Sovereign Citizens think the law doesn't apply to them due to esoteric readings of the Constitution. As Isaac Suárez-Nugent explains, their legal theory has deep roots in a little-known movement (Posse Comitatus) influencing the far right to this day.
The GOP was happily working with far-right Russian émigrés during the Cold War whose ideology was no different from the ex-CPSU member neo-Nazis who emerged after 1991 It's only natural that the GOP feels strong affinity with the post-1991 hard right regimes of Russia
/Acknowledging it will break most tankies' minds But never forget that China had military advisors in Cambodia supporting the Khmer Rouge throughout the Cambodian Genocide And North Korea vowed to never stop supporting the regime after Vietnam overthrew it
8/17 T-34, the tank removed from the monument in Estonia, began its production run in Kharkiv in 1940. It was originally based on American J. Walter Christie's M1928 tank, versions of which were sold turret-less to the Red Army as 'farm tractors', after being rejected by the US Army./ Albert Kahn
/My family were Slavic linguists and language instructors here in America. Many Russian profs were drawn from the emigré community. They imbued their American students with these views, which is probably why a lot of Russia experts still suspect Ukraine isn’t a real country
There is so much mythmaking about US policy in '80s-'90s that it is hard to conceive a deliberate policy against, e.g., relegalization of Solidarity in Poland or Baltic independence (as well as against other democratic movements further east). But it's in the record. 2/2
In 2002-2006, Ukraine has destroyed over 30 Tu-22M strategic bombers, 19 Tu-160 strategic bombers (a Soviet version of B-1 Lancer), and 225 cruise missiles X-22 for them - the biggest fleet worldwide, more than the US or Russia. The US has pushed Ukraine to destroy them all and paid $8m
エリツィン時代の最初の外相によるスレッド Washington preferred an easier path: admit Eastern European nations to NATO instead of the enormously difficult and not guaranteed effort of co-opting Russia. As a result, the major European security problem was left to rot.
オレグ・カルーギン SPYMASTER から。ニクソン大統領候補時代のキッシンジャーらによるバックチャネル That time an incoming Republican national security advisor actually set up a pre-inaugural back-channel with Russian intelligence in Moscow—