And a strong democratic Ukraine post 1921 might have prevented much of the bloodshed and indeed deterred war in Europe. We can note that the fall of this Ukrainian state would be a cataclysm for Europe, and not only see the mass genocide of Ukrainians

Remember this. Going forward our next task is to shift the discussion towards why Ukraine must win and the Russian empire must cease to exist. We have to stress that the fall of the Ukrainian Peoples Republic last century made the Holocaust, Holodomor and WW2 possible

Instead of conclusion: it is easy to manipulate human emotions as humans don’t like to admit that they can be manipulated. Young people and underprivileged are especially easy targets. We will hear about many more student and truckers’ protests around the world this year.

And here is how hybrid war works, in three parts. Basically, if you skip thinking critically and seeing a big picture, responding emotionally and getting involved into online divisive debates, you are playing into adversaries’ script. “Divide and conquer” is as old as day.

“A 2021 report by the US intelligence community detailed how the Russian government meddled in the 2020 election with an influence campaign “denigrating” Biden and “supporting” former President Donald Trump, citing a massive disinformation push.”

None of it is new and yet there is almost zero acknowledgement of the protests being a tool of the hybrid war. The adversaries’ political technologists hijack grassroots movements and weaponize them to divide and demoralize.

“an incipient effort to undermine Biden’s re-election prospects, including creating fake accounts posing as those run by Americans critical of Biden’s policies…aggressively talking about how young people are unlikely to vote for Biden over this as an issue,” the Chinese response

“in the case of Russia, the campaign “was attempting to stoke tensions on both sides of the protest argument,” alternately praising the protesters and denouncing them as antisemitic.

In many instances, the campaigns are simply amplifying sentiments expressed by the protesters”

In detail, my research on Doppelgänger
campaign: bylinetimes.com/2024/02/29/und…

“TruthGate, one of websites Meta said last year were created by a Russian information operation known as Doppelgänger to spread propaganda under the guise of an American news outlet. “The policies of the Biden administration are complicating the situation inside the country.”

The full article is here: nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna1…

“Russia is also spreading disinformation to damage President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats in advance of the U.S. election, using fake online accounts and bots”

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“France, Germany and Poland have accused Russia of launching a barrage of propaganda to try to shape the outcome of the European parliamentary elections in June.
“This new operation of Russian digital interference” is 'to sow confusion and create tensions in the public debate”

“Moscow is targeting Europe as well. In November 2023, France accused a Russian-linked network of bots of stoking antisemitism by amplifying images of Stars of David graffiti on buildings in Paris with 2,589 posts on the X social media platform.”

“The information offensive is also a way for Russia to divert attention from its invasion of Ukraine and portray itself as a champion of the Palestinians, Schafer said. “They have pivoted away from trying to message around their own war to focusing on this one.”

“The effort includes AI, fake social media accounts, a long-standing tactic used by Moscow, and a spike in propaganda from Russian state media. The sources declined to share examples of Russian-generated bots on SM to avoid revealing U.S. intelligence-gathering methods.”

“In its ongoing information war against the United States, Russia has shifted its focus in recent months to the Israel-Hamas conflict, seeking to inflame existing divisions in the West and to portray Washington as fueling the violence”

“Russia is seeking to exploit America’s divisive debate over Israel’s offensive in Gaza through overt and covert propaganda, with the aim of aggravating political tensions in the U.S. and tarnishing Washington’s global image”

🚨 #protestforPalestine are used by Russia, China and Iran to sow division, confusion in order to demoralize Americans; undermine the U.S. globally and to influence the US presidential elections outcome. 2 important new articles: quotes/links. 🧵👇🏼

🧵Right-wing support for Israel--not Jews, Israel--is all about the evangelicals and their Rapture-based religious beliefs. Spoiler alert, in the Rapture, all Jews die. It's a global Holocaust. THAT is what they believe in. That's the MAGA ideology.

🧵When did MAGAs *ever* oppose antisemitism? White nationalists have always promoted THE most despicable antisemitic Protocol of Zion tropes. If I had an actual $1 for all the times I'd been told I was being paid by 'that Jew Soros' or 'the globalists,' I'd be rich.