May Writing: Most Read
Thirteen million people saw my writing during May. Here are a few of the most read pieces.
Belgorod Uprising and Easter, 1916.
The Russian uprising in Belgorod is a mythos-making operation.
England's savage and ham-fisted execution of the 1916 martyrs in Dublin 1916 provoked sympathy in Ireland, recruited bystanders, and led to Ireland's de-occupation within three years.
Every major Indo-European culture's first king sacrifices themself (https://decodingtrolls.substack.com/p/indo-european-roots-of-early-christianity), so their culture can live: Yima (Iran), Yama (India), Ymir (Germanic), Odin (Scandinavia - Russia's "Wanger" group still sacrifice to Odin, after whom Whodanaz Deus (Wednesday) is named), Bran / Brennos / Brân (Celtic / Belgic), Yemus (Rome), Jesus (Rome), Donn (Ireland - who, by the way, was the grandson of the king of Ancient Ukraine / Scythia),...
As Yeats put it after the supposedly failed Easter Rising's leaders' executions "A terrible beauty is born."
That was the end of the English Empire.
Our job
as Counter Disinfolklorists is to compose and sing these mythos-making songs.
"Our part  Â
To murmur name upon name,  Â
As a mother names her child  Â
When sleep at last has come  Â
On limbs that had run wild.  Â
I write it out in a verse-
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born."
Yesterday, Russia, like Odin, gave itself to itself.
Ukraine Has Turned Russia Into A Stage Set: World's Biggest Netflix Show.
Joke is definitely on the Ruschists.
Much of the income from the TV production company President Zelenskyy, his former classmate, business partner and wife, fellow artists and school friends built - Kvartal 95 - came from selling TV content to Russian consumers.
Now, those Russian consumers themselves are experiencing life in a Truman-show manipulated reality show that was designed in Kyiv.
As Ruschists watch the spectacle of their entire governance system implode, Ruschists, for free, get to consume and participate in Studio Kvartal 95's masterpiece.
Let's Appreciate the Scale and Beauty of the Operation Ukraine Has Unleashed Inside Muscovy. This is art
So the very people in Russia who designed the awe-inspiring Active Measure (Brexit, Trump, Hunter Biden troll) are now themselves entrapped by Ukraine.
They themselves are inside an interlocking system of self-powering dynamics which are leading inexorably to civil war in Muscovy, and the flight of 300,000 Ruschist soldiers in Ukraine home to protect their villages.
A variety of fuses have been lit, only some of which are visible now to us mere civilians in publicly available data.
And like when you press "Launch" on a nuclear reaction, there's simply no way to stop all the forces that have already been set into motion - in Bilhorod, Bryansk, Moscow, nomenclature, inside Wanger, inside elite circles of Ruschist nationalists, in the Duma,...
What we will observe over the coming weeks is the polar opposite of what we saw inside Ukraine's State after Feb 24th, 2022.
There in awe we witnessed a decentralised system of governance with an almost impossible amount of absorptive capacity.
Whatever challenges were thrown at Ukraine, its governance system, we saw President Zelenskyy each night running through the day's challenges/results honestly and openly.
The centre held fast. The Ukrainian State and its people remained (and remain) as one.
By contrast, Muscovy, while trying to fight a war in a foreign country with a denuded and demoralised Potemkin military, is now imploding inside a spiders web of self-fueling entropic dynamics. Muscovy's absorptive capacity and social capital is practically nil.
Moral of this story: Don't go to war with an artistic genius.
A terrible beauty has been born, as we watch this unfurl.
Chef Saucerer's Dilemma: The Russian Separatists' war train is leaving Bilhorod, Bryansk, and Rostov station.
Does the Chef quickly join battle with them or against them? Does the Chef repeat the Putin of restoring peace in Muscovy's Inner Realm. Or does the Chef, like those who installed Putin (the retiring Chief Sorcerer) stoke more tumult, for him to pacify?
