1/ Today on “Meet the Vatnik” we have glorious peoples champion @200_zoka.
Zoka wants you to think they are just a poor, sweet, innocent girl from Russia doing their best to expose the “lame stream medias” lies in regards to the ongoings in Syria and Ukraine.
2/ but in reality, he is a 23-year-old male nurse from Bosnia & Herzegovina. He has notably been responsible for the spread of a considerable number of half-truths and myths some examples being the denial of the Assad regime's warcrimes, “de-bunking” their use of chemical weapons
3/ He was central to the “White Helmet” myth which attempted to paint a Syrian aid group, famed for their use of white hardhats, as paid actors.
This story was picked up by a lot of right-wing-ish press and Youtubers, notably Sargon of Akaad who spread it without question.
4/ Since the start of the Ukraine war, in between making fun of hostage victims, Zoka has re-tweeted any pro-kremlin information he could.
5/ He tweets the usual nonsense of anything and everything NATO does is a war crime and/or pointless escalation designed to prolong the conflict, and anything you might have heard about Russia is obviously wrong and a Western lie.
6/ And when he couldn’t find anything, he hopped on the bandwagon of just making shit up.
A claim that NATO had provided Ukraine with HIV-infected blood was spread around by websites such as and https://t.co/pBWfFjjFhv, originated entirely from his Twitter https://t.co/sQtJmOvKkjinfo.news Snipershide.com
7/ He, like many other Vatniks, are lying to you. Lying about who they are, and what they know. Like many others, he is doing this simply for attention.
8/ Zoka knows nothing, and is content to simply post whatever he thinks will give him the biggest response, regardless of its authenticity, and if he can't find something, he'll simply make it up.
He is happy to lie to you, cheat you, and basically con you, for fun.
9/ I will never fully understand people when they take Russia's side in this conflict. But if you are truly looking for an alternate news source to find "what the media is not telling you" then Zoka is not it.
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1/ Everyone has been freaking out about Cluster munitions, and when I say everyone I mean the same people who were freaking out about depleted Uranium shells being "illegal nuclear weapons".
Idiots basically.
Let me explain
2/ Cluster Munitions are not against the Geneva Convention nor are they "illegal". Its actually a separate treaty which is an agreement between 108 countries to promise not to use them.
The countries who did not sign that agreement include
-Russia
-The United States
3/ Those countries signed that agreement because cluster munitions are difficult to target accurately, they affect wide areas and thus can hit civilians and cause prolonged suffering in their victims if used indiscriminately.
Russia has been using cluster bombs since day 1.
1/ Alright, because no one will leave me alone, this is my unexpert, totally guessing explanation as to why Wagner stopped just outside of Moscow.
Just like you always wanted, here is some random idiot's opinion but it's okay cos I'm famous on reddit.
2/ Firstly you need to understand Proggy is an outsider. He has no political influence nor friends. Shoggy, on the other hand, does, and a lot of it. He's survived purges before. He is a master when it comes to political maneuvering.
3/ Shoggy is good at intimidation, its how he survives, his "coup" was basically that, an intimidation tactic. he wasn't looking to replace Shogiu he just wanted to show how vulnerable Putin was without him and use it as leverage to get what he wanted.
/1
According to this Russia has 700k+ mobiks waiting in Belarus ready to flood across the border, with an expected attack in the coming weeks.
Now this is an interesting claim as we have seen evidence of soldiers and equipment being moved en mass into Belarus.
/2
As well as threats from Putin to bring Belarus into this war.
Russia has spent considerable effort upgrading anti-air defenses in the region as well as upgrading airbases to handle more traffic.
There has been every indication that something "might" happen from this direction.
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But as you can imagine it's not as simple as that.
Let's start with the most obvious, 700k+200k in reserve? That sounds like a fantasy number, 900k would be higher than all the forces Russia has committed to this campaign combined.
It is higher than the number Putin was able..
1/ Russian Propaganda is currently aimed at not making you pro-Putin, but to turn you away from supporting Ukraine, or protesting against the support of Ukraine, in whatever manner it can.
Imperialism, War Bad, to it being a waste of money or "just as bad as each other".
🧵
2/ Naturally, those who follow this narrative, the people who have been dominantly anti-Ukraine.
Tend to cluster towards the extremes of the left and the right.
Otherwise known as people who are more susceptible to Propaganda and often overestimate their ability to recognize it.
3/ Many have even integrated this argument into the culture war most think they fight, thus it has devolved into a "you're on the 'other' side, which is Evil, you're Pro-Nato, so I *must* be the opposite because the opposite is good!"
So people support Russia out of 'Morality'
1/
I'm going to be honest here in this little🧵as much as it would be satisfying to watch the vatniks reaction when russia finally faces the full might of Nato and not just small groups of volunteers and all guns left in a warehouse for 30 years, I don't think it'll come to that
2/ Behind a screen it is easy to distance ones self from the reality of war, but things become very different when it's your blood being spilled, as we've seen in russia the attitude of everyone towards the war quickly changed when it was their blood and not the faceless soldiers
3/ Boots on the ground is risky. Western media turns every loss into a fucking pantomime and every suit with a dead political career comes charging out the woodwork to "offer their opinion" which always amounts to "<current president> Bad!!"
I actually cannot stress just how dumb a "hot take" this is.
Drones have been a thing for years now and many armies have spent millions investing in affordable anti-drone weapons, including the US, Britian, and Russia.
Most of these have proven very effective 1/
2/ If you don't believe me, buy a drone from your local hobby store and fly it around your nearest military base and see what happens.
No, don't point to someone on Youtube doing it and "hurr durr they got away scot-free!"
YOU do it.
3/
The threat posed by these drones is nothing new. Slow-moving, propellor-driven missiles are not a new thing, but their disadvantages of them outweigh any benefits.