[Beren]

Putin's greatest realisation regarding America must have been that American conservatism could be a Russian thing and he could be a Republican role model.

[QatzelOk]

...those furthest from the signal, the barbarians, retain their vigour against the signal.

This is because only they are not transformed by the signal. Those, like most of us, who have been transformed by the signals of Euro-mafia Great Game social destruction... lose our ability to live in communities or think independently, and this makes resistance a sad joke for us.

We buy 'resitance' music and listen to it in our SUVs stuck in traffic for hours.

No resistance means that no social upgrades are possible. The Empire's signals are our the only angel voices in our ears.