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Boxing archetypes. 19 Disinfolklore biases. Rocket fuelled sweetness. The Economist on Ukraine 1854, 1993, 2024. Why Syria won’t fall apart. Ruschia’s cure for cancer.
⚡️Ukrainian world boxing champion Usyk battles Ruschia’s attempt to archetype Ukraine as ‘weak’.
Putler likened Ukraine to the dead woman in ‘Sleeping Beauty in a Coffin,’ a Soviet-era song about necrophiliac r*pe. Ruschist Disinfolklore embeds idea of Ukraine as weak (and thus deserving (according to masculinist Ruschist ‘logic’) of being put out of her misery) through millions of meme vectors every day.
These memes communicate data resistant archetypes of a ‘strong’ Potemkin Ruschist state into the minds of all those who bang on about Ukraine could never defeat ‘strong (🙄)’ Ruschia (a state that is led by cowards who rather die in Ukrainian trenches than stand up for their rights).
In my first Disinfolklore podcast I set out how Ruschia embeds these archetypes and associations in our mindstreams through myriad stories (Disinfolklore) we encounter daily - the ‘Don’t poke the bear’ troll, for example, that frightens even American presidents and national security advisers.
Ukrainian Cossack Usyk by communicating an image of extreme strength to match President Zelenskyy and other Ukrainians’ extreme guile (magical attributes to provoke Ruschia into destroying itself a little more each day) combats these data resistant archetypes of a Potemkin state.
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⚡️Why Ukraine attack on Russian rocket fuel factory is particularly sweet - semiotics of particular attacks.
Ukraine used ATACMs and storm shadow / scalps to attack Kamenky combine in Ruschia. Kamenky produces solid rocket fuel. This fuel is used in munitions for the Uragan, Smerch, and Tornado-S multiple-launch rocket systems. Furthermore, the facility is linked to solid fuel production for russian intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and previously contributed to the development of Topol-M missile fuel during the Soviet era.
On 15 July 2022, Ruschia attacked the epicentre of the USSR's space program in Dnipro (known as rocket city as it made MOST of the rockets for USSR space program). Ruschist plan was to explode vast stores of spent rocket fuel still left in Yushmesh plant.
Ruschian Disinfolklore before and during the attack revealed Ruschist intentions. The point of Ruschia’s attack was NOT to affect Ukraine’s military - only spent rocket fuel had been stored at Yushmesh. Ruschian Disinfolklore launched waves of information warfare attacks in the immediate aftermath of its attack attempting to sow panic. The Disinfolklore claimed that as a result of a rocket attack on the plant, heptyl leaked. Heptyl is a component of rocket fuel. Heptyl affects literally all human systems. It causes a violation of reproductive activity and the appearance of birth defects. However, in fact, there was no leak, all information about the "distribution" of a dangerous substance is a fake. This would have killed 1000s. Fortunately, Dnipro officials had moved the spent rocket fuel away just weeks before Ruschia’s attempt to obliterate an entire suburb of Dnipro.
As a diplomat in eastern 🇺🇦, I worked on Environmental Security. I visited rocket fuel storage sites, including in Pavlohrad which Ruschia has tried repeatedly to hit. This is what one expert told me: "if 800 tonnes of USSR-era rocket fuel ignites then an area of 150km around the site will be affected & explosive wave will spread out 2.5km."
So it’s particularly sweet that Ukraine attacked one of Ruschia’s main producers of rocket fuel which Ruschia uses today to murder Ukrainian civilians.
⚡️Economist on Ukraine: 1854, 1993, 2024.
Finally, The Economist comes out for Ukraine.
In 1854, the Economist considered it a good idea to invade Ukraine’s Crimea ‘for the sake of information.’
1993: ‘Birth and possible death of a country.’
2024: Ukraine is winning.
⚡️Ruschia’s Cure for Cancer:
Hilariously (and characteristically) Ruschist scientists who faked data on Sputnik Covid 💉 must have known of Benford's Law. Yet they were too lazy to fake the data properly, as @TheLancet found.
Benford's Law might well confirm that 5 year plan harvest statistics were faked.
Self-demilitarisation and self-annihilation in Ukraine. Restoration of 1/6 of world’s surface to its original population is a Ruschian cure for cancer.
⚡️Why Syria won’t fall apart.
News that Damascus rich kid turned rebel commander donned a suit to meet Druze leaders gives succour to our hopes for Syria (as does watching Ruschia’s retreat from bases including in Raqqa which the US moved into within hours of Ruschia vacating it last week).
We have written evidence of how Asyria has been a successful multi-cultural community for five millennia. At least.
The first written evidence we have for the existence of Indo-European language is in Asyrian documents.
We possess 23,000 tablets that were found in the multicultural community in Kaniš (near Kayseri in today’s Türkiye). They mostly date from between 1,935 BCE and 1,800 BCE.
Among them are a number of Indo-European names (including Kamallia), which would reappear three centuries later in the Indo-European Hittite empire’s archives.
Asyrians (a Semitic-language speaking people) from Aššur and Indo-European Hittites, and Hatton-language speaking (a precursor of Georgian) lived together in harmony with in this space.
50 years of divisive outsiders (like the far right, Ruschists and Asaadists) do not outweigh five millennia of peaceful co-existence.
First Writing in Any Indo-European Language:
Why No Mana in Hittites’ Mythological Founder Monarchs’ Monikers?
⚡️Why Disinfo Debunking's not simple...
Affective biases.
Confirmation biases.
Motivated reasoning.
