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May 22 • 3 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce a propaganda film Ukraine on Fire and its two main creators,Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) & Oliver Stone (@TheOliverStone). It's best-known for falsely claiming the 2014 Revolution of Dignity to be a US/far-right-orchestrated coup d'état.
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There seems to be two driving forces in this documentary: director Lopatonok's love for Russia and his hate for Ukraine, and Stone's love for Putin and hate for the CIA.

At the beginning of the film, Lopatonok and Stone present Ukraine as a "treacherous country" that...

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..."switches sides" on a whim. It also represents the Western Ukraine as brutal, nationalist Banderites who preyed on Jews and Polish people. What it forgets to mention was that the Ukrainians were between a rock and hard place, when they basically had to choose between...

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May 24
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce a Portuguese Major General and TV commentator, Agostinho Costa. He's best-known for his terrible, pro-Kremlin analysis on the Russo-Ukrainian War on @cnnportugal.

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Costa joined the Military Academy in 1977 and finished his training in 1982. His work history in the Portuguese Army is remarkable, and before retiring in 2021, he worked as a EUROFOR Chief of Staff, head of the GNR, and as vice president of Eurodefense Portugal.

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Like so many generals after retiring, he became an analyst and was invited by CNN Portugal to comment on the Russo-Ukrainian War. But his analysis had two big problems: he was 1) biased towards Russia, and 2) almost always wrong in his predictions.

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May 23
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce an American politician and political commentator, Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard). She's best-known for blaming absolutely everything on the US Democrats and NATO, and for being a fan of totalitarian regimes like Russia and Syria.

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Tulsi was raised up in accordance with the teachings of the Science of Identity Foundation (SIF), a religious group described as secretive and abusive cult. Former member has described SIF as "virulently homophobic, often anti-Islamic and misogynist" where its founder,...

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Chris Butler, is "considered to be akin to a God". Gabbard became politically active at a relatively young age, and she was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives when she was 21. She was in a field medical unit and was deployed to Iraq between 2004 and 2005 and...

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May 22
...deportations of Crimean Tatars and "Russification" of the Donbas region.

More on the topic here:

And here: ukrainer.net/russia-russifi…

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The film depicts the "crazy 1990s", where the opportunistic oligarchs became extremely wealthy whereas the common folk had to struggle to get food, in a realistic way, but again fails to mention that the same happened in Russia and in most of the old Soviet countries.

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The filmmakers forget to tell that many of the Ukrainian oligarchs, including Viktor Medvedchuk who is featured in the film, had and have pro-Russian stances and got lucrative business deals from Russia. Many of them also came from the Eastern parts of Ukraine.

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May 21
In today's #vatniksoup, I'm going to talk about MICE. Not the rodent, but an acronym that originates from CIA recruitment strategy used in espionage. MICE explains the main motivators for covert and also overt action, and it stands for Money, Ideology, Compromise and Ego.

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Whereas CIA Staff Historian Randy Burkett has stated that MICE has "outlived its usefulness" in counterintelligence, it seems to still apply quite well to those who are recruited to spread online propaganda. When doing research and deep dives on individuals who are...

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... producing and promoting pro-Kremlin viewpoints, one can quickly find connections between the people and these four motivators. Naturally, these motivators can also overlap. One example from counterespionage is the case of Earl Edwin Pitts, who had been an FBI agent...

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May 19
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce an American journalist and former policy adviser, James Carden. He's best-known for his collaboration with Stephen Cohen and Katrina vanden Heuvel, and for his pro-Kremlin takes on the war in Ukraine.

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Carden was a close associate of Stephen Cohen, an American scholar known for his strong support of Russia and Vladimir Putin. Carden was often defending any criticism Cohen's pro-Putin writings received, calling them "scurrilous" and "hysterical".

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In 2017, Carden questioned the involvement of the al-Assad regime in the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack. In his article, he relied on a report by Theodore Postol, who worked together with Maram "Syrian Girl" Susli to debunk al-Assad's involvement in chemical attacks in...

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May 18
..."frightened and defenseless" and "at the mercy of alien force." But remember, USA bad.

When it comes to Ukraine, Chomsky has stripped the country from all kinds of agency and sovereignty. He's said that "Ukraine is not a free actor; they’re dependent on what the US...

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...determines," and that the US is only using Ukraine to weaken Russia. In an interview with Jeremy Scahill, Chomsky claimed that "Crimea is off the table. We may not like it. Crimeans apparently do like it," suggesting that the Crimeans want to be part of Russia.
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The annexation was a direct violation of the Budapest memorandum & violated the international law. "Crimeans" are hardly a cohesive group of people & the referendum in 2014 was declared invalid by the UN. The majority of Crimean population supported joining Ukraine in 1991.
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