Things would have been so much easier for the Chef Saucerer had Wanger Nazis managed to scare president Z from Kyiv (Plan A), kill President Z (Plan B), Take Kyiv and region (Plan C), Conquer all of Luhansk (Plan D), Conquer all of Donetsk (Plan E (by end of March 2022) - Plan Z (by May 9th, 2023).
Now, having failed with Plans A-Z as the Chef (and his oligarch supporters) quest to replace Putin Sorcerer: Wanger Forces (or what's left of them) now back in Muscovy.
The Chef (and his backers in the nomenclature) are clearly hesitating. We're on Day Eleven of the Bilhorod and Bryansk People's uprisings.
They thought they'd be safely installed after successfully decapitating Ukraine's government by 1st March 2022.
Now Ukraine has forced them into this dilemma, just after Wanger lost 70,000 Wanger souls at Bakhmut.
Russia is purposefully hitting Soviet-era spent rocket fuel storage facilities (like Pavlohrad, Dnipro Yushmesh, and Khemil) across Ukraine.
I've visited these facilities and they are NOT ammo dumps or legitimate targets.
Russian disinfolklorists and their useful idiots blame Ukraine for "storing ammo where Russia can hit it."
This is an amnesty-esque blame the victim troll. Hitting these facilities is a war crime.
Ukraine supporters should not be promoting trolls by War Criminals.
The whole purpose of Russia hitting these sites is a. to cause environmental catastrophe and b. to provide content for social media posts.
It's not "ammo."
It's Soviet-era spent rocket fuel. US helped Ukraine get rid of some of it.
However, it's in several sites across Ukraine (I visited the Pavlohrad site in 2020 to discuss disposing it).
Russia is purposefully hitting these storage sites to cause a catastrophe.
As a diplomat in eastern Ukraine, I worked on Environmental Security.
I visited rocket fuel storage sites.
This is what one expert told me: "if 800 tonnes of USSR-era rocket fuel ignites then an area of 150km around the site will be affected & explosive wave will spread out 2.5km."·
On 15 July 2022, Muscovy attacked the epicentre of the USSR's space program in Dnipro (known as rocket city as it made MOST of the rockets for USSR space program). Ruschist plan was to explode vast stores of spent rocket fuel still left in Yushmesh plant. This would have killed 1000s.
Many were sceptical about the plywood sanctions that were introduced. Today on Victory Day we see how a lack of plywood has made even a Potemkin display of Ruschist military power impossible.
Current "king" gives his mother Long Covid. And again, these "monarchists" don't even bother to notice.
Hilariously all these loyal subjects completely let down "their" queen the only time it mattered.
Mogg's months' long Peaky Blinders intimidation of the Head of State preceded the unlawful prorogation of Parliament.
And these "monarchists" completely missed it.
Heaps of public statements from Mogg warning Monarch not to interfere.
Johnson & Privy Council LIED to Head of State about reason for unlawful suspension of Parliament, according to Sup Court in Miller 2.
Meaning of MONARCHY today? I'm a republican & democrat who studied English constitutional law at @Cambridge, so probably I'm qualified to say. tl;dr Democracy is identity of Sovereign & Subject. A monarch in England is Sovereign, while 60m Subjects are, uhm, subjects.
Monarchy's opportunity cost is clear to those who studied English constitutional law @trinhall: Unelected (proclaimed) Head of State is ultimate arbiter. Sees ALL govt papers. English monarch sells their consent for tax breaks to protect their personal financial wealth.
"Royal Prerogative" power exercised by English monarch's "prime" minister is NOT subject to Parliament. Parliament is "supreme" NOT "sovereign" in England's constitution. Yet, govt prorogued parliament using prerogative powers, and is now trying to limit judges' power.
Origin of institution of Monarchy is in eastern Ukraine. 100,000 ancient Ukrainian Yamnaya mounds across Ukraine today are the burial and inauguration places for Indo-European culture's first monarchs.
