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George Shay's avatar

One thing both sides agree on is that the other side are traitors, but what neither side realizes is that they’re getting played by our friend Vlad Putin with a divide and rule political horseshoe encirclement strategy that makes the Red Army’s campaign on the Wehrmacht in the Great Patriotic War (aka World War II) look like child’s play by comparison.

In the immortal words of Pogo, we have met the enemy and it is us.

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Brie McReynolds's avatar

We certainly agree on that... I guess what saddens me is this lingering worry that we're approaching such stark differences in worldview, we won't ever really be able to unite again.

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George Shay's avatar

We can if we see that we’re all being played on both wings by our friend Vlad Putin!

I’m starting to see that one hidden hand behind all the things that blinded us from each other, including the

Israeli “Palestinian” conflict, the anti-VAX movement….you name it.

Either I am paranoid and have an inflated vision of this guy, or it is amazing how incredibly effective he has been, along with his Soviet predecessors, going back to the Revolution in 1917.

Full disclosure: as an old Cold Warrior, of course, I am extremely susceptible to paranoia about the Russians. I actually took it as a foreign language just in case they won. But it’s hard to unsee this once you see it.

Julie Roginsky did a live stack today about this whole woke right deal that is going on where Putin has used the Russian Orthodox Church as a weapon (as he uses everything else of course being ex-KGB) to infiltrate the religious right, so he’s got them on one flank and the the incredibly bizarre, toxic, and unholy alliance of the communist left and radical Islam coming at us from the other side; it’s a classic pincer movement and it’s what put the Wehrmacht on the asheap of history and kicked them back from Moscow to Berlin. Nobody knows it better than Putin, who is a big Great Patriotic War fanboy and seems to be applying Soviet armor tactics to the brains of Americans. They have one thing in common with panzer divisions, which is they have two flanks, one left and right, we’re getting played on both sides.

I just realized that within the last day, believe it or not, because I tend to play pretty much on the conservative side as you know, and you tend to play pretty much on the progressive side as I know, but it turns out we’re both getting used by our friend Vlad to tear us and lit country apart.

It’s the oldest game in the book—divide and rule.

Once you see that, you can’t unsee it so I’m hoping more people will see it, and I’m gonna make it my job to try to open their eyes.

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