{"id":41775,"date":"2014-04-21T21:27:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T03:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/21\/geopolitics-on-the-ground-in-shadows.html"},"modified":"2014-04-21T21:27:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T03:27:31","slug":"geopolitics-on-the-ground-in-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/21\/geopolitics-on-the-ground-in-shadows.html","title":{"rendered":"Geopolitics on the ground in shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yeah … this kind of thing is very tempting to believe (because, well, Russia), but it's also tempting to consider wishful thinking and\/or false false-flag accusations. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I guess it says something that "You won't know who to trust" (as Gregor said in Sneakers).<\/i> And, of course, "stocky guy in camo with a bushy half-gray beard" is not nearly as identifiable a thing as one might think.<\/p>\n

Being meta, I trust Russia less in this than I trust the Western media that might have a US-sponsored mission against Russia. Not that both aren't probably in play here.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ukraine’s Pro-Russia ‘Militia’ Look Suspiciously Like Veteran Russian Soldiers<\/a>
\n In a totally unsurprising development, there seems to be mounting and significant evidence that pro-Russia Ukrainian separatists are probably actual Russian soldiers.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

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Yeah … this kind of thing is very tempting to believe (because, well, Russia), but it's also tempting to consider wishful thinking and\/or false false-flag accusations. \u00a0 I guess it says something that "You won't know who to trust" (as Gregor said in Sneakers). And, of course, "stocky guy in camo with a bushy half-gray … Continue reading “Geopolitics on the ground in shadows”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-41775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9158,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/07\/hmmmm_tempting.html","url_meta":{"origin":41775,"position":0},"title":"Hmmmm … tempting …","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Feb-06 7:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"The subject line \"Add up important spice to your aliveness!\" is intriguing, but I don't know that I should trust someone named \"Buford\" with something of that sort....","rel":"","context":"In "Spam"","block_context":{"text":"Spam","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/computer-security\/spam"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133169,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/28\/tweetizen-trump-2017-03-28-russia-russia-more-russia.html","url_meta":{"origin":41775,"position":1},"title":"Tweetizen Trump – 2017-03-28 "Russia! 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