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1 - Before invading, Putin had assessed that America is fractured - or at minimum - divided. Without that assessment this war would NOT be happening. Because America, its democracy, and the NATO alliance are Putin's impediments and obsessions. His goal is to diminish them.
1 - Before invading, Putin had assessed that America is fractured - or at minimum - divided. Without that assessment this war would NOT be happening. Because America, its democracy, and the NATO alliance are Putin's impediments and obsessions. His goal is to diminish them.
2 - For years, Putin saw, up close, Trump's fetishization for cruelty and need to win every transaction. He ALSO saw the GOP's unbridled lust for regaining power. He saw the potential for American democracy itself to be altered or compromised.
3 - Putin ALSO saw a strong element of our electorate buying into strongman propaganda - let's call it TrumpISM. In the world of Trumpism, authoritarians are admired as powerful, manly, strong. The strong take what they can. Winning is everything.
4 - To be clear, Trumpism is not just one orange-tinted sociopath. Nor is it just the angry mob. It's a continually metastasizing apparatus of GOP enablers from the shameless McCarthy to the toxic blowhard that is Tucker Carlson.
5 - Putin knows that in America's GOP, the ends justify the means. And Trump - the useful idiot himself, will keep spewing fuel on the fire. Putin had every reason to expect Trumpism to help his cause with Ukraine. (Russian media keeps playing Trump/Pompeo on endless video loops)
6 - Putin also believes enablers of Trumpism might control at least one chamber in Congress soon. Maybe the WH in 3 years. Therefore, important to his calculus is that some sanctions put in place now might be rolled back.
7 - And Putin knows he can have an impact on a susceptible American electorate in 2024, and even though the GOP might express outrage now, they'll welcome his help then.
8 - Whatever happens in Ukraine, America has to vanquish its TRUE foe. It's not Putin. And it's not Trump. It's Authoritarianism which can only grow in an environment of DISINFORMATION. Disinformation and propaganda is everywhere now. And it's constantly amplified.
9 - In 2022, Democracy itself will be on the line. Democracy HAS to prevail! For that to happen, TRUTH has to prevail!
10 - In 2020, we spoke TRUTH about the aberrant psychopathology of Trump in our film #UNFIT. It also spoke to his autocratic aspirations which we've just heard yet again at CPAC. Our film was widely distributed; widely seen. It made a difference. It even crossed over a bit.
11 - In 2022, before the midterms, we will release #UNTRUTH - the Psychology of TrumpISM.
It will also make a difference. It will speak truth to ANYONE who watches it. (And almost everybody watches films.)
It will also make a difference. It will speak truth to ANYONE who watches it. (And almost everybody watches films.)
12 - #UNTRUTH must be a fiercely independent film (like #UNFIT). It's the only way films like these can be made. If enough truth prevails, democracy will prevail! The more we know about what Trumpism really is, the better chance we have.
13 - Here's a link. Please watch the short trailer at the top, then scroll down and read the truth about Trumpism.
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We hope you'll also consider supporting the effort. We're all in this together.
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