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Mar 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Western and Ukrainian media lied to the world about Ukraine dominating the battlefield. That encouraged foreigners to sign up for presumably easy combat against Russia. Now a lot of them are dead.

Your delusions have real consequences and they get people killed.
Experts high on copium gave people the impression that this would be like easy mode Call of Duty. Congratulations, you got what you asked for. Image
There is no shortage of Reddit/Twitter accounts posting nonstop "Russians are SO bad at war!" content that it really did convince foreigners that this would be like a video game.

You got updoots and likes and retweets, they got killed. ImageImage
Translated video of the Brazilian survivor with subtitles.

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Mar 15
The Western intelligence apparatus won the information war in Ukraine before a shot was fired. Even new publications like the Kyiv Independent have received support from NGOs that do in public what the CIA used to do in private. My story in @HumanEvents +🧵humanevents.com/2022/03/15/the…
The Independent is a good example. It's got growing subscriber base now, but according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was created with an "emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy," a spinoff of the National Endowment for Democracy. What is the NED?
On the surface, it's an NGO that promotes civil society worldwide by, among other things, sponsoring and providing training for journalists and activists directly or indirectly. The reality, however, is different. web.archive.org/web/2022030510…
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Mar 14
Interesting that you're starting see more claims about a Russian WMD scenario just as Ukraine's military is cracking and its major cities are being encircled.

Fortunately, the media has convinced everyone that Ukraine is winning, which makes a "Saddam has WMDs" operation easy.
Makes sense to me that Russia would use WMDs of some sort after all this time, right when negotiation with Ukraine appears increasingly possible, and after the warmongers have said that WMD usage would trigger direct intervention
Published just a few hours ago lol, it's in the air

wsj.com/articles/send-… Image
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Mar 14
There's a graphic video of man who says in Ukrainian that journalist Brent Anthony Renaud was shot in Romanivka near Irpin, at the time under Ukrainian control. Based on his equipment, he looks like a Ukrainian cop who arrived on scene. 1/
I posted earlier but I deleted. Here are screenshots of the speaker and a Ukrainian cop. Renaud is just out of view here, bottom right corner. 2/ ImageImage
Deleted the original post because the video is graphic, like I said. But the body is easily visible and matches Renaud's. The man calls Brent by name in the video.

Point is, these are important details so far totally omitted from the discourse. They also complicate the story. 3/
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Mar 13
Conversation with my Russian friend living in Germany about whether or not Russians are aware of what's happening outside their country

They are lmao but go ahead and leave Yelp reviews
Blocked out the name of the platform because I don't want people trolling it.

A lot of this "we have to reach the Russians" stuff seems primarily aimed at satisfying the need of Western libs to "do something." You wear the mask. You support BLM. You send the text.
Cannot believe the WSJ ran an article about libs crowdfunding "baby do you know what Putin is doin" communiqués
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Mar 13
A journalist was killed while carrying a New York Times press pass. But he hasn't worked with the Times since 2015. Initial reports said he was shot by Russians in a town under Ukrainian control. Now Ukrainian officials are saying "the details of his were not immediately clear."
This is another fog of war incident. There are reports that he was killed while trying get through a checkpoint but why would you try to blow through a checkpoint in a war zone?
Having an expired Times pass probably gets you access as credentials, but the checkpoint story is still strange for a number of reasons, including the fact that one purpose of checkpoints, Russian or Ukrainian, is to avoid exactly this kind of incident.
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Mar 12
When asked if Russia is concerned about the weapons it's dumping in Ukraine being used to shoot down civilian airliners, a senior Russian defense official said: "frankly, that's a risk we're willing to take"

Just kidding, a US government official at the Pentagon said that
Sorry folks, this is the price of uh, democracy (a CIA approved regime in Europe) aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/12…
I've got family and friends in Europe, but if anything happens to them now that Ukraine is importing Syrian al-Qaeda fighters to own the Russians who might get bored and shoot down an airliner, I'll comfort myself with the knowledge that at least the State Department got its way
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