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b_b  ·  2791 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America, welcome to the war

I agree with your analysis, but I forgive the simplistic terms of the article for the simple reason that at least it's raising the issue. I'll bet if you polled millennials, many would be unaware that the destruction of capitalism (and world domination a la some Bond villain) was the stated position of the USSR for the entirety of their terrible, short history. It's important to keep that memory alive, especially as Putin is a career spy who made a living terrorizing East Germans.





kleinbl00  ·  2791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And that's why I shared it.

I dunno. I mean, this is the FSB's logo:

That is not the graphic design of an organization bent on humanitarian efforts. That's a straight-up polonium-poisoning posse.

raisin  ·  2791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I might be wrong wrong (ThatFanficGuy, we need you here), but I think that the FSB has a different logo. This one is from the Военная Разведка ВС РФ - Russia's Military Intelligence, which, I am assuming, operates under a different roof. FSB functions within the country (or at least it's supposed to), while the Military Intelligence would probably deal with external affairs.

Still a sick logo though.

user-inactivated  ·  2791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The bat was GRU's logo (and I've seen people ask to bring it back). This is their current one. This is FSB's.

kleinbl00  ·  2791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're right. GRU is the bat logo.

b_b  ·  2791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I spent a week in Finland last month. I can say without reservation that the Finns are scared stiff of the Russians. All my cousins wanted to talk about was whether and how the west would support them if Putin invaded. It's a small but real possibility to them. There are still people alive in Finland who lived through the winter war.

kleinbl00  ·  2791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think for much of the west, "Scandinavia" is a broadly-defined thing north of Europe that most people would be shocked isn't universally NATO. I suspect aggression in Finland would be recognized as a dire crisis by every player in the theater.

Ahhh, the Winter War.

user-inactivated  ·  2791 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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