I didn't say I heard it from Prosvirnin, but that was around the time I was reading up on him, after his death. I don't believe everything I read, as you well know, but I am prone to bias, as we all are. I try to keep my biases in mind, so that even if I do favor things I favor, I am aware I favor them and can change my mind if I find out I'm wrong, and you know that too.
Russia can't exert much control over peasants living in Siberia innawoods, but around Moscow and the West it can, where most of the population is concentrated. Since oligarchs profit from surveillance and oligarchs demonstrably exert powerful control of Russian industry and such civil society as it has, Russia is at the forefront of social credit systems where it can exert that control. I'm the first to complain of censorship and deceptive propaganda in the West, but that doesn't mean I think Russia or China is free of either, and I know they are knee deep in crap too.
Putin isn't the scumbag scalawag to the WEF he's sold to plebs in the West as. In fact I recently saw video of a model wearing a t-shirt insulting Putin barred from entry into the Cannes Film Festival, where the rich people like to pretend to intellectual capacity while slumming with artistes. That reveals a glimpse of Putin's actual membership in the minions of the banksters, because he's looted so much wealth from Russian industry. If there's one thing the WEF respects, it's the ability to loot a national economy, and this belies the false narrative that Western scumbags... er, I mean the super rich, hate Putin.
He's one of them, and probably more like a mentor to Zelensky than an enemy. They're both Chabad Lubavitch, for example, besides being WEF minions. The war between Russia and the Ukraine isn't at all the geopolitical outrage we're told and sold by the enemedia. The sanctions on Russia are actually devastating economic attacks on Europe, and particularly Germany. Russia and the Ukraine are today engaged in cooperative economic endeavors, at least through the pipelines that deliver Russian oil and gas through the Ukraine into Europe, for which Russia pays the Ukraine transit fees, and the Ukraine allows Russian energy to be delivered through. I strongly believe the recent reports from Seymour Hirsch that accuse Ukrainian brass of selling a lot of the Western war materiel on the black market, where I am sure Russia buys a lot of it for pennies on the dollar.
These are things I have evidence of, and that I reckon are factually correct. We don't have to agree on these things, but I feel obligated to speak truly to you, because you have always spoken what you believe to be true to me, AFAIK. I will hear what criticisms you can avail me, and if you can show me I am wrong about something I think I will change my mind. You can't criticize my understanding if I don't clearly and forthrightly communicate it to you, and I can't benefit from that criticism if you can't make it.
So, honestly, this is what I think is happening and why. I'm not happy about any of it, and none of these things help me sleep at night. I would be happy if you could convince me any of it wasn't factually correct, because I have kids that could be drafted in a global war, and I would rather be eaten alive by snails than that to happen. So, if you can show me where I'm wrong, little could make me happier.
I am criticizing your belief based on a fake info. Do not believe. Verify.
I keep an eye out and do my best to collate new information and either confirm or disprove things.