⚡️War Magic: Mirror Strikes Back.
Six Mirroring Aspects of Russia's Invasion of Itself.
Russia justified its genocide in Ukraine, by accusing Ukraine of exactly the genocidal behaviour Russia practises in Ukraine🤯.
Now, Ukraine practises the same mirroring technique (though, without the genocidal activities).
Here, Ukraine mirrors Russia's "Crimea Playbook" word-for-word.
As I've warned Russia repeatedly Russia’s own innovative military doctrine of "Reflexive Control" works both ways. Like a mirror.
1 Ukraine authorities copy language from Russia's Crimea Playbook - Confuses Western media and Russian decision makers alike. Russian decision-makers mirror their own confusion by, in the absence of truthful information, branding an invasion of their country as merely an "informational operation" or "sabotage."
2 Conscription in Belgorod mirrors sudden mobilisation in Ukraine after 24th February 2022.
3 Russian state Disinfolklore propagator TASS calls Russian authorities’ resistance to the insurgents a Special Operation in Bilhorod.
Yet, using the minimising meaning of Special Operation as an arch troll to conceal its full-scale war in Ukraine has changed the meaning of Special Military Operation (SVO) in the Russian context.
I've written before about the ironic use of SVO in airquotes in Russian info-space, where it's clear the speakers are talking of a full-scale war.
TASS withdrew its statement calling it an SVO in Bilhorod.
Ruschists are caught in a Hall of Mirrors where their own sins against language are reflecting their confusion and incompetence back at them.
4 Bilhorod Governor declares evacuation of residents, and that their homes will be safe.
Fourteen million Ukrainians had to evacuate their homes.
Russian occupiers looted everything they could.
We've seen the footage of Ruschist soldiers in Bilhorod posting Ukrainians' looted possessions after retreat from Kyiv.
Now Bilhorod residents aware of this behaviour need to be reassured by the governor that their homes won't be looted if they flee the insurgents.
5 "Anti-Terrorist Operation" declared in Bilhorod.
Ukraine's military fight against Russian occupation of Luhansk and Donetsk from 2014 until 2018 was an "Antiterrorist Operation" (ATO).
6 Russian military bloggers claim, as they did in 2014 of their own forces, that occupation of Crimea is merely an "informational operation." They have no idea what is happening but are mirroring their own confidence that Kyiv would fall in three days as they seek to reassure themselves and consumers of their Disinfolklore that Everything Is Under Control.
We've seen how Russian authorities themselves get caught up in their own Disinfolklore created House of Lies.
Leaked arguments between defence ministry, Wanger, and security services over how many dead Russian soldiers in Ukraine demonstrate no-one actually knows the truth inside Ruschist government.
This "House of Lies" has contributed to poor decision-making as the full extent of Russia's fiasco in Ukraine has not been apparent to those inside the Russian nomenclature whose job it is to create and administer the House of Lies.
This is just a brief sketch of some dimensions of mirroring, which Ukraine is taking advantage of as part of its War Magic.
