No, Ukraine did not attack itself in 2014; it was Russian mercenaries, intelligence officers & army "on vacation"
No, Russia does not want to negotiate and find a "peaceful solution" because there is no problem except 🇷🇺imperialism
No, the US did not pay $5 billion for Maidan; development money has been flowing since 1991.
No, Russia does not "denazify" Ukraine; it is itself a fascist country that sends radicals to its peaceful neighbor with a Jewish president.
No, Russia is not afraid of NATO; it is afraid of not being able to invade and subjugate its neighbors because of NATO.
No, Putin was not "different" back then; we just refused to see reality. He is a former KGB agent.
No, the US did not pay $5 billion for Maidan; development money has been flowing since 1991.
No, the Russian language is not banned in Ukraine and never was, but Russia wants to extinguish Ukrainian culture, to "de-Ukrainize" and Russify Ukraine.
No, the suffering in Ukraine will not end when the weapons are silent. People have been deported, raped, Russified, tortured, and killed in the Russian-occupied territories.
No, "Ukrainian neutrality" will not solve anything. Russia wants to annex, subjugate, and culturally destroy its neighbor completely.
No, the West did not push poor Russia to act this way; the long-running appeasement policy is quite likely the cause of the Kremlin's actions.
No, Russia is not afraid of NATO; it is afraid of not being able to invade and subjugate its neighbors because of NATO.
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Was the Kremlin really "afraid" that NATO might attack Russia, or was it more about not being able to imperialistically invade and subjugate neighbors anymore?
Let's see what Russian officials and their propagandists say themselves 🧵
Let's start with the Russian dictator Putin: He called the dissolution of the Soviet Union the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century." Further, on many occasions, he denied the legitimacy of Ukrainian statehood, speaks about "de-Nazification," and "helping Donbas."
We all remember his article about the "Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians." Medvedev also wrote about this issue, agreeing with it and stating that there can't be any negotiations until the Ukrainian government is "replaced."
Russia's "useful idiots" and agents of influence in the West: some are paid, some are just radicals, and some are looking for fame. They speak about "peace" often, but they don't mean it.
Here are five categories of them🧵
Formerly respected academics: They often have a nostalgic soft spot for the Soviet Union but hate the West and NATO, which they criticize harshly (instead of Russia)
For them, it is not a problem to give interviews to propaganda channels and to visit the most obscure conferences
These academics can be particularly useful for Russian propaganda and lobbying because they still have an influence on public opinion and even government decisions in some cases. They are also invited to mainstream media for the (false) balanced view...
Breaking: In Wien werden zwei Friedenskonferenzen stattfinden im April:
Betont wird die Solidarität mit der Ukraine und ihr Selbstverteidigungsrecht, thematisiert werden soll explizit der russische Imperialismus und das Leiden unter russischer Besatzung.🧵
Friedensforscher österreichischer Universitäten in einer gemeinsamen Stellungnahme: "Besatzung ist kein Frieden, Folter und Deportationen durch 🇷🇺Kräfte müssen enden" und "Zwischen einem Eroberungskrieg und Befreiung liegt klarer Unterschied"
Politikwissenschaftler Prof. Heinz Pflanzer stimmt dem zu: "der Kreml rechtfertigt die völkerrechtswidrige, imperialistisch-motivierte und unprovozierte Invasion mit unzähligen Lügengeschichten" und weiters: "nein, nicht die NATO-Absicht der Ukraine ist der Grund für Invasion"..
Russian propaganda comes only from the right: No, very often also from the left.
Russian propaganda is only on social media: No, it also appears in panel discussions, newspaper comments, TV-talk shows, at universities, in schools...
Russian propaganda is only about fake images, videos, biolab stories, or "EU brothels with animals" - no, it also works much more subtly, under the pretext of "peace"; take a look at Solovyov's guests from the West...
Russian propaganda reports are exclusively fake, fabricated information:
no, it can also involve information with a kernel of truth, but in a certain context, using false proportions it becomes an effective propaganda narrartive ---> #Whataboutism.
- Russische Propaganda kommt nur von rechts: nein, sehr oft auch von links
- Russische Propaganda spielt sich nur auf Social Media ab: Nein, auch auf Podiumsdiskussionen, in Zeitungskommentaren und Talkshows, auf Universitäten...
Russische Propaganda sind nur gefälschte Bilder, Videos, Biolaborgeschichten oder "Bordelle mit Tieren in der EU" - nein, sie läuft auch viel subtiler ab, unter dem Deckmantel "Frieden", man weiss, dass dies aus Moskau geschätzt wird, siehe Solovyov Gäste aus dem Westen...
Russische Propagandameldungen sind ausschließlich gefälschte, fabrizierte Informationen: nein, es können auch Informationen mit wahren Kern in einem gewissem Kontext, mit falschen Relationen so verwendet werden, dass es Propaganda ist, siehe #Whataboutism
These are the 15 most favored talking points of the Kremlin's agents of influence and "useful idiots"
Maybe helpful to identify and expose them.
No, it is not 'peace' what they have in mind, let's take a look⬇️
"Russia reacted to NATO expansion" or Russia was "worried about NATO." Well, worried about not being able to invade all of its neighbors maybe, but not about being attacked.
This narrative has been debunked by reality a long time ago. By the way: 🇫🇮🇸🇪welcome to NATO;-)
Again about NATO: "If Ukraine would not have had the desire to join NATO, Russia would not have attacked." I see, was the skirt too short? A little bit of victim blaming anyone? By the way, it is wrong; the Kremlin presented several other "reasons" for his attack...