"I should probably do a quick response video to the Putin x Carlson interview, I'm sure I could throw a 10-minute video together in a week or two"
-Said Lazerpig 3 and a half months ago
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I know it has been a while and the memory of the Putin x Carlson interview has long since become lost in the minutia of daily news from the Ukraine front, but dammit I worked hard on this one.
I set out to answer a simple question, why?
Why invade Ukraine?
The answer led me on a rabbit hole of discovery, a deep, deep sewage pipe filled with disgusting slimy grabby hands, all trying to pull me down into their retread slime holes, like that creepy old Uncle who only shows up at special events and stares at you with that weird little smile, like you can see what he is thinking in the back of your mind, and he always says things like You sure have grown into a *fine* young specimen of a man" and "You have a pretty mouth boy don't you?" and it makes you feel weird but everyone just laughs it off and tells you he's just a bit funny like that.
Anyway, think that but with more teeth, claws, and the Soviet national anthem blaring at you, and 12 angry Russian women are smacking you with breadsticks telling you the West's decadence will be the fall of humanity.
Anyway, welcome to my fever dream. If you're one of my regular subscribers I hope you enjoy it, if this is the first video of mine you've ever watched I can only apologize.
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Cameo Appearance by: Mr Lord HardThrasher
https://www.youtube.com/@UCKe688ci_VwKVCr0GVZkDhQ
Mentioned Video series by: Sarcasmitron
https://www.youtube.com/@UC6WD1VImCVeOuNccuqDzAdA
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Sources/References
Putin's People: A Times Book of the Year 2021 – The Story of Russia’s History and Politics
-Catherine Belton
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Putins-People-Took-Russia-Turned/dp/0007578814
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68685604
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america
(remember when Buzzfeed was good?)
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Report_Volume2.pdf
(This is the Senate report on Wagners Internet research agency, most info comes from this)
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/putin-accuses-cia-of-inciting-ukraine-to-killing-russian-journalists/2572490
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/vladimir-putin-web-breakup-internet-cia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/08/vladimir-putin-hillary-clinton-russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/russia-assassination-attempt-cia-miami-b2360352.html
Antony Beevor on Putin’s Stalin-like blunders, Lenin and Hitler | interview
https://youtu.be/DFW5V4IB_PA?si=eMM6nn1fblbrM6Ql
(I 100% demand you listen to this one, but not while driving, unless you like driving angry)
https://gijn.org/resource/investigating-digital-threats-trolling-campaigns/
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/the-st-petersburg-troll-factory-targets-elections-from-germany-to-the-united-states/
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1756283640374329645
(I don't particularly like Visegrad24, they have some *weird* views on certain things and I have caught them "exaggerating" a few times, but when it comes to things like this they are often pretty solid)