Dfferences in intellectual hinterlands.
Differences in emotional education.
Propagandists mesmerise, using the firehose of falsehood.
Gaslighting.Collective control.
Grooming ("There is no truth." etc.)
Emotional hacking-straight to System One invoking Fear, Anger, Disgust, Sadness and Amusement.
Mistake.
Infections of confidence.
Wishful thinking.Thinking that none would lie about a matter as important as this.
Failures in critical analytical capacity.
Lack of precedent.
Not investing enough energy into Thinking It Through.
Not remembering the past.
Big Lies.
Weighting comparative factors really badly.
Mistaking cause for effect, effect for cause.
Hack - Positive Trolling: Analyse generously, with ethical discipline, patiently, with joyous perseverance, focus, and insight.
⚡️ Ukraine secures security TREATY with Germany.
⚡️70 years after Germany murdered millions of Ukrainians (including 1m Jewish Ukrainians), Ukraine secures a security treaty with Germany. Germany learns from its mistakes. Ruschia compounds its genocidal errors.
The Kyiv Security Treaty shall be a framework of bi-lateral treaties with 🇵🇱, 🇺🇸, 🇬🇧, 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪, 🇹🇷,🇦🇺 & 🇮🇹, + Baltic & Central European states.
South Korea & Japan will associate, by committing to providing advanced weapons systems and implementing sanctions against aggressors.
Parties to the Kyiv Security Treaty will commit to providing Ukraine with the matériel to defend itself.
This will be a unique legal instrument, & it will sit independent of security guarantees Ukraine will get as a member of NATO and the 🇪🇺.
Kyiv Security Treaty will enable Ukraine to Close Its Sky, and protect the Black Sea.
No mention is made of Azov Sea, which includes Ukraine's territorial waters. But which Muscovy, due to a bogus (🙄) interpretation of an Agreement, thinks is a "shared Sea."
Kyiv Security puts "Neutrality" off the table:
This was always the case, after Ruschia invaded Ukraine in 2014.
Muscovy pretended it invaded Ukraine because Ukraine was not neutral.
Muscovy invaded Ukraine BECAUSE it was neutral.
The Kyiv Security Treaty will apply "to Ukraine both for deterrence and, if necessary, for protection against armed attack or other acts of aggression.
For this, Ukraine will need large defense forces, reliable capabilities and a powerful reformed defense industry."
Kyiv Security Treaty will ensure Ukraine has a Rapid Reaction Force, and training opportunities.
In fact, it's clear after the victory at Izium that Ukraine will become NATO's main provider of active combat training.
Under Kyiv Security Treaty Ukraine will get access to EU defence industry consortia.
Before Feb 24th 2022, this was unthinkable.
Ukraine will have SO many of the benefits of EU and NATO membership now that effectively it will be pointless to keep Ukraine outside those orgs.
Kyiv Security Treaty will give Ukraine legally enforceable guarantees, unlike "Budapest Memorandum.”
The concept underpinning the Kyiv Security Treaty framework is enabling Ukraine to defend itself by providing Ukraine with the materiel it needs to expel Ruschia from 100% of its land.
A continuous threat monitoring mechanism established.
Muscovy will be as closely watched as Navalny in his cell.
This alone will deter Muscovy from aggression.
Kyiv Security Treaty entrenches AUTOMATIC confiscation of Muscovy's money and property, in the event of aggression.
Ukraine already confiscates ALL property of collaborators inside Ukraine.
In future, we'll avoid the legal mess of recovering €1t when Ruschia invades.
We should nickname the Kyiv Security Treaty the "Jupiter" Treaty.
Ancient 🇺🇦 forged the supreme protector God: the ancient Ukrainian for “sky father:” *Dyēus pətḗr see👇🏽(@EmmanuelMacron, @AndriyYermak, @AndersFoghR).
Armed Attack definition must include disinfo & cyber.
⚡️Should we thank Ruschia?
Ruschist money and Disinfolklore how has destroyed the US Republican political Party.
Should we be grateful to Ruschia for forcing Good Republicans like Mitt Romney to disassociate themselves from the ne’er do well paleo-male billionaire funded script-reading MAGA trolls like MTG and Speaker Johnson?
Look, I understand the sentiment. But I’d prefer the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians Ruschia has killed, while using the US Republicans to slow-walk the same level of military help to Ukraine that we gave/give to middle-eastern states and to Kosovo, to be alive today, even if it meant that the US Republican Party survived.
So on balance while given where we are today, it’s a boon that now everyone can see how Ruschia infiltrated the US Republican Party, I’d prefer it if we all united to resist Ruschist interference in our democracy.
And the best means of destroying Ruschia’s Disinfolklore apparatus is to arm Ukraine properly. Ukraine will expel the Ruschists from its lands. And, as a bonus, Ruschist state will recede back to it 1483 borders.
⚡️Miracle Cure: Ruschist Admiral Rises the Dead Only to Be Fired from his Post
‘Is that some kind of hospital bed you’re wearing? Wait, proof of life, please? Otherwise I won’t believe you’ve been fired, after death.’
⚡️Ukraine secures security treaty with France.
From 2014 until May 2023, Germany and France pressured Ukraine to cede its territory to Ruschia. Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 were devices to pressure Ukraine to surrender on terms no other modern European state would accept.
Today, we can put this disgraceful episode in European history behind us. On the same day, Europe’s preeminent military and economic powerhouses finally formally undertake to arm Ukraine.Now free the Taurus and get some 4th and 5th gen fighter jets to Ukraine already.