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Jaanus K

@jaanus

Aug 18, 2025

One thing Trump truly does not understand, is that a whole generation of Ukrainians have grown up, defending their country’s freedom since 2014. Zelenskyy is nothing more than just the servant of those people, unlike Trump, who only serves himself.

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These Ukrainians know well what freedom means, and how it is worth fighting and dying for. Me and tens of millions of others whose people and families have similarly suffered from russian crimes, are wholeheartedly on their side.

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Trump cannot recognize freedom if it bit him in the butt. For Trump, it is all about fun, games, performance, ego, and personality cult. Much of the US government and society has decided that participating in this circus matters more than freedom. Fuck him, and fuck them.

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Jaanus K

@jaanus

Mar 25, 2025

INTERCEPTED

I’d like to share with you the 2024 documentary “Intercepted” by 🇺🇦 filmmaker Oksana Karpovych. It combines peaceful visual scenes of war-torn Ukraine with the audio of phone calls that russian soldiers had with people back in russia.

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russian phone calls intercepted by Ukraine’s security service SBU became a curious artifact of russia’s full-scale invasion, and recordings of them appeared quite early in 2022. “Intercepted” uses a selection of these recordings.

Here’s the trailer.

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I’m sharing it today because I recently learned that you can stream the full film on Arte until 2026. I am not sure where exactly it works, but I have confirmation from several countries - 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, and 🇪🇪. It is also available on other platforms.

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Jaanus K

@jaanus

Oct 16, 2024

Interesting fresh opinion poll from 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 published this morning, about 🇺🇸 elections and support for 🇺🇦

First question: how people in the three countries would vote in the 🇺🇸 election if we could participate

This and next question are about 🇪🇪 only

This is same question as above, but categorized across ethnic background of people living in 🇪🇪

And here is the real kicker, about people of 🇪🇪 on assistance to 🇺🇦, categorized across ethnic background

Many russian speakers continue to dwell in the past and drink russian poison and lies

Curious that their support for Trump in previous question is not so high then

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Jaanus K

@jaanus

Jul 7, 2024

Ahead of the upcoming NATO summit, Politico “obtained” a letter by a number of “experts” who argue that Ukraine should not become a member of NATO. (See thread for references.)

This letter is an act of russian information war on the West. It is the informational equivalent of an artillery barrage, and the West is unable to respond with counter-battery fire in the information space. russia thus keeps spreading its poison unhindered via letters like this, and via its poison distribution network of people planted in organizations like think tanks, institutes, and universities.

The letter provides an interesting case study of how russian propaganda-industrial complex works. It has a large number of signatories who form a propaganda distribution network. If you follow the trails, you see that many of them often quote and amplify each other.

I will not discuss the contents of the letter. There are many rebuttals and competing good takes about Ukraine and NATO available on this site. I’ll just say that russia openly publishes its biggest fears with such letters. russia is not complex. You can read it like an open book. Having (part of) Ukraine in NATO immediately would be an effective and cheap way to end russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to which russia would have no good response. To counter this, russia mobilized its poison distribution network and wants to prevent this from happening. Building upon the poison that russia has managed to plant in Western decision maker brains in the past, the poison is working so far, and there is no serious discussion of admitting Ukraine to NATO any time soon.

Are all the signatories agents of russia? I don’t know. Some of them appear to have signed it in good faith, and state in their follow-up posts their personal view that Ukraine could actually be in NATO in the future. Some signatories are known bad-faith vatniks and a lost cause. By signing this letter, they have all signed up to carry russia’s water and spread its poison, knowingly or unknowingly.

THE MISSION

Here’s my mission to you, should you choose to accept it. Well, two missions.

First, engage with these people. Let them know that distributing russian poison in 2024 does not go unnoticed. I won’t tell you what form to use for engagement. Maybe some of them seek dialogue and can be reasoned with. Others are a lost cause, and it’s OK to shitpost. Do your own research and decide for yourself. I did some shitposts and already got a few blocks 😀

Second, please continue to study the russian propaganda-industrial complex. How does russian poison distribution work? How do the narratives travel from Kremlin to the US? What are the links between Kremlin, Valdai Club, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and all the other nodes in the network? I find this letter interesting because it has an important part of this network all in one place.

PREFACE

Here’s what I did. I took the list of signatories, re-sorted it by organization, and looked them up on Twitter and elsewhere. If they posted proudly about signing the letter, I’ll quote that post. If not, I’ll just refer to their Twitter, if they have one. Some people don’t have Twitter, or the account is not active, in which case I’ll share a page about them from the organization that they represent. Many people here are affiliated with several organizations and I just picked one in that case.

