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Something's going on. How Ukraine destroys Russia. "Pope as anti-christ" meme reborn. Murdered journalist's legacy. Russia / America powerdox. Watching ‘experts’ share Donald’s Disinfolklore. Canada.
⚡️Something’s afoot.
I hope they’re setting Russia up, as I simply can’t see Russia agreeing to a 30 day unconditional ceasefire or sticking to one.
Without the war, Russian economy will fall apart and a reckoning for Putin will result in his death.
Meanwhile, EU has just invested €1b to produce weapons in Ukraine for Ukraine and oodles of countries have done likewise.
Macron said that yesterday he spoke to Donald multiple times. Here they are having a chat with Donald who, as we all know, ultimately couldn’t give a flying fock about Ukraine, this afternoon in Kyiv.
Hopefully they’re trolling Donald into agreeing to sign this massive new secondary sanctions bill on Russia that the Senate overwhelmingly voted for the other day.
Hopefully Russia is too dumb to take the ceasefire offer.
Meanwhile, Ukraine like a Siren lures Russia towards its own destruction as a state.
⚡️How Ukraine destroys Russia.
Russia invades Ukraine on the strength of this preposterous troll. This item of Disinfolklore is immanent in billions of stories told daily by millions of Russians.
Let’s take it in its archetypal form from chief Russian Nazi Duncey Putin himself. Here in Feb 2022 Herr Putler is oh so cleverly attempting to persuade Ukrainian soldiers to surrender to him - the Big Bad Wolf:
“I once again appeal to the servicemen of the armed forces of Ukraine. Don’t let the neo-Nazis and ultra-nationalists use your children and your wives and elders as human shields. Take control. Looks like we’ll have an easier time negotiating with you than with this bunch of junkies and neo-Nazis who have taken Kyiv and held the entire Ukrainian people hostage.”
Although preposterous on almost every level, Putin’s archetypal Disinfolklore story here which he has repeated oodles of times serves as a casus belli that has led to maiming and deaths of over one million Russian soldiers.
The Russian soldiers who participated in the unlawful invasion of Ukraine, their families supporting them and those who died trying to rescue Ukrainians from an entirely bogus scenario believed so deeply in the truth of such stories that they were willing to sacrifice their lives on the altar of such trolls.
This is how powerful an Information Galaxy can become.
I call such stories as that recounted here by Putin “Archetypal Disinfolklore” because immanent in them are these same archetypes as appear in millions of other stories inside the Russian Information Galaxy, with slight variations in monikers, settings, and circumstances – “Neo-Nazis,” “bunch of Junkies,” “hostages,” “Ultra-Nationalists,” “human shields,” “children, wives and elders,” and Good Soldiers (“servicemen”).
Immanent in such Disinfolklore, again with slight variations, almost every time they’re repeated, is an identical archetypal structure, which is completely preposterous yet believed in by most Russians and as far as we can know even by Putin himself as well as everyone in the Russian power vertical:
“The entire Ukrainian people are held hostage by their democratically elected leadership and long for liberation by soldiers from a foreign power (Russia).”
In a 2024 documentary about the war in Ukraine, Ukraine’s chief negotiator in March 2022 peace talks said something which exactly matched my experience of negotiating with Russian army officers in eastern Ukraine:
“They [Russians] are victims of their own propaganda. I found a formula how the Russian [propaganda] really works. First he writes some crazy theories. Then they put this on TV. Then they watch their own TV and start to believe it. It’s like a cycle. It’s like it’s real. And when were talking to these people [Russian government negotiators sent to Istanbul in March 2022 to negotiate Ukraine’s surrender] they really believe that we [Ukraine] is full of Nazis killing people on the streets. 150 million people living in this country [i.e. Russia] and they are watching this TV and believing this thing.”
This was my experience too, when I was dealing with Russian occupiers. They really seemed to believe the nonsense their own propagandists had invented.
