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Jun 26, 2023·edited Jun 26, 2023Liked by Edward Slavsquat

All of you are just spectators. While I was sitting close to Moscow and have experienced all the horror of this "psyop" together with millions of Russians. We wre told not to drive, to make a stock of food and water, to take our old relatives to be together. And it was given a phycological hot line number. You didn't interact with people here. It was a grave silence. Nobody discussed anything. To tell anyone could know the reason ( or it's better to tell a number of reasons) is just a bad joke. We've got no information. Not at all. We have to see what is going to happen in short. For it's just a start with this performance which took 15 lives and held millions in the horror of the civil war. Don't forget that not only common people tried to fly with the extremely expensive plane tickets to any directions, but the private jets of the officials flew from the country.

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Jun 26, 2023Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Thank you for all the work you do Riley cause through you I got a totally different insight into domestic russian issues than I had before I saw you on "unlimited hangout" with Whitney Webb for the first time..Since then I follow your work and appreciate your nowadays at least here in the west seemingly old school sense of humanity on you. Unless many other indy media figures you oftentimes admit not knowing things instead of stating pure speculation as a fact and yeah I love your simply compassionate view on humanity,the masses or the plebs as you call them, not judging everything through an ideological,narrative management lense..At least that's my sense of your writing and impression you left with me watching,listening to your interviews. You don't have to pose,to cock around like many other male indy media figures but mostly seemingly look at life with this specific laconic,ironic undertone of someone,who unterstands that we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously.

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Jun 26, 2023Liked by Edward Slavsquat

The “coup was a psyop to attack from Belarus” is very prevalent at the moment. The arrows and lines drawn showing the “sneak attack” is being spammed in chats and shared by 5D crowd I interact with.

I don’t know how to get through the plan trusters.

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Jun 26, 2023Liked by Edward Slavsquat

A lot of palavering guys. I think we all need to disconnect and mind our own business. We are not even paid for our “curiosity”. At least propagandists on all sides are well remunerated. But our interest is vain and profitless.

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Update on our missing friend in Kyrgyzstan : [6/26, 7:22 AM] M: Lindsay was just out of cell range

[6/26, 7:35 AM] L: Lindsay back!! 😃😵‍💫💕

[6/26, 8:45 AM] M: I was really stressed about it. Guess I’m just stressed out in general 😡

Riley thanks for your really fast response to my request for assistance. For someone who is overIy reliant on my imaginary friends in cyberspace for interesting conversation and feelings of belonging, it was extremely heartwarming to have one of them Step Up and turn out to be real.

Also I really enjoyed this post. Drunk driving is an awesome hobby, or pastime. I truly regret that I am now too old for it. I can also sympathize with the damage that flogging does to your body, okay I said blogging, but really maybe that's pretty much the same thing. I am doing a horse body work course that requires a lot of report writing, and I'm about to try to hire a friend to do the writing for me. Sitting and thinking at the same time I guess is another combination that I'm now too old for.

I first encountered Riley in a conversation with Tessa Lena. I am now a huge fan, mostly quiet in the comments because I really don't have anything to contribute in a conversation about Russia. But I did feel in this conversation with Rolo I was witnessing a genuine and heartfelt effort to make sense of this part of the world. And that alone is well worth the price of admission!

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So this whole thing was just a little power struggle between various Oligarchs and quickly blew over because no one really wanted to put the current power structure in danger?

Best theory so far.

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"Either that or he is largely a powerless figurehead and the country is ruled by an alliance of spooks and oligarchs that doesn’t mind losing because in the end, they will always end up winning regardless." - Yes, and this should be printed into the Bible of all political knowledge as the 11th commandment, right after banning turning on the TV and debating on Twitter. Because it is a universal truth applicable to describe the situation in any country or on any continent. And I don't want to say I said it at the beginning, but I said it at the beginning. At least we can enjoy this pleasure in peace: Knowing that it all sucks, but we knew it from the beginning and we said it!

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Heartfelt congratulations on your conversion to Orthodoxy and baptism. I would love to hear more about it.

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It is hilarious hearing my four year old grandson pontificate about how life operates on earth and in heaven, his lack of experience and knowledge combined with his supreme confidence makes an endearing juxtaposition. It is not so cute to see this position in adults. And no less annoying to hear non- believers pontificating about doctrines of Christianity. Their lack of knowledge is appalling, and those rare few, who by dint of serious inquiry do have sound doctrinal knowledge but lack an experiential knowledge of "Ye must be born again."- Jesus, are like a man who has studied swimming his whole life but has never left a bathtub. If they were thrown in the foaming sea they would perish. As Jesus said, "Ye must be born again." You need to first have an experience with the living Jesus Christ to know Christians.

I wish people were just born whole, but they aren't. A man is born a baby, and that baby needs milk. You cannot rush the process of growing. It's a slow process, but a steady one if fed a wholesome diet and get exercise and sunshine. Spiritual growth is no different. And many are still babes in Christ when they should be stronger due to lack of daily nourishment. Many things need to be imbibed slowly to be absorbed properly. (A woman with iron poor blood cannot drink a whole bottle of Floradix to correct her iron insufficiency. But a little taken on a daily basis she can.)

A child needs protection and instruction and yes, discipline. I spanked my two year old for sitting in the middle of the road. He would not understand the abstract concept of a 2 ton truck coming down the road to flatten him, but he will remember that MOMMA SPANKS. God punishes and corrects. He corrects the righteous and punishes the wicked. Jesus learned obedience through suffering. Anyway, I am getting too far ahead of myself and I am busy with other things, but it just rankles me to hear so many who know so little about Christ and Christians pontificating away like a four year old. And asking new Christians to explain the whole universe to you is like asking a toddler to explain physics. They can't. You are a fool to say, they are stupid. no, they are simply young. But they do know how to say "Abba, father!" and that is enough for today.

(p.s. Evil is not punishment for sin. It is the fruit of sin.)

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I can't wrap my head around any of this. First off, can someone tell me why there is a " private Russian army, the Wagner group, even fighting in Ukraine or being in existence in the first place? It is so strange. What was the rationale for it to begin with?

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what is a psyop? great question...I define it as attempt to use lies and propaganda to misdirect and/or confuse the general public...which gives them a reason implement new "laws" and agenda's...9/11 and the Covid scamdemic immediately come to mind

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Riley, I would love to read about your conversion to Russian Orthodoxy.

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Thank you mr. Riley for pestering Marko till he surrenders to duty call. How can I help in the pestering thing?

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It's amazing how in sync you two are, almost of the same mind. This is a good piece Kid. Yacht sailing and drunk driving huh? Either one is gonna cost you more than a thousand dollars, my advice would be to pick yourself up a $200 guitar, a guitar will get you laid quicker than a yacht.

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Slavsquat should counsider career counseling as an additional side-hustle.😁

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The whole war is a "psy ops" in a sense. I don't think that the nazi-globo-homo West or the "above West" reptilians really want to break up Russia. And I don't think that NATO really wants it. This is not good for the NWO - having ungovernable war lords or independent states. The NWO wants stability and Putin. And I think NATO will lose the meaning of life. The only thing they will be left with is the homo cause and no big enemies. This new episode just gave the "war" new fuel, twists and thrills. But it also showed to some of the Putin cheerleaders that they have no idea what is going on which is funny.

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