⚡️Nice journal reference here and citation to my work on Disinfolklore.
Does two things of particular value to me as a writer:
1. Is a record that I created the Portmanteau ‘Disinfolklore.’
2. Correctly categorises ‘Disinformation’ as a particular form of ‘Disinfolklore.’
Thus giving me the whole field (which I’d be too humble to have claimed too loudly) while confining all the work focussing on Disinformation to a local province or region of my field.
Prof Yolles cites my work, the result of @peterjukes visionary decision to commission for @BylineTimes an early piece on Disinfolklore in Byline Supplement. Work now presented https://www.Disinfolklore .com in a very innovative format. Thanks @peterjukes Thanks Prof Yolles.
See Maurice Yolles, 2025. "The Psychological Impact of Technology: Narrative Memetics and Psychosocial Contagion in Digital Network," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Patrizia Gazzola & Gandolfo Dominici (ed.), Technology and Society - Boon or Bane?, pages 16-43, Springer.
⚡️ My Munich speech: Our Disinfolklore Universe ~
Battling Archetypes
It’s appropriate to be speaking about our Disinfolklore Universe at a Pirate Party Munich Security conference event.
Those who founded the Pirate Party get what I am about to speak to you about.
There’s a flow between on the one hand culture, art, films, literature about pirates and geopolitical security.
Those whom we entrust with securing our conditions of civilised life don’t seem to understand this. This is partly why they’re such easy marks for Russian and MAGA Disinfolklore.
They get wrapped up so easily in Russian or MAGA trolls, like flies in a spider's web, it’s very hard for them even to understand they’re trapped inside Old Thinking.
Today I’m going to offer a perspective on what I call our Disinfolklore Universe. And I’m also going to offer a means to escape the troll memes wrap us up inside when we fall for MAGA or Russian Disinfolklore.
None of this is easy. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t have all the answers.
Whenever you hear anyone talk about Disinformation or Disinfolklore as if it happens to other people. As if only stupid people fall for trolls. Whenever you hear chatter like that, be certain those people are easy marks for trolls. For MAGA and Russian Disinfolklore.
Today we live in a true Disinfolklore Universe.
The fabric of every dimension of our lives - work, personal relationships, life choices, fates - is infused with aspects of Druidey Don and Duncey Putin’s memetic onslaught.
Our Moods/Motivations/Intentions/Attitudes are being formed by what I call ‘Disinfolklore.’
Directly – through whichever media memes we consume.
Or indirectly, through our own minds and those of others, influencing us from archetypes created and evolving from Disinfolklore.
Batman and Robin are running America – you saw Elmo, Druidey Don, and the kid in the White House the other day?
https://t.co/lVD0q77lvT
⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.
Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.
Turning, righting.
When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.
Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.
There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.
So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.
The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.
Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.
The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.
The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.
There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.
Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.
On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.
Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.
Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.
You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.
Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn
⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.
Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.
Turning, righting.
When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.
Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.
There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.
So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.
The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.
Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.
The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.
The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.
There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.
Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.
On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.
Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.
Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.
You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.
Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn
⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.
Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.
Turning, righting.
When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.
Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.
There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.
So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.
The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.
Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.
The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.
The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.
There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.
Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.
On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.
Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.
Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.
You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.
Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn
⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.
Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.
Turning, righting.
When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.
Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.
There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.
So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.
The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.
Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.
The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.
The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.
There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.
Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.
On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.
Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.
Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.
You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.
Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn
⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.
Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.
Turning, righting.
When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.
Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.
There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.
So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.
The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.
Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.
The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.
The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.
There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.
Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.
On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.
Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.
Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.
You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.
Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn
⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.
Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.
Turning, righting.
When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.
Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.
There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.
So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.
The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.
Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.
The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.
The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.
There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.
Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.
On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.
Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.
Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.
You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.
Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn
⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.
Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.
Turning, righting.
When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.
Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.
There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.
So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.
The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.
Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.
The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.
The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.
There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.
Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.
On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.
Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.
Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.
You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.
Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn
⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.
Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.
Turning, righting.
When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.
Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.
There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.
So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.
The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.
Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.
The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.
The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.
The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.
America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.
There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.
Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.
On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.
Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.
Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.
You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.
Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn
⚡️Three things about russians prevent ceasefires.
1. ruschists think Ukraine and US offering a ceasefire is Ukraine and US saying: We’re weak. russia eats weakness for dinner.
2. No matter what services Donald performs for Putler, Putler and his apparatchiks distrust Americans. They’ll never get over this.
3. I monitored Russia’s ceasefires on the ground in Stanytsia luhansk’s eastern Ukraine for three years (2015-2018). While western capitals forgot about Ukraine, Russia broke the main Minsk ceasefires every day.
Meanwhile, Iran turns Saudi Arabia back into desert. You see, Donald can’t even protect Saudi Arabia. Ukraine’s not gonna lay down arms and let Russia turn it into desert.
