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I was born and grew up in Russia, and all my life I heard people like you telling us that NATO is going to invade any time now. Maybe it's time for you to wake up and realize that this was never a threat to begin with, just a justification for bullying others.


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Mikhail_Edoshin01/03/2026

NATO is invading. They just don't do it overtly. You don't think those Chechen "freedom fighters" were, like, independent? It was USA all along. It was not a mistake, some leftover from Cold War or something, some project they forget to close now when Soviet Union broke. It was the policy all the time. There is no way to somehow negotiate it to stop short of surrendering. We have to fight. We do not want to, but there is no other option.

Recently there was a terrorist attack on a concert hall in Moscow and about 150 people were killed. The actual attackers were rather simple-minded Tajik people. No way they could plan such an attack themselves. You do realize that there was someone else? "A quiet American"? (Or maybe a British; doesn't matter.) Some timidly looking guy visited that concert hall before that attack, walked around and made notes. He noted, for example, whether the finishing materials were flammable. He did that reconnaissance in several places and finally picked that concert hall. That fellow belongs to a group that does this kind of things. They have something like a list of cases, teaching materials and lectures. You don't see such people in the news; but they surely do exist.

This is how a modern Western invasion looks like.