Victim of Communism
The BBC is a reliable reporter of facts
False
Russia has a pattern of this sort of behaviour
Broadly speaking, spy agencies have been known to operate in this fashion. So it’s a believable allegation.
But was this guy radicalized by the Russian secret service to target Starmer? Or the British secret service, as further agitation against Russia? Or the Americans or Ukrainians, towards similar ends?
Idk. The BBC isn’t exactly above playing it’s own role in the espionage game.
The 22-year-old Ukrainian builder had been weaponised to target the UK’s head of government. But by who?
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The handler EL, who directed Lavrynovych, offered Russian citizenship in return for other attacks and glorified President Vladimir Putin, messages the BBC has uncovered show.
We have identified evidence suggesting that EL is a young Russian diplomat, schooled in information warfare by spies and propagandists, who is close to the highest levels of power in Moscow. His name is Evgeny Lyukshin. He is 23 and the son of a senior official.
It’s plausible. Russian intelligence services have adopted the same basic tactics used by the CIA, the FBI, SIS, Mossad, and similar services to cultivate extremists as tools of regime change.
And we’ve got a wealth of evidence to support the theory that these agencies use the Internet as a vector of that radicalization.
Whether you believe the BBC (an organ of state media) when it pins the blame on one spy agency over another? I guess that depends on how much you trust them.
Ymmv
I told you it was always about oil
More broadly, it is about western imperial expansion. Control of the Red Sea. Control of the Suez Canal. The ability to cut China and Russia off from international markets (specifically, trade with India and West Africa).
Oil was a big part of it, but not the whole.
It was always not only about israel colonial interests but also american imperialist interests
They’re joined at the hip.
It’ll be a clean, fast special operation that definitely won’t lead to a protracted ground war.
Carney dodged a bullet when a much more popular Conservative party took a tumble in the face of US tariffs.
Now he’s trying to placate a bunch of Trumpy Albertans on the on hand and tech sector landleeches on the other, which is roughly the place Biden found himself two years into his term.
Canadian politics is fully in the grip of the oligarchs - many of whom straddle the border.
If only. Every Canadian politician treats sucking up to Americans like it’s half their job. Canadian businessmen, like it’s the entire job.
Just like the baseball world series, where nobody but usa teams play.
Technically the US Baseball Series includes Canada.
The landlords in Canada absolutely wanted it
That’s the beauty of the Mexican project. They’re going to accommodate the refugees in a way Americans refused to do. And they’re going to become a better country for it
Because being against genocide is equated with supporting Hamas.
“Neutral” is when you don’t say anything bad about the home team and you don’t say anything good about the away team.
Hey! Hey! Drunks have been at the backbone of the imperialist war machine for centuries!
You think Westmoreland was sober after the last helicopter left Saigon? You think MacArthur was sober when he fled the Philippines? You think Seal Team Six was sober when they crashed those helicopters over Abadabad?
Substance abuse is the grease between the wheels of the grinding gears of global Holocaust. It’s how the brave men stormed Fallujah. It’s why drone operators can sleep at night after obliterating another wedding party in Yemen or Afghanistan. It’s what keeps guards at the human slave markets in Libya and the torture camps in Abu Gharab and Guantanamo Bay.
Do you want the Terrorists to win? Do you want China to take every island from Taiwan to Cuba?! Do you want America TO LOSE?!
Then keep that whiskey coming. Wars aren’t won on seltzer water
Plenty of people do both.
I don’t think Facebook, strictly speaking, is the problem though. In my experience, it’s the social isolation and poor quality of care that is all too common among Americans young and old alike.
Facebook is a lampry on the neck of a dying man.
The networking effect in action.
If you’ve got a dedicated group of friends on a platform and you can’t figure out how to move them all at once, you’re unlikely to socially isolate yourself just because they ratchet up the enshittification another rung.
But when they have better AI you guys want the country to bend over and get fist fucked.
It’s legit infuriating to see the Chinese economy investing in bluesky R&D, which has the long term benefit of better software, cheaper hardware, and more useful technology. All while American politicians insist “We need to build more hand cranks and charcoal fire pits to power our billionaire sponsored CSAM engines!”
All this while US Tech Companies turn increasingly to religious hacks to launder their shitty apps and platforms.
The conversations I’m talking about are pre-war, when there wasn’t even hint of the US or Israel attacking Iran.
I’m friends with several Iranian people, good friends with some of them. Every one of them and their families has nothing but bad things to say about that government.
I saw plenty of interviews with this kind of person at the CPAC rally. I even knew a few that attended. I periodically get AI Slop videos from a coworker, insisting that people are waving comically oversized Iranian flags in every city in the world (alongside miniature Israeli flags for some reason).
I have heard simultaneous claims that Iran has killed north of 90k of their civilian population in a matter of weeks, and that reports of the girls school getting bombed by the US are fictious or Iranian state propaganda.
This is not propaganda when it comes from people, especially women
It is absolutely propaganda. And it is being fed to people who hate the government and are that much more willing to believe crazy bullshit because they hate it.
Much like American liberals biting on The Pee Tape hook, line, and sinker, it’s bait for a population of expats hungry to believe the worst things about a government they hate.
British right wing nationalism has been around for a while