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Analysis of the situation in Russia, claimed to be by an active FSB analyst

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Re: Analysis of the situation in Russia, claimed to be by an active FSB analyst

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Post by thriftwy »

azalemeth wrote: post #7
thriftwy wrote: post #3

Looks fake. I can't imagine an FSB official caring about world hunger, especially as the prime concern.

People in Russia are human too. A lot of those who go into "national security" type jobs start out with their heart in the right place. I can't imagine what it is like to slowly realise that, actually, you're the bad ones.

It's a matter of priorities. An FSB official will see world hunger as an opportunity, and will think of this as "so these people completely unrelated to us don't want to go hungry, what can they give us in return?"

This is since during most of the contemporary history of Russia, other countries saw a lot of different opportunities here and very few people.

Re: Analysis of the situation in Russia, claimed to be by an active FSB analyst

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Post by keymone »

thriftwy wrote: post #3

Looks fake. I can't imagine an FSB official caring about world hunger, especially as the prime concern.

christo grozev says it's probably not according to his two fsb contacts (though they disagree with some of the author's conclusions): https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500197460626624513

Re: Analysis of the situation in Russia, claimed to be by an active FSB analyst

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Post by alin23 »

trevorboaconstr wrote: post #4

Fake, disinformation, psyops, whatever you want to call it.

I posted this first with the link to the Twitter post saying that the source has been verified with two other FSB contacts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30574210

https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500197460626624513...

Of course we still can’t know for sure.

Re: Analysis of the situation in Russia, claimed to be by an active FSB analyst

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Post by ur-whale »

Daniel_sk wrote: post #10
thriftwy wrote: post #3

Looks fake. I can't imagine an FSB official caring about world hunger, especially as the prime concern.

Ukraine is a large producer of wheat - they are the size of Afghanistan, but completely flat and covered with wheat fields.

Yup.

And the soil is particularly fertile too: the somewhat well-known "black soil of Ukraine" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem

Re: Analysis of the situation in Russia, claimed to be by an active FSB analyst

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Post by phatfish »

thriftwy wrote: post #3

Looks fake. I can't imagine an FSB official caring about world hunger, especially as the prime concern.

It reads like a lore-dump pickup in a video game. The sort of thing you would find in plain sight in Call of Duty or similar. Maybe COD is more realistic than i thought...

Re: Analysis of the situation in Russia, claimed to be by an active FSB analyst

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Post by alin23 »

Interesting that posting the translation link directly gets more traction than the link to the original source.

I posted this first with the link to the Twitter post saying that the source has been verified with two other FSB contacts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30574210

https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500197460626624513...

Of course we still can’t know for sure if it’s true, anyone can say anything.

But the whole situation reminds me of the HBO rendition of Chernobyl. It’s all based on lies.

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