Russia and the U.S. are partnering in the Globalized War on People's Freedoms...

Progress needs the clash of ideas... 
The clash of ideas creates the dynamic dualism of opposing creeds and generates a dialectic which propels humanity forward...
Without the clash of ideas there will be no progress... Maybe that is why Russia has stagnated throughout the 20th and 21st centuries... and that is why the "western liberal democracies..." are having difficult times... that is why the U.S. is tittering at the MAGA concept and endangering its hegemonic monopoly which the U.S. enjoyed after the collapse of the Soviet Union...
The opposition has to have freedom to organize and challenge the status quo... In Russia this is an alien preposition... The Putin oligarchs refuse any challenges... and the U.S. is more and more sinking in the MAGA fantasy...

This week in Russia...

Protesters had gathered in the Russian capital after authorities disqualified a number of opposition candidates from standing in local elections.

More than 600 people have been detained over an unauthorised protest in Moscow, amid reports of police violence.


Leading activist Lyubov Sobol was arrested before she could reach the rally, attended by 1,500 people....

...And the last weekend... 

Moscow police arrested more than 1,000 protesters ahead of election...

Demonstrators are demanding opposition candidates be allowed to run for city council...

Russian authorities detained more than 1,000 protesters in Moscow on Saturday, in an attempt to quash a recent surge in protest mood that has spooked the Kremlin. Police also arrived at the homes of multiple opposition figures with search and arrest warrants, and called the editor-in-chief of the country’s leading independent television station in for questioning.

 Alexei Navalny, the highest profile opposition politician, was arrested outside his house earlier in the week as he stepped out to go jogging and buy his wife flowers for her birthday; he has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. Others received midnight knocks on the door from investigators, who demanded to search their properties and branded them suspects in the crime of “hindering the work of the electoral commission”.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny

In Russia the people are detained and harassed and jailed... for demanding basic freedoms...

In the U.S. voters are suppressed by gerrymandering and by difficulties to register and vote... Voter suppression is a disgusting and despotic game that the status quo and the 1% play...

Russia and the U.S. are merging into a globalized populist anarchy... and both are defending the profits of the 1% and promoting the interest of the 1%...

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It has been said that religion is the opium of the people... the rulers, the 1% use religion to keep their rule and the status quo...

Religious wars have killled, massacred and maimed thousands throughout history...

The Turkic-Islamic penetration into Europe...

The Crusaders... to liberate the "Holy Lands..." and the save Byzantium...

The Catholic and Protestant wars in Europe...

The Ottoman Turks massacring Christian Armenian, Greeks and Assyrians... 

The Turks committing the genocide of Armenians... 

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And now the U.S. Evangelicals hypocritically supporting the immorality of the politicians and advocating and promoting the interests of the 1%...

...and check below... 

  

The Georgetown Visitation sisters, a sect within the Catholic Church, ,  owned at least 107 enslaved men, women and children, the records show. And they sold dozens of those people to pay debts and to help finance the expansion of their school and the construction of a new chapel.

Evangelicals and Catholics alike support the profit driven 1%... and there is no end in sight...

Putin's Russia suppresses... the opposition...
The U.S. suppresses the freedoms of the people...
The Church deceives the people... 
It is the age of globalized wars against the freedoms of the people...