1/ Even more significant and disturbing is the fact that "NAFO activist" Kyiv Post analyst/editor Jason Jay Smart presents members of the group as experts and pro-Ukrainian actors.
2/ Illarionov appears in Smart's interview as a fierce opponent of the Kremlin: "Putin must be stopped", he told the Kyiv Post.
Jason Smart also makes strong statements and shares images of Moscow's apocalyptic destruction.
3/ He reports that Roger Stone's former business partner Mike R Caputo is a friend of Ukraine.
In the past, Smart has worked as an expert and consultant in several former Soviet countries. He wasalso a big data analyst for Ted Cruz's campaign.
4/ Cruz did pretty well in the election. In contrast, his ability to resist Russian intelligence manipulation has not been his strong suit.
5/ Ted himself, as well as his father, has been involved in the activities of Christofascist organisations supported by oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev and ex-KGB officer Vladimir Yakunin (WCF and GHEX).
6/ One of Smart's career milestones was as head of the NGO "For Free Ukraine". In an interview in 2016 after Trump's victory, he said that the actions of Ukrainian diplomats against Trump were "frightening" and that Ambassador Chaly had "disgraced himself".
7/ Smart urged Poroshenko to draw conclusions and fire ambassadors who have insulted Trump.
Smart also invites Diaspora UA's Gary Tabach, who says he was the first person born in the USSR to become a captain in the US Navy, to be interviewed by the Kyiv Post.
8/ In an interview with Jason Smart, Tabach explains why Trump is the right man to defeat Putin.
Gary Tabach had emigrated to the West at the age of 14 in 1976 after his parents were allowed to take him to Austria to treat a mental illness.
9/ At the time, the country was completely closed. It is not known how this permission to leave the Soviet Union for treatment abroad was obtained.
10/ Another well-known Russian dissident, Ilya Ponomarev, does not appear with Diaspora UA, but has met Illarionov several times, including at Forum FreeRussia meetings. The same men have been sketching together libertarian visions for the future of Russia.
11/ Ponomarev has also appeared in an interview with Jason Smart.
On 26 August 2022, Jason Smart exclusively interviewed Belarus's Valery Tsepkalo and Dmitry Bolkunets on how to save Belarus.
12/ Tsepkalo is a former presidential candidate and represents the Belarusian opposition from the US. Bolkunets is presented by Smart as a special expert on Belarus, whom he repeatedly uses as a source on Belarus.
13/ One of the things that links the above-mentioned Belarusians with Illarionov and the Diaspora UA people is their strong criticism of Biden. Diapora UA also blames the current Ukrainian government.
14/ Tsepkalo, on the other hand, spends a remarkable amount of energy accusing another Belarusian opposition figure, Tsihanouskaya, of bribery.
15/ In a statement on the Sputnik website, Dmitry Bolkunets says that Tsihanouskaya's proposed Belarusian reform package (disengagement from Russian influence) should be ignored as a copy of the dreams of the 1990s.
16/ In 2021, Bolkunets will appear on Olga Skabeyeva's 60 Minutes programme. In the programme, He complained to Skabejeva that dialogue with Lukashenko was impossible. This story is banned in Belarus (unlike in Russia).
17/ Earlier, he will speak positively about deepening the Belarusian-Russian state union to "real implementation".
Tsepkalo's wife Veronica Tsepkalo is the founder and president of the Belarusian Women's Foundation. She supports her husband's policies.
18/ In July 2023, the account Alliance Resistance Belarus will a tweet on 12.1.2024, they announced the #UltimatumToLukashenka demonstration in Warsaw on 24.1.2024. The tweet had four likes, one of which was from Jason Smart. appear.In
19/ Since 2022, Bolkunets and Tsepkalo have appeared on NAFO community accounts and podcasts as experts and representatives of the opposition. It is likely that their previous collaboration with Jason Smart has legitimised them as trustworthy by default.
20/ On Balkunets' timeline of likes, we see Smart doing an interview for TVPWorld. In December, the new Polish government takes over TVP. Smart making a concerned statement that TVPworld has been abolished and that Poland is heading towards the demise of democracy.
21/ Smart's partner and TVPworld chief, Filip Styczinski, says in an interview with European Conservative, which is close to Orban, that Poland has now become a banana republic under Donald Tusk.
22/ After the Polish elections, Tsekalo and Balkunets reach out to the new government and ask for help in their fight against Lukashenko. Their message to Tsihanoussiya is not so friendly. The fight for democracy is not a common one in this case.
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