⚡️Mirror Strikes Back.
Russia justified its genocide in Ukraine, by accusing Ukraine of exactly the genocidal behaviour Russia practises in Ukraine🤯.
Now, Ukraine practises the same mirroring technique.
Here, Ukraine mirrors Russia's "Crimea Playbook" word-for-word.
As I've warned Russia repeatedly👇🏽: "Reflexive Control" works both ways.
⚡️We no longer speak of "THE" Nazis.
Today, we speak (in the past tense) of "German Nazis" and (in the present tense) of "Ruschist Nazis."
By labelling an Other as "Nazi" Ruschist Nazis like Medvedyev thought we wouldn't notice the Wanger Ruschist Nazis and Medvedyev and Putin's own worship of the Nazis.
We reclaim naming rights for Nazis, from Ruschist Nazis.
⚡️It's a framing problem.
Let's discuss which of the parties inside the entity responsible for the dam might have blown it up: FSB, GRU, Rifle Brigade,... Now, that's a discussion worth having about Nordstream and the Dam. To get entangled in the Ruschia-driven and BBC propagated False Framing is to repeat the Brexit error.
The choice is not between whether or not ERG, on the one side is "right" and another bunch of Tories on the other side is "wrong."
⚡️I mourn every day for those stuck under occupation in southern Zaporozhzhia, in communities and village that I know well.
I celebrate every day that there is the contact line. And that the Ruschists' Plans A-Z (👇🏽) failed so miserably.
Ruschists plan after they captured Kyiv was to turn Ukrainian defenders into insurgents, while Russia, France and Germany got back to business.
It's a miracle where Ukraine is today. And destiny where they're heading. Though more speedy F16s, F18s, and ATACMs would be appropriate.
⚡️Paleo-Male Gaze: Ukraine As A Woman.
Paleo-Male Anti-equality "warriors", like Putin, Jordan Peterson, Kennedy,...
believe that when a man (Ruschia) is (mythically) provoked by a woman (Ukraine), the Man MUST rise to the "provocation."
According to their paleo-conservative view, their victim (Ukraine, a woman,...) has a death wish and no-one has the "Reich" to interfere with their paleo-conservative's will to power.
Putin likened Ukraine to a Dead Woman thus:
“Like it or not, take it, my beauty,” a reference to a vulgar Russian rhyme about necrophiliac r***, implying an intention to inflict similar destruction on Ukraine and a view of Ukraine as a corpse."
We're with you until the last Ruschist leaves Ukraine.
⚡️ Wanger: Subjugator, becomes the Subjected.
Ruschist Wanger Nazis' main job in Russia-occupied Luhansk was eliminating armed groups.
After Russia's occupation of Luhansk began in April 2014, armed groups sprung up to protect their villages and neighbourhoods.
Ruschia used Wanger to destroy these armed groups and subordinate ALL armed forces to the Russian occupiers "Luhansk People's Republic" governance unit.
Now, in an example of Concordant Causation within the Buddhist Law of Karma: By invading Ukraine, Ruschia has oodles of armed groups to subjugate inside Muscovy.
And, Wanger is now to be subjugated, instead of being the subjugator.
⚡️Lesson of Breaking Bad is: All criminals always think they're one deal away from Nirvana. Perpetually.
Russia's criminal leadership always think they're one madcap plan away from victory in Ukraine. A famine in Africa. A Republican Senate majority. Trump. Ukraine gets scared...
⚡️Russian Nazis and Tolstoy.
Not reading Russian literature is the Achilles heal of Ruschist Nazis.
On 1st March 2022, because I'd read War and Peace, I was able to call this war - Ruschia had done a Reverse Napoleon by invading Ukraine without proper logistics and means of communicating with its own Ruschist Nazi soldiers.
Anyway Leo Tolstoy's ancestor Duma member Pyotr Tolstoy has read all of Ruschist literature. He understands the depth of the Deep People when he tells us joyfully: "Death is our national ideology."
Ruschist diplomats promote Ukrainian composer Tchaikovsky as a reason why we should enable Ruschia's genocide.
Ruschia destroyed Tchaikovsky's house in occupied Trostyanets. Anyway, all Tchaikovsky did was bring Ukrainian folk melodies that were thousands-of-years-old into bourgeois society.
⚡️France invented "Sadism."
Ruschia is THE European leader in sado-masochism AND sadism.
It's "humiliating" for the self-declared Third Rome (🙄) to lower itself in this way.
Imagine committing 1/2 a war crime for every dead Ruschist soldier.
Ukraine has held out twice as long as the French did against the German Nazis.
⚡️Many Aspects of Stealth Genocide.
