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Russification of America. Mutual Assured Destruction in the Drone Warfare Epoch.
⚡️Trumpskiyy Mir and the Russification of America
Those of us who have studied Russia’s modes of governance now see stunning parallels since Donald and his apparatchiks resumed office:
1. Pardoning of Jan 6 insurrectionists. Putin elevated the leaders of 1991 putsch in Moscow that, two days later, led to Ukraine’s declaration of independence from the USSR.
2. Mass firings of prosecutors and attorneys general and all black army leaders. Purges are a characteristic mode of Russian government practice. Authoritarians are obsessed with “hygiene” and flushing opposition away.
3. “Raiding”: Using government resources to steal organisation’s buildings, wipe hardrives, unlawfully fire employees like those in the US Institute of Peace (FBI, Justice, police, supposed government agents (frequently pardoned Jan 6 insurrectionists and far right vigilantes)). In Ex-Soviet countries corporate raiding is still common - armed personnel arrive kick out current owners of factories and companies and assume ownership.
4. Mass deportations which are unlawfully administered and discriminatory. Deportees, including children with cancer, are not afforded their constitutional right of habeas corpus (government is obliged to allow those affected by its actions to have their body in a US court).
6. A disastrous $1b 30 day war in Yemen that led to unspecified numbers of dead, two drowned fighter jets, numerous reaper drones’ loss and the Signal chat that revealed to our enemies how undisciplined and Russia-like our government has become.
7. Friends and family of loyally appointed officials monetise their access to benefit personally from their participation in government.
8. Statistics at all levels of government even those affecting our economy are no longer collected. When data are gathered, they’re no longer trustworthy. Even inflation data in the U.S. now is being fixed, like in Russia. Dollar and Treasury Bills value hit unprecedented lows.
9. By 2008 EVERY Duma member had been bought off by pork. They no longer exercised any free will in the context of their legislative duties. Donald’s one beautiful bill delivers pork for every member of congress or political death for those who oppose them.
10. Every word spoken by official government spokespersons and leaders is a lie. Unlawfully imposed tariffs are taxes yet they’re presented as a victory over our closest allies.
11. Donald has threatened to invade Canada, Denmark, Mexico and Palestine. He switched off intelligence sharing with its ally Ukraine so Ukraine had to mainly withdraw from Russia’s Kursk region.
12. Invoking anti-semitism as an excuse to shut down Harvard, Columbia and other elite institutions. "Soviet anti-Zionism... did not have obvious antisemitic overtones...by substituting anti-Zionism for antisemitism in its propaganda, which made it passable for well intentioned, idealistic individuals..."
13. Closing down freedom of thought under the guise of “Free Speech.” The great institutions of America Columbia, Harvard… White Shoe law firms, the media, civil society sector are decimated.
14.Using U.S. military inside America on its border and in Los Angeles.
15. Institutionalised racism and misogyny…
16. Mass death: 1m mostly unnecessarily killed by Covid. Now those put in charge of public health do not believe in the scientific method, the efficacy of medicine, public health, or our lives.
17. FBI kompromat room: FBI leader who co-produced the Jan 6 Anthem of jailed insurrectionists singing which Donald used instead of the US national anthem at campaign rallies has a special room. In it is Kompromat on anyone who matters. This is used to exert pressure on anyone who matters to toe Donald’s line.
18. Paleo-male fear of women and equality is mainstreamed as a matter of government policy. The state through Palentir and social credit monitors women’s fertility in real time.
19. Disinfolklore galaxy conceals all.
20. Patina of democracy. But all votes are rigged.
21. Federal control of everything.
22. Degradation of everything: infrastructure, common wealth, values, our children’s futures, community welfare, joy,…
23. Military parade in DC.
24. Global warming denialism is official government policy.
25. Weather service is politicised. So even predictable weather-related disasters and wild fires go back to being Acts of Nature we just accept death from.
26. 1991 coup plotters (Surovikin and co) become “legitimate” government in 1999, after killing one million Chechens. Jan 6 insurrectionists take over US government and all of its institutions.
27. US like Russia becomes a country in which punishment for no crimes is mainstreamed and criminals are no longer punished.
28. A Disinfolklore Galaxy encompasses everyone. Illusions become “Truth.” “Usurpers” legislate what is “True,” “Art,” (all science and art (eg. Kennedy Centre) must be approved by leadership). Humour requires someone else to suffer.
What is Trump’s Unified Reich?
Handmaid’s Tale.
