@JuliaDavisNews Let’s not spare people the even uglier truth: Pavel Gubarev is a “notable” neo-Nazi from the neo-Nazi org Russian National Unity. Here are images of RNU meetings, in the best Nazi traditions. Notice the third poster, which lovingly reminds these “activists” to “Cleanse Russia!” ImageImageImage
@JuliaDavisNews His classmates remember a swastika hanging in his dorm room and he can be seen on many RNU meetings photos and videos. Gubarev was key in the intimidation and violence that Russian proxies unleashed in Donetsk and elsewhere. ImageImage
@JuliaDavisNews This intimidation and violence were necessary because the majority of Donetsk residents were loudly and clearly telling the Russians, and their proxies and collaborators to do what Russian warships and invaders are being “advised” to do in 2022. This was Donetsk March 2014. ImageImageImageImage
@JuliaDavisNews Again, these are the advanced-guard “denazifiers”, the carriers of “Russian World” values. Image

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May 18
Note that this article is absolutely classic propaganda, with all the bells and whistles. Given @stephenwertheim as an author, this isn’t a shocker. Here’s one major and obviously deliberately used fallacy ⬇️
This is the fallacy of presenting the current situation in a false but also extreme way as a step leading to a predetermined conclusion. Here this false premise is “Ukraine has had a vast infusion of Western tech that has not resolved its weakness vis-à-vis Russia.”
Let’s count the lies.
Lie 1: “vast infusion.” False: there hasn’t been a “vast infusion” of anything.

Lie 2: “of Western tech.” False and an added twist: this properly refers to a truly novel, Western-originating technology. None such has been provided. New tanks and even long-range missiles aren’t new technology.
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I have consciously avoided posting about Gaza and Israel. One, it is incredibly painful. Two, I live and breathe Ukraine and the fight against the Russian aggressor. We have finite capacities to process horrors. But I will say this and will say no more:
October 7 is a raw wound for me, a crime of enormous proportions. At the same time, blind support for Netanyahu’s war machine is, I believe, actually deeply antisemitic. It means supporting the march to destroy not only Gaza but also Israel. And I find that unforgivable.
It is a betrayal of the historic mission of Israel. The Zionism of these people isn’t my Zionism. My Zionism abhors supremacism, racism, terrorism and dehumanisation. My Zionism is about humanism, inclusion, about finding joy and communion in universalism, not in xenophobia.
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I’m in the minority on this but I don’t for a moment believe that Putin or anyone near him actually expected any Ukrainians to welcome the invaders. I don’t believe Putin was uninformed or deceived. I don’t think the evidence shows he expected that at all.
The failure of the initial push was due to incompetence and the false belief in Ukrainian weakness. However, the Russian regime approached this from the beginning and fully consciously as a genocide to be implemented and a nation to be annihilated.
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Apr 24
Did Stalin “gift Lviv to Ukraine” as this graduate of the V. V. Putin School of History claims?
Naturally, that’s a pure Russian lie.
Let’s delve into this.
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Now you may think a zachistka is some sort of “mop-up” operation to dislodge and neutralise insurgents, for example. That would be bad enough but this isn’t what it is. It is an officially sanctioned regime of competitive crime and predation against civilians on a massive scale.
Zachistki entailed units from multiple “federal agencies” periodically arriving at Chechen settlements and engaging in entirely unprovoked kidnapping, torture, severe beating, rape and murder with one key caveat: the severity of these predations was always “tuneable.” With money.
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The Biden administration, like most other administrations, is full of them. (Much the same is true in Europe, especially Germany). They check all requirements for illustrious pedigree. However, they are not just a little wrong. They’re most often catastrophically wrong.
It’s not an age issue: we have 40-something year olds parroting the very worst of Cold War Sovietology, a field whose practitioners were hard at work convincing the world that “the West” and Moscow were simply two alternative and equally valid approaches to the same issues.
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