THREAD I think the “Kremlin UAV attack” is a false flag. Here is why: 1) Several videos in high quality and color appeared, from CCTV cameras. All CCTV cams around Kremlin are under full Kremlin control. Nobody may leak them without permission. The Kremlin wants us to see it. /1
2) Kremlin gladly confirmed the attack within a few hours. They never do it, preferring to look stupid, not humiliated. Remember all the stories about “the Flagship Moskva sank because of the storm” and “it was a fire because of smoking, not a missile attack” Now it’s different/2
3) Last week, there were rumors, the Ukrainians tried to kill Putin with a drone amid his province visit. They were spread by a Ukrainian person close to an institution with a… special reputation. From the today’s perspective, it looks like a preparation of media landscape. /3
4) It’s not clear yet, why the Kremlin launched this campaign (if it had). But it’s clear:
4a) The Kremlin wants us to think it were Ukrainians;
4b) In many other cases they opted for shameless lies just not to confirm the Ukrainian attacks.
These two facts are the only facts /4
5) All other “facts” (including the videos themselves) are not confirmed yet and need to be seen as speculations in a best case, or even as fakes in worst case. 6) Keep minds clear, question the messages you are been served with. /END
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Weißt Ihr, dass es im ÖRR fremdsprachige Podcasts gibt, welche Migrant*innen die deutschen Nachrichten in ihren sprachen bringen? RBB hat im April 2022 einen ukrainischen Podcast gegründet, diesen aber im Dezember geschlossen. Zugunsten des russischen. /1 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Wirtschaftlich war das Programm extrem sparsam produziert, kostete eine 5-stellige Summe pro Jahr, laut ehemaligen Mitarbeiter*innen. Das Programm war trotz kurzer Existenzzeit nicht weniger populär als viele andere Sprachprogrammen aus der Reihe. Trotzdem wurde es geschlossen /2
Am Ende ist es eine Katastrophe: 1) den Ukrainer*innen in Deutschland hat das ÖRR klar signalisiert: ihr seid uns gar nicht wichtig. Wir respektieren weder euch, noch eurer Sprache; 2) die russische Redaktion, welche keine Ahnung von der UKR hat, "bedient" jetzt das Publikum /3
OTD four years ago, in a small town of Sibay, Russia-occupied Bashkortostan, I saw these hundreds of perfectly drilled school kids marching in perfect groups, and said: "in top 5 years, many will return home in body bags, but before they will kill a lot of civilians". /1
I my age of 19-20, I had my obligatory military drill at my university, and after two years of that drill, I have not marched nearly as good as these school kids. It was obvious for me, they have undergone at least 200-300 hours of marching drill (and 200-400 of other drill) /2
I said back then: it is clear that Russia is on war path. These kids will be cannon fodder in a few years, they will kill civilians, and than die, and come back as "200th" (Russian slang for KIA), if RU decided to bring their bodies back. I was right in every single assessment /3
Shortly after Israel’s UN delegation left the room before Lavrov’s voting, calling RU presidency ‘a farce’, Russia bombed residential area in Judaism holy site Uman, killing 15 civilians, including 2 children. Russia’s MoD bragged about it. #RussiaIsATerroristState#RusskiyMir
The Russian #RusskiyMir ideology is utterly antisemitic. Early this full-scale invasion, the Russians shelled Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial in Kyiv and damaged Drobytsky Yar Holocaust memorial in Kharkiv. /2
The Russians destroyed two synagogues in Mariupol, a synagogue in Bakhmut, damaged a synagogue in Kharkiv. /3
This is Eid festival in Moscow this year. One needs to give a perspective. Moscow is a 14m city with a massive Muslim population, many are discriminated labour force from Central Asia. Moscow has THREE mosques, and only ONE really functional (this one) /1
Since over a decade, Moscow authorities massively build Orthodox Churches (they even started a program "walking-distance church"). There are 1227 Russian Orthodox churches in Moscow, with 88 new churches being constructed since 2010, out of new 200 planned churches. /2
I believe, the fact that since decades no Mosque has been constructed in Moscow is a part of deliberate policy. Every Muslim holiday, it provides the Russians with impressive pictures of the “hordes of the Muslims” which “occupy” the streets in Moscow, creating a scarecrow. /3
THREAD: In the previous discussion on war atrocities amid Russo-Ukrainian war, many focused on the phenomenon of war violence, explaining the RU atrocities by a sort of a general violent behaviour amid wars. It is a wrong approach. It ignores Russia. /1
The concept "war is hell, people tend to turn into beasts" is very popular. Stories of atrocities from Mỹ Lai in Vietnam or Al-Ghraib in Iraq seem to confirm this common knowledge and turn to banality. But especially in Russo-Ukrainian war this banal knowledge doesn't help. /2
Russian atrocities in Ukraine have nothing to do with what Western people who have zero experience with daily Russia tend to explain with "war brutalisation". No. Russian atrocities in this war are exactly on the level of normal Russian civilian life, plus weapons. /3
A German professor Sönke Neitzel from @unipotsdam, commenting beheading of a Ukrainian POW by the Russians: "We must (!) assume (!!!) that the Ukrainians treat the Russian POWs not less brutal".
In his interview he brings numerous examples from WWII with the main idea "war is hell, both sides do terrible things". His scientific work was also dedicated (at least partly) the phenomenon of war atrocities. This is all good and humanistic, but ignores SYSTEMATIC terror.
Some comment here, he should be on a Russian payroll or something. I don't think so. I think he has not noticed how he had become a prisoner of his own very high and very shiny moral ivory tower. It happens to those who dive into abstract theory and disconnect from reality. Sad.