Wives of Russian collaborating "police" in Russia-occupied Donetsk are complaining. Russia's press-ganging their husbands to fight against Ukraine in "meat assaults."
They're both victims of and perpetrators of genocide against their fellow Ukrainians.
One aspect of Nazi Ruschia's Stealth Genocide in Ukraine is, through Disinfolklore, brainwashing Ukrainians in Russia-occupied Ukraine into thinking their fellow Ukrainians were trying to kill them.
Now Russia is cashing in on its eight-year Wanger-driven Disinfolklore investment - Ruschia's sending Ukrainian collaborating "police" from Donetsk to be killed by Ukrainian army counter offensive forces.
Ruschia's own fake governor of occupied Ukraine has admitted there are no 25-55yo men left in Russia-occupied Donetsk. "It's bloodless," he moans.
We might feel sorry for these wives and husbands who've benefitted from Ruschia's occupation of Ukraine since 2014. They're victims of Ruschia's Nazi occupation of Ukraine.
Yet, 1.5m Ukrainians left Russia-occupied Ukraine because they refused to collaborate. So these wives and husbands, adults, had a choice. So they're guilty too. They don't deserve to be killed. But they do deserve jail time for participating in Stealth Genocide.
This Disinfolklore induced Stealth Genocide has many other aspects too:
Most leaders across G7, EU and NATO didn't understand that what happened in Russia-occupied Ukraine was a grooming process - Nuremberg judges held criminally liable those who prepared genocidors, the propagandists.
I am a Cambridge University international lawyer, steeped in Hannah Arendt's work, Primo Levi and the literature of the Holocaust.
As a diplomat who worked in eastern Ukraine, establishing the facts in relation to Ruschia's occupation, I didn't realise until March 2022 that I had been, since 2014, witnessing a genocide.
I had been right inside it. Yet, I didn't recognise the pattern. That's Stealth Genocide.
Currently, the 1949 Genocide Convention defines as genocide "public and direct incitement" to cover the Disinfolklore necessary to brainwash perpetrators and victims of every genocide.
This is too narrow a definition to cover the guilty in the system of Stealth Genocide that Ruschia has designed and executed in Ukraine since March 2014.
⚡️Russia Has No "Right" to hit ANY target in Ukraine.
Russian Disinfolklorists like Strelkov, Chef, etc are trying to rebrand their War of Aggression (legally defined: Russia IS the Aggressor) as a war of defence.
International Law 101: Muscovy has ZERO right to hit ANY target in Ukraine. Military or otherwise. Russia only has duties in Ukraine: to observe the Laws of War.
Ukraine has the legal right to hit any Russian military-related target anywhere on earth, in accordance with the laws of war. Ukraine has a UN Charter defined inherent right to defend itself.
UN General Assembly voted 141-5 in March 2022: Russia leave Ukraine.
⚡️Ukraine Will Never Surrender.
Ukraine has fought the Ruschist Nazis since March 2014.
German Nazis surrendered after a mere six years. Ruschist Nazis have outlasted the German Nazis in Ukraine, sure. But Ukraine has already outlasted the French, Germans, and Russians pitiful performances in WWI.
The issue is, I believe, beyond books, and art. It's essentially about Ukraine and Ukrainians participation on an equal basis in our contemporary global culture. And it's wider than being about merely art, literature, or particular markets.
It's about acknowledging that a European imperialist power (Muscovy) peopled by Nordic and Slavic Ruschist Nazis has been occupying Yakutia /Sakha Republic / Siberia for hundreds of years.
We celebrate such genocides at our peril - whether in art, or geopolitics.
Ukraine since Feb 24th 2022 has suddenly arrived into itself in our, foreigners', awareness.
Ukraine gives us a contemporary window into centuries of persisting Ruschist Nazi imperialism.
It just so happens that 100,000+ Ukrainians have been murdered since Feb 24th 2022 to purchase this enlightenment for us.
We can benefit, from understanding the perspective their sacrifice gives to us of Ruschist imperialism, as it applies in our consciousnesses as well as in the persisting impact on the Small Numbered Native Peoples across the Ruschist Federation who have been and continue to be wiped out, including in Yakutia where Ms Gilbert's book was set.
Every household on earth pays for Ruschist Nazi imperialism - food and utilities' prices for everyone have increased as a result of Ruschist Nazi imperialism and blood lust in Ukraine.
And Ukrainians rightfully are astonished that many still see them as somehow separate from mainstream global popular culture. This is what this controversy illustrates.
It's a huge learning opportunity for all of us, which many of us including me, @GilbertLiz and you are grabbing with both hands. As a writer too I have huge empathy for Ms Gilbert's sacrifice.