Russia - threadbanned users in OP

100%.

What you're describing there a network of loosely affiliated groupings who all have 1 thing in common - susceptibility to disinformation. You can see this in action in an Irish context via a little exercise.

1. First you find a twitter account that is straight up racist. Those are easier to come by these days. If you can't find any then this one is a good example of the type.
2. Go to either their list of followers or their list of followed accounts and pick another Irish account.
3. Have a look at their bio and timeline and get a feel for what they are about
4. Repeat steps 3 & 4, choosing accounts you haven't views already each time

If you do this for long enough you'll start to notice that the content of the accounts changes but they'll probably be in certain areas:

• Straight Up racist and xenophobic accounts tweeting race-baiting material. Typical fare are video clips of black people acting aggressively against white people - These accounts are nearly always anonymous
• More garden variety anti-migrant accounts - sometimes named accounts
• Catholic Nationalists / Irish Traditionalists (often combinations of Historical info, migrant bashing, religious and anti-abortion content)
• Anti-vaxxers (Often still tweeting non stop about Covid vaccines and Covid disinformation)
• More general conspiracy theorists (New World Order, W.E.F, Soros & Gates etc)
• Lunatic conspiracy theories (Flat Earthers, Elders of Zion, Freemasons, David Icke theories etc)
• Sinn Fein hate accounts (the anti migrant crowd really despise them - probably because they are populists but they aren't anti-migrant)
• Irish accounts just retweeting American Conservatives and Brexiteers (lots of pro-Trump content)
• Climate Change Denial
• Anti-LGBT
• Anti-Ukrainian/Zelensky/NATO/EU

None of these will be distinct categories as any one account will have bits of many of these. The one constant though is the promotion of content that taps into people's cynicism and fears. It's designed to enrage them but also to be retweeted. Quite often this stuff is blatant disinformation but nobody cares. There's a distinct lack of humour on these timelines (Apart from "ha-ha those idiots said we were wrong but look at this" type stuff which isn't really actually humour). It's all Rage & Fear. It's bleak stuff and it's concerning that so many people get sucked into this rabbit hole.

Inner anarchist.

Putin is seen as anti everything western so if you're an anarchist in the West he's a possible follow.

He's the modern day Hitler. No doubt if the guy himself was reborn and shouting the speeches there'd be followers. Putin just tries to make sure he keeps his speeches in a low voice and mellowed for fear of clips being shown simultaneously. But no less evil nonetheless.

I'd have to disagree with the former Air Vice-Marshal. There's no reason why "we" can't keep going like this. There's plenty of weapons and financial support to give - it's up to Ukraine to decide when the war reaches a point where they don't want to keep fighting.

It's more likely Russia will reach a point where they can't go on first.

"Russia will blow the nuke station at some stage to their advantage the west must warn that it is the same as a bomb, not heard that said yet."

Don't know how you have not heard the repeated statements from NATO members that any incident caused by putin or his proxy's that leads to radioactive contamination will lead to severe consequences for putin's forces. Here is a link I already posted with further details:

Only the most optimistic would have expected the forces of putin to just collapse at the start of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Cracks are appearing and the Ukrainians are wearing down the defenses putin has established in the occupied territories:

Yeah sub continent India 1946 led to massive ethnic cleansing due to the brits (Cyril Radcliffe and lord mountbatten) drawing lines on maps.

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Is he saying for the West to continue supplies at the rate needed they would need to move their economies to a war footing? This is what Putin had been gambling on all along. If the west had gone all in this warning would not have needed to be sounded at all. In any case I think he is wrong, I still believe Ukraine will achieve a sudden breakthrough at some stage and the Russian resistance will collapse. If they had air supremacy the breach would happen far sooner. As a poster said a few days ago look what happened at Normandy, in the earlier stages progress was glacial then suddenly there was rapid advancements.

What relevance has this fact to anything that is happening today….it’s hardly like the Ukraine or Russians can ‘fire them up’ and use them..🤔

You don't even have to go as far as India......even the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher admitted that Churchill made a major blunder when he partitioned Ireland.

I like Michael Clarkes analysis. He seems to be fairly unbiased to either side and knowledgeable.

Sean Bell however. In my armchair general opinion is an absolute fool. Since the very start of the war he's been banging on about how Russia won't be beaten and Ukraine can only lose slowly. He was on Sky calling for peace talks as Russia was flattening Sieverodonetsk. He's constantly harping on about how Russia should be let keep the Donbas and Crimea and the land its stolen for the sake of negotiating with Putin. An absolutely abhorrent proposition unless we want to end up in WW3 in a few years. And one the Ukranians would never go for.

He's constantly been pessimistic about Ukraines potential to achieve anything at all. It may be true that the offensive won't achieve as much as some hoped as quickly as hoped. But I'm relatively confident Sean is talking out his arse.

I watched that when it came out. It's excellent. Really gives you a sense for the absolute chaos of the 1990s and the absolute pillaging of the country by the oligarchs that emerged. Their greed was rapacious and entirely at the expense of the common people. The American's really dropped the ball too. They effectively allowed libertarian economists to advise "shock therapy" to try and move the country from communist to capitalist. It was a failed experiment and paved the way for Putin to crush the nascent free press and opposition in the name of "stability".

The other thing I took from it was the rise of Boris Yeltsin. Nowadays he's mostly seen as the doddering drunk making a show of himself at formal occasions. Before all that though he was a deft political operator who ran rings around Gorbachev. He also laid the path for Putin though, in that he essentially took power away from parliament and placed it in the hands of the President after a constitutional crisis in 1993 where he literally sent the tanks in to fire on the parliament who were thwarting him and trying to impeach him.

Beyond all that though are the many small stories showing regular people just living their lives and trying to get by. Since it's Russia, lots of them are odd and lots of them are heart-breaking.