Before the first ancient Ukrainian monarchs, Old Europe's communities buried everyone together. Their idols buried with them were female and male and neither. With the first Indo-European language that gradually conquered the cultural space between India and Ireland.
The Ancient Ukrainian patriarchal and hierarchical model of arranging communities with a monarch as leader also diffused. England today still has the institutions, nomenclature and disadvantages of this ancient Ukrainian system of monarchy.
Actual meaning of "Monarchy" though is concealed in the Mona sound of its signifier. This M-N- sound has for millennia occupied some of the most important concepts in Indo-European communities India<-> Ireland. Including in the "muni" element of Community's signifier itself.
The Monarch (and we are ALL monarchs in a truly aspirant democratic republic) is the PERFORMER OF SERVICES to others in the community. Our exchange of "muni" (our generosity) is repaid by everyone. They who transgress the rules of reciprocity are rightly held in contempt.
A State that celebrates only one monarch is a State privileging transactions, not reciprocated services. Money (also contains muni meaning (as does meaning itself)) becomes THE arbiter of ones value to community. Subject is subject to the employer, & the community has no reciprocal duty to perform services for such a subject.
Out of this comes the Thatcher/Reaganite troll of there being no society, only subjects. Such Fake Communities don't need Social Protection. Monarchies measure humans' value by how much they EARN for the boss.
UPDATE: China's 'Korea Scenario' for Russia.
Xi had ordered his generals to prepare to invade Taiwan by 2027.
After Bilhorod, CCP's generals have now been given an additional ambitious target: Xi has ordered CCP generals to prepare to invade Russia, By. Next. Monday.
Recall that 300,000 million Chinese citizens live adjacent to very sparsely populated parts of Russia where minimal resistance is expected.
Last month we reported the Three Z, Xi, 3e! secret treaty had been agreed between Xi's China and President 3e!'s Ukraine.
Together they would outflank Russia's "Z" zealots to occupy Boli (formerly known as the Russian region of Khabarovsk).
This is the "Korea Scenario" for Russia.
Ukraine would occupy the European part, and China the Asian part of Russia.
Under the Three 3e!, Xi, Z Treaty, referendums would be held in each of Russia's former federal units.
"Former Russians" would have the option to obtain either a Chinese or a Ukrainian (internal) passport.
Chinese Communist Party is HYPER sensitive to efforts to divide CCP and Russia. Any of us who understand the Russian Silivoki mind understand their mega deep paranoia about 700m Chinese invading Muscovy's Asian empire. Stoke those frienemies' (China & Russia) paranoia.
My sources in Kyiv tell me Ukraine's Spring offensive will begin in Boli (formerly known as Khabarovsk). 3e! has agreed with Xi to outflank Z. Ukraine will hold a referendum to see if Nanai, Evens, Evenki, & Orochi people want to join the EU or China.
(This may have been prescient as at time of writing, it may be that Ukraine’s counter-offensive has begun in an equally surprising part of Russia itself - Bilhorod. But, it’s too early to tell at this point).
Kremlin Redefines "Korea Scenario" for Ukraine.
Muscovy plans to use North Korean slave labour in Ukraine.
Previously, Muscovy had planned a "Korea Scenario" for Ukraine meaning Muscovy would occupy left-bank Ukraine + Odesa.
Kremlin Abandons Its "Korea Scenario" for Ukraine. Muscovy set out to conquer all of left-bank Ukraine + Odesa/Bessarabia. Via karma's Concordant Causation Muscovy North Korea'd itself. Apt then the only state it can deal with now as an equal is: North Korea.
In 1015 Putin's namesake (painted here with all his dress-wearing sons) fell ill and died, just as he was about to march against one of his sons Yaroslavl of Kyiv. Lukashenko, interestingly, is sometimes referred to as "Putin's Papa" and he appears to have gotten food poisoning before eating anything. History never repeats. But it rhymes, as famous American writer once said.