The joke of course is on the Russians. They’ve destroyed their state - for a troll.
⚡️Pope as anti-Christ meme reborn!
Pope as anti-Christ (popular meme in Germany 1517-1525)
Martin Luther writes:
“Why then does the American… I mean, Roman see so furiously desire the whole world? Why did it steal and rob country, city, indeed, principalities and kingdoms, and now dares to produce, ordain, dismiss, and change as it pleases all kings and princes, as if it were the Antichrist [Endchrist]? Where is the figure fulfilled here?”
⚡️Murdered journalist’s legacy
When Victoria Roshchyna wrote the story linked below (about Russia’s brutal occupation of seaside town Berdiansk), she had already been forcibly disappeared by the Russians once - for writing this seminal piece on the first few days of the first violent takeover of a nuclear power plant in world history:
https://x.com/decodingtrolls/status/1503268274020179968?s=61
After writing the piece below, Victoria wasn’t to know that three years later Russia would return her body back to Ukraine with her eyes and brain missing.
We will not forgive or forget.
⚡️Victory: Many Meanings in Russia.
Today “Victory” means trying to persuade Ukraine not to bomb Russia’s ‘victory day’ celebrations.
How the mighty have fallen.
Russia needs to leave 100% of Ukraine before it can declare ‘victory’.
⚡️Why Rubio’s chief Archivist of the United States?
To enmesh us in a Disinfolklore Universe, in which all our orientation points are lies, it’s necessary to fake history.
⚡️Russia / America powerdox.
How can Russia, now in charge of America, at once be at its weakest and strongest, ever?
Ukraine is eating Russia alive.
Meanwhile, as Russia eats America alive, Europe listens less to anything America says.
Chatlogs which America’s most powerful leaders wonder how they can force Europe to pay for America’s Suez strikes undermine yet again American power / Mana:
America does not have the Mana / Energy / Power to do what Russia keeps asking it to do.
That’s the powerdox!
Everything Russia touches, even in its moment of greatest triumph, turns to 💩
⚡️Mythical Land for Peace Deals.
The only deal on offer from Ruschia is: give us your children. We’ll turn them into killers. Then we’ll set them against you.
This is what Russia is doing in Melitopol a normal European city until 24 Feb 2022.
Now its children are being brainwashed by Disinfolklore into becoming tomorrows invaders of Poland, Hungary and Romania.
⚡️Watching ‘experts’ share Donald’s Disinfolklore.
When you share an image of Russian or Donald Disinfolklore, you’re falling for the troll. You’re helping them build their Disinfolklore Universe.
I don’t mean to pick on @davidaxelrod here (what he’s doing here is typical). Donald’s advisers don’t care what critique Mr Axelrod makes. The point is he shares their image of their magus; he falls for the troll.
“Trolls consist of emotion-moving energy (Mana) that only moves when we share them. Then, we become the troll. The informational unit (troll) consumes us, as it instrumentalises us to keep it in motion...”
⚡️Donald threatens Canada.
MAGA and Russia’s Disinfolklore Apparatuses work in sync: in Romania, and now in Canada.
Algorithm of Ruschia’s election interference
In each country Ruschia uses a different menu of activities. This report from Moldovan intelligence service reveals methods used in Moldova to hack its EU referendum:
Here Donald explains that MAGA Disinfolklore will trick Canadians, over the long-term, to consent to American occupation, using MAGA Disinfolklore:
“Donald:…But never say never. Never say never…
Reporter: On the 51st state, if Canadians don’t want it, would you respect that?
Donald Trump: Sure, I would. But this is not necessarily a one-day deal. This is over a period of time they have to make that decision.
Mark Carney: If I may. Well, respectfully, Canadians’ view on this is not going to change on the 51st state…”
Note how Donald’s consumption of fictional films (on Alcatraz) informs his policy (reopen Alcatraz after seeing a film about it). This is the Closed Doom Loop of Disinfolklore.
