Thread by @emeriticus

In 2014, the Obama administration backed a color revolution that toppled a Russia-neutral Ukrainian government and selected a rabidly anti-Russian one to take its place. It has been called the "Facebook Revolution" because of the role the media and social media played

NGOs played a huge role in this too, like they have in other color revolutions. But Ukraine was arguably the first that brought to bear the full force of digital journalism and social media. Another term used is "The Journalist's Uprising" en.ejo.ch/media-politics…

What's interesting now about this is that NGOs, social media, and media are being used in a similar way to shape public opinion about the war with the ultimate goal of getting other countries involved. Blue checks/journalists are even getting angry at people calling out misinfo

An example of the role NGOs play: Human Rights Watch condemns Russia for censorship but nothing about the West systematically censoring Russia media while promoting nonstop Ukrainian propaganda. But it's an NGO! They're independent!

archive.is/d2Sq8

And when you realize that tech companies in partnership with the State Department were directly involved in training up NGOs, journalists, and activists leading up to the 2014 revolution, you see that Ukraine was sort of like ground zero for the era of digital psyops

Here's how The Economist described Viktor Yanukovych: his "favoured option seems to be to preserve the status quo and refrain from joining either camp while continuing to milk [the EU and Russia]."

archive.is/bhpBa

https://twitter.com/brexjam/status/1499039311882190851?s=20&t=s-WlQ74Di5O15aMcRmCBdw

John Mearsheimer has noted that the US did not consider Russia an aggressive threat until after it ousted Yanukovych and triggered a crisis which resulted in Russia annexing Crimea. His evidence is that the Obama administration and DC were shocked Russia actually did something

Here's Mearsheimer saying there's no evidence we thought Russia was trying to create Greater Russia until after we backed a color revolution in Ukraine, after Russia had repeatedly warned the West to leave Ukraine alone

The video has 13,355,207 views now

Why doesn't an analysis with 13,355,207 views by the premier realist thinker in America not inform the discussion on Fox or CNN? Why is Mearsheimer's eminently reasonable take—the point of which is avoiding war—demonized and marginalized? Because the establishment wants war

The interests of DC are being propagandized as the national interest in an effort to bring public opinion into alignment with its own, and part of that has involved using similar tactics to shape perception of this war as what we saw in the 2014 Ukrainian coup