Thread by @sunnshiiny

Timothy Snyder explains how Putin used manipulation & gaslighting to create a pretext to attack Ukraine.

Canadians MUST recognize Conservative SoCons are using the same strategy to create a pretext to justify the convoy coup attempt. As are GOP Republicans to remove Biden.

https://twitter.com/MehdiHasanShow/status/1496656229157978115

North Americans are naïve to the tactics used frequently by the Kremlin. Europe is more familiar with these mind games to manipulate attitudes, thoughts & ultimately beliefs & behaviour.

But democracy’s survival is dependent upon our knowledge & understanding of this method.

Maskirovka

It means Russian military deception.

Modern doctrine includes control of the enemy. But how does one control the enemy? Denial & deception.

One example is starting a civil war but pretending you have done nothing of the sort.

Sound familiar?

US & Canada have recent experience with mobs of angry people threatening civil war & regime change.

If you believe identified “leaders” like Pat King and Tamara Lich came up with that MOU demanding dissolution of parliament to trigger an election themselves, you’re delusional.

Neither have the background, knowledge or intellectual capacity to write that MOU, even as ridiculously inaccurate and devoid of legal relevance it is.

But it’s an attempt to bypass the national leader and the executive branch of government. To go over their heads.

I don’t believe for one second the identified leaders, except maybe the former RCMP officer, even have any comprehension of the Governor General’s role in federal government. That role is a figurehead. So is the Regent (currently the Queen) in the UK. They hold NO ACTUAL POWER.

Someone with an understanding of communications strategy and control of the narrative created that document. It appears dumb, but it’s not. It’s a demand for extraconstitutional removal of the current elected federal government.

Because it appears ridiculous and prepared by someone ignorant of the role of the GG & senate and the limits of constitutional power doesn’t hide the fact it was written long before the convoy. It was an attempted coup written at least a month before the convoy was put together.

The MOU uses simplistic language to validate the frustration of anti vaxxers and frustrated Canadians tired of COVid restrictions to harness their angst.

In an attempt to promote and sanction a radicalized extremist fantasy of overthrowing a legitimately elected government, the raw emotions of fear and rage of the working class were manipulated for months and a simple solution offered. Perform a coup disguised as a protest.

I have no doubt countless occupiers had no comprehension the document they signed and championed was a record of plans for a coup d’état. Most participants were & remain completely ignorant of legal constitutional powers and legitimate authority.

But whomever wrote that MOU did know what they wrote.

That’s maskarova.

Control the enemy.

Use frustrated and terrified radical “libertarians” as pawns to form a mob with seditious intent & intimidate the government into submission or overthrow that duly elected government.

The ultimate deception and mind fuck of the people treated as pawns. Fully convinced their liberty is superior to public health, the pawns are tricked into taking all the physical and economic risks.

It provides plausible deniability for the actual architects of the seditious scam and the high paying dark money donors funding it.

That’s maskarova.

And who are as busy as a nest of wasps gaslighting Canadians about how it wasn’t a coup. It was a protest. A peaceful protest.

That would be the domestic & foreign parties and big money supporters who intensified the radicalization of many of the convoy participants all spring, summer and late into the fall of 2021.

In evangelical churches and Q’Anon conspiracy theory chat rooms & groups on social media. Mike Flynn toured across the US fuelling the flames of insurrection, hatred of COVid restrictions and the use of violent force to gain control of federal authority.

Guess who accompanied him? Pastor Artur Pawlowski, who returned to Canada in September 2021 to perform the same task here in Canada.

Dubbing the radicalized spiritual warriors sworn to defend their “liberty” at all costs, including dying for the cause of freedom.

That’s maskarova.

The very same strategies and deceptive war tactics Putin has been using on Ukraine have been used here in Canada and in the US by former US military intelligence officers who provided training to Canadian seditionists well known for their fascistic leanings.

The cure for addressing maskarova is calling it out.

Not getting caught in the trap of fact checking. Endless tweets fact checking conservative lies, disinformation and gaslighting attempts do nothing but entrench their pawns and confuse many who are “on the fence.”

Like Timothy Snyder states, calling out what they are doing and revealing their next moves before they are performed, is the way to address maskarova. People who are confused about con behaviour & rhetoric think I’m brilliant.

I’m not.

I’ve just been calling out the conservative’s maskarova strategy. I have a copy of their diabolical plans. I’m not brilliant, I know the plan. That’s it. They aren’t hiding their plans (well).

Dominionist churches provide plenty of pawns who are incredibly obedient, abandoned critical thinking, project the sanctimony and self righteousness of their belief in an inerrant bible, and thrive on playing the role of martyred victim.

Are their more malleable and manipulatable minds? Nope.

The vast majority of the people who attended and participated in an occupation and the blockades are also victims.

Dangerous and threatening victims of those using maskarova manipulation, disinformation and gaslighting.

Ignore the lies. Quit fact checking.

Focus on the intent of the disinformation & gaslighting.

Predict the next move. Reveal the plans.

Almost everyone is aware of Putin’s malevolence and evil intent. Because Biden & PMJT focussed on his intent, not the lies.

That’s how to deal with maskarova. Pull the mask off.

They have no shame. They don’t care what history will record. Hypocrisy is their main weapon. They feel no guilt.

But when you can predict their behaviour before they carry it out, their deception & manipulation is exposed.

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