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I argue that Russian empire is fighting its war largely with colonial troops. DPR, LPR and poorer, often ethnic periphery within Russia provide Putin with disposable cannon fodder, while imperial metropole is spared

Navalny's Chief of Staff: That's madness

Meanwhile navalnists:
"Those who went to fight are not the best part of Russian population, I'm sorry. It is the low-income people, it is the Buryats..."

Olga Guseva, ex deputy chief of Navalny's staff in St Petersburg, now a YouTube host. I believe this is her Twitter account @GusevaOlyaa
She probably didn't think her words through so later she was forced to apologise. But that's good thing actually. When you don't think it through beforehand, you may accidentally speak truth. Like in this case: that the Russian empire fights with colonial troops Image
Her Freudian slip is very important, because it reflects the common knowledge: that Russia is asymmetrical empire with its periphery population enjoying semi subhuman status. Still, it is those semi subhumans who fight the wars of imperial expansion (while being spit upon ofc)
Most "liberals" will deny it vehemently. And yet, they all know it. See a prominent anti-Putinist businessman Chichvarkin @chich_8 . It is "unhumans from toilettes villages" who fight in Ukraine. Well, as a matter of fact he's not wrong. Moscow is spared from the war

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Some German (?) users react to the Rheinmetall threads rather painfully. @RheinmetallAG account responded with awkward misinformation

Understandable, but still funny. Typically I ignore seething comments, unless I find some factual counterclaims there. This time I did Image
This guy claims

a) that I didn't call a single source
b) that portraying Roskosmos as a producer of ballistic missiles for the military is a mistake

Fine, let's go into details Image
Topol-M rockets I was discussing are produced on Votkinsky plant, Izhevsk. Which is a part of Roskosmos structure. That's just one example. Roskosmos is *the* producer of ballistic rockets, even ballistic rockets for Iskander are also done on Roskosmos plants Image
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Aug 28
@RheinmetallAG responded to my last thread about their participation in construction of Mulino training ground where Putin trained and is still training his army for the war in Ukraine. And yet, I feel that their answer is misleading (to say the least). So I'll add some context🧵 Image
To start with, @RheinmetallAG claims that they simply provided the "simulation technology" for the Mulino project. The audience may think you were just one of many subcontractors. But that's not what your own press release from 2011 says. It's about winning an order to *build* it ImageImage
This, according to your own words, "state of the art training centre" was modelled after the Bundewehr facility in Altmark and represented "the German defence industry's first significant foothold in the Russian market". You hoped for more follow up orders from Russia Image
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Aug 27
@CITeam_en is reporting that Russia has formed the 3rd Army Corpse and is deploying it to Ukraine. Where did they form and train it? In Mulino ofc. German-built Mulino is the only modern training ground Putin has, so he trains his army of invasion there. Thank you, Rheinmetall AG
After 2014 Rheinmetall AG "left" the project to the Russian "Гарнизон" company. Thankfully, import genius allows to trace where Гарнизон was importing stuff from. It's all from Germany, Rheinmetall AG making the lion share

It looks as Гарнизон was merely a proxy for Rheinmetall
It was in Mulino where Putin launched his manoeuvres West-2021 preparing his army for the invasion of Ukraine. Because this Rheinmetall-built facility is the only modern training ground Russia has
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Aug 26
Interesting dialogue between Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan presidents. They don't conversate in Russian, but in their native tongues. Both languages are Turkic, but belong to different language sub-groups: Azeri is Oghuz, Kazakh is Kipchak. Therefore, pronunciation is very different
Oghuz speaking area stretches from Khwarazm in Uzbekistan to Eastern Thrace. Turkish, Azeri, Turkmen have the most speakers. Oghuz languages have harsh pronunciation, much harsher than Kipchak ones
Kipchak speaking zone is stretching from Kyrgyzstan in the southeast to the Tatarstan in the northwest, plus plenty enclaves in the Caucasus. Kipchak accent is much softer. From my perspective Anatolian Turkish sounds as if Russian who doesn't know Tatar was trying to speak Tatar
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Aug 25
Kind of. That would take very long to explain though, plus most foreign audience won't get it anyway. But yes. Much of the Russian nightmare results from adhering to "positive" cultural values

Conflict avoidance -> Extreme violence
Justice and equality -> Slavery and destitution
Disclaimer: I mean it literally. People yearn for justice and equality and that's a major factor of why they end up as destitute slaves. For example, enthralment (закрепощение) of urban population historically happened under the public pressure. They petitioned to be enthralled
That may sound paradoxical, but extremely suboptimal outcomes do not necessarily result from adhering to "negative" values. Very, very often it's the opposite. You act according to something that sounds kinda "positive". And that's how you build hell on earth
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Aug 24
There is a common saying that "Russian liberalism ends at the Ukrainian question"

That's false. Russian liberalism ends at any question

In my observations, minorities, especially Caucasians are very concerned about those "liberals" so much cheered by the West coming to power
If possible, I would also like to ask for Mikhail Khodorkovsky's @mbk_center comments regarding the following blogpost of prominent nationalist Yegor Kholmogorov, who is now calling for the full destruction of Ukrainians as a nation
Putin-worshipping among the Western far-right is not so much a result of his propaganda as of their neediness. They're are very needy. They're desperate to project their hopes and dreams on a saviour like figure. He doesn't need to do much, their imagination gonna do all the work
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