DIY-HP-LED
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It's 250 miles from the Belarus border to Moscow and 270 miles to Moscow from the Ukraine border, as the cruise missile flies. It's only 80 miles from the Estonian border to St Petersburg and less than 70 miles to Minsk in Belarus to the Lithuanian border. Many places are a lot closer to the European border lands in Belarus, almost the whole country is in TV broadcast range, especially if most of the broadcast energy is directed towards them. A lot of European Russia with most of it's population is exposed to western TV and radio broadcasts. Vlad will need to break out the old radio jammers, but they are probably all gone by now and there are many new frequencies used for digital TV and most digital TVs these days can pick up hundreds with a good antenna. It will take Vlad a long time to jam broadcasts from Europe and he will need to confiscate all the satellite dishes in the country, they can be broadcast to too. Then there is the internet and all the hackers and crooks in Russia who are pissed off at Vlad now for screwing them.
So there's plenty of wiggle room here for the CIA to get all those TV people fleeing Russia and give them jobs in Kyiv doing Russian language TV and being transmitted by transmitters near the border by a half a dozen radio and TV stations. The Russians would even see the people they were used to seeing before on TV and trust. Truthful news in a place like Russia will have a high value, despite what we hear about Putin's support. There is a war on, body bags are arriving home, there are prisoners, Russia is a fucked economically, shunned by the world and Vlad fucked up and fucked them all. There is no cover of a great ideological struggle, just Vlad's dream and his fault, with nearly the globe against them. Bad news travels fast and they are getting a lot of bad news and will get much more, whether the government tells them or they see it in the shops and on the streets or read computer printouts of news stories, or hear rumors from their grand kids and kids.
So there's plenty of wiggle room here for the CIA to get all those TV people fleeing Russia and give them jobs in Kyiv doing Russian language TV and being transmitted by transmitters near the border by a half a dozen radio and TV stations. The Russians would even see the people they were used to seeing before on TV and trust. Truthful news in a place like Russia will have a high value, despite what we hear about Putin's support. There is a war on, body bags are arriving home, there are prisoners, Russia is a fucked economically, shunned by the world and Vlad fucked up and fucked them all. There is no cover of a great ideological struggle, just Vlad's dream and his fault, with nearly the globe against them. Bad news travels fast and they are getting a lot of bad news and will get much more, whether the government tells them or they see it in the shops and on the streets or read computer printouts of news stories, or hear rumors from their grand kids and kids.
