Wimbledon's a bit like Bucha - parks, nice houses, prosperous people. What Russians did to Bucha 🎥👇🏽It's what Russians will do to @Wimbledon, its brand, & given a chance, its wombles, village & villagers. Russia had lists of Bucha residents to kill - they killed them. 1/14
⚡️If Russia hadn't murdered Ukrainian athlete Dariia Kurdel while she was training for the Olympics, Dariia would have enjoyed seeing Russia lose the #Olympics sport of threatening genocide. No other country was competing. Threatening genocide breaches international law. 2/14
@Wimbledon's 2022 stance was correct: NO way of enabling Russian or Belarussian athletes to participate, without the Russian state using such participation as a means of promoting its "Z" brand. UN Commission has now established👇🏽Russia as liable for the Crime of Aggression. 3/14
Let's decode @Olympics troll that participation in sport is a human right. Ukrainian international lawyer Hersch Lauterpacht's vision for human rights as UNIVERSAL as a matter of LAW was accepted as LAW by 1949. 4/14
⚡️Russia wins #Olympics sport of threatening genocide against the most countries. No other country was competing. Mainly because threatening genocide breaches multiple international laws. 5/14
2022: @Wimbledon helped us get Russian propaganda is THE plague of our age. Disinfo's not mere words. Othering prepared the ground for genocide against 🇺🇦. Against us. Threatening nuclear war against England, the West, NATO,... That's unlawful Hate Speech. 6/14
Russia's unlawful war of aggression and genocide has killed 200,000 souls since Wimbledon's fantastic 2022 decision. #Wimbledon banned athletes from states which would use athletes' participation to promote genocide. "Z" promotes 666% MORE genocide in 2023 than in 2022! 7/14
Human Rights as a matter of law were accepted as LAW after the holocaust & Nazi/Soviet occupation of Ukraine killed MILLIONS of Ukrainians 1941-1945. Only States have a duty to protect human rights, not @Olympics. ALL human rights are subject to derogation,... 8/14
Even the Right to Life is subject to derogations delineated by law, such as the Right to Self Defence. Most Human Rights in Euro Convention of HR (which no longer binds Russia, though Russia IS bound by the customary intl law of human rights) can be derogated from on... 9/14
certain grounds. Russia's "Z" symbol is a direct and public incitement to genocide. That is the "Z" symbols meaning. ANY Russian Olympian will attract the use of that sign in connection with @Olympics. @Olympics and states in which Olympics work have a duty to prevent this. 10/14
@Olympics cynically argues it would be discriminatory to exclude "Z" magnet Ruschist-state supporting athletes (advertising hoardings for genocide). Discrimination is lawful when it serves higher order aims, like preventing public and direct incitement for genocide. 11/14
EU & Germany democratically decided Russia's war of aggression is so unusual as to justify respectively €70b and €15b on arming & supporting Ukraine. @Olympics needs to adopt the EU's perspective as the rationale for excluding "Z" magnetic genocide-advertising Ruschists. 12/14
After Isis complained about "victimisation" and "discrimination" #Olympics and #Wimbledon will allow #Isis athletes to compete under a Black Flag. "No skull n' crossbones though," a Wimbledon spokesperson told us. 13/14
Discrimination on normally protected grounds is lawful where public safety, public policy & other public goods are served. Enabling Russian state to exploit its athletes' participation in global sports promotes the crimes of aggression and genocide - the ultimate crimes. 14/14
Once you get your eye in, the Mana of folklore is immanent in all forms of Disinfolklore - meanness communicated through propaganda stories that affects our Moods / Intentions / Attitudes / and Motivations.
Thankfully however as Ukraine’s new dragon fire delivering drone, or its Carouselling Baba Yaga UAV, or the Witches of Bucha shooting down Ruschists’ Shaed drones or the Sirens of Marvki’s camouflage knitting for Ukrainian defenders demonstrate:
The Mana of folklore is also immanent in our Counter Disinfolklore.
We CAN control Ruschist War Magic.
If we fight fire with fire, magic against magic.
You see, what Ruschia noticed was that community identity is wholly formed through story-telling. The modern nation state was created after Herder’s 1777 plea to unite the 10 German tribes behind a set of stories (folklore) typifying Germanness. The Brothers Grimm, Goethe and later Wagner answered that call. And 90 years later the first unified German state was created. Identity is wholly a function of stories. Know this, and you will begin to understand how Ruschist Disinfolklore works to undermine and recreate identity.
In Ireland, the Celtic literary rival of the late 1900s led to our liberation from England’s yoke.
In 1840s Kharkhiv University led the collection of folktales that established Ukrainianess in the face of Russian oppression.
And today, Ruschia uses Telegram to create communities characterised by division and anti-immigrant far right and far left militancy that spill out onto our streets and politics to wreak havoc.
In Ruschia-occupied eastern Ukraine I saw first hand how Ruschist Disinfolklore transformed the identities of Ukrainians living inside the occupation- it took eight years of brainwashing to convince Ukrainians inside the occupation that other Ukrainians wanted them dead, and that their only release was to sacrifice themselves in pointless meat assaults to capture a few metres of soil of the killing fields of eastern Ukraine.
We’ve seen how MAGA and Brexit Disinfolklore works to brainwash previously decent people into supporting an adjudicated rapist and criminal for the US presidency (two recent English prime ministers, both of whom have daughters, today campaign to install an adjudicated rapist and criminal as US President - they too have been brainwashed).
