Thread by @duty2warn

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1 - Before invading, Putin made assessments. One of them was that America was fractured, heavily divided. Of course, Putin intimately experienced four years of Trump. What a godsend for him! Without his assessment of America's division, this war would NOT be happening!

2 - Reconstructing the USSR? It's a talking point. Putin's real goals extend further. He's been unchecked for so long, they've morphed into obsessions. Putin's three major obsessions: America, democracy, and NATO. His goal? TO DIMINISH THEM. If he can, the rest falls into place.

3 - Putin saw the great arrogant America elect a moron. He's seen the GOP's unbridled lust to regain power. He's seen millions of Americans buy into false narratives and strongman propaganda. OF COURSE he saw potential for American democracy itself to be altered or compromised!

4 - What Putin saw in America is TrumpISM - a mirror of Trump's malignancies. Authoritarians are admired as manly and strong, winning is everything, an apparatus of enablers in Congress and amplifiers on RW media unified in a mission to attain power with Minority Rule at ANY cost

5 - Go back to the day of the invasion. Trump, the useful idiot himself, immediately spewed Putin-friendly fuel on the fire. So did Carlson! So did Pompeo! Russian media began playing Trump/Pompeo on endless video loops! This was what Putin expected, and he got exactly that.

6 - But Putin made other faulty assessments. He underestimated Zelensky's leadership, Ukrainians' bravery, their will to fight to survive. Mostly, he underestimated NATO's unity, due in no small part to Biden/Blinken and their ability to telegraph Putin's planned lies in advance.

7. Thank God for Biden. Because of the solidarity of NATO, and Zelensky, Putin stumbled. Political calculus by the power-crazed American GOP changed. Not for humanitarian reasons! They read the room, and knew their best alternative was to now flip to Ukraine and away from Putin.

8 - REMEMBER THIS: The GOP cares for NOTHING above power! Their oaths? Hah! They'd sell their own mothers out in a flash. And even though they act against Putin now, all Putin needs to do is wait this out with them, and they'll assuredly welcome his help with US midterm elections

9 - Whatever happens in Ukraine, America HAS to vanquish its TRUE foe. It's not Putin. And it's not Trump. It's PROPAGANDA. Authoritarianism can ONLY grow in an environment of DISINFORMATION. Disinformation and propaganda are everywhere now. It's constant. Relentless. Amplified.

10 - In 2022, American Democracy itself WILL be on the line. Democracy HAS to prevail! How? The truth. The truth is the only archenemy of the lie, and the truth is STRONGER than the lie. So, for Democracy to prevail, enough TRUTH has to prevail!

11 - In 2020, we spoke TRUTH about the aberrant psychopathology of Trump in our film #UNFIT. It also spoke to his autocratic aspirations which we still see daily. Our film was widely distributed; widely seen. It made a difference. It crossed over to moderates. There's still many!

12 - In 2022, before the midterms, we will release #UNTRUTH - the Psychology of TrumpISM and the War for Democracy. It will also make a difference. It will speak truth to ANYONE who watches it. (Almost everybody watches films, and when they watch, they're away from the noise.)

13 - #UNTRUTH must be a fiercely truthful and independent film (like #UNFIT). It's the only way films like these can be made. If enough truth prevails, democracy will prevail! The more we know about what Trumpism really is, the better chance we have.

14 - Here's a link. PLEASE - click it, watch the short trailer at the top, then scroll down and read the truth about Trumpism. It's behavioral psychology. And it's there. We hope you'll also consider supporting the effort, now or in the coming few days.

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15 - We're all in this together. Democracy really IS on the line. It's the thing most worth fighting for. And we need to be all in.
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