In today's #vatnik soup (thanks Mike Edward,.@OpsATX for the name!) I'll be introducing the Editor of the The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal (.Max Blumenthal). In his previous life, he reported on prestigious publications such as NYT, LA Times and Al Jazeera English... 1/10

In today's #vatnik soup I'll introduce one of the biggest disinformation and propaganda blogs on the web: The Grayzone (The Grayzone). It's best known for misleading reporting, disinformation and love of authoritarian regimes and dictators. 1/13

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier” bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/stu…

€2,000 to go! Can we finish this fundraiser in the next week? car4ukraine.com/campaigns/autu…

🚨 Farage’s, “I knew Gill, but not the Russians” claim collapses under scrutiny. Photos place him in Nathan Gill’s Strasbourg office with a Russian propagandist, the wife of Gill’s Kremlin paymaster, on the very day Gill made a pro-Medvedchuk speech in the EU Parliament. The

"My old friend Nathan Gill, who I've never met, accidentally tripped over a briefcase containing £50,000 and then coincidentally the next day spouted pro Russian propaganda in the EU, as did I. And as far as I'm concerned that's the end of the matter."

‼️ Russia: “Russia's exports fell by 17% in August.” According to Russian Central Bank data kommersant.ru/doc/8119223

‼️ Russia: “"Not acting like an ally." China has dropped its goods shipments to Russia by 21%.” 🇨🇳: BEST FRENEMIES FOREVER! moscowtimes.ru/2025/10/13/nev…

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes. It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia. European Parliament investigation now!

SLB, the world’s largest offshore drilling company headquartered in Texas, continues to operate in Russia despite international sanctions, according to documents published by the analytical firm DALLAS. 🧵Thread:

Can someone please explain to me when Twitter became VK? I’ve not seen so much Russian propaganda in my life.

🚨russian economy is STILL collapsing🚨 No matter how much russian spambots claim to the opposite, the fact is, there is nothing that Putin can do to stop the russian economy collapse. It's already too late.

🎙️ Honoured to open the European Defence Conference in Brussels this morning, alongside Ursula von der Leyen and Andrius Kubilius. I shared my views on the importance of rapid technological development for Europe’s resilience, and what we must do to foster it. 🇪🇺 #EUdefence CSDS

I guess this story really upsets the Kremlin because the troll response has been extreme. Trolls also like to complain that anything that the Moscow Times is “fake news” but the original story is via Reuters

Trump said that Russian economy on the verge of collapse.

1️⃣ Who else feels like Russian bots are everywhere here? It’s not random. They spread like a virus — persistent, adapting, and feeding on the West’s slow reaction and blind spots online.

Russian trolls and bots are a plague on this platform as they are financed and promoted by the Putin regime and Elon Musk. I block them aggressively – almost 60,000 accounts. They are "anonymous cowards" that show up as MAGA morons, Brexit buffoons, Covidiots and crypto cretins.

*Sad Oligarch* moscowtimes.ru/2025/10/14/mil…

‼️ Russia: “Rostov Oblast authorities have begun searching for banks willing to provide a loan of 24.4 billion rubles.” 🍿 Are they going to struggle the way Kuzbas region has? mk.ru/economics/2025…

Farewell from Vatnik Soup In October 2022, when I wrote my first Vatnik Soup thread on Twitter, I had no idea what would follow. Now, almost exactly three years and 375 Vatnik Soups later, it’s time for me to depart the project. Like good TV shows, no project should run