Drones Over Moscow: Do They Help Ukraine?
Ukrainians are tortured by a lack of sleep due to Ruschist drone and missile attacks.
Ukrainians spirits are raised when Russians' experience this annoyance.
Russian Disinfolklore has brainwashed its own people into believing Ukraine attacks civilians.
Now, this belief provokes fear and sleeplessness in Russia.
Last week a Russian woman reported a seagull to the police. She thought it was a bio-bird drone.
The joke is on Russia.
Ukraine is letting its enemies own lies about Ukraine torture the enemy. This teaches Russia a lesson most children learn by aged six: Actions provoke consequences. There's no such thing as a free genocide.
Demonstrating to average Ruschists that Russian air defences are rubbish pierces Muscovy's sense of invulnerability.
Russia's real fear is of China, not Ukraine or the West. This is why Russia attacked Ukraine - because it thought it could attack with impunity.
Now it turns out Ukraine is a lion. Showing China how vulnerable Russia is encourages China to start thinking about re-taking lands European Muscovy has occupied since 17th century.
Driving a wedge between these two frienemies is a strategic goal for the West. It is after all the very strategy the Axis of Misogyny (Iran, China, Russia) has used against the West.
What little air defences Moscovy has are wasted on $5,000 Ukrainian drones. Muscovites get sleepless nights because of their own rubbish air defence.
Remember Ruschists have filled Russians' minds for decades about their military prowess. This sense of personal pride is what helped keep Ruschism afloat. Now Ukraine uses the skies above Moscow to advertise how weak Muscovy actually is.
In fact, these drones over Moscow could well be Wanger forces getting ready for their coup. 300,000 Ruschist soldiers in Ukraine start wondering why they're in Ukraine, when their families and villages soon will be ravaged by an internal Russian civil war. Moscow is Ruschia's centre of power.
It felt invincible and invulnerable. Now every Muscovite from Duma members downwards in the power vertical is being haunted by the sound of drones and citizens asking them about security.
Russia has lied for a decade about Ukraine attacking its own civilians. Every news bulletin in Ruschia since February 2014 has painted Ukraine (wrongly) as systematically attacking civilians. Now, this fear created by Ruschist Disinfolklore to justify its genocide against Ukrainians is being used against Muscovites. This kind of asymmetric warfare by Ukraine is well within the Laws of War. It's also a perfect example of Reflexive Control: using your enemies known weakness against them.
They fear the worst. Ukraine is building its brand in Muscovy. After decades of Disinfolklore about their own power and Ukrainians weakness - Ruschists now are learning that Ukraine is an Israel-like warrior power. Russia's Lies About Ukraine Haunt Muscovite's Drone Nightmares.
Ukraine just needs to perfect drones that sound much louder than the Iranian mopeds giving Ukrainians sleepless nights.
My hypothesis: NATO membership and F16s are being held back from Ukraine until it capitulates over Crimea, which of course will never happen. It's a policy promotes by those who didn't live through minsk I and Minsk II. Crimea remaining under occupation will mean permanent war.
The Chef of Disinfolklore: Putin's Chef's Brexit / Trump Trolls' Toll.
The Chef's Internet Research Agency created drove and initiated division in England and in USA that delivered Brexit and Trump. As @peterjukes argues in @BylineTimes "Brexit" was the Kompromat.
England's establishment was split into two by a Russian Active Measure operation that the Chef was a key part of.
The pro-Brexit side became complicit in the conspiracy against English democracy that was constructed in The Chef's St Petersburg troll factory.
The pro-Brexit side through Russian War Magic and its own complicity in the Great Brexit troll became willing to sacrifice England's constitution, cohesive society, reputation as creator and propagator of human rights and, even, its own food supply on the Altar of Brexit that The Chef's Disinfolklore created.
Similarly, Trump itself operates as the Russia-created kompromat in the USA.
