The narrative is that the continent is going to be overrun by Russia (at the rate of mile per year like in Ukraine). So the elites think they need the gold in London to pay for their exile government luxury.

No, that isn't the narrative.

There are some extremely sketchy instances with "are you a robot" click dialogs that redirect to exploit URLs.

I would search for other options not listed. I'm not going to name them here because X is lazy and reads HN for scheduling takedown notices.

None of the instances listed have anything like that going on. I believe that all listed instances use either https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/, https://anubis.techaro.lol/, https://git.miningtcup.me/MiningTcup/dogwaf (made by me), or nothing at all. I recommend against using instances not listed unless you know the host because there are reasons for them to not be listed. I won't elaborate on the reasons for some major instances not being on the list as I want to keep my HN account.

Yes, I entered via nittr.tr, chose one of the instances, got a robot turnstile.

I was on a Windows computer where I didn't care and clicked the turnstile. It was a fake turnstile that redirected to exploit URLs of rough form 1212-12w31762.spammy-url.lol/10919023w71238123ww8128z1287z18178-12w1287wz62178612873ww682183w12.

The browser blocked them. I don't remember which instance it was.

Another instance had a completely broken search feature. Nothing had the quality of the real xcancel.com or nitter.net.

I can assure you that was not an instance on the list.

Do not trust your lying eyes ...