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Apr 27 • 2 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce a British businessman and political donor, Arron Banks (@Arron_banks). He's best-known for his business meetings with the Russians, and for funding the Brexit campaign through the Leave.EU political campaign group.

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Even Arron's childhood was controversial, he attended Crookham Court, a former boarding school in Berkshire. Wikipedia suggests that he was expelled, but there isn't any proof of this.

The school was closed five years after his departure, because of serious sexual...

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Apr 29
In today's #vatniksoup I'm going to talk about the "antiwar movement". After Putin organized the fake referendums in the four Ukrainian Oblasts,various pro-Kremlin parties started calling for immediate peace in Ukraine. Unsurprisingly, the movement was planned by the Kremlin.1/18 Image
In Sep 2022, Russia organized referendums to join Ukrainian Oblasts of Kherson,Zaporizhzhia,Donetsk & Luhansk to the Russian Federation.The whole scenario was absurd - everyone knew that the referendums were totally fake & Russia didn't even control any of these areas fully.
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And suddenly, hundreds of vatnik voices around the world started touting one thing, and one thing only: peace.

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Apr 28
Congratulations to Gennady on being the first Finnish to have their own private military company!

Ping: @IlvesToomas @puckfutler

Here's my thread on Timchenko:

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Next I'll talk about the distress of the Finnish pro-Kremlin scene. The whole gang is suffering of a serious election hangover - the results were devastating and not-so-suprisingly none of them were elected. The Grand Old Vatnik, @johanbek has mostly been joking around,...

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...@HuuhtanenPanu has his full focus on the class action lawsuit against me and probably the whole of NATO, and the Kremlin-paid @janus_putkonen had most of his money stolen by his long-time associate, Jonathan Widell.

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Apr 28
In today's #vatniksoup and in the first edition of "Where are they now?",I'll do an update on some of your favorite vatniks around the world, and report on what they've been up to.

If there's someone or something you'd like to hear more about, let me know in the comments👇

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Let's start with everyone's favorite former naval officer, Sarah "Donbass Devushka" Bils. She recently gave an interview to RT, where she doubled down on her previous statements, stating that "truth is our most potent weapon".

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That's a weird statement coming from a person who faked to be a "poor woman from Lugansk", Latvian, Gazan, and so on.

Now, what's even funnier, that on 24 Mar 2022, she faked that her father was in Mariupol (thank you NAFO investigators!).

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Apr 27
Banks started his work career at the insurance market, eventually becoming a relatively successful businessman. According to The Guardian, Banks had set up 37 different companies with slight variations of his name.

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Three of them had the same date of birth but listed different companies. When asked about this, Arron's spokesperson declared that he'd prefer to "correct [the Guardian’s] mistakes in court".

One of Banks' companies, Eldon Insurance, increased its profits by almost...

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...17 million £ for the first half of 2017. He claimed that this profit increase was due to the same AI technology that they used in the Brexit campaign. Banks is also involved in mining in South Africa and has connections to companies based in Gibraltar and the Isle of Man.
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Apr 26
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll discuss Russian online information operations, and how they are perceived around the world. In the West, we often perceive this propaganda only targeted at us, which is far from the truth.

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As I've written previously, the idea of Russian information operations date back to days of KGB, and it is part of the, aktivnye meropriyatiya, or active measures. Active measures includes activities like espionage, propaganda, sabotage and assassination, and it is ...

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...and was part of Russia's foreign policy. Another related term related to info ops is hybrid warfare, which is a theory of military strategy that blends conventional warfare with irregular warfare, cyberwarfare and warfare in the information space.

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Apr 25
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce an American political consultant and lobbyist, Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr). He's best-known for his work as an advisor to Donald Trump & for his alleged connections with Julian Assange and the GRU in relation to the leaked DNC e-mails.
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Stone has been involved US politics for a long time, and he'd started his dirty tricks already in 1972, when he contributed money to Nixon's rival under the name of Trotskyist youth group, and tipped about this to the local news.

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In 1977, he won the presidency of the Young Republicans with Paul Manafort as his campaign manager. In 1980, Stone and Manafort launched a lobbying company, BMS, together with partner Charlie Black. The company represented basically anyone with money, including Zaire's...

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