I don’t know all the context about these organizations, and I am not an authority. I’m just a brain damaged cartoon dog. I know many people and dogs who follow me can offer much more useful info. Please add notes and context.

Another thing to note. The letter states: “Institutional affiliations are listed only for identification purposes; individuals have signed strictly in their personal capacity.” But of course, that is not the entire truth. russia distributes its poison via people affiliated with institutions with fancy names exactly because it adds legitimacy to its poison and lies.

Okay. Enough preface. Let’s dig in.

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Jaanus K

@jaanus

Apr 3, 2024

THE HAVANA SYNDROME

I watched the 60 Minutes videos about Havana Syndrome and read the fresh Insider story that were all published this weekend. Links to these are below if you’d like to study them yourself.

If you haven‘t paid attention to Havana Syndrome, here is the entire story in two sentences:

For many years, russia has been targeting US government workers (e.g specific intelligence officials working on cases related to russia) with directed energy weapon attacks that are nonlethal, function without direct contact, and leave the targets with severe health problems. US government is twisting itself into a pretzel to avoid saying that russia is behind these attacks, because it is too afraid of the consequences of saying this.

That’s it. That’s the gist of the entire story.

60 Minutes has been working on this material for many years. The first interviews were published in 2019 and 2022. The latest iteration of the investigation that was done jointly by 60 Minutes, The Insider and Der Spiegel, took a year.

I state my summary as a matter of fact, even though the US has never officially admitted that it attributes the attacks to russia. I state this because I find the publicly presented evidence compelling. This is backed up by Greg Edgreen who was the military investigator on the matter and has had access to classified material on the case. You can see his summary in the first video below. When russia is involved, it often makes no sense to play 4D chess and overthink. Things really are as simple as they seem.

Given this, it really seems that the US security and defense policy these days is to “Do whatever it takes to…”

To do what? What do you think?

To defend America, Americans, and the Constitution?

To promote freedom and protect democracy?

No. “Do whatever it takes to not upset and provoke russia.”

That really seems to be the policy these days. Whenever russia is involved, the superpower of US somehow instantly turns into chicken sh*t.

In Ukraine, we see that the US puts russian interests above its friends and allies. That’s no news to anyone. The heartbreaking part I found in this story is that the US puts the interests of russia above its own employees as well. You see interviews with highly trained and dedicated American men and women who have served their country in various capacities, such as top-tier intelligence officers working on matters related to russia, whom russia has attacked with directed energy weapons, and who are forced to retire because of the health problems that these attacks caused. Often, entire families, including children, are attacked and affected. You see genuine concern as these people speak about themselves, their families, and their colleagues who might still be put in harm’s way with similar attacks in the future. They feel that the US government is not doing enough to protect its staff, is sweeping all this under the rug and is twisting itself into a pretzel to avoid saying that russia is behind these attacks, even though there is overwhelming publicly available evidence that points to exactly that.

The Insider story ends with this:

“Removing this many capable American spies and diplomats from active service without killing them and without your main adversary even admitting they’ve done so — such a sustained, decade-long campaign would easily count as one of Vladimir Putin’s greatest strategic victories against the United States.”

This is a double victory for putin and russia. Beyond just removing specific American staff from service, russia sees that it has successfully planted debilitating mental poison, lies, and propaganda into the brains of US decision makers. The russian poison and lies prevent the US decision makers from clearly stating that russia is behind this, and taking steps to counter the attack.

Below are the original materials that you can watch and read.

https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1774591726327341071

If you don’t have time for anything else, just watch these two minutes. Greg Edgreen, who ran the military investigation into Havana Syndrome, has this summary and lists important questions that the US is afraid to answer.

https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1774591726327341071

Earlier 60 Minutes segments from 2019 and 2022, showing interviews with several US government workers who experienced the directed energy weapon attacks and are still suffering from “Anomalous Health Incidents”.

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Jaanus K

@jaanus

Mar 14, 2023

On “Navalny” documentary:

Most people with an opinion haven’t watched it. I don‘t want to be “most people.” So I watched it.

TL;DR: It has interesting material about his poisoning and the investigation. You will learn nothing about russia, his politics, or the future.

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A bit more about the movie itself, and how it interacts with the context of March 2023:

The story presented is “a man against the system that tries to silence and kill it.” The “system” part is not explored at all. There are some condescending comments from putin, …

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and a few shots of 🗑🇷🇺 police beating and detaining protesters, but that’s really it.

The average viewer will learn absolutely nothing about russia from this movie. Nothing about its wider domestic struggles, and certainly absolutely nothing about 🗑🇷🇺 imperialism.

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