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Originally Posted by Jgood
What would you consider the move then? Putin even mentioning a deal serves as a warning not only to the UK but the United States. He is expanding his military reach and flexing muscle. Do you think those 12 planes come by themselves? No, they come with advisors and support that will allow joint exchanges and development of the AO. Which happens to be very close to other South American countries who are pretty unstable. Nothing Russia does right now is done without thinking about how to benefit from the 2nd and 3rd order of effects. And if you don't think so, I would check under your bed.
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As I understand it, Putin has some very tight relationships with aligned oligarchs(whereas the unaligned ones flee to UK, get thrown in jail, or get a Polonium powered enema).
And it would appear there's quite close ties with aligned paramilitary outfits that are semi-independant(but reliant) or just pretend arms length "PMCs".
It leaves me wondering how Putin and the Russian state's relaitonship with russian organized crime is developing?
I've read about how ethnic Russian organized criminal organizations are amongst the most capable in the world stemming from post-Soviet collapse and high levels of education and military training of these groups conducting illicit activity.
I wonder if Putin's Russia will develop aggressive relationships with ethnic Russian organized criminals around the world, much as done by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact by extention with the likes of Carlos the Jackel, Baader-Meinhoff, and RAF?
Iran > Qods Force > Hezbullah > Lebanese criminal gangs conducting illicit activity
China > MSS > water army > triads and expat networks
Russia > FSB/GRU > arms length paramilitary proxies > ethnic Russian gangs
???
What is the counter strategy? Los Pepes? Gladio? Counter-Guerilla?