Sometime in the past year, I realized something very interesting about the situation in Ukraine. Namely, despite avid FSB attempts to kill him, Vlodymyr Zelensky is still alive. It struck me as odd, somewhat providential, and it got me to thinking. What if a great portion of the corruption in the former Warsaw Pact countries was because the KGB (now the FSB) never really went away? That they were, through bribes, threats, and the like, still calling the shots.
Well, it makes a lot of sense in light of the sweetheart deals on productive assets given to oligarchs, the presence of pseudo-private military groups like Wagner, and for that matter the leadership of guys like Vladimir Putin, a former (?) KGB hand.
And now, the government of China has effectively made the case that the FSB is calling the shots by announcing that in their view, many countries liberated from the Warsaw Pact are not, in fact, independent, sovereign states.
Now at a certain point, all that needs to be done is to summon the Chinese ambassadors and direct their attention to the treaties that did, in fact, grant independence and sovereignty to the former Soviet and Warsaw Pact nations, but that misses a big point. China is more or less saying, as I've been suspecting, that the FSB has indeed been a quiet ruler of a lot of these countries for a while.
And it's time to cut the tentacles that they've been using to do this. Just as freed Germans occupied Stasi headquarters and prevented the records from being destroyed, we need to pray that soon, freed Russians do the same at the FSB. The tentacles can be cut at Russian borders, yes, but as long as they still control Russia, they'll (like the Hydra) keep regrowing.
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