⚡️Definitive Account of Putin's Road to War.
Taggespiegel corroborates a few episodes I know a lot about, from my time as a diplomat in Ukraine.
First, that Putin's Ukrainian Godfather Medvedchuk was feeding Putin false polling that said Putin had a 46% approval rating in Ukraine. When Medvedchuk's pollster was arrested in Ukraine in March 2022 he told the arresting officers. "I'm innocent. Was feeding Putin Disinfolklore masquerading as scientific polling."
Those of us who understand how governance works in Ruschia understood: this was the problem. Ruschia had oodles of agents across Ukraine who themselves knew Putin was not popular. I myself sat in oodles of meetings with Ruschist diplomats while Ukrainian elected officials shot at them and Ruschia with both barrels. There can be no doubt that Ukrainians from senior politicians down to senior security and police service officials, again and again, told Ruschia precisely the kind of resistance they would face. Whether or not they informed their masters in the power vertical of this, I can't know. But enough senior Ruschist security service experts on Ukraine did know that invading Ukraine would meet extremely stiff resistance.
Whenever I met senior western diplomats in eastern Ukraine, I ensured they understand that the evidence I collected from elected Ukrainian officials demonstrated a. that Ukraine would resist to the death and b. that they expected a full-scale invasion.
Yet, Putin made the decision himself without even consulting Medvedchuk.
Would Putin's soothsayer/False Ukrainian Priest Medvedchuk have admitted the polling was false? Maybe not.
But the entire basis of Putin's "I know better than everyone" was this false polling.
And so he expected a two-day war.
Instead, as became clear to experts like me within 48 hours of the full-scale invasion, Medvedchuk's entire treacherous network of Ukrainian leaders had melted away and become pro-Ukraine - What I characterised below (👇🏽) as - "Putin's Greatest Disappointment in Ukraine."
""He [Medvedchuk] told fairy tales, controlled all the
money he was paid for the organization of political resistance, and did not believe that anyone would ever check this," recalls a source close to the Russian presidential administration. "He spoke of the loyalty of the territory and stupidly misled Putin."
The Kremlin did not question Medvedchuk's words..."
Another interesting aspect of the article is about Shoigyu:
"Shoigu is said not to have contradicted Putin's decision and was even satisfied with it. "He did not understand the state of the army. He believed that Putin knew something he didn't know and really thought it wouldn't get much worse than when the annexation of Crimea," says an old friend of Putin.""
Note NATO or any of the public reasons repeated uncritically by Tankies featured in Putin's thinking. They're pure Ruschist Disinfolklore. Designed to manipulate minds, after a decision to invade is taken.
h/t @kanapolotos
Things seem to have gone awry deep within the hellish bowels of the savage Russian hinterlands, with Ukraine striking a number of targets in the Omsk region.
In addition to a massive petrochemical complex, an Ozon logistics facility now also ionizes and atomizes.
I'll start by shouting out to all those who never wavered.
Thank You!
Before everything goes back into storage , I just wanted to mention that it has been a hell of a journey, one that will end in our victory for the Ukrainian people.
As has been the case for almost a year or more, I rarely post on here compared to my previous volume or the vast majority of active Ukraine supporters.
On March 5th, 2022 when I entered the country, I was supposed to go home on March 21st.
Ukraine is my home now.
I also never expected this career and to be direct, all the people who think they knew what war was or is, the attacks on me , the criticisms , didn't bother me because they simply didn't see the work, and don't know the results but little by little it all added up to what you see below.
From left to right:
Service for and in GUR: 2022-2025, TRO : 2023, Golden Cross from Commander in Chief Zaluzhnyi : 2024, SBU Alpha Coin : 2025, MPZ General Staff Crest from Major General Klochkov, SBU Alpha Service Commendation : 2026.
We will never kneel. We will never bow.
Victory is Ukraine.
Slava Ukraini
⚡️Melania suddenly cares: What’s going on?
"First Lady Melania Trump successfully secured a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, localized to the city of Oleshky." She acted, it says, "in her formal role as Exclusive Intermediary".
A new character has entered our Disinfolklore Universe. I make no judgment about the First Lady. I know nothing about her. All I know are stories about her, and on Friday the White House told a new one.
When a new character walks into a series you have watched for years, you ask what she is modelling and what she is for. That is the Disinfolklore method, and this is what it finds.
Who spoke first. The Kremlin. On 21 October, in St Petersburg, Putin's aide Ushakov said Putin had asked Witkoff to carry his thanks to the First Lady for "her mediation in resolving the acute situation that arose in the town of Oleshky".
The White House announced her ceasefire two days later. The first line of the episode was spoken in russia.
