Disgustus [he/him]
Even if I buy Trees 1 & 2 were structurally weakened to the point the steel beams lost integrity leading to collapse, that theory makes no sense at all when applied to Tree 7.
https://savedfromthepaperdrive.blogspot.com/2011/12/soviet-space-christmas-cards.html
Christmas wasn’t publicly celebrated in Soviet times, only in church on January 6th. They still had a Santa like figure, Father Frost, whose sidekick is the Snow Maiden ,Snegurochka
The greetings on these cards is not “Merry Christmas” but, more or less, “Happy New Year”. The tree depicted on some is a “New Year’s Tree”
There’s another one
Merry fucking christmas you dirty fucking communists
The comments
So this is essentially the scene from the movie ‘Enemy at the Gates’ that the Russians were so upset about. Kinda hard to deny when the tactics are still being used some 80 years later.
and the reply
You be amazed how many Russian and others denied the existence of block units and claimed that movie is bs
Consider switching to MDMA, Mushrooms, LSD and weed instead because cocaine is fucking up south and Central America and half your money went to the CIA or their goons.
I think the logic was described quite well by Mearsheimer when he said “we’re going to be the 800 pound gorilla in the room.” His summary of the American imperial project is more or less “someone’s gonna do it so let’s make sure it’s us.”
It’s basically prison logic. “If we are the biggest and baddest mother fucker in the room, then we are safe.”
It’s a kind of toxic concept of preemptive self defense that grows from the genocidal colonialism. There is a cultural assumption that if they aren’t putting their boot on your neck then you’re going to put your boot on their neck.