https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2 ... yrant.html
Worth reading and it also suggests the precedent of Russia began from the time of Ivan IV.
Ivan the Terrible’s style of ruling seems to have set the pattern for Russia over the last 400 years including today’s wannabe czar, Vladimir Putin. You can hopscotch through Russian history and almost anywhere you land you’ll meet strange, cruel, crazy, and capricious rulers.
A ton of images of the Ukraine conflict
https://qr.ae/pvCLDj
Putin's new Oprichniki
https://www.rferl.org/a/the-new-oprichn ... 36410.html
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Free PDF download of Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carol Quigley
http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Tragedy_and_Hope.pdf
Audiobook playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... w_zqVo8il0
This is discussing what will lead up to WW3 (which is believed to be inevitable)
The book has attracted the attention of those interested in geopolitics due to Quigley’s assertion that a secret society initially led by Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner and others had considerable influence over British and American foreign policy in the first half of the twentieth century. From 1909 to 1913, Milner organized the outer ring of this society as the semi-secret Round Table groups.
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia- ... endations=
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5/6/2022
Russia hits Kyiv with missiles; Putin warns West on arms
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai ... ad7ae58761
Ukraine battle scenes
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqq7XF ... hIoE3NqAcQ
https://qr.ae/pvFWLj
Wagner Group mercenary group used by Russia was inspired by Hitler's reverence for Wagner
One of the worst ways Putin is gaslighting the world on Ukraine (Putin isn’t fighting neo-Nazism. He nurtures it, making his pretext for invading Ukraine even more repellent.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/p ... -rcna23043