#Zelenskyy tweeted that he will hold urgent consultations with Macron and Sholz and convene with the National Security and Defense Council.
#Putin is now giving a REALLY LONG speech that makes no sense and is all over the place but it is really aggressive (that's the only thing one can make out of it)
VEB is a state-owned Russian corporation closely tied to the Russian government. Its chairman is appointed by the Russian president. The Russian prime minister is chairman of the bank supervisory board. #Kushner met with its banker: cnn.com/2017/03/27/pol…
#Putin sounds like an abandoned lover, bitter and despondent. He sighs, and confesses that the US would never accept Russia into NATO, clears his throat, sighs, "Why, why? Don't want to be friends, but why be enemies?!" "Cheated upon!" #Тижменепідманула
He needs urgent psychiatric help; a deranged speech, with. "Knife to our throat", "they spit on us", "dogs are barking, caravan walking" within one minute. "People w/PPD suffer from paranoia, an unrelenting mistrust & suspicion..., even when there is no reason to be suspicious.
Now he's talking about an imaginary "genocide" that is unbearable and can't be accepted any longer, and about the "regime" in Kyiv that "captured" power in Ukraine
BEFORE RETWEETING. An excerpt translated from a Soviet Psy-Op Textbook. These strategies are still being used, just adapted for cyberspace & hybrid war. "Psychological warfare is a complex of psychological operations and activities carried out 1/1 🧵#Ukraine#RussiaUkraineCrisis
...in accordance with specific goals and objectives. Usually, it begins in the time of peace, during the "high-threat stage," characterized by the following features:
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1. in the foreign policy area, there are continuous intensive negotiations between diplomats (including intermediaries); trade, economic, cultural, and other relations between members of opposing groups are curtailed; there are various border conflicts, etc. 3
In #Russia, the law on “traditional values” is about to be adopted. Threats to the values "are implanted into the citizens of Russia by extremist/terrorist organizations, the US & its allies & their non-profit organizations."Arrests daily. Russia is a threat to the world. Thread.
"Values": "cult of selfishness"
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"denial of the ideals of patriotism"
"denial of the ideals of serving the Motherland"
"denial of the ideals of procreation"
"denial of the ideals of creative labor"
"denial of Russia's positive contribution to world history and culture."
"The sources of these threats are extremist and terrorist organizations, the United States (and its allies), transnational corporations and foreign non-profit organizations."
Russia has amassed between 100-200K troops on Ukraine's borders and in Belarus, moving troops from the Far East and Siberia and made a written ultimatum to the US: NATO should not accept any former Soviet republics, including Ukraine that is currently seeking admission...
...to the alliance and must roll back its troops from the countries that have borders with Russia, such as Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.) Today, the US has delivered a written response to this draft proposal.
If you are in Europe or the US, you might have not heard that #Russian troops "intervened" in #Kazakhstan where the president gave orders to "kill without warning" today. #KazakhstanProtest#Kazachstan (wrong spelling, btw) 🧵
To sum it up, the poor revolted against the reign of Nur-Sultan Nazarbaev, the former president who stayed in power for 30 years, and his puppet, a current president. The army (more or less) sided with the people.
In response, and on the current Kazakh president's request, Putin sent "peacekeeping" paratroopers. Dozens are killed. Many political analysts are commenting on the dangerous situation. However, I have not seen anyone mention an important factor: Eurasianism.