Antidote: Understand how MAGA and Russian Disinfolklore Galaxies work together to wrap us all up inside a Disinfolklore Universe:
⚡️ Why Authoritarians like Putler and Donald are So Rubbish?
Putler says he invaded Ukraine to prevent NAFO expanding.
Result: NAFO expansion - Sweden and Finland in NATO. Ukraine and Moldova well on their way to EU and NAFO membership. Ukraine is ten days into its second invasion of Ruschia. And China, like a vulture, gets ready to make its move to re-conquer land European Muscovy took from China over many centuries.
At Avdiivka rate of attrition Ruschia would lose 600,000,000 dead soldiers. 600m dead soldiers mean a further 1.8t injured soldiers. Then who’s left in Ruschia? Yet commentators who don’t look at data and believe Faery takes, mythos and Disinfolklore tell us Ukraine can’t win. It’s Ruschia that can’t win. It’s rubbish.
Meanwhile, authoritarian sympathisers boost Putler as a strategic genius🙄
Donald inherited $450,000,000 from his father.
Now, as a result of lying about how wealthy he is on bank loan documents and insurance contracts, Donald is now liable for $500,000,000.
The only profit he ever made apart from a TV show was earned through bank and insurance fraud - yet Donald’s graphic boast on the Access Hollywood tape directly led to Trump being found liable for rape and a further fine of $90m - he was found liable for raping E Jean Carroll in exactly the way he says he grabs women by in the Access Hollywood tape.
Now, Donald’s boasts about his wealth on bank and insurance contracts have led to him losing all the money he inherited from his father. And although these untruthful boasts about his wealth and business acumen led to his lucrative TV role and his election as president (“I’ll run the country like I run my businesses…” True! He added $7t unto America’s debt by giving tax cuts to rich), now, that TV role has led to his being found liable for rape, and for $90m in damages.
Meanwhile those not paying attention think both Putler and Donald are strategic geniuses who always come out on top🙄
The reason such authoritarians are so rubbish are the same reasons why they became authoritarians.
From a young age both men were insecure about their skills.
Everything they touched turned to 💩
So they became brutes and for a time seemed successful in a diabolical way.
Yet now their congenital uselessness has caught up with them again.
Those who try to sell us on the myth of these paleo males always coming out on top need to look at the data. And stop selling us Faery tales they’ve been fed.
⚡️Brexit denialism is England’s undoing.
Helpfully I been cataloguing the economic catastrophe that Brexit has wrought.
It’s cost the UK economy a verifiable £2t so far: https://medium.com/political-risk/not-project-fear-project-already-here-812c02751a6c
Instead of being thanked by Brextremists who made an error, all we get is Brexit Denialism. Brexit is religious cult. And alas those running England are still a part of it.
⚡️’Hunter Biden’ Troll Had Russian Active Measures Written All Over It from Day One - I and many others called it.
Nevertheless US MAGA Republicans thought they could impeach the president over a troll.
The biolabs story, like Putin's Hunter Biden troll that got Trump his first ever impeachment, is the Spam of contemporary disinfo. A veritable perpetual motion machine spewing never ending amounts of porridge into the info sphere.
“Now former Giuliani confidant, Lev Parnas, under oath, informed the Congressional committee today that the source of the disinformation pushed about the Biden’s came from a singular source: Russia and Russian agents. After Parnas made this revelation, right wing propaganda network Fox immediately cut the feed to promote host Jessie Watters book.”
“Now former Giuliani confidant, Lev Parnas, under oath, informed the Congressional committee today that the source of the disinformation pushed about the Biden’s came from a singular source: Russia and Russian agents. After Parnas made this revelation, right wing propaganda network Fox immediately cut the feed to promote host Jessie Watters book.”
Those who have studied Russian Disinfolklore can discern its structure, signal and Mana just as easily as a teen can tell you such and such is a Marvel movie from watching a few scenes.
