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Same move. Same hand on the heart, same wave to the crowd. Musk did it and gets called a Nazi to this day. Mamdani does it and those same people have not said a word. Well, not exactly. Once the side by side clips went viral, some of them did speak up. Not to apologize to Musk. To defend Mamdani. Suddenly the gesture is not the gesture. Suddenly we need to talk about arm speed. Whether the fingers wiggled at the end. Whether he was smiling. Whether his grandparents were in the right party. A year ago none of that mattered. The hand went up, the verdict came down. Now we get a forensic seminar on millimeters and microseconds to prove Mamdani's arm moved slower. Mamdani's own press office said "in no way was this a Nazi salute." Funny. Musk said the same thing. His did not count. Mamdani's did, instantly. That tells you everything. The "Nazi salute" thing was never about the gesture. If it were, they would be screaming right now. They are not. It was about Musk. They hate him because he is the richest man in the world and he was attacking their ideological piggy bank with DOGE, so they smeared him. Mamdani is on their team, so he gets a pass, plus a defense team running stopwatch analysis. Same hand, opposite verdict. A wave is a wave. The rule does not change based on who is waving. When it does, you are not watching principle. You are watching a hit job.

Russia: A “war” began between two rival clans of Vladimir Putin’s security personnel. One clan, led by presidential advisor Dmitry Mironov (a former bodyguard), is aggressively seeking full control of Russia’s entire security apparatus and, by extension, the country’s leadership. It aims to gradually replace the “old Putin guard” with younger loyalists who have clear political ambitions and want access to the largest budget flows, especially in energy. The opposing clan, headed by Alexey Rubezhny (chief of the Presidential Security Service), consists of “guardians” who have built enormous corruption schemes thanks to their constant proximity to Putin, becoming billionaires in the process. This group has no political ambitions and wants Russia to remain exactly as it is. Rubezhny’s near-24/7 access to Putin gives his clan unmatched influence; he uses clever security pretexts to extract favourable decisions from the president. Both clans enjoy powerful support from businessmen, oligarchs and officials. The Mironov clan now views Rubezhny as a major obstacle and is actively discussing how to sideline him. - VChK-OGPU source in the Russian government