Thread by @LavrovsFELLA

1. Vatniks: a baseball card thread

On the eve of the anniversary of Putin's upscaled genocide in Ukraine, let's mark the day by shaming some of those supporting him.

Twatniks, fatniks and plain old vatniks, you'll find them all here. I'll pin the thread and more will follow.

2. George Galloway

Failed politician George regularly degrades himself in public by retweeting conspiracies and pro-Russian lines under the banner of "truth". When Twitter labelled him Russian affiliated media he got very cross, threatened stuff, then promptly did nothing.

3. Gonzalo Lira

This greasy insect used to scrape by producing misogynist "relationship advice" bile - until his dream came true: a genocidal invasion started! He now peddles infantile lies to help Russia justify ethnic cleansing and weaponised rape.

4. Scott Ritter

High profile vatniks usually shat on their own lives before Russia shovelled them up. In Scott's case he did the mother of all dumps, being imprisoned for trying to sexually coerce a child. Naughty naughty Scott - hey, at least Russia still loves you!

5. Garland Nixon

'Analyst' Garland spends his time spewing banal 'insights' on Russia winning in Ukraine. He goes out of his way to emphasise that he is not "paid by the Russians to say this stuff". Sure. It's just coincidence he says it on Russian state media outlet Sputnik.

6. Caitlin Johnstone

Caitlin smugly denied Russia would invade.
She was wrong.
Caitlin then said Russia would take Kyiv in days.
She was wrong.
Caitlin then said [insert wobbly claim].
She was wrong.
In fact, it's hard to find something this 'truth-seeker' has been right about.

7. Patrick Lancaster

Patrick is another "journalist" trying to prevent us all from being masked by big naughty CNN. He does so by reporting exclusively from areas of Ukraine that are under Russian military control, whilst embedded within the Russian military. How unbiased.

8. Andrew Koribko

Famous for his giant head, filled with all sorts of Russian thoughts, Andrew broadcasts rambling pro-Russian videos from inside Russia, a place known for freedom of speech and lack of state interference. Girls avoid him because he says 'multipolar' too much.

9. Alexander Mercouris

Disgraced and disbarred fraudster ex-barrister Alexander, like so many others who fell from grace, got shovelled up by Russia. He can now be heard spewing Russian propaganda (or "the truth", as he labels it) on his tasteless YouTube channel 'The Duran'.

10. iEarlGrey

Real name Michael Jones, he left Gloucestershire owing a lot of money, for sunny Russia where he now tastelessly shills for Putin. Maybe he's too dim to understand the harm he's doing, but that's no excuse: when Russia kill children, Michael lies to justify it.

11. Michael Tracey

Squeeling arrestnik Michael earns his weekly potato by Tweeting whatever enters his mind. Currently that consists almost entirely of anti-western thoughts and zero condemnation of Russia's genocidal invasion of Ukraine.

12. Medea Benjamin

Medea smiles and campaigns for peace through her "Code Pink" movement. It's important to note she does this when Putin wants her to - for example right after he has stolen a nice big slice of another country. Do not be fooled.

13. Eva Bartlett

Deeply traumatised conspiracy-megaphone Eva is not new to this game. She has atrocity-propagandised in Syria as well as Ukraine, making her a war criminal, albeit a war criminal thought to have a net worth of up to $5million.

14. Dan Kovalik

Pro-communist Dan uses his wacky and largely fictional revisionist take on history to legitimise Russia's actions. Fun fact: Dan, like Alfred de Zayas, also does the same for the Maduro regime. You got it, he's a vatnik!

15. Mick Wallace

Yet another fall from grace: when Mick's property business went bankrupt and left him owing money, he dove head-first down the Kremlin toilet and came up smelling of genocide. Mick calls for peace, blaming everyone but Mr Putin. Lovely.

16. Jackson Hinkle

Jackson feigns a campaign for peace, but is so clearly, openly pro-Putin it's hard to imagine him not ending up in jail one day. During the midterms he tweeted: "I'll vote for whoever cedes all of Ukraine to Putin". Don't believe a word this silly boy says.

17. Brian Berletic

Brian isn't just good at looking maniacal, he's also a dab hand at legitimising expansion by force. Not content with Russia only having 11% of the world's land mass, he wants it to grow - and is doing all he can to help via his sewage channel 'The New Atlas'.

18. Sonja Van Den Ende

Sonja, like her fellow 'independent journalists' is currently enjoying riding around with Russian troops in Ukraine blasting the truth to bits with wave after wave of lies. She's an atrocity propagandist, which makes her - you guessed it - a war criminal.