Never underestimate the power of Disinfolklore.
The moment you think only dumb people get trolled, you open your mind up to being controlled by absolute nonsense delivered through Disinfolklore expertly right into your Mana - the well from which all your moods/intentions/attitudes/and motivations flows.
I call it War Magic because you don’t even notice that through your mind Ruschia (or MAGA or paleo-male misogynistic axis of misogyny powers like China, Iran and Ruschia), you are being turned into a soldier. You are through anti-woke/anti-western/anti-vaxx/anti-Ukraine tropes being brainwashed into fighting for your own culture’s annihilation.
That’s what is at stake in
As @ZarinaZabrisky notes of Doppelganger, Ruschia’s latest multi-billion dollar means of transforming humanity’s consciousness:
“2022, EU DisinfoLab @EUvsDisinfo revealed a Russia-based influence operation active in Europe.
The operation was cleverly named
Doppelgänger. German folk legends considered a "doppelgänger" a shadow, a malevolent entity, offering deceptions and lies. In a less romantic twist, the Kremlin state-sponsored actors mimicked authentic publications, cloning at least 17 genuine media outlets like Bild and The Guardian. They used fake, look-alike domain names and designs to create "a double" garnished with fake articles, videos, and polls.”
As @OSCE’s environmental security adviser for Zaporizhzhia BEFORE the full-scale invasion, I’ve been watching the world’s first terrorist occupation of a nuclear power plant VERY closely.
Here’s the story in 30+ tweets, since 24 Feb 2022. For those who care about nuclear terrorism, and historians… 👇🏾
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⚡️My first Tweet 👇🏾 warning of the imminent targeting of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant by Ruschist soldiers.
Strangely those most susceptible to Ruschia’s nuclear blackmail trolling (and who continue to promote idea Ukraine should surrender to Russia to save the world from nuclear annihilation) don’t pay ANY attention to the longest and most brutal and sole terrorist occupation of a nuclear power plant in world history. Go figure🤷🏾♀️
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⚡️As the international community’s sole environmental security advisor on the ground in Zaporizhzhia before the full-scale invasion, I was quick to realise Ruschia was specifically targeting the power plant for occupation.
Blackmailing Europe into forcing Ukraine to surrender to Ruschism has been a key plank of Ruschia’s hopeless war in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the leverage its occupation provides to scare all of Europe is ⚡️ main objective in occupying it. As this thread 👇🏾cataloguing the occupation demonstrates.
⚡️Russian Government Had 4 Weeks To Stop the Steal.
"...FSB, Putin, Shoigyu will have used ALL their levers to stop this coup. They had all the powers of the Ruschist state their "rightful" authority gave them. And they failed.
They failed..."
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⚡️Putin's Plight.
"...Bakhmut was to be for the Chef Saucerer Apprentice, what Chechnya was for Putin the Chief Sorcerer: such a win could be spun through webs of Disinfolklore into the "Right" recognised by every Russian to lead Russia unopposed..."
⚡️What Unites Ruscism, Axis of Misogyny, Paleo-Conservative & Anti-Woke campaigns?
They want to destroy the post-World War II legal order.
The consensus that aspiration towards equality of opportunity for everyone is the ONLY legitimate goal for democratic societies.
Anti-Equality rhetorics Other categories of humans: Women, Trans, Remainers, Immigrants, Ukrainians,...
Then they use this Othering to win power to roll-back the legal order instituted after WWII.
These instruments are a total package. Any rhetoric proposing to unpick parts of this complex indicates ignorance or strategic goal of reversing the post-WWII legal order.
Genocide Convention.
Refugee Convention.
Laws of War.
Equality Conventions (ICCPR & ICESCR).
Human Rights laws.
Anti-Discrimination laws.
Putin's Chef and the entire Ruschist Disinfolklore apparatus is focussed on provoking division over the post-WWII legal order's preservation.
American evangelical conservatives, oligarchs and extreme nationalists in England, France, Germany,... all are united.
They minimise the reversal of the legal order that was brought in to prevent another holocaust.
They say it's a "Cultural War."
No it's not. It's the restarting of the Second World War. They're trying to relitigate the peace settlement, in favour of today's most powerful humans.
Apart from everything else, their success in destroying the institutions which promote the realisation of equality of opportunity will entrench today's most powerful in position for perpetuity.
Or until a war.
Remember: Violations of human rights are trip-wire for conflict and war. Every war in history has been "justified" by human rights breaches. A more equal society is not just about culture. It's about a peaceful world.
“Dehumanizing Ukrainians (Russia’s key propaganda goal), denying them the right to an unique identity different from a Russian one, after justifying atrocities ("the punishment must be harsh") and glorifying repression, re-education and Ukrainian suffering…”
"the Catholic regions," western Ukraine, "will remain hostile to Russia, but it will be neutral and demilitarized, and Nazism will be banned there. The haters of Russia will go there."
And what would "guarantee" the quietist subjugation of rump Ukraine…” 2/
“and its compliance with Russian diktats? The "threat of an immediate continuation of the military operation," says Sergeitsev…Ukraine must (in language somewhat reminiscent of the Iranian Revolution’s ideologists) "free itself from the intoxication, temptation,…” 3/