The Alaska “Trump–Putin meeting” rumor didn’t just appear.

It grew, split, and thickened into a fog.

That fog isn’t an accident. It's an ops.

In 1972, Ladislav Bittman — a Czech intelligence officer turned defector — wrote the manual for this kind of operation. Source: The Deception Game (1972) — archive.org/details/decept…

Do you have children? Grandchildren? Nieces? Nephews? Anyone under 10?

I do.

And here’s my argued warning of why you are—right now—helping kill them.

Not with your hands, but by falling for the deadliest weapon in the world today. NATO on cognitive warfare:

act.nato.int/article/cognit…

Overview: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive…

No, Russia didn’t hack voting machines in 2016.

It hacked something bigger—your perception.

This thread answers real questions, using only the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s 2019 report.

Recognize this building? No?

You should. It got us Trump.

Let’s clear this up: Here’s what people still ask:

• How early did Russia start?
• What exactly did they do?
• Who were they pretending to be?
• Was it about electing Trump—or something else?
• How did they get so much reach?

What you’re seeing today—disinformation, institutional decay, narrative collapse—isn’t new.

It’s the continuation of a strategy launched over a century ago.

Russia’s war on democracy didn’t start with Putin.

It started with the Tsars. Since the early 1900s, Russian regimes have used the same method:

Undermine trust in liberal democracy
Exploit internal divisions
Flood the public square with lies, half-truths, and confusion

Different leaders. Same doctrine.

Democracy doesn’t defend itself.

You have to do it.

Because the biggest threat today isn’t tanks or coups.

It’s percepticide and perspecticide—destroying what people see and what they believe is possible.

If you lose that, you’ve already lost the system. Percepticide is the collapse of shared perception.

When reality fractures—thanks to disinformation, propaganda, and polarization—democracy can’t function.

People no longer agree on facts, on trust, or even on whether voting matters.

What if democratic decline isn’t just internal collapse—but a front in a hybrid war?

Autocracies like Russia and China have spent decades weakening democracies from within—without firing a shot.

To defend democracy, we first have to understand how it fails. Today, democracies aren’t falling through coups. They’re eroding quietly.

Through legal changes, captured courts, corrupted discourse, and social fragmentation.

This isn’t dysfunction. It’s a tactic—weaponized by foreign and domestic actors alike.

Everyone talks about Palestine like it’s just Israel vs. the Palestinians, with the West holding all the cards.

But here’s what few in the West understand:

Arab regimes—and former Soviet allies—have often blocked or undermined a Palestinian state.

But why and how? In 1947, the UN proposed a two-state solution: one Jewish, one Arab.

Arab states rejected it.

Not just the Jewish state—they didn’t want an independent Palestinian state either.

They wanted the land divided among themselves.

📎 UN Res. 181 | Rubin (MERIA 1998)

Incentives shape behavior.

But sometimes, policies punish the very outcomes they claim to promote.

That’s an inverted incentive structure—and authoritarian regimes are full of them.

Does power distort logic? You better believe it. What is it?

An inverted incentive structure occurs when the rules reward failure, deception, or loyalty—and punish competence or success.

You still have a “system,” but it runs in reverse.

And history shows the damage.

Tariffs are usually framed as boring economics

But history shows that in the hands of authoritarians, tariffs become tools—not of trade—but of power

They reward loyalty, punish dissent, and bypass institutions

So, can the past teach anything about this? And do we ever learn? Trump’s tariffs aren’t just about trade.

Throughout history, authoritarians have used tariffs not for strategy, but for control.

To reward friends, punish enemies, and consolidate power.

What does history tell us about it then—and can we use it to understand the now?

🧵 Reflexive Control Meets Brain Science: How Cognitive Warfare Actually Works

You don’t fall for propaganda because you’re stupid. You fall because your brain is adaptive.

And that’s exactly what reflexive control exploits.

This isn’t persuasion. It’s psychological warfare — coded for your memory, emotion, and bias.



#CognitiveWarfare #ReflexiveControltdhj.org/blog/post/cogn…

🧵 Reflexive Control: The Mindtrap Weaponized Online

Reflexive Control isn’t a buzzword. It’s a mindtrap — engineered to hijack your decision-making.

Not just lies. Not just propaganda.

