1. Build economic reliance upon Russia. certain critical commodities such as wheat, natgas, and oil.

• On his first day in office he canceled the Keystone pipeline and ever since has been making policies to undermine energy independence.
• Importing millions of barrels per day from Russia.
• Subsidizing oilseeds and biodiesel so American farmers don't actually create food.
• Trade agreements that export remaining food crops to places such as China.
• EU dependence upon Russian gas - more than 50% of their total supply.

2. Agitate Russia. this has been repeatedly for at least the last decade.

• Abysmal withdrawal in Afghanistan literally armed Russia's enemy combatants in Syria.
• Biden was warned specifically about the red line of Ukraine joining NATO and yet he has repeatedly been announcing that he plans to make it happen.
• US and NATO involvement in arming, funding, and training Nazi combatants who are targeting (former Russian) civilians in Eastern Ukraine.

3. Use aggression as an excuse to create sanctions that will cause runaway inflation and set the stage for the great rest

• lockdowns and self imposed scarcity
• paying people not to work, not to produce economic outputs
• shipping port mismanagement
• massive sanctions on all the commodities from step 1

4. (Optional) Loot Russia. I think a lot of people are focused on this and think this is what's going on but in my opinion this world be a side quest, not primary objective.

They asked my minor child this question in front of me, they didn't ask me. Seems sort of minor but I'd argue this is a dangerous precedent.

• This is a huge expanse in scope. Medical professionals aren't there to assess safety protocols. Are they going to ask whether you wear a helmet, whether you look both ways before crossing?
• What are they going to do with this information? Call child protective services? Flag mental health concerns? Use it to justify search and siezure, etc.

There's at least three plausible scenarios that could cause contamination without creating nuclear war:

• Tactical use for area denial (Chernobyl?)
• As an EMP
• In space against satellites

If any of these things happen, what kind of contamination would we expect? How to prep?

The Azov battalion in Ukraine was bright to life (arguably through foreign influence) by converging these circumstances:

• 1 part Orthodox - a basis in common belief and foundation for alignment of purpose
• 2 parts Sport - capture both individual pursuit of excellence and self improvement -and- team commradrie and shared social gatherings. In Ukraine this was MMA+soccer
• 1 part extremism - bootstrapped the group with recruits that have ties to historic Nazi fighters from post WWII: Ukranian Insurgent Army

They came to life conveniently in time to resist the actions in Crimea. Interestingly it was the Azov's sense of nationalism, not their opposition to Russia's ideologies, they caused them to oppose foreign interference. Reference: http://www.futbolgrad.com/ukrainian-ultras-unorthodox-revolution/

"People that are in power seeking a specific outcome want to shut debate down. They do this because power steps into the void when reason no longer exists and gets to define reality for you from up above. ... When everything is taken from you, the truth is the only thing you have left. ... and information becomes your most powerful weapon."

• Maajid Nawaz on JRE 1780 ~ 1:49:00