⚡️Russia has violently occupied Enerhodar nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, since early March 2022.
Top photo: Mayor Orlov of Enerhodar, city with Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, with the Deputy Mayor. That photo was taken early in the Russian occupation of the city. Deputy Mayor Ivan Samadoika was disappeared by the Ruschists on 28 March 2022. Having undergone unspeakable tortures, He was released on 16th February 2023. Bottom photo: DecodingTrolls speaking via Zoom with Mayor Orlov in May 2021.
Russia has r**** female nuclear engineers.
Russia has murdered workers at the plant.
Russia has tortured hundreds of workers at the plant, some of the most talented nuclear engineers on earth.
Russia has forcibly disappeared hundreds of workers at the plant, and demanded ransoms for at least one hundred and fifty of them.
Russia has fired missiles from the plant almost every day across Khakovka sea to Nikopol, where dozens of people have been killed by these strikes.
Russia has fired at its own forces continuously within Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
Russia has mined the plant's reactors at least since April 2022.
The commander of Russian forces occupying the plant has said publicly he's prepared to destroy the plant and turn Zaporozhzhia into scorched earth.
Russia has forcibly passportised workers at the plant, and then forced them to fight against their fellow Ukrainians on the front lines.
Russia's state nuclear company Rosatom - which the global nuclear industry including in America is dependent on for roughly 50% of its material - has participated in this the longest and only terrorist occupation of a nuclear power station in world history.
Russia has threatened to explode the plant hundreds of times.
Have I missed anything?
I've published publicly hundreds of pieces (search my Twitter for: "Enerhodar" and "nuclear") on this occupation since Russian forces first began approaching the power plant and firing shells at it on February 27th 2022.
On that date, as @OSCE's Environmental Security adviser for Zaporozhzhia 2018-2022 I broke ranks to call publicly for NATO nations to consider an armed attack on the nuclear power plant as an armed attack on NATO.
Finally, the most powerful US senators agree with this interpretation.
But all of this foreseeable pain for tens of thousands of workers and their families could have been avoided. NATO should have prevented this terrorism. Instead it and its members calculated that Ukraine would surrender to genocide in a few days.
Meanwhile most of Europe including those who say they oppose war and are so scared of nuclear weapons they're willing to surrender 42m Ukrainians to death and torture have mostly stayed silent, and ignorant of the terror and sacrifices Ukraine's nuclear engineers and their families have made.
⚡️I think the Chef would understand his only hope for survival personally is to remain inside Russia, as czar.
He might surrender a lot of war criminals to the Hague, and the stolen Ukrainians back to Ukraine.
Then he might pay the £2t bill for wrecking Ukraine.
At that point, he might be able to have some kind of relationship with the international community (but he'll never be able to leave Russia nor will he ever be normalised. He just might escape prosecution. There will never be a G8 with Ruschia again).
That's my best guess at this point.
⚡️As Ruschist Nazi Putin faces imminent death, he still reverts to Nazi trolls like the "one-thousand-year" reich.
Fact-check: Muscovy became "Russia" in 1721, when Muscovy occupied right-bank Ukraine. Muscovy became a provincial power in September 2022 when, after a brief deoccupation of right-bank Ukraine, it retreated from Kherson.
⚡️Let's add some more chefs to the borscht.
A civil war with just two parties is no fun!
Liberal Russians: this is your moment!
Belarusians: this is your moment.
Moldovans: Hang tight! As soon as Crimea is de-occupied, assistance will arrive.
Georgia: This is your time too!
⚡️Netflix Future for Ukrainian Cat.
A Ukrainian cat photographed last night while plotting revenge against Ruschist cats, cornered rats, and mice has been signed up by @Netflix producers.
"We've turned all of Ruschia into a gigantic stage set for our most ambitious show," according to Netflix.
"200m Russians are now participating in a Truman Show-like production.
"The Civil War in Bilhorod, Bryansk, and the drone flights in Moscow are just part of the pilot episode."
Netflix spokescat continued:
"We haven't started anything yet.
"These first ten days of the Russian separatist revolt and drone strikes in Moscow are actually only for a five second opening sequence in the pilot.
"We were lacking a feline lead though.
"One of our key narrative threads is how Ukrainian animals are themselves fighting back against Ruschia's attack on their existence.
"Now, we have our star.
They're a natural born killer actor."
A statement from the Ruschist cat association was not available at the time of publication.
⚡️Russian Civil War in One Photo?
⚡️Russian Emergency Ministry driver gazes at incinerated truck in Voronezh, Russia. Russian army, led by ex-head of Russia's emergency ministry just incinerated that truck.
⚡️Sympathy for the Venture Capitalists.
Silicon Valley's elite venture capitalists control 50% of America's stock of capital.
Much of Putin's money resides in VC funds. Some may even be invested in this medium I'm using to communicate my sympathy for the VC's plight.
If Ukraine had just submitted to genocide there would be no threat of secondary sanctions meaning VC's unwinding ALL funds with money beneficially owned by sanctioned oligarchs, including Putin.
Now, Putin's death is imminent, a worse problem has arisen:
For a decade sceptre ghosts will appear in Palo Alto and Mountain View claiming the "Right" to repossess Putin's hundreds-of-billions.