Reflexive Control turns your own logic against you. Russia perfected it — and deployed it online.



#Disinfo #CognitiveWarfareijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…

So, I got a bunch of questions about reflexive control tactics, especially with the massive FIMI ops going on against Zelenskyy right now.

Here's a good source on reflexive control tactics and a short thread for you, curious minds: How Reflexive Control Manipulates Your Mind — and Loses Wars

Russia's war plan in Ukraine wasn’t just tanks and missiles. It was built on an old Soviet trick: Reflexive Control.

A theory to make you choose wrong — on your own.

<< Political scientist Taras Zahorodnii claims that NABU has become an FSB branch, and its work is ineffective and non-transparent. The adopted bill No. 12414 will allow controlling NABU and SAP, which will make their activities more transparent.>>

unn.ua/en/news/expert… "This bill is a step towards finally taking control of a structure that for some reason began to turn into a branch of the FSB," the political scientist emphasized, commenting on the parliament's adoption of the bill "On Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine

10 ways fake political headlines give themselves away — backed by data

Before AI, fake news was already built for deception.

This 2018 study analyzed 276 real vs. fake political news articles.

What it found is still crucial today.

This thread on how fake news actually looks: The study:
"Comparing Features of Fabricated and Legitimate Political News in Digital Environments"
By Toluwase Asubiaro & Victoria Rubin
University of Western Ontario (2018)
researchgate.net/publication/32…

10 ways fake headlines hijack your perception.

It’s not just misinformation.

It’s reflexive control — tactical manipulation through engineered suggestion.

And headlines are the first strike.

A thread on deception by design: Reflexive control is a Soviet-born strategy.

Its goal: manipulate you into acting against your interests by feeding you warped cues.

It’s not persuasion. It’s steering.

Fake headlines aren’t just false — they’re constructed to trigger reflexes.

Oh, but how do "they" do it?

Good Monday morning to you, curious minds.

What can a year-old report tell us about the evolution of troll farms?

Quite a lot, actually.

This one shows us how AI + social engineering replaced old-school spam with something quieter, and harder to trace.

Let’s take a look. This is a case study from 2024, published by Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub.

It documents a coordinated bot network using AI to reply, not post — shaping U.S. political discourse from inside the replies.

Okay, the evening’s here — but let’s do one more.

What else can we learn about modern disinformation today?

Let’s take a look at this together. This one’s about AI-generated lifestyle influencers who looked like they just wanted to talk skincare and jewelry.

But they had a different job.

Disinfo evolves.

The tactics that worked in 2016? Too loud. Too easy to trace.

By 2024, Russia had changed the game.

No bots. No troll farms. Just content.

Believable. Untraceable. Designed to slide right past you.

But how did it worked—and how to see it coming? Full source: Writing With Invisible Ink

Published June 2024 by Alethea

PDF: ink-alethea.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/Alethea-Writin…

🧵 Thread: How Russian Medals Exposed a Secret Spy Unit

Phaleristics, OSINT, and the accidental transparency of the FSB

Want to know more? Who, what, why, where and how? Read.

#Edumacation Based on: OSINT & Phaleristics: Unveiling FSB’s 16th Center SIGINT Capabilities

By @ sector035 — published July 2025 by CheckFirst

osintcombine.com/blog/fsb-16th-…

GRU by the Numbers: Inside Russia’s Hybrid War Machine

The UK's 2025 intelligence profile reveals how Russia’s GRU blends hacking, sabotage, and propaganda across borders.

Let’s look at the numbers — and what they mean.

#HybridThreat #CyberWarfare #GRU 🇷🇺 The GRU isn’t one unit.

It’s an integrated system of cyber, covert, and influence operations.

This thread covers:

🔹 3 core units
🔹 8+ malware tools
🔹 20+ major attacks
🔹 Global targeting from Ukraine to the Olympics

Source linked below

Inside the Mind of a Propagandist

A top Russian official just dropped a post filled with hate, fear, and psychological warfare.

We broke it down line by line to show how modern propaganda actually works.

#Disinformation #Propaganda “European morons have agreed on the 18th package of sanctions…”

Tactic: Mockery + Dehumanization

Right from the start: no facts, just name-calling.

Why?

🔹 It shuts down empathy
🔹 Signals tribal loyalty
🔹 Makes cruelty feel casual