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Invasion. Day Five. Sleepy Bear. Biden: 'Like a Bad Færy Tale'. Economics of genocide.
⚡️We Begin the Day with the invasion of Russia.
⚡️Day Five: Ukraine’s Invasion of Ruschia
Contrast Sleepy Bear's reaction to being invaded to Ukraine's:
By Day Four: We had had Sunflower Seed Woman
A fifteen-year-old Ukrainian woman, while driving with her father in Berdyansk, had taken out an invader's tank with a Molotov cocktail. This vivid example of courage and patriotism has been perpetuated by National Bank of Ukraine issuing a collection coin dedicated her.
Posh Ladies-Who-Lunch in Dnipro (a city I lived in for four years, until the full-scale invasion) were combining their park morning strolls with making molotov cocktails.
By Day Five of Ruschia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, President Zelenskyy had already addressed the Ukrainian people thirteen times. He assured his electors that he wasn't hiding in a basement - or abroad. Putler by contrast addressed the Ruschian people, uhmmd a lot, and offered those who lost their homes $200.
Sleepy Bear is, as Modi did when nuclear power China invaded nuclear power India in 2020, pretending Russia hasn't been invaded.
Too early to say what Ukraine’s objective in occupying 709 sq.km of Ruschia’s Kursk Region is. It may be a distraction from a larger operation, say, to retake Crimea. Or simply to occupy part of Ruschia as a means of changing dynamics on the battle field. In three days Ukraine occupied almost as much of Ruschia as Ruschia occupied of Ukraine during the whole of 2023 - yet to occupy 750 sq.kn of Ukraine in 2023, Ruschia lost 300,000 soldiers and vast amounts of materiel.
⚡️Biden: ‘Trump… like something in a Bad Faery Tale’
⚡️Biden: ‘Trump… like something in a Bad Faery Tale’
“Trump launched his campaign rally with January 6 insurrectionists singing from prison on cell phone while images of the January 6 riotors played on the big screen behind him at his rally. Can you believe that? This is like something out of a fairy tale bad fairy tale…
“Trump is now promising a ‘full scale campaign of revenge and retribution’ - his words - for some years to come. They were his words not mine. He went on to say that he’ll be a ‘dictator on day one.’ If I write in a book of fiction and I said: ‘American president said that and not in jest…’ He called for, and I quote, ‘the termination of all the rules, regulation, articles, even those found in US constitution should be terminated…’ It's really kind of hard to believe Trump is saying this, but it’s true…
“It’s true that the push and pull of American democracy is not a faery tale. Every stride forward in America is met by a fierce backlash. Every time…” (1)
President Biden gets the power of https://www.Disinfolklore.net
This is no coincidence. Disinfolklore - a new means to parse Disinformation- was born from my study of the speech patterns in Trump-Brexit propaganda, as well as in eastern Ukraine where I worked on the correspondence between reality and Ruschist disinformation operations for seven years.
Trump is consciously and deliberately a cartoon, pantomime villain. This is how he normalises authoritarian mental routines, and injects them into the minds of unsuspecting Americans.
Soon we take on the ideas embedded in these memes, we allow into our unguarded minds, as our own thoughts: we think of a Trump victory against 91 criminal indictments as inevitable.
We invest in Ruschia a child-like faith in its capacity, like transformers, to tear at the fabric of reality and win in Ukraine. We imbibe Disinfolklore without knowing it, and we project the rules and routines it embeds in our minds.
We look at reality, through the prism of the mental routines we learned through reading faery tales, stories or watching films or reading journalism: 🍿
Everything is 🍿. A game. A spectator sport. ‘What will happen next, if we vote for Trump?’ 🍿
When we watch films usually we know the end point: the mouse always wins. It’s the journey that entrances us. This is the escape of story telling Trump, Putin, horse-race journalism wants us to entrap ourselves inside.
The oldest most repeated story inside the Indo-European cultural zone - the Trito Myth
is the archetypal shadow-structure inside our minds for this ´journey.’
We look at the determinants of our own lives - the rules, regulations, and rights in a democracy - as a flexible structure that a dictator can take away or destroy.
And we place ourselves as spectators, not as Trito slaying the three-headed, six-eyed serpent (*Ngʷhi, the Proto-Indo-European root for negation), but as the Watcher. We take our agency away.
We allow Trump, Ruschia, Iran, any dictator to situate themselves as the victim - Trito- and we empathise with their plight, not ours.
This is how Trump-Brexit/Ruschist and all forms of Disinfolklore works.
Disinfolklore embeds in our minds the false idea that we - the slayers of three-headed, six-eyed monsters in all of our lives every day in small and great ways - no longer have agency.
Disinfolklore turns us into spectators.
We want to see how Trump dictatorship evolves, as we watch a film.
But this is not a film. This is not a rehearsal.
We have to understand what is going on in our information space, in real time, and resist it.
We need to assert ourselves as Biden is doing there as Trito.
We need to see that the serpent is trying to usurp our position. Their stories are wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Counter Disinfolklore:
Full speech:
⚡️Comment on the economics of genocide?
Currently its costs Ruschia €42m to kill each Ukrainian. There’s 42m Ukrainians. Are you sure you’ll have enough money for eggs and to continue your genocide.
Also, while your EUR 1.2b missile strike kills 29 Ukrainians (RIP), Ukraine is killing 1,000 of your soldiers every day (RIP).
Something doesn’t add up.