[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Freedom is dead more and more in Russia— and maybe that’s what they always intended, like a 10 year plan then back to the same old same old.

According to Anatoliy Golitstn, a KGB defector, that was exactly the plan. A false liberalization in the Soviet Union while the underground soviet system remains in place, later to re-emerge. Interesting you used the phrase "same old same old," Golitsyn's book was titled "New Lies for Old."

[attiladhun2]

Which makes Germany completely unreliable as an ally. The East German military was integrated into the German armed forces after reunification, and most of its leadership were and remain pro-Russian toadies.