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@KitKlarenberg
Jun 19 • 8 tweets • 6 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
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🧵: NATO and arms industry-funded 'think tank' @cepa offers explanation for blackout on Kiev's counteroffensive among #NAFO and Western media - being honest about how catastrophically it's going so far risks ending Western backing for the proxy war.

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.@cepa acknowledges 2022 counteroffensive successful because "Ukraine faced overstretched, severely undermanned Russian units." This was observed by several analysts at the time, but dismissed as cope by #NAFO et al. Only now media admitting positions were effectively abandoned. ImageImageImage
Expectations for this counteroffensive not only high due to delusion and disinfo about last go around. Petraeus said it was "going to be very impressive". Perhaps covering for fact US was pressuring Kiev to go ahead with this, despite knowing the Ukrainians weren't ready. ImageImage
CEPA paints bleak picture of frontline, acknowledging Kiev effectively trying to do the impossible - "conduct large-scale combined arms maneuver operations against a near-peer or peer adversary" without air cover. Also admit "Russia [has achieved] some of its original goals." ImageImageImageImage
In sum @cepa effectively admitting what anti-war voices have consistently said - media (and pro-NATO 'think tanks') actively complicit in one way or another obscuring reality to keep this grinding on, and concealing proxy war's catastrophic human, material and financial cost.
CEPA of course has an obvious + massive vested interest in ensuring Western arms keep flowing into the conflict - ensuring profits of the numerous 'defense' contractors that fund it keep soaring. Why is the media helping them maintain the lie, do you think? ImageImageImageImage
ADDENDUM: In 2016, CEPA published a report calling for individuals exposed to Russian "disinformation" to be subjected to the same "deradicalisation" measures as "former Islamic radicals and far-right extremists." Oddly, this has since been removed from the web. Image
Amen.

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Jun 14
🧵: Effort to pin Nord Stream bombing on Ukraine intensifies. Yesterday, Netherlands media reported that Dutch military intelligence told the CIA three months prior Kiev was planning it, and in turn Agency warned Zelensky et al not to. Why is this only being revealed now??? Image
Well, counteroffensive doesn't appear to be going well, and as I predicted in March () when the CIA began furiously laying false trails around Nord Stream, it could well be that this psyop is preparing the ground for Washington throwing Kiev under the bus.
Detail of Dutch media reports nonetheless worth exploring. Lesser-spotted General Valery Zaluzhny allegedly in charge of the Nord Stream operation, "which involved a small team of divers traveling on a sailing boat." Perhaps Zaluzhny and his people are about to have an accident? Image
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Jun 3
🧵: Fascinating analysis from The Economist shows Moscow is spending a "puny" amount on the invasion of Ukraine - around five trillion rubles ($67 billion) annually, which is just 3% of Russia's GDP. By contrast, during WW2, the Soviet Union was spending *61%*. ImageImageImage
The Economist speculates this in part because ramping up war spending would damage the Russian economy, which Putin is keen to avoid ahead of the 2024 Presidential vote. Bit of an odd consideration in a one-party dictatorship with rigged elections. ImageImage
More generally, The Economist acknowledges Russia's economy unscathed by war, and "holding up much better than almost anyone expected." What outlet of course fails to acknowledge is it was one of the loudest voices declaring Russia's imminent economic collapse post-invasion. ImageImage
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May 30
Absolute must-read from @jane__bradley on the culture of coverup on widespread sexual abuse in the British media. Includes amazing admission from Private Eye they didn't cover @NickCohen4's sex crimes because...he wrote for them:

archive.is/2023.05.30-074…
Astonishingly, Cohen attributes the multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against him over decades to "advocates for Russia". This is 99.9% certainly a reference to me. Years ago I attempted to expose his crimes and assist his victims. Sadly, many remain scared to speak out. ImageImage
Didn't publicise this at the time, but strongly suspect Cohen somehow learned of it, given he used his 'Ratbiter' columns in Private Eye to go after me repeatedly. Final time was in June last year. He was fired from The Guardian (and presumably PE) a month later. Karma's a bitch! Image
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May 13
🧵Proof #NAFO's a botfarm: Execrable @neil_abrams, beloved by 'fellas', has launched a Substack to 'debunk' arguments/evidence of anti-war, anti-empire leftists. While his tweets get hundreds if not thousands of interactions, his Substack output generates virtually zero interest. ImageImage
Yes you read that correctly. His tweet of the article generated 357 'likes', the article itself...just four. Neil thinks highly of himself - to extent he ironically believes @aaronjmate responds to his criticisms in order to boost his own engagement 🤣 - so this must sting. Image
There is nonetheless a serious point here. As indispensable @DeclassifiedAus reported in November last year, there is a *huge* bot army working to ensure Twitter users are only exposed to one, specific perspective on the war in Ukraine:

declassifiedaus.org/2022/11/03/str…
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May 2
Many interesting takeouts from The Times' April 29th report "Ukraine isn’t ready for its big offensive, but it has no choice" (archive.is/Dsps5) but this excerpt quite remarkable for acknowledging areas recaptured in September were essentially abandoned by Russian forces. Image
This was observed by several contra analysts, but dismissed as cope by the pro-UKR side. RAND's January report urging US to pull back from proxy war noted Russia had "rectified the manpower deficit that enabled Ukraine's success" in that counteroffensive. Image
Also recorded Russia "built substantial defensive fortifications along the line of control" to thwart further counteroffensives. Any attempt to recapture this territory would take many months if not years, which would "entail major costs for the US" to be avoided no matter what. Image
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Apr 16
You falsely defamed @TheGrayzoneNews as a "Russian propaganda outfit" and said it was "incredibly irresponsible" for YouTube to host content featuring award winning @aaronjmate. You quite literally *are* trying to censor us, and "spreading lies" in the process yourself!
Hilariously, Ross offers a link to his own company's "about" page as proof it isn't a British intelligence front. Yet, official company listings refer to its activities as "identical" to his work for the Foreign Office/British intelligence, and detail millions in UK gov funding. Image
That work included designing and running Open Information Partnership, a spook-run 'counter-disinformation' operation. Its internal files acknowledge that one of the key difficulties in battling Russian "disinformation" is that it's "factually true".... ImageImageImageImage
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