You are. Your government put sanctions on its citizens
in order to spite Russia.

Does anyone know if Reallifelore is CIA/NED affiliated?

I know at least one channel being part of something else in disguise.
China Uncensored is Falun Gong.
In other words the show is made up of cult members
trying to make a buck for their CIA-backed cult leader.

ADVChina I suspect to be a racist fanboy with ambition
went to China to look for his youtube idol,
and it turned out that his idol is a racist too and after some talk the idol became quite fond
of his racist fanboy, and so they decided to make racist content together
and married self-hating Hong Kong Chinese.
They're not CIA/NED assets. Too stupid for that.

But I don't know about Reallifelore, Wendover productions or the Infographics Show.
They feel more than just racist to me, like China Uncensored.

1. We figured out that working together makes a nation stronger faster
   than living under a system that kicks people to the curb or kills them outright
   just because another group of people deem them inferior and a threat to their position.
   And most often these same people also sycophantically and pathetically
   suck up to other people that they deem absolutely superior
   and more civilized to their position, no matter what they do or how absurd.
2. We are disgusted by the above behavior of in one way or another.
   Either their ruthlessness, their hypocrisy or their sycophantic behavior,
   while still somehow thinking that they are better and more civilized than others.
3. We followed and notice the disconnected changing narrative
   of economic policies over time and notice that the real rules are:
   "Free market and no handouts" for thee and
   "infinite economic security" for us elite.
4. We followed and notice the disconnected changing narrative
   of election policies over time and notice that if you live in a "(liberal) democracy",
   as branded by the US, that all the most policies are decided
   by Wall Street oligarchs, even if you're a citizen of France or Japan.
5. We followed and notice the disconnected changing narrative
   of a violent political event over time by your local media
   and then try to figure out what else you've been lied about
   and notice a running theme of issue #1/2 on a global scale,
   of all "democracies".
6. If you're a citizen of one of these "liberal democracies"
   and looked towards "nationalists" to address issue #4,
   we have followed and noticed that these "nationalists"
   that complain about "globalism" are just "globalist racists"
   that consider issue #3, #4 and #5 to be a failure of the system in issue #1,
   that is to say, they're being surpassed by a group of "inferior" people
   and that this group of people has to be killed outright immediately,
   before they pose any further threat.

Correct me if I'm wrong or whether Im missing something.

This is what Victionary Nuland must have meant by "nasty surpises".
Terrorist attacks.
She was talking about terrorist attacks.

Prevent!?
To me it looks more like they want further humiliation for NATO.

red liberal?
To me that sounds like someone who seemingly supports a right-wing party, but secretly is communist or socialist.
I think social liberal is probably less confusing for this kind of person, you know, a true and true centrist, not left or right.

What about the growing power and thus popularity of China in Russia?

@yewler

I hope I'm no longer banned. (Hurray, I'm no longer banned from this place)
I'm looking at @StalinIsMaiWaifu as I was failing with 1, 3 and 4, although that was 20 years ago.

1. It's not about "talking to people". I'm not good at that, so that didn't work for me.
2. The biggest win for me was joining the anime/game/book (all-rolled-into-one) club, as it was the ideal social setting for me.
3. The people I ended up making friends with were those that just joined, because those don't have friends yet and once they do, they no longer look for new ones, just like you would.
   You should look for those people in particular.

Those are the three best advices I could give you.

Russia really needs to understand I think Europe won’t fold easily.

They already do, that's why they keep it at SMO.
You need to understand that they have time on their side.
Russia's current goal isn't to get Zelensky on his knees, but to get the US on it's knees.

And how do you think Europe is building out it's green energy?
Those windmills and solar panels don't pop out of the ground
and with Europe and the US de-industrializing, who do you think is building them?

Where are your cat ears?

Because all transactions, additions and rule changes are done by consensus of the miners.
And the miners are mostly automated servers that say yes to all transactions, yes to all additions followed by the guidelines set up at creation and no to any large rule changes. of which the changes are already quite limited by the already existing blockchain.
So much so that when a large theft has taken place, either a fork is created or nothing is done about the theft at all.
And thefts have been made.

This is why so many alt-coins keep popping up, as Bitcoin is easily surpassable in terms of function/technology and it's also why "Satoshi Nakamoto" decided to quit the Bitcoin project and went on to create another.

Tether on the other hand is a promise that you will get US dollars for the Tether you buy. Their transactions are not done by miners, but by Tether Incorperated. Control Tether Incorperated and you control all Tether transactions.

How would they control cryptocoins when that stuff is uncontrollable in the first place?
I can understand Tether or Ripple, but Bitcoin and others not so much.

CIA owns tether?

The way I see it.

"Has communism won?"

It lost almost everywhere, the big exception being China, and now it's coming back.

"Is it a matter of time before the collapse of the West?"

There is no such thing as "the West", only the US empire, which has been in territorial decline ever since pro-China Hong Kong won against anti-China Hong Kong.
The time is when Ukraine loses the war, because that's going to cause political shock waves across the world. Mostly because of the amount of investment the EU and US are pouring into this in order to weaken Russia.
But even if the Ukraine war is won, the decline of the US and EU will continue.
A turn-around would be the US or EU finding massive fossil resources in their area. That's not going to happen.

"Or will fascism have a complete takeover?"

In the US? Maybe. But the EU will collapse before it can get off the ground. The Ukraine toll will be too large.

"What are some things that will almost certainly happen?"

Ukraine will lose the war.

The moment the war is lost, US and EU public will panic and in response, escalate the issue even further. Holding fascist riots against any nation that's neutral towards Russia. Chinese, Indians, Muslims. They're all targeted and it will be done in the name of peace and freedom and democracy.
What's done against Russia right now, will be done against China, India, Saudi-Arabia and other countries.

The EU far-right will be further split into pro-Russian conservatives and pro-liberal pro-Ukrainians.
EU will be poorer than Russia and China on a per capita basis by 2030.
EU will have civil wars between liberal (+fascists), pro-Russian conservatives (-fascists), and socialists.
Hyperinflation in the US, EU and Japan.
Taiwan will be reunited with the PRC before 2030.
War between US and Saudi-Arabia before 2030.