19. Alfred de Zayas

Alfred is a vintage but energetic pro-Putinist. Selling himself as a human rights expert, he's an attractive asset for the despot who can afford him. He's living out his golden years saying such things as "Kyiv holds responsibility for the Ukraine invasion".

20. Steven Seagal

The father of all Z-celebrity fatniks, Steven doesn't mess about when it comes to atrocity propagandising. He famously appeared on RT to present his "analysis" of the Olenivka massacre. He must think he's one of his own dreadful movie characters.

21. And the man who started it all: Vladimir Putin

These cards intentionally make a contemptuous mockery of the subjects but don't aim to make light of the war. Some are guilty of war crimes, many are staunch supporters of a brutal, genocidal invasion.

#SlavaUkraini

22. Dmitry Peskov

Today's serving of toxic tea is dirty diplomat Dmitry Peskov. On his long journey to the Hague he's telling every lie under the sun, including my favourite: "Throughout its history, Russia never invaded anyone". Dmitry will say anything to please master.

23. Vasily Nebenzya

This little piggy deserves a special mention today for tastelessly interrupting a minute silence for victims of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at a UN security council meeting.

And yes, farcically, Russia is still a member of the UN security council.

24. Dmitry Medvedev

Today's hate filled pocket-orc seems to think Russia is some kind of superpower weathering the attack of a Nazi empire. His genocidal rhetoric wont age well though - the Hague would be well advised to prepare a secure dolls house.

25. Sergei Lavrov

From his claim that "the most ardent anti-Semites are usually Jews", to his wild statement that Russia never attacked Ukraine, there's lots to hate about Sergei. For me, top of the list is his face: raw bacon stretched over shards of bone. Just look at it.

26. Maria Zakharova

Before her eventual conclusion in the Hague, egregious spokes-witch Maria is doing all she can to ensure a nice long sentence. She favours denial of atrocities laced with conspiracy theory and a slice of genocidal rhetoric that would make Goebbels blush.

27. Graham phillips

Creepy sex tourist Graham got so comfortable in Ukraine that he proposed to a just-17 year old girl, Julia. He was then deported, but snuck back in to get his teeth into some juicy war crimes. You guessed it, he's an "independent journalist".

28. Kim Dotcom

Bumper-sized vatnik Kim, despite his attempts to present himself as an all-seeing political force of nature, seems to now spend his time parroting tired, transparent, reductive lies about Ukrainian people "being Nazis". And yes, he also enjoys young women.

Updated version below. Thanks to @pukk1ta for spotting the two typos.

Life is busy 🤦

29. Clare Daly

This thoroughbred despot-whisperer has a long list of transgressions, including, with her co-vatnik Mick Wallace, describing Russia's pre-Feb 24 troop buildup as being "clearly defensive". She has since become the most featured Irish person in Chinese state media.

30. Aleksandr Dugin

Mr Dugin's career as a genocidal revisionist maniac is so colourful it's hard to know where to start. So I'll start and finish with this quote: "An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of western civilisation". You get the idea.

31. Tucker Carlson

Today's propaganda tampon comes in the form of monkey-with-a-megaphone Tucker Carlson. Tucker is so keen to gargle as much Kremlin semen as possible that he's even interviewed Jackson Hinkle about his 'views' on Ukraine. How beautifully objective.

32. Andrei Kelin

Fish-faced lying machine Andrei is the Russian 'ambassador' (read: propagandist) in London. He has described the evil invasion of Ukraine by Russia as a "civil war", as opposed to what it actually is: an evil invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

33. Marjorie Taylor Greene

This egregious baboon's vision of peace means letting Putin take Ukraine by force, before broadening his imperial project to probably test Article 5. It goes without saying that her calls for 'peace' are never aimed at Russia; that'd be too logical.

34. Max Blumenthal

Soul-for-sale Max uses his 'Grayzone' toilet as a means to flush away the crimes of despots and promote conspiracy theories that the "western media won't show you", for example, the yawn-worthy theme of the US "funding Nazis" to fight a demonised Mr Putin.

35. Patriarch Kirill

Russian orthodox bishop Patriarch Kirill is something of a dark wizard, a 'Dumblewar' specialising in the dark art of legitimising mass murder. He called Putin's rule "a miracle of God". Please ignore his past as a KGB agent though, it spoils the magic.

36. Alex Rubinstein

Self-proclaimed journalist Alex is another Grayzone grunt. If you're Ukrainian, you may not know, but your soul is being controlled by Nazi puppeteers trying to stop your Russian liberators from turning your city to dust. Why? Because Alex said so.

