The Netherlands is flat with much of the country below sea level.
Not good guerrilla territory. Russia would also have to go through Poland and Germany to get there by land - and with their shit and now depleted conscripts.
Soviet secret services have been described as "the primary instructors of guerrillas worldwide".
That has been more regime death squad training. Counterinsurgency. The US has trained organized government armies to fight Russian trained guerillas.
As a rule it is also probably true to say that Russia has been the specialist in 'dirty' ops like terror tactics, assassinations, clandestine ops, etc. They've had fewer resources, maybe fewer scruples, and go for choke points.
"Putin's KGB background tells us a lot about how he thinks and how he sees the war. He is a creation of the KGB, and the KGB was a terrorist organization," John Sipher, a former CIA officer who served in Russia, told Insider. "It was all about keeping the leadership in power at all costs. It killed any domestic opposition to the [Communist] Party and used subversion abroad."
"The Russian services have long spent far more of their time on things like disinformation, sabotage, deception, agitation, and assassination," Sipher said, adding, "What we have seen from Putin over the past 20 years are these same asymmetric attacks. Like a terrorist group that can't take on enemies directly, he looks for weaknesses to exploit and soft targets to attack."
[ - ] Name 0 points 1.3 yearsFeb 20, 2024 21:12:02 ago (+0/-0)
That’s very interesting. What happened to the old you that used to post shitty 1980s porn? The old you that didn’t speak as well or know how to link sources?
Not really my fault people didn't get the deeper meaning (though many did, played dumb, and just bitched to disrupt or be assholes. When you have a hot blonde with her hoo ha spread out on your wide screen the implications of the broader conversations we have around here are obvious to anybody)... Though admittedly solo girls were the prelude to porno nationalism.
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Not good guerrilla territory. Russia would also have to go through Poland and Germany to get there by land - and with their shit and now depleted conscripts.
Soviet secret services have been described as "the primary instructors of guerrillas worldwide".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures#:~:text=Active%20measures%20includes%20the%20establishment,liberation%20in%20the%20Third%20World.
Not much changes in 35 years...
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[ - ] Name 1 point 1.3 yearsFeb 18, 2024 20:31:59 ago (+1/-0)
And by the way, we do it better. https://soaw.org/home
Sorry for the shitty link. I’m sure you can find better.
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[ - ] Joe_McCarthy 1 point 1.3 yearsFeb 20, 2024 11:57:22 ago (+1/-0)*
As a rule it is also probably true to say that Russia has been the specialist in 'dirty' ops like terror tactics, assassinations, clandestine ops, etc. They've had fewer resources, maybe fewer scruples, and go for choke points.
https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-kgb-taught-him-lie-think-like-terrorist-ex-spies-2022-10
"Putin's KGB background tells us a lot about how he thinks and how he sees the war. He is a creation of the KGB, and the KGB was a terrorist organization," John Sipher, a former CIA officer who served in Russia, told Insider. "It was all about keeping the leadership in power at all costs. It killed any domestic opposition to the [Communist] Party and used subversion abroad."
"The Russian services have long spent far more of their time on things like disinformation, sabotage, deception, agitation, and assassination," Sipher said, adding, "What we have seen from Putin over the past 20 years are these same asymmetric attacks. Like a terrorist group that can't take on enemies directly, he looks for weaknesses to exploit and soft targets to attack."
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https://www.upgoat.net/viewpost?postid=65b550170ebc0
Not really my fault people didn't get the deeper meaning (though many did, played dumb, and just bitched to disrupt or be assholes. When you have a hot blonde with her hoo ha spread out on your wide screen the implications of the broader conversations we have around here are obvious to anybody)... Though admittedly solo girls were the prelude to porno nationalism.
https://files.catbox.moe/njs0b5.mp4