Useful context: Crimea is already annexed. Russia is using it to transport pipelines. Not sure whether this is to simply shorten routes around the sea, whether it's a region of production itself, or something else. Whatever it is, there's been a lot of happenings: https://www.euronews.com/2021/09/08/us-ukraine-crisis-crimea-blast
- The DPR is a group of people that declared its independence from Ukraine. They live in eastern Ukraine along Russian border. Russia recognized their independence. Ukraine attacked them. Russia is intervening.
- DPR is conveniently geopolitically located near Crimea which, if incorporated within Russia, would give them access to the Black Sea and then the Mediterranean.
- NATO has been expanding further East and Russia wants a hedge of physical distance between them and their homeland.
A good time to remember that the US has supported a number of extremist groups in the past https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/cia-neo-nazi-training-ukraine-russia-putin-biden-nato
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It's clearly a trap. All bureaucracies leak authority. When this occurs, it brings about the end of the institution through lack of alignment. That said, on the other end of the continuum, there are also subversive agitators whose goal is to bring about such a crisis. I definitely don't see a shadow council as being the solution. Better would be to do as axo and others have : "I'm in charge, I'll enforce my standards which may be arbitrary. I'll be transparent about my actions. If you don't like it, leave."
Kubrick was probably the most famous director at that time in America. In his later years he did have a white beard. Though, why wouldn't he confirm his confession in his will or in some similar type of posthumous disclosure?
I purposefully post things from both ends of the extreme because I operate using a strategy of contrastive divergence to establish truthiness