⚡️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
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.
https://t.co/30v2Nof12e
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⚡️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.
Just a reminder to those of us paying attention that we knew Donald Trump was working for Russia BEFORE the election,
So anyone jumping on board with this “the USA is Russia now” bullshit is working for Putin
anyone jumping on board with this “the USA is Russia now” bullshit is working for Putin
The White House still has their tweet up gloating about this little incident if you want to go fact check me. 👇
⚡️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.
jeśli nie chcecie, by prawica przejęła rządy za rok, to naciskajcie na rząd, prokuraturę i ABW, żeby zdjęła ruskich, zamiast walić w kobiety, które walczą od lat o swoje prawa i wciąż ich nie mają. polecam też rozmowę z Martą Lempart z okazji 10 lat Strajku
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"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.