Re: moon thing (Russians confirming Apollo)
About 10 years ago I met one of the journalists who has long worked in the ufology field. A person with a good reputation and who walked the balance beam between gullibility and skepticism pretty well. Naturally he/she was approached by both genuine whistleblowers as well as disinformation artists.
One of his/her interviews was with Neil Armstrong. A private talk at his home, with the proviso that it wasn't to be discussed until after his death. I don't want to mention the journalist's name or gender as it's irrelevant and he/she might not like getting attention from the chans.
According to the journalist, who for all I know might have been lying to me, Armstrong confirmed that he and Aldrin and Collins did indeed go to the moon in July 1969, but that they were helped and guided along by some other group with far superior technology. Upon landing, Armstrong saw craft of a far superior design to anything NASA had, and it wasn't clear to him whether the owners of those craft were the same as the ones who had escorted the NASA trio to the moon.
Armstrong left the journalist with the strong impression that the Saturn V rocket was not the main vehicle that got them there; that a more advanced technology was used, quite possibly one based on the work of Thomas Townsend Brown, who had worked in the field of electrogravitics. The Saturn V story was one that would make sense to normies and justify certain budget outlays, while at the same time not disclosing the extent of American technological knowledge to potential enemies.
After spending 15 years or so reading and talking to folks and digging, my sense of it is that, yes, Armstrong/Aldrin/Collins did visit the moon in 1969; that the Van Allen Belts are not a major obstacle as many claim, provided one uses a suitable craft; (that the Earth is basically a sphere, doh!); but that the Apollo 11 crew quickly realized they were neither the first intelligent beings to set foot on the moon, and not even the first Earth humans there. That lunar exploration by modern humans probably began by the late 1940s. The Apollo 11 event was simply the first publicized trip.
Also, that moon trips didn't end in 1972, though they had to be conducted under a certain degree of hostility from those already there. Thinking logically, abandoning the moon in 1972 would be like the Spanish Empire abandoning the Americas in 1493. Of course further trips were made, to the moon and beyond.
Armstrong refused all his public speaking invitations (and there were hundreds, every year from 1969 till his death, for university commencement ceremonies and more) as he was not permitted to speak truthfully about his experience, and had enough character to not stand on a podium and lie.
The journalist was quite explicit that Armstrong was told his family would be murdered if he spoke of these things before his death. I think Armstrong himself was quite willing to give his own life, his masonic vows notwithstanding.
Exopolitics and ufology served as the entry way for many of us anons into Qresearch… as Q Team has intimated, it's all connected.