The Axis of Misogyny -
Iran, Ruschia, MAGA Supreme Court Justices (Barret, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Alito) and MAGA’s oligarch backers, paleo-male conservatives movements everywhere, and anyone you hear banging on about ‘Woke’ have one aim in common: A neo-traditional prison Reich like Chinese, Iranian and Ruschia’s live in today…
⚡️Mutual Assured Destruction: New Paradigm of the Drone Epoch.
Russian combat propaganda was obsessed with the troll that the 4th world war would be fought with sticks and stones.
Idea immanent in that troll is Russia will bomb anyone who defies it into nuclear oblivion.
Today, it’s clear the International Relations troll of “Mutual Assured Destruction” (MAD) no longer applies to symmetrically armed nuclear powers.
HAMAS / nuclear-powered Iran / nuclear-powered Russia invades nuclear-powered Israel. Nuclear-powered Pakistan and India fight. Nuclear-powered China occupies 1,000 sq.km of India, using merely sticks and stones.
While nuclear-armed powers are forced to fight conventional wars against their peers using sticks and stones, MAD should mean nuclear-armed powers can still attack comparative minnows. These minnows, according to doctrine, won’t fight back against a nuclear-armed enemy.
Yet, the new drone epoch MAD paradigm means even if you got nuclear arms, non-nuclear enemies can still destroy you.
Ukraine has demonstrated repeatedly that a so-called minnow can destroy the 2nd army of the world. If Russia was wise, it would understand MAD not only applies when it contemplates another nuclear-armed power.
Nuclear-powers North Korea, China, Russia and Iran, aided by components in missiles provided by nuclear-powered USA, Britain and France, attack Ukraine.
Non-nuclear-powered Ukraine, asymmetrically, and successfully fights back:
Applying its Core Competency of innovation and decentralised leadership to evolving its drone warfare capabilities and practising perfect diplomacy, Ukraine resists these attacks by seven nuclear powers.
Ukraine’s advantage is that Goliath doesn’t yet understand the new paradigm of MAD applies to certain asymmetrically positioned enemies, like Russia and Ukraine.
This is the new doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction.
Any organisation (whether it’s criminal or a nation state or an armed resistance group) now can asymmetrically defeat even nuclear armed enemies.
The proof?
Mighty Russian army soldiers are fighting Ukraine with sticks and stones.
⚡️Woman murdered by Ruschian drone in her own home in idyllic Ukrainian village.
What will it take to inspire those with power in Europe to see this is OUR future, unless…
You destroy Ruschism and its force power.
⚡️A very old native Russian language speaking artist I once met in a village in eastern Ukraine gave me this embroidered portrait of Shevchenko - Ukraine’s national poet.
An elderly artist I once met in a village in eastern Ukraine gave me this embroidered portrait of Shevchenko. Born a Serf, his admirers donated money to pay off the Muscovite colonialist who "owned" him. Muscovy still thinks it can enslave Ukrainians. Ukrainians aren't slaves.
Born a Serf, his admirers donated money to pay off the Muscovite colonialist who "owned" him. Muscovy still thinks it can enslave Ukrainians. Ukrainians aren't slaves.
"Never forget us," she'd pleaded. I won't. She knew, as I did too then, that Ruschia would invade an occupy part of Ukraine. Of course then though I had strong reasons to believe the occupation would be a horror show - I had after all been working in Ruschia occupied Luhaansk 2015-2018. None of us, except perhaps for central and Baltic Europeans who underwent Soviet Union’s horrific occupation between 1945 and 1990. Here’s how Estonia memorialises some of what the Soviets did there:
⚡️In the past, as an albeit brilliant conventional historian, T Snyder has only considered textual evidence in his account of Ukraine’s origins - though he gave me great leads in terms of Ancient Greek texts to look at.
So for him history of Ukraine begins with Pindar, and Herodotus et al, and their accounts of Greek colonies in Crimea and other parts of Scythia (eg see tweet here https://x.com/decodingtrolls/status/1655623870924173320?s=46 on Ancient Ukraine’s connection to the first @Olympics).
However, other complementary evidence vectors emanate from:
1. linguistics (the first Greeks the Danaans spoke a language that had evolved from Ancient Ukrainian (Proto-Indo-European);
2. archaeogenetics (first Greeks had 1,000 years of Steppe/Ancient Ukrainian chromosomes; archaeological; and
3. religious/mythical (eg. we can trace the Trito myth (https://x.com/decodingtrolls/status/1764898841319399759?s=46) into and through almost every Indo-European linguistic culture which means, beyond all reasonable doubt, its origin is in Ancient Ukraine.
Conventional Historians by only beginning their accounts with textual sources give us an interesting yet comparatively partial view.