37. Roger Waters

According to Roger, the ethnic cleansing, murder, and wholesale forced deportation of kids from Ukraine being carried out by Vladimir Putin is a "response to NATO provocations" and we should all make friends with Putin again. Roger is wrong. Don't be like Roger.

38. David Vance

Right-wing attention seeker David was banned from Twitter for being a racist. When he was allowed back, he toned down his racism from a 10 to a 7, replacing the deficit with cookie-cutter hatred directed at Ukraine, about which he has new-found expertise.

39. Alexandre Robert

You don't have to dig deep into 'History Legends' to find neutral-seeming young vatnik Alex's position on the war in Ukraine. It's simple: there is no outrage at Russia's genocidal actions, and thankfully, Russia is winning, even when they're losing.

40. Margarita Simonyan

The editor-in-chief of Russia's propaganda swamp RT can be summed up thus: imagine a rat feasting from a dustbin, which is filled with disgusting, hateful, genocidal, revisionist, lunatic rhetoric mixed with turds and vomit. You just imagined Manic Marge.

41. Dmitriy Polyanskiy

In the name of diversity, Dmitry represents the Russian Federation of Alternative Truths at the UN. For everybody who proclaims "There's an invasion!", Dmitry is on hand to counter them with "No! It's a defensive campaign against NATO Nazi bio-frogs!".

42. Dom Lucre

Dom describes himself as a 'political commentator' (yes, another one). His commentary on the Ukraine invasion is an unappealing salad of Russian propaganda, poor grammar, and a toxic fixation on Nazism, all served up with a side of eye-watering gullibility.

43. Maria Lvova-Belova

With her shiny new arrest warrant from the Hague and a family of 23 kids, war criminal Maria has her hands full! Still, she is never too busy to indulge in a spot of ethnic cleansing for her KGB handler, and she does so with gusto. Ave, Maria!

44. Vladimir Solovyov

Let's look at 2 quotes from Volatile Vlad:

2008: "Any person who tries to start a war between Russia & Ukraine is a criminal"

2022: "Today a righteous operation was launched for the de-Nazification in Ukraine"

Evil can grow in the soul like a tape worm.

45. John Moran

John, a failed desk grunt from the Irish Times, is now a 'citizen journalist' (ha!) and fits the Russian useful idiot stereotype perfectly. Gullible, willing, and apparently guilt-free, John spends his days spreading copy/paste puke-worthy Russian propaganda.

46. Xi Jinping

Putin's new sugar daddy, Xi, is as despotic, dangerous, and traumatised as Vlad himself. This is a man whose imperial obsession runs so deep that, whether you are a Uyghur or Winnie the Pooh, he will ethnically cleanse you. Just don't mention Tiananmen Square.

47. Viktor Orbán

Today's toad-in-a-suit comes in the form of Hungarian nationalistic bowling ball, Mr. Orbán. You all know him, very few of you love him, and today he's not disappointed, describing Ukraine as a "financially non-existent nation". What a propaganda gift to Russia.

48. Alexander Lukashenko

One of Vladimir Putin's most used string puppets, Mr. Lukashenko, has been dangled in the faces of Belarusians for almost three decades. So desperate is he to retain his post as clownish dictator that he has allowed himself to be a party to mass murder.

49. Sergei Shoigu

Imagine a man with no military background whatsoever, recruiting men with no military background whatsoever to fight in the shittiest army on Earth. Now imagine that man has been lobotomised. You just imagined the Russian defence minister.

50. Mikhail Mizintsev

The 'Butcher of Mariupol' earned his title by ordering the bombing of a children's hospital harbouring civilians. Rather than breaking the will of the Ukrainians, however, this creepy, hate-filled blob of crap simply made the world hate Russia even more.

51. Danny Haiphong

Watch in awe as Chairman Bullshit Danny Haiphong leapfrogs over the truth, dazzling his audience in a whirlwind of the cheapest, least believable propaganda themes ever splattered from the anus of the internet. Predictably, he supports China and Russia.

52. Bashar al-Assad

WARNING: Do not look at this guy's eyes for longer than 2 seconds, even in just a photo of him. It's said those who do become conspiracy theorists and immediately start denying war crimes and calling themselves "independent journalists". You have been warned.

53. Johnny Miller

You know the type. "Independent journalist, free from western mainstream media," enters Ukraine illegally through territory occupied by Russia, spreads atrocity propaganda, and assist Russia with the invasion they fail to criticise. This c*nt is NO different.

54. Yevgeny Prigozhin

You will have seen this high-scorer in the spotlight ranting at the Russian MOD, but Yevgeny does it all: trolling, cooking, disinformation, murder, cooking, trolling, cooking trolls, mass murder, and disinformation about all of the above. How very Russian.

