Comments by "Tim Trewyn" (@timtrewyn453) on "In our new history books, the West is our number 1 enemy 😲" video.

  1. What are you going to learn when your MOS is some version of sitting at an air defense radar screen? You are in the rear. You get out with all your limbs and no scars. My guess is he had a rather privileged assignment, and he's got a future in the establishment to protect.
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  2. I guess he had a tech job out there, like sitting at an air defense console. You know, the kind of MOS the nice young men from Moscow get assigned to. No scars. No missing limbs. Didn't seem traumatized. Didn't seem like a sociopath.
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  3. Great work! Have you ever asked people if they read the Bible?
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  4. I was waiting for a Russian Orthodox priest to quote Jesus, "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." The Church could be a way out of this. We have the Bible in common. Russians perhaps can change things for the better at this time by going to church and singing with a full voice. I will do the same in solidarity with them.
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  5.  @mattyboy456  Would you say we are getting a better presentation of the Russian people through these videos?
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  6. His questions are very tactical. He is using Russian government public statements and getting public opinion about them. I would tend to think the FSB values the information, and I would not be surprised if they have told him how to stay in his lane enough to keep going. And as they took their time with Prigozhin, they may be identifying dissent through these videos and finding out who these folks are connected to. However, they may find that taking out their thinking, productive people would just further damage their economy at a time when it is already under stress. The soldier back from Ukraine also very much knew what to say. He is a survivor who probably got some kind of special duty that kept him out of most of the trauma. (He seemed to have all his limbs and was standing comfortably.) In his heart of hearts he may have other views, but he is going to toe the line well in public. When I was enlisted in the USAF and was in some formal interaction with the public, I knew what the USAF wanted me to say. I wasn't going to go to jail, but I would lose a measure of reputation for not being a team player.
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  7. The woman who said parents need to filter things for their children is right. Many Russian institutions are set up to detect and document dissent. Your parents tell you to just give the "official correct answers" to keep your family among those considered acute conformists. The same family has to have a plan to keep its children safe when the time comes, and the time is coming for many of them.
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