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"Distant crumps - soft explosions - reported from west Kyiv, towards the airport. Not Cruise missiles, i think, but sounds like an attack on the airport." @JohnSweeney
#Putin's speech here; he is a raging maniac, still speaking about the collapse of the USSR, the balance of powers in the world destroyed and using offensive language, basically challenging the US thttps://www.vesti.ru/video/2386956
"Due to the fact that after the collapse of the USSR, Moscow lost confidence in itself, the balance of power in the world was upset. At the same time, American politicians resorted to lies at the highest level, "blatant behavior." "chemical weapons" of Iraq, which did not exist."
"The US is an empire of lies. (sic!!) The collective West supported separatism and mercenary gangs in southern Russia. Until recently, the attempts of the West to use us in their interests did not stop. "
#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
#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)
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."