Thread by @HisBlakeness

Happy #Guccifer2_Day everyone! To celebrate (if that's the right word), I'm making the kindle version of my book "Loaded for Guccifer2.0" FREE for the next few days. It exposes the real story of how, and why, the Russiagate hacking hoax began in earnest six years ago today. (1/?)

On the 15th June 2016, a character calling himself Guccifer2.0 burst onto the internets claiming he was the guy who'd hacked the DNC. He produced documents that had been *purposefully* altered to include "Russian fingerprints." It allowed grateful intelligence agencies to (2/?)

link him to Russia with "High Confidence." Yet, Guccifer2.0 wasn't a cyber-spetznatz. He was a moron. The deeper you went into the story, and files, the more superficial the Russian "fingerprints" became. At a bits and bytes level the prints came from pro-Ukrainian hands. (3/?)

The same was true for other hacking groups like Fancy Bear & Cozy Bear -- also "assessed" to be Russian, and for many of the *trolls* (supposedly) employed by the Russia-based `Internet Research Agency.' All Ukraine. It was all so bizarre that it became my obsession. (4/?)

The story didn't start in 2016. It was a continuation of the Ukrainian Euromaidan revolution of 2014, and based on tried and tested `Cyber-Statecraft' by the same actors going back even further. Iran, North Korea, and China all received the same treatment before Russia did. (5/?)

Cyber-Statecraft became a new gunboat diplomacy. Bullets replaced by bytes. They knew `state-level' hackers don't leave solid evidence. But, if a `private' `independent' firm attributed the `hacks' to troublesome foreign policy foes, then the nation itself could be blamed. (6/?)

A simple `private assessment,' provided a predicate for diplomatic leverage and ultimately sanctions. It didn't matter that there was little or no evidence. It didn't matter that everything on the internet can be faked, how hand-wavy, or how tangential the indicators were. (7/?)

Ultimately, the "hackings" of 2016, and the Russiagate hoax all link back to the root of what is happening in Ukraine today. The same actors are behind both. The U.S. and the rest of NATO had to claim the central squares of the geo-political chess-board. (8/?)

Claiming `Trump was Putin's puppet,' also "proved" that `Yanukovych was Putin's puppet.' `Putin hacking the DNC' in 2016, "proved" that Putin was behind the hackers in Ukraine in 2014. The proof is in Guccifer2.0's first five documents. (9/?)

Their "Russian" fingerprints were copied from a file by Ukrainian hacktivists Cyber-Berkut. They were on the pro-Russian side of the debate, and exposed some of the evidence pointing to Euromaidan being a U.S. led coup d'Etat and annoyed NATO websites. (10/?)

Most in the West ignored their Russian writings. But certain stars of `cy-business' knew all about them. In 2017 one, of CrowdStrike and NATO's Atlantic Council, wore a GUCCI-fer jacket to write it all out for us. He had to. Dmitri Alperovitch knows how stupid we are. (11/?)

Anyway. Happy #Guccifer2.0_Day! The kindle version of `Loaded for Guccifer2.0' is available for Free for the next few days. Here's the link: amazon.com/Loaded-Guccife… Should you wish to buy the paperback, I'd love you long time. (12/?)

Look out for the second book in the series, "Double Cross Hurricane." The players inserted into Trump's 2016 campaign are exposed. It finds their backstories that the media (conveniently) missed, and how - once again - it all links back to the West's struggle to control Ukraine.