June 25, 2024

Tuesday Open Comments

As Western apologists continue their efforts to free Putin and his mafia state, here’s a nice summation of how Russia works in reality. This comes via TwiX (thanks to C C Writer for the naming proposal), a popular social media site on the internet. If one is careful to apply a strong pinch of skepticism, that is a good place to find news items from the international scene that don’t otherwise receive sufficient attention in our domestic news reporting.

Arthur Rehi, an Estonian reserve soldier, posted a thread encapsulating what is known about how Russia employs human desperation and misery to undermine Western countries, while also increasing the profits of the Russian mafia state. The ten-part thread is here. This is the “unrolled” version of the thread:

Russian special services coordinate the flow of illegal migrants through Belarus to Poland. For this purpose, there are networks and training centers for migrants in Belarus and Russia. Attempts to break through the border are made daily. The scheme involves Belarusian border guards delivering migrants to the border. Migrants are attracted through special chats and groups on social networks that are maintained in their languages. Special dispatchers in these chats connect them with carriers. First, migrants are collected in Moscow.

Migrants receive a Russian visa, after which they come to Moscow, where they are met by Russian special services. After that, migrants are redirected to Minsk, where they are met by Belarusian special services and instructors of the Separate Active Measures Service -a special unit of the border troops of the Republic of Belarus. At their training center, they teach migrants how to move unnoticed and navigate in the forest using a compass, make holes in a fence, lift it with a jack and crawl under it. They even have a fence model that is used on the Polish border.

At the border, migrants are divided into groups, each with a different role. A large group is designed to distract attention. This is what we usually see in videos and photos. They throw sticks and stones, make noise. Sometimes they throw handmade spears. This is how one of the Polish border guards was killed.

The role of such a group is to concentrate the forces of the Polish border guards on themselves, leaving other parts of the border unprotected. Meanwhile, small groups of several people sneak across the border unnoticed in places left without protection.

In Poland, they are met by carriers, often of Russian, Belarusian, or Ukrainian origin, sometimes Polish or Czech. They then deliver the migrants to Europe. Not only Ukrainians, but many pro-Russian people and Russians with Ukrainian passports live in Ukraine. After the war began, they took advantage of the opportunity to receive asylum in Europe and are now participating in various schemes. Most often, the final destination is Germany.

This whole scheme exists in order to weaken the EU countries by increasing the budget burden. Such problems distract the country's funds from supporting Ukraine. Russia has long been saturating EU countries with migrants. Ever since the war in Syria and the revolutions in the Arab countries.

Migrant trafficking brings in large profits for illegal traffickers, and such criminal syndicates often have ties to Russia. Migrants have become a weapon in a hybrid war against the West. The goal always remains the same - to sow discord in society and weaken the West.

Aurthur Rehi’s YouTube channel is here.

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