Not always of course - Russian Disinfolklore constantly evolving. Yet, many of its trolls remain the same. Their Mana never changes.
Misogyny, coercive control, othering, ransom,… this is the Mana of Ruschist and authoritarian Disinfolklore.
Ruschists’ rely on repetition to normalise in the minds of the victims of its Disinfolklore preposterous ideas. Trump uses the same trick - brand as “What Is” (Truth) what manifestly “Is Not.”
⚡️Time for America to seek aid FROM Ukraine.
As an American I’m not too proud to say that Ukraine, today, is the leading fighter for our collective freedom.
England is still down its Ruschia created brain-addling Brexit Disinfolklore rabbit hole (https://x.com/decodingtrolls/status/1665296454376669184?s=46)
America is too (https://x.com/decodingtrolls/status/1705883192153002131?s=46).
Poland can’t control its ‘farmers.’
Ruschia has compromised the Sovereignty, Security and Fertility (farmers) of the Inner Realm of every country that can meaningfully help Ukraine destroy Ruschism.
Make no mistake: Today, there is only one state in our world community capable of destroying Ruschism. And it’s Ukraine. Most of the world still don’t understand what Ruschism is. While Ukraine’s Parliament has defined Ruschism thus:
"Ruschism" (рашизму).
Ukraine's Parliament defines "the characteristic signs and consequences of Ruschism (рашизму) as
⚫️Systemic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms;
🔵The cult of power and militarism;
🔴The cult of the person at the top of the power vertical and the sacralization of state institutions;
⚫️Self-aggrandizement of Russia and Russians at the expense of violent oppression and/or denial of the existence of other peoples;
🔵Application of the practice of spreading the Russian language and culture, the Russian Orthodox Church, the media, political and public institutions, promoting the ideas of "Russian world" ("русского мира") among other peoples for the purpose of implementing an expansionist state policy;
🔴Systematic violation of generally recognized principles and norms of international law, in particular respect for the sovereignty of other states, their territorial integrity and internationally recognized borders, non-compliance with the principle of non-use of force or the threat of force;
⚫️Creation, financing and armed support of illegal armed formations and separatist movements on the territories of other sovereign states, creation and support of terrorist organizations;
🔵The use of prohibited methods of waging war and the systematic commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity;
🔴Systematic organization and implementation of mass murders, executions, torture, deportations, creation of artificial conditions for the occurrence of hunger, other types of mass physical terror, genocide, persecution for ethnic, national, religious, political and other motives;
⚫️Regular application of the practice of economic and energy blackmail to other states;
🔵Regular threats to use nuclear weapons against other states and create man-made disasters."
Ruschism conceals itself even from its conveyors like Trump, Johnson and all the other Ruschist addled minds that unknowingly and knowingly promote Ruschism in the guise of policies like doing nothing in the face of Ruschia’s breaches of civilisational taboos enshrined in the post WWII legal order (UN Charter (territorial integrity; self-defence); Genocide convention; human rights protected by law; no discrimination on grounds of sex or gender id; laws of war; international criminal law;…).
Entire system of American governance, security, and foreign policy is being perverted by actors acting out scripts provided by Ruschia.
Many of the players who bang on about the border (crises stoked by Ruschist forces in Americas, Africa, Syria, Ukraine,… provoking migrant flows) don’t understand they’re serving Ruschia’s interests by paralysing America.
Their obsession with being anti-woke or destroying Political Correctness is their vulnerability:
A gateway drug that leads them, encouraged by Ruschian psy-ops, towards participating in the destruction of the postWWII legal order.
The Kompromat is their anti-trans, anti-immigrant, misogynistic, or authoritarian fervour.
Just add Ruschist Disinfolklore and these paleo-make authoritarians who refuse to support Ukraine become Ruschia’s puppets.
Time to go cap in hand to Ukraine. Ask for a prescription: ZelenskyyUa will help America resist Ruschism.