Those who fell for the Trump Troll, rather than expose their own complicity in a Russian Active Measure, even today, defend the Jan 6th coup and an insurrectionist former president.
The Chef Character created in the public's consciousness by naïf commentators on Ukraine over the past six months is behind Brexit and Trump.
Even today the Chef with his grandfather glasses and expertly delivered Disinfolklore is trolling Americans into thinking China only, but not weak Russia, is the enemy. So, although the Chef is now in the soup over his disasters in Popasna and Bakhmut, the joke is on us.
Stealth Genocide:
Putin, Girkin, the Chef (and all of those within their chains of command and influence) as well as Ruschist Disinfolklorists' media output on TV and Telegram solved the same problem Hitler solved, but in our era of transparency:
How to promote and carry out an eight-year-long Stealth Genocide, while everyone watches, and no-one notices.
It's the crime of the millennium.
Each genocide has particular characteristics.
Ruschia's genocide in Ukraine since April 2014 is particularly chilling, and perfectly designed.
I am a Cambridge University trained international lawyer who worked as a diplomat in Russia-occupied Luhansk 2015-2018.
Yet, I didn't understand the pattern of activities I was observing conformed to the genocide definition until after the full-scale invasion.
Ruschia purposefully brain-washed Ukrainians in Russia-occupied Ukraine with the goal of preparing them to kill or be killed by their fellow Ukrainians in a full-scale invasion.
So all the Disinfolklore which I monitored and reported on for seven years working in eastern Ukraine in all of its craziness had one overarching goal: Persuade Ukrainians to kill Ukrainians.
As this Ruschian occupier terrorist leader now says of occupied Donetsk:
There are NO 25-55 year-old males left (today's 25 year old Ukrainian from occupied Donetsk pointlessly run through the "meat grinder" in Avdiivka or Bakhmut was the excited fourteen-year-old who watched the European football championship match played in Donetsk in 2012, before the genocide).
"It's bloodless" that Ruschist genocidor in occupied Donetsk now says meaning:
"There are no 25-55 yo males left. Their blood has been squeezed out of their living bodies by Ruschism and "Russkiy Mir."
Putin and the Chef and Girkin are spoken of in our culture as if they're celebrities, reliable sources, or up until recently merely incompetent public functionaries.
14,000,000 Ukrainians forced from their homes. At least 300,000 Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Muscovy, and 3m adults. Communities, villages, hamlets destroyed in perpetuity, affecting millions of people.
Worlds which will never return.
Hundreds of thousands of wild animals, vast forests, farms, nature reserves permanently destroyed.
About 200,000 Ukrainians, mostly native Russian language speakers murdered by Ruschia.
AND all this as part of a focussed, planned, & ongoing eight-year-long genocide of Ukrainians.
Given that ordinary criminals would be imprisoned for decades for any of these millions of crimes, I want our culture to change its tone when speaking of the Chef or normalising/promoting Nazi "Wanger" brand, as supposedly respectable media outlets do every day now.
They're falling for the troll.
Chef's McDonalds trolls.
Let's decode Putin's Chef's Internet trolls focus on Kyiv McDonald’s today.
Their goal was to show Kyiv teenagers enjoying normal life and to stimulate division in countries which are supporting Ukraine’s resistance to genocide financially: Look how normal things are in Kyiv! Why are you arming Ukraine?!
Russia has sacrificed ALL their McDonald’s on the altar of genociding Ukrainians.
McDonald’s was once, for Muscovy, a sign of the future. They're facing total failure on all fronts.
They can't face the fact: Ukraine has a European future. While, Muscovy's sunk. Forever.
Now, on the fifth day of the Bryansk and Bilhorod People's revolutions, they're trolling about McDonald’s. And that's why Russia is a failure.
They should be focussing on how to protect their families from Wanger civil war chaos, not channelling their resentiment at not being able to have their cake (McDonald’s in St Petersburg) while eating it (directly and publicly inciting genocide in Ukraine).