"We have been threatened and there is no one we can go to for protection, because the rot goes so deep. We are both people who have studied authoritarianism; we know how this goes. But none of that takes away from the human toll." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/25377010
On Pelosi and others: "You can stop the level of atrocity -- if you have courage, if you have will, if you have love for the people of your country. But what I see is glibness, and dismissal, and abandonment. It is the most brutal thing." patreon.com/posts/25377010
"I will fight because it's my obligation as a human being and as a citizen. But it is discouraging to see how deep the rot goes -- and the gutlessness, the unwillingness to root it out or even ask questions, this voluntary submission." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/25377010

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Feb 16
"When it comes to Putin's objectives, do not think in rational terms. We're on Putin's time, Putin's dime, and Putin's mindset. None of it can be trusted." -- @MalcolmNance on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/dispatch…
"If Russia invades western Ukraine, it will be a bloodbath. Ukraine has been rebuilt since 1945 and here the Kremlin is talking about destroying it all. The only way to fight is going to be total war." -- @MalcolmNance on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/dispatch…
"This whole concept of Putin honoring 'Kievan Rus' is a mirage. Putin is a racist and hates Ukrainians. The way he uses ahistorical analyses of Ukrainians is similar to how white Americans described Black Americans during Jim Crow." -- @Russian_Starr patreon.com/posts/dispatch…
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"Imperialists and dictators will always use the lie of 'this ethnic group naturally has a slave mentality' to justify their own horrific actions. If you hear this phrase, dismiss it. There is no such thing as an innate 'slave mentality.'" -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/nato-is-…
"There is also no such thing as a 'natural inclination toward authoritarianism.' Westerners will say this about long-standing dictatorships, that this is the natural order of things, instead of grasping that people living in a dictatorship cannot discuss it and must navigate it."
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THREAD compiling notable Gaslit Nation episodes on Ukraine:
At @gaslitnation, we have been covering Ukraine, Russia and the US -- and the global kleptocracy tying them together -- since our first episode in 2018. This thread links to the transcripts of episodes that provide more context for the current crisis.
"Manafort, Wikileaks, and Trump's Long Bromance with Putin" Our very first episode on the global nexus of kleptocratic actors and how Ukraine is used as a playing ground for their criminal schemes gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-trans…
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Jan 31
Compiling @gaslitnation threads on mafia state enabler Merrick Garland:

TV pundits called this first thread "brutal and controversial." It is simply a list of things he's done at Biden's DOJ.
Third thread, debunking the propaganda apparatus that rewrote Garland's career, in particular his time at the Clinton DOJ:
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Jan 30
An article I wrote in April 2018 about how Trump would use the pardon power as a lure for his crime cult to be protected. Then he did it, repeatedly, and is threatening to do it again.
The people who plotted the Capitol attack were the people he pardoned before it:
Same mafia state playbook, again and again. I wrote a book about the playbook three years ago and nothing changed.
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Jan 26
"We need an overarching democracy strategy from the top to the bottom. At the top is preventing the people who tried to overthrow the election from ever doing it again. But I don't see urgency from Dems to prevent this from happening." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/insurrec…
"I'm very worried that even though the 2020 coup failed, all the steps are being put in place for another coup to succeed in 2022 or 2024." -- @AriBerman on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/insurrec…
"What happens in 2022 will determine whether there will even be a fair election in 2024. Because if all these insurrectionists take over county election boards and secretary of state races, it will be nearly impossible to have a fair election." patreon.com/posts/insurrec…
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