre, nor yet direct anti-Semitism

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For me the most interesting phrase was the "Gene Pool"

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Why go for just one conspiracy theory when you can go for all the conspiracy theories?

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As a Briton I'm somewhat startled to find that I'm part of the axis of evil but I"m thrilled also that I might therefore partake of the "golden billion"! Who do I talk to about collecting my winnings?

Radek Adamec

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As a Briton you still have to work hard to end up as an eloi rather than a morlock.

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What’s the worst here is many elderly people (my relatives at least) say that if he says that, this must be true - he had access to all the secrets in the world, after all (as they believe), as a fsb director. Btw, do you think he turns more mad or is it just a regular level?

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We're back to the Cold War and Russia will reprise its role as the helper of the post-colonial countries. I think their fixation on England especially is very anachronistic. Russia is truly living in the past. But it does explain why the Russian big-shots all live in London.

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For me it’s kinda offensive hearing it’s “cold” war. From here it’s very-very hot. At least 30 000 of Ukrainians are dead. And this is the minimum estimate. It was cold when propaganda about America as an enemy started - before Russo-Georgian war in 2008.

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Only on question. How much longer do you have to wait for the Swan Lake?

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"(Russia) supported the US during their Civil War" Really? Supported whom exactly?

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During the American Civil War, the Czarist Pacific Squadron dropped anchor in San Francisco as a neutral harbor to escape British navy. U.S. govt at the time interpreted this as sign of Russian support of U.S. govt during Civil War.

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@MarkGaleotti: As I continue to follow Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev’s, descent into conspiracy theory lunacy, he gave an interview with AiF about the ‘special operation’ in...

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To Skobelev could we add Suvorov and the Praga massacre in Warsaw, 1794, suppressing the Kosciusko uprising? 20,000 dead, mainly non-combatants. Some argue that Suvorov ordered that the corpses be left on the streets, pour encourager les autres.

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Yes, people will often talk about the atrocities of the French Revolution, but never mention the fact that the Russian monarchy killed more people on a single day in Warsaw than were executed during the entire Reign of Terror.

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What if it’s all part of a strategy?: spew madness from the likes of Patrushev, Medvedev, Lavrov etc and of course on TV to signal that if Putin goes it will only be worse. The goal being for the West to want to appease Russia (the only way for Putin to stay on

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