55. Sergei Andreyev

A year ago yesterday, this little Russian munchkin was splattered with Polish resistance. He may be a colourful chap, but don't be fooled: he's a Moscow jester card, and jester cards score zero on every metric! You have been warned.

56. Igor Konashenkov

We all see his regular "updates" on the latest fictional targets the Russian armed forces have destroyed an impossible amount of, and his latest claims have been no less wonderful. Thus far, 2,719 of 18 HIMARS have been vanquished. Impressive, Igor.

57. Jeffrey Sachs

If you find an awkward gap between your propaganda and reality, call this guy. Tame professor Jeff will ensure your genocidal goblinry and power hunger are packaged nicely for a western audience. Invading someone? You were provoked. Ethnic cleansing? Meh.

58. Scottson Sterritt

Propaganda is essential to Russia's genocidal war goals. This brainwashed body builder helps by building a big body of bullshit aimed at legitimising the killing, destruction, and ethnic cleansing undertaken by Putin's forces in Ukraine. Shame on him.

59. Ian Miles Cheong

At some point on Putin's shopping list, there was this guy. Upon purchase, he became an alt-right muck-spreader overnight, instantly acquiring knowledge about US politics and how MH17 shouldn't have dared fly over a Kremlin playground. I bet he was cheap.

60. Richard Fairbrass

A Z-lister in more ways than one, Richard spends his autumnal years working on his solo act, 'Right said Vlad'. No propaganda narrative is too dire for Richard, who, between xenophobic and anti-vax tweets, makes time to attack support for Ukraine.

61. Max Blumenthal & Anya Parampil

In 2015, the year after Moscow invaded and annexed Crimea, Max built a magic genocide washing machine called the Grayzone. If you're a despot in need of some PR, Max, Anya, and friends will turn your war crimes into "western Russophobia".

62. Igor Strelkov / Girkin

When little Igor was just a boy, he wanted to grow up to do one thing more than anything else in the whole wide world: shoot down his first airliner full of families. Now that his dream has come true, he's retired to a peaceful life of cell-dodging.

63. Gonzalo Liro (post arrest)

He was already a musty toilet creep, but after being arrested for bleaching war crimes, he has now really grown into his own smelly green skin. Gonzalo loves nothing more than smelly Russian lies, so steer clear! Long may he reside in captivity.

64. Anatoly Antonov

If you're in the business of industrial-scale terrorism, it's important to have ambassadors around the world to confuse, disrupt, and weaken resolve. This one sits in the US like a satanic cuckoo in a nest, spreading its despotic master's devilish lies.

65. Chay Bowes

This disgraceful little propaganda gnome notably wrote an article just one month ahead of Russia invading Ukraine, warning of Russia's "modern professional military" , and how we should all "recognise Russia’s regional interests". What a silly little man.

66. Aaron Maté

Little Aaron thinks he's an ordinary boy—that is, until he's whisked off into a world of goblins, war crimes, golden roubles, and mystical theories that seem never to have really happened. Brace yourself for some Moscow mischief as we enter... The Greyzone!

67. Semyon Pegov / War Gonzo

Something smelly this way comes... is he dead? Is he alive? We will never truly know. Poltergeist of the information space, only the most skilled clairvoyant is able to sense Semyon's ethereal bullshit from beyond the grave and summon his lies.

68. Haz Al-Din

Every now and then, one of those rare unicorn vatniks with preposterously well-refined clowning abilities loses its way and ends up dancing onto your Twitter feed. Spare this one a thought, don't debate him, he will fold. Be kind: throw him a rouble and hit mute.

69. Andy Boreham

The sacred number 69 goes to a useful white mage with CCP characteristics who has the power to make you forget nasty truths. China's pollution levels? Taiwan being a country? The Ukraine invasion? Look into Andy's eyes - they'll all vanish in a puff of bullshit.

70. Richard Medhurst

According to this guy, Putin, Assad, probably Satan, are all nice, innocent men, loved by over 100% of their people, and demonised by the west. So if you're a Ukrainian wondering who just destroyed your family, it wasn't the Russians - because Dick says so.

71. Kim Jong Un

North Korean people live under such a grim thumb that they even have to cut their hair according to state-approved guidelines. Just across the border, south Korea's GDP is 57 times bigger, but this doesn't bother our silly little hero. He just wants to have fun.

72. Sergey Karaganov

If you haven't heard of this creepy nuke-whisperer, you could do worse than read his "paper", 'A Difficult but Necessary Decision'. In it, he calls for nuclear strikes to "save the entire human civilization from extinction".
No, I didn't just make that up.