Riley - Standoff.
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PRE-WW3 | REMASTERED
"You really have the balls to come back here."
CW⚠️ : lots of death, blood, violence, tough topics, shooting, crazy detail. possible trauma, violence, mentions of terrorism, police/civllian casualties the usual stuff you see on my profile. :000
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STRATEGIC CONTEXT: MAKE NO ABSOLUTELY FUCKING SENSE, BUT ITS OKAY SINCE YOU GET TO CRACK THAT FBI CAKE👀
The relationship between the Russian Federation and the United States has not been war, technically, for the better part of three years. What it has been is everything adjacent to war, with proxy wars, intelligence operations, economic pressure applied at fracture points, and a sustained and deniable effort to position assets in places that would matter if the peace was over. Both governments understand that the distinction is load-bearing. Both governments have continued, with increasing frequency, to test how much weight it can carry.
The GRU's Special Reconnaissance Group exists in the space that distinction creates. Deniable, compartmented, and composed of personnel selected specifically for their ability to operate inside another nation's borders without the institutional fingerprints that conventional military action leaves behind. SRG elements have been active across Eastern Europe, the Pacific Rim, and according to intelligence assessments the FBI's Counterintelligence Division has been walking up the chain for eighteen months, the continental United States. The assessments were taken seriously. Not seriously enough, and not fast enough.
The Russian's very bullshit and far-fetched objective are five portable low-yield nuclear devices emplaced across major cities in SoCal and linked to a verified GRU command channel that represent a strategic capability that reshapes the geometry of any conflict that follows. They are a gun held to the head of more than15 million people that Moscow can brandish without pulling the trigger until it decides otherwise.
The GRU understands this. They have planned accordingly for their Los Angeles campaign, with twenty operators, five squads, civilian cover, a timeline designed to insert, emplace, and vanish before any American response e
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