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Sep 5, 2024 13 tweets 5 min read Read on X
1/13 It's amazing to see Western influencers being revealed as paid russian disinformation agents, but this is merely the tip of the iceberg. Fun fact: they all support Trump and work against Democrats. Coincidence? I don't think so! Image
2/13 TENET media and its content creators are facing scrutiny after being exposed as disinformation agents funded by russia to promote pro-russian rhetoric. Image
3/13 Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, and Lauren Southern are the influencers associated with Tenet media. The organization received $10 million to disseminate Kremlin talking points in the United States. Image
4/13 The ironic part is that the shared factor among these individuals is that they are all paid by russia to criticize Democrats and support Trump. This serves as further evidence that russia is attempting to facilitate Trump's election. Image
5/13 Many more individuals, including some close to Trump, are likely on russia's payroll while supporting him. Trump himself could potentially be a russian asset or, at the very least, an opportunistic useful idiot. Image
6/13 This is merely the tip of the iceberg. There are numerous other instances in the West. Every country has its own russian disinformation agents, and I hope many of them are exposed in the coming months. Image
7/13 German author and journalist Hubert Seipel, based in Moscow, was caught less than a year ago for accepting €600,000 in exchange for his pro-russian rhetoric. Image
8/13 Scott Ritter, an American convicted pedophile and russian disinformation agent, has reportedly terminated his collaboration with russian media today due to sanctions. He is a clear example of a russian asset in the US. Image
9/13 There are numerous other cases that require investigation. Individuals like Douglas Macgregor, who consistently echo Kremlin talking points and oppose their own country regardless of the circumstances, are among those who need to be looked into. Image
10/13 Tucker Carlson is another individual that the US is likely investigating at the moment. Those associated with TENET Media were instructed to promote his videos showcasing shopping in russia. Image
11/13 Some of these individuals are useful idiots, while many deliberately turn a blind eye, and others are genuine disinformation agents. Ultimately, the distinction is not significant. Most of them are aware, but it can be challenging to prove that they are. Image
12/13 russia seeks to exploit Western freedom of speech to create divisions within our societies and erode trust in institutions. They have been remarkably successful in this endeavor, which is why it is crucial to investigate all cases like TENET Media. Image

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Feb 19
1/9 The myth that "time is on Russia’s side" is finally hitting a wall.

Moscow is projecting an image of endless endurance, but the math under the surface tells a different story.

The Kremlin is trapped in a war it cannot win and a peace it cannot afford 🧵 Image
2/9 In his Foreign Affairs article, “Ukraine’s War of Endurance” (February 16, 2026), Michael Kofman lays out the reality:

Time is not necessarily on Russia’s side Image
3/9 The battlefield has become a "drone-saturated" graveyard.

With drones and domestic production scaling, Ukraine has made large-scale Russian maneuvers impossible.

Russia is having more than a thousand casualties per day for gains measured in meters Image
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Feb 17
1/12 Peter Thiel is the Bond villain of the 21st century.

He is a powerful oligarch who operates in the shadows while pulling the strings of global politics.

He is potentially the most dangerous man in the world today.

What makes this Epstein-class oligarch so dangerous: Image
2/12 The hypocrisy is absolute.

Thiel is a gay, foreign-born billionaire who built his fortune from liberal California.

He benefited from every protection a democracy provides, yet he now spends his resources trying to dismantle that system for everyone else Image
3/12 His ideology is a dark rejection of the West.

Thiel famously wrote that he no longer believes freedom and democracy are compatible.

He listens to neo-reactionaries like Curtis Yarvin and Aleksandr Dugin Image
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Feb 16
1/7 Peter Thiel is the ultimate hypocrite.

He is a gay, foreign-born billionaire who built his fortune in liberal California.

He owns JD Vance and runs mass surveillance to fund a fascist movement aimed at destroying the very democracy that once allowed him to succeed Image
2/7 Thiel famously wrote that he no longer believes freedom and democracy are compatible.

This is the ideology of the man who owns JD Vance.

He does not want a better America.

He wants a corporate autocracy where the public is just a managed mob Image
3/7 The hypocrisy is absolute.

While he claims to value liberty, he built Palantir, a mass surveillance empire that harvests your data for the state.

He talks about freedom while selling the tools of total control to government agencies.

He is an enabler of authoritarianism Image
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Feb 10
1/12 EU regulation is like kryptonite to our enemies🧵 Image
2/12 There is a reason why Putin, Musk, Trump, Vance, Thiel, and Xi all spend fortunes to attack Brussels.

They do not hate the EU because it fails.

They hate it because of its potential.

Our unity is their nightmare Image
3/12 Think about the strategy. Why do they fund anti-EU movements?

Because they can bully Italy. They can buy Hungary. They can pressure France.

But they cannot bully a unified bloc of 450 million people.

When we stand together, their leverage evaporates Image
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Feb 2
1/11 The war is far from over, but Ukraine is still winning.

Here is how we can make sure that it defeats Russia 🧵 Image
2/11 Russia’s 2022 invasion is a genocide.

They use genocidal rhetoric to justify erasing Ukraine's identity. They kidnap children and commit daily war crimes to punish civilians for simply refusing to be Russian.

This is a systematic attempt to destroy a nation Image
3/11 The human cost is massive.

In Mariupol, the death toll in 3 months potentially exceeded the total deaths in Gaza throughout the entire war, despite a much smaller population.

People underestimate this scale and don't see that Russia is committing genocide in Europe Image
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Jan 23
1/12 “Value-Based Realism” was a major theme at Davos.

It is being sold by Stubb and Carney as a smart, pragmatic path for the West, but I think it is a strategic trap.

Here is why this new realism might actually lead to managed decline 🧵 Image
2/12 The concept is the latest intellectual fashion.

@alexstubb and @MarkJCarney are pushing it as the ultimate manual for "middle powers" like Canada, the UK, and the EU.

It sounds sophisticated to be principled yet pragmatic, but we need to look a bit closer Image
3/12 The logic is simple: stop waiting for a perfect world and deal with the brutal one we have.

It is an honest description of how we behave right now, post-Biden.

That is exactly the problem.

It takes our current failure of will and rebrands it as a high-level strategy Image
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