And these VC's won't know whom to give it to, or what to do, so opaque the structures of the beneficial owners of their funds are.
⚡️Khodakovsky's Sentimentality.
Russia IS unified in its support for genocide in Ukraine. Unified in its being brainwashed. Unified behind a bloody flag: Putin or the Chef: doesn't matter which - genocide is what they represent.
Russia is not divided in half.
It's perfectly united.
Khodakovsky, by choosing to criticise those who hooped at the sight of downed Russian helicopters in Russia, is taking the side of the Ruschian government.
By doing so, Khodakovsky is investing "right" and "authority" in Ruschia's genocidal regime.
In fact, as far as we can tell, the only "rightness" or authority in Russia belongs to those fighting for the Belgorod People's Republic.
⚡️Yeltsin's Rasputin was Putin (the clue is in the name).
Now, Putin's Rasputin is the Chef of Disinfolklore - Wanger Nazi chef.
You don't need to be @simonwiesenthal to find Russian Nazis: They brand themselves as "Wanger" because they identify AS Nazis.
The Chef of Disinfolklore's Wanger group ARE Nazis in Ukraine de-Nazifying Ukraine. And intelligent people fall for the troll. And promote Ruschist Naziism every time they eulogise or treat as anything other than a Nazi the Wanger chief of Disinfolklore.
Earnest experts hunt for "Nazis" in Ukraine, completely unaware the only Nazis in Ukraine are Russia-created bogeymen.
Russian Nazis hide in plain sight. They even call themselves after Hitler's favourite composer because Wanger was Hitler's favourite composer.
Not even Rasputin would have had the kind of magical power or chutzpah to create a "Ukrainian Nazi" bogeyman who exists solely inside Russia-promoted Disinfolklore) while using actual Russian Nazis to kill 100,000+ Ukrainians and end whole cities.
Meanwhile, "experts" write article after article looking for Nazis in Ukraine. 🤯
⚡️The Chef's truth telling about the lies that justified Ruschia's occupation of Luhansk and Donetsk is only the beginning.
I foresee his vast Disinfolklore apparatus renouncing the entire invasion of Ukraine - since March 2014.
Currently, the Ruschist State is trying to recast merely the occupation of Luhansk and Donetsk as a mistake.
Crimea, in the current regime's mind was "Rightful."
Their new "history" then promotes the troll that grain deal capitalists caused the retreat from Kyiv in March 2022🙄.
The Chef will outflank this troll and, in line with the retreat from Crimea, persuade the entire Ruschist population that invading Ukraine in March 2014 was THE mistake.
In a year, there will not be a single Russian between the Don and Yakutia who will admit to ever thinking invading Ukraine in March was a good idea.
And of this new story (and his scapegoating execution of all the main players in the occupation of Ukraine since 2014) will be generated his "writ" or Right to rule Ruschia, in the eyes of the Ruschists.
⚡️As a diplomat I visited as many elected village leaders in the southern part of now occupied Zaporozhzhia as possible 2018-2022.
This photograph taken recently as an American academic visited a Romanian school on the border with Ukraine reminds me of many occasions.
Specifically the presentation of the delicious knotted bread. I suspect its ritual significance as an offering goes back into pre-Indo-European times.
Excavations of houses and temples in Pre-Indo-European Old Europe (~4,500 BCE ~ 3,500 BCE) Tripoly e communities in Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania frequently find altars with both models of and actual bread ovens.
That photograph reminds me of one community in particular which today is in the midst of occupation.
I think of the people in that village every day, and their suffering. I long to return after de-occupation. And when it's safe for them to post photographs of how beautifully they lived before the full-scale invasion.
⚡️Use of Parliament (and legislative process) to Own The Libs, and generate distracting Disinfolklore is one of the more worrying innovations in English politics.
Legislation which is not justiciable (like the attempt to override the EU withdrawal treaty with the NI Bill), or which it's known even a corruptly appointed Upper House won't pass is a waste of time.
It poisons the national discourse.
Leads to foreseeable confrontations with the courts, and the legal order introduced after WWII to prevent another Holocaust, and the desperate social conditions of the 1930s that nourished the preparations for the Holocaust.
Trolling via the medium of Bills introduced into Parliament subjugates the most important institution in a democracy (Parliament) to an agenda intent on destroying society.
The constant knowing repetition of anti-semitic tropes by senior government figures like Braverman and Krueger (e.g. branding Jewish academics of the Frankfurt School who escaped the Holocaust (and who gave us the intellectual tools to recognise the far right's tricks) "Cultural Marxists" is anti-semitism incarnate, and very sinister) and must be called out every time.
Alas, having purposefully ruined the school system under Gove's "reforms" fewer and fewer of us will be around who understand the nature of the barbaric cynicism at play here and who are capable of explaining it to a zombified, increasingly desperate, impoverished, hungry, and trolled English population.
Exactly that. Everything the far right does is in order to provoke opposition, which it Others, and uses as an organising fiction to create in-group cohesion. Rwanda scheme exists solely on the information plane. It uses the prospect of Outer Realm invaders of Inner Realm England harming fertility, prosperity, and physical security as an organising fiction. Then the in-group totally don't notice how those they support are ruining everything. Classic 1930s scapegoating as a political strategy.
