The 'geopolitics' stuff is window dressing for it. The assertion was that the US was using Ukraine and Maidan in a cynical play to undermine Russia. It was not. Great power competition was not even in the US policy vocab until well after Maidan, which it did not fully understand until well post hoc.

Can you provide a source on where you got this? My gut tells me this isn't authentic. I don't doubt the stupidity of the Army, but I would expect something laying out personnell actions to look like this.

Yeah, possibly. But don't discount their general stupidity. (Poster from May Day 2022, Sablons, Brussels)

It's probably my favorite piece of art I own and a bit from the Hungarian Uprising. I suspect you might like him as well. Radenko Milak, a Bosnian artist.

No, liberals were definitely a distinct political bloc that stood in pretty stark opposition to monarchists like Hindenburg and Pappen. I'm sure you're good at something, but it isn't European history of the 30s and 40s.

Butina ultimately deserves every unpleasant thing in her life, but let's pour one out for the other poor specialists who have to bang your average Republican politico.