What she models. The oldest story in our Indo-European mind: the peace-weaver, the woman given between two warring houses so that her body is the treaty. The Sabine women. Philippa at Calais. In the old poems the marriage always fails.
The two houses here are the two I described at Alaska: "two Russian mafia Dons meeting in America, to talk about buying a skyscraper which neither of them owns."
The threat and the mercy. russia mined the roads out of Oleshky, blockaded 2,000 old people and fifty children for four years, refused every evacuation, and now lets them out and thanks Washington.
I watched this troll for three years at the Stanytsia Luhanska bridge. russia distresses the damsel, then looks for credit for salving the pain it has caused.
The title. "Exclusive Intermediary." No treaty, no resolution, no appointment. A press release conferring an office on its own author, as the occupation in Luhansk conferred "ministries" on itself. Exclusive means the UN, the Red Cross, the OSCE and Ukraine's own ombudsman are out.
One household owns the channel.
The children. The ICC warrant for Putin is for the unlawful deportation of children. russia's own figure is 700,000. Ukraine's records name 20,610 as of June 2026.
The Grand Chamber of the European Court found the transfers "a systematic programme of long-term, indeed permanent, removal", "spearheaded by the Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights" with "the direct support of the Russian President".
Against that record, the man under the warrant thanks the intermediary for 34. And the statement's "I anticipate some will want to go to Russia, and some to Ukraine" is the accusation in a mirror: the thief's story that the other side also steals.
The week it covers. Starshield throttled. Witkoff saluting Putin as "a humanitarian" with no Ukrainian in the room. Kyiv struck that night. Sanctions postponed. Zampolli, who introduced the couple in 1998, removed from the State Department and first to hail her.
The pilot episode was 2018: a jacket on the way to visit children in cages, "I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?" A character has no heart to change. Writers change her when the plot needs it.
AP's caption says she helped "forge" a ceasefire. Forge is the right word in its other sense. russia announces ceasefires to wage war. Ilovaisk followed one.
Debaltseve followed another.
The only ceasefire we need is russia's withdrawal from 100 per cent of Ukraine, and the United States coercing it to leave.
⚡️Melania suddenly cares: What’s going on?
"First Lady Melania Trump successfully secured a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, localized to the city of Oleshky." She acted, it says, "in her formal role as Exclusive Intermediary".
A new character has entered our Disinfolklore Universe. I make no judgment about the First Lady. I know nothing about her. All I know are stories about her, and on Friday the White House told a new one.
When a new character walks into a series you have watched for years, you ask what she is modelling and what she is for. That is the Disinfolklore method, and this is what it finds.
Who spoke first. The Kremlin. On 21 October, in St Petersburg, Putin's aide Ushakov said Putin had asked Witkoff to carry his thanks to the First Lady for "her mediation in resolving the acute situation that arose in the town of Oleshky".
The White House announced her ceasefire two days later. The first line of the episode was spoken in russia.
What she models. The oldest story in our Indo-European mind: the peace-weaver, the woman given between two warring houses so that her body is the treaty. The Sabine women. Philippa at Calais. In the old poems the marriage always fails.
The two houses here are the two I described at Alaska: "two Russian mafia Dons meeting in America, to talk about buying a skyscraper which neither of them owns."
The threat and the mercy. russia mined the roads out of Oleshky, blockaded 2,000 old people and fifty children for four years, refused every evacuation, and now lets them out and thanks Washington.
I watched this troll for three years at the Stanytsia Luhanska bridge. russia distresses the damsel, then looks for credit for salving the pain it has caused.
The title. "Exclusive Intermediary." No treaty, no resolution, no appointment. A press release conferring an office on its own author, as the occupation in Luhansk conferred "ministries" on itself. Exclusive means the UN, the Red Cross, the OSCE and Ukraine's own ombudsman are out.
One household owns the channel.
The children. The ICC warrant for Putin is for the unlawful deportation of children. russia's own figure is 700,000. Ukraine's records name 20,610 as of June 2026.
The Grand Chamber of the European Court found the transfers "a systematic programme of long-term, indeed permanent, removal", "spearheaded by the Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights" with "the direct support of the Russian President".
Against that record, the man under the warrant thanks the intermediary for 34. And the statement's "I anticipate some will want to go to Russia, and some to Ukraine" is the accusation in a mirror: the thief's story that the other side also steals.
The week it covers. Starshield throttled. Witkoff saluting Putin as "a humanitarian" with no Ukrainian in the room. Kyiv struck that night. Sanctions postponed. Zampolli, who introduced the couple in 1998, removed from the State Department and first to hail her.
The pilot episode was 2018: a jacket on the way to visit children in cages, "I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?" A character has no heart to change. Writers change her when the plot needs it.
