Some people are freaking out over the news that Russia tested a new ICBM missile yesterday. The missile is said to be capable of piercing the US missile defense system. The concern is this might start an arms race between the two countries and blah blah blah World War 3.
Honestly, an arms race with Russia doesn’t scare me. We all know how the last one went down.
When it comes to things about Russia that scare me, I’d have to go with the article in last week’s Newsweek about Vladimir Putin’s growing army of brainwashed militants.
The Kremlin has rolled out its newest weapon in the drive to reclaim Russia’s bygone regional dominance: a shadowy youth movement known as Nashi…
I’m sorry? Did you just say “Nashi”?
New recruits to Nashi are given basic military training and can graduate to the black-uniformed street patrols of the Nashi Police or the fledgling Nashi Army…
That’s funny. I could have sworn you just said Russia has a rogue police force and an army of Nashis.
Nashi volunteers visited local schools to show a film titled “Lessons in Courage.” It opens with footage of a vast Nashi meeting of young people wearing identical white T shirts marked with a big red star…
So, you’re saying these Nashis, they like to have rallies wherein they all dress in identical clothing emblazoned with a large red symbol? That’s weird.
Next came shots of Putin juxtaposed with photos of a noble-looking wolf, followed by images of rats. “Putin is a lonely wolf surrounded by rats,” Panchenko told the schoolkids. “Russia has become too corrupt. It is time to change things, time for stronger leaders—like us.”
Oh, okay, never mind. I was mistaken. The Nashis aren’t scary. They’re just an obedient Army of Aryan zealots who think of themselves as exterminators and want to bring their once powerful country back to its former glory. And they think of their leader as a noble wolf. And they patrol the streets in black uniforms in search of traitors. What’s wrong with that? Sounds like a party, actually. Like one huge Nashi party. Â
Nashis are web-savvy too. Last week, they got mad at Estonian officials who tore down a statue of a Soviet soldier, so in retribution, they overloaded Estonia’s computer system with billions of spam emails.
Massive onslaughts of spam brought down the Web sites of government agencies, banks and news services and paralyzed large parts of Estonia’s cyber-reliant economy. NATO sent emergency Internet security assistance to defend the embattled member state.
Wait. The UN has Internet peacekeepers?
That dude saved Darfur (in EverQuest).
$20 says the Nashis will destroy us all.
dude, your website is so primo, and that those dudes are called nashis is pretty funny and weird. Good going
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