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  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    5 days ago

    This is according to former KGB spy Yuri Shvets who defected to the US in 1993.

    What this says to me is, former spy whose knowledge of the Russian security state became outdated decades ago is desperately spewing bullshit in order to create the illusion they’re still useful.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      5 days ago

      The counterfactual here is even funnier, collapsing nation russia in 1993 somehow managed to develop illness-giving-untraceable-energy-weapons and then just didn't use any of them for a good 30 years

      • plinky [he/him]
        hexagon
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        5 days ago

        they only see biden as real threat to 1000 year tsardom of soviet republics, vote

  • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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    5 days ago

    You have to be in the Havana district of Cuba to get Havana syndrome, otherwise its sparkling brainworms

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    5 days ago

    I knew they were going to find a way to blame Genocide Joe's dementia on Russia.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    5 days ago

    I feel like maybe these people don't really get Occam's razor...

    "The simplest explanation is the best! And what could be simpler than just blaming everything on Havana Syndrome?" very-intelligent

  • SwitchyWitchyandBitchy [she/her]
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    5 days ago

    Did the US ever even claim to find any evidence of the Havana syndrome being caused by energy weapons? Like, they closely investigated for over the decade while it was apparently going on. The technology to detect EM waves from long wave radio all the way up to gamma rays has existed for a long time and isn't anything novel at this point as far as I know. And while there are ways of making signals hard to detect, they pretty much all require the received energy to be somewhat similar to the backgrouond noise level and preferably quite a lot lower. Instead, a directed energy weapon would have be irradiating the receiver with quite a bit of power unless the Cuban/Soviet forces found some special signal that can disrupt brain activity. And even then, if it follows a specific pattern, then the odds of detecting it would go up a hell of a lot.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      5 days ago

      This garbage theory originated in Havana and some scientists noted that it occurred during a time when embassies were being fumigated as Zika was a concern, and exposure to the fumigants would've caused the symptoms being experienced

      And it has turned into this absolutely deranged, nonsensical plot about how 'the evil countries' are using hitherto unknown weaponry on our brave men and women

      Fuck this idiot heap called a country

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      5 days ago

      The closest to actual evidence IIRC was that all the embassies etc that were effected were using the same insecticide. You'll note that this is not a directed energy weapon.

      • huf [he/him]
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        4 days ago

        mass is energy, and spraying insecticide is definitely directed. so there.

      • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 days ago

        You'll note that this is not a directed energy weapon

        This is literally what Putin would say