AP's caption says she helped "forge" a ceasefire. Forge is the right word in its other sense. russia announces ceasefires to wage war. Ilovaisk followed one.
Debaltseve followed another.
The only ceasefire we need is russia's withdrawal from 100 per cent of Ukraine, and the United States coercing it to leave.
When a public official reduces Russia's war against Ukraine to "Donbas," it can function as a form of genocide denial.
Genocide denial is not always outright rejection. It often begins by minimizing, reframing, or obscuring the scope of the crime.
By presenting the war as merely a territorial dispute over one region, attention is diverted from documented patterns of mass atrocities, forced deportations, the destruction of Ukrainian cultural identity, filtration camps, and rhetoric denying the existence of a distinct Ukrainian nation.
⚡️Three things about russians prevent ceasefires.
1. ruschists think Ukraine and US offering a ceasefire is Ukraine and US saying: We’re weak. russia eats weakness for dinner.
2. No matter what services Donald performs for Putler, Putler and his apparatchiks distrust Americans. They’ll never get over this.
3. I monitored Russia’s ceasefires on the ground in Stanytsia luhansk’s eastern Ukraine for three years (2015-2018). While western capitals forgot about Ukraine, Russia broke the main Minsk ceasefires every day.
Meanwhile, Iran turns Saudi Arabia back into desert. You see, Donald can’t even protect Saudi Arabia. Ukraine’s not gonna lay down arms and let Russia turn it into desert.
⚡️Melania suddenly cares: What’s going on?
"First Lady Melania Trump successfully secured a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, localized to the city of Oleshky." She acted, it says, "in her formal role as Exclusive Intermediary".
A new character has entered our Disinfolklore Universe. I make no judgment about the First Lady. I know nothing about her. All I know are stories about her, and on Friday the White House told a new one.
When a new character walks into a series you have watched for years, you ask what she is modelling and what she is for. That is the Disinfolklore method, and this is what it finds.
Who spoke first. The Kremlin. On 21 October, in St Petersburg, Putin's aide Ushakov said Putin had asked Witkoff to carry his thanks to the First Lady for "her mediation in resolving the acute situation that arose in the town of Oleshky".
The White House announced her ceasefire two days later. The first line of the episode was spoken in russia.
What she models. The oldest story in our Indo-European mind: the peace-weaver, the woman given between two warring houses so that her body is the treaty. The Sabine women. Philippa at Calais. In the old poems the marriage always fails.
The two houses here are the two I described at Alaska: "two Russian mafia Dons meeting in America, to talk about buying a skyscraper which neither of them owns."
The threat and the mercy. russia mined the roads out of Oleshky, blockaded 2,000 old people and fifty children for four years, refused every evacuation, and now lets them out and thanks Washington.
I watched this troll for three years at the Stanytsia Luhanska bridge. russia distresses the damsel, then looks for credit for salving the pain it has caused.
The title. "Exclusive Intermediary." No treaty, no resolution, no appointment. A press release conferring an office on its own author, as the occupation in Luhansk conferred "ministries" on itself. Exclusive means the UN, the Red Cross, the OSCE and Ukraine's own ombudsman are out.
One household owns the channel.
The children. The ICC warrant for Putin is for the unlawful deportation of children. russia's own figure is 700,000. Ukraine's records name 20,610 as of June 2026.
The Grand Chamber of the European Court found the transfers "a systematic programme of long-term, indeed permanent, removal", "spearheaded by the Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights" with "the direct support of the Russian President".
Against that record, the man under the warrant thanks the intermediary for 34. And the statement's "I anticipate some will want to go to Russia, and some to Ukraine" is the accusation in a mirror: the thief's story that the other side also steals.
The week it covers. Starshield throttled. Witkoff saluting Putin as "a humanitarian" with no Ukrainian in the room. Kyiv struck that night. Sanctions postponed. Zampolli, who introduced the couple in 1998, removed from the State Department and first to hail her.
The pilot episode was 2018: a jacket on the way to visit children in cages, "I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?" A character has no heart to change. Writers change her when the plot needs it.
AP's caption says she helped "forge" a ceasefire. Forge is the right word in its other sense. russia announces ceasefires to wage war. Ilovaisk followed one.
Debaltseve followed another.
The only ceasefire we need is russia's withdrawal from 100 per cent of Ukraine, and the United States coercing it to leave.
In Omsk, the "Omsky Kauchuk" chemical plant came under attack by strike drones.
After the impact, a large-scale fire broke out on the territory of the plant.
Під час роковин оленівської трагедії різні офіційні джерела називають різну кількість постраждалих. Саме тому ще в серпні 2026 року Спільнота Оленівки ініціювала спільну звірку списків постраждалих унаслідок масової страти українських військовополонених.
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