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FBI Agent Goes Public With Russian Intelligence Operation That Hooked Musk And Thiel
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The shit is hitting the fan at such a high rate that it can be difficult to keep up. So this is a place to share such news.
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Really not worth an answer, but I feel I need to give one regardless.
If Russia wanted the war (that they started, yes, you start a war if your military moves across a border and starts shooting) to stop, they would suggest any kind of compromise in negotiations. Russia wants to occupy the Ukraine as a whole. It has no interest in stopping a war that they are not losing.
There might be no war but class war, but the people in the Kremlin are not exactly happy, socialist proletarians. Quite the opposite. From what I hear from people who lived there, Ukraine was a corrupt and poor country, but still leagues better than Russia.
Why would the ruling elite of Ukraine want the war to continue (apparently they have a choice other than surrendering and running away)? So that they might ultimately lose and end up shot by the Russians? Come on, that's stupid.