#russian influence

[greenpostua]

❤️‍🩹 Під час атаки на Київ, чоловік в укритті весь час тримав котика за лапку.

📹: відео з соцмереж

[canberramaidan]

[eugenedebs1920]

Artists, historians, and writers not only enhance our lives, they leave behind chances to peer into the past, escape to distant places, they even convey cautionary tales for the future. Perhaps we declined to heed their warning.

Orwell wrote, “The party tells you to reject the evidence of your eyes and your ears” in his dystopian novel, 1984, when speaking of the ministry of truth. This is what has been asked of us for years, many in compliance of this order.

We now find ourselves in a void of truth, an absence of facts, in contradiction with objective reality, with certainty falling to uncertain conclusions.

The precarious spot in which we occupy finds the necessity of a Ministry of truth to be inconsequential. With a filter of corporate interests and profit acquisition as the sieve which decontaminates any knowledge that would threaten the overlords wealth or expose the powerful.

What is the use of a liberty if those enshrined with its protection, the exercise of it, dismiss the honor coinciding with the duty that a free press holds? When fear of ratings, fear of revenue loss, fear of retribution overwhelms the grand responsibility yet invaluable inheritance bequeathed by the authors of the Constitution.

Shareholders dividends, financial yields, and monetary gains surpass that of any consequence to the public at large, the relevance of an agency to control information is substituted by an industry which simply withholds it.

We were told by Trump to reject the evidence of our eyes and our ears. We were told an attempted coup was a day of love. We were told of victim hood upon the perpetrator of criminality. We were told it was the fault of anyone else, that all accusations were a hoax, a which hunt.

Have we succumb to the will of Big Brother? Are we imprisoned by the Thought Police? Has the omnipresent cult of personality bypassed the ability to decipher, decode, and conclude that which stares directly in our face?

Our belief, our concurrence to the narrative presented as a hoax, a subject designated for omission down the memory hole, to question Russia Russia Russia is to fall out of the Party’s favor.

I can attest that I am a thought criminal, that I have seen past the veil of deception and beyond the walls to freedom. I have unshackled the chains that bind the truth and liberated thought beyond what commands ordered to adhere to.

The Muller report was not a fabrication. The henchmen indicted, arrested, some jailed for their association with Russia was not a figment of my imagination. The praise and admiration for the Russian premier projected from Trump is not a coincidence. The long, storied history of Russian connections with Trump is not circumstantial. All one has to do is put the pieces together.

Trump is a Russian asset.

So many have inquired why he seems to advocate for Putin and Russia. Why his strange support and unwillingness to condemn them. What the ties are, where parallel initiates from, where it leads? Many have asked, what does Putin have on Trump?

Could it be that the perplexing and seemingly blind loyalty Trump has for Putin is not so much an affinity towards totalitarian rulers, but blackmail.

Follow the money. Many of Epstein’s accounts were based in Russia. Many girls were trafficked from Russia and the surrounding countries. Upon arrival of the destination it leads to, chances are, another strange “coincidence” will implicate the Trump family.

Follow the money. That is the path to the answer

[route22ny]

Welcome Sign in Kremlin, Montana

Undated image by @ruralindexing shared the other day at their Bluesky feed for no particular reason I guess.

[stonegoddweller]

Rodin

[blueberryforestelf]

Russian Influence in Moral Orel:

Okay so a while ago I just finished watching Moral Orel and I noticed that there were some connections between it and Russian culture. I also noticed that the show had just become popular in Russia and there are dubbed episodes available on VK. Even though Moral Orel is an American TV show and the creator of the show is of Greek descent, here are some connections on the show that linked to Russian culture and social cues:

The heavy alcoholism on the show: Clay and most of the people in Moralton are straight-up alcoholics, and even Bloberta was an alcoholic before she met Clay. Of course, alcohol is a significant part of Russian culture and the country has the highest consumption of alcohol in the world. Not only are alcoholic beverages are consumed in high amounts, but is also very much socially accepted and encouraged. Even underaged children are encouraged to drink. In the episode Maturity, Orel thought drinking would make him “wise and mature” like his father and in Help young Bloberta stated that drinking alcohol “makes us better people”.

There’s a city in Russia called Orel.

Orel means “Eagle” in Russian (and other Slavic languages). So in the Russian dub Orel’s name is Eagle.

Ms. Censordoll loves pickled eggs and keeps a jar full of them in her library. Russian cuisine consists of a lot of pickled foods, including pickled eggs, cabbage, potatoes, fish, watermelon, etc.

If you notice in the Puppington household, you’ll see an oriental carpet on the living room floor. Oriented carpets are very common in Russian households and are often on floors or hung on walls.

Clay’s reckless driving and Russia is famous for its many reckless drivers and very frequent traffic accidents (I just had to add this to the list lol)

Clay’s car looks like a Lada (a Russian brand of cars).

The “depressing”, conservative, perfectionistic, and collective culture of Moralton is quite similar to that of Russian culture. The entire town is centered around a church which literally controls everything in the town and how it operates. The people are fed Christian propaganda and are not allowed to think differently or do things differently than what is socially acceptable, otherwise they would be outcasted and have to face harsh consequences. This pretty much relates to Russia’s Soviet/Communist Era of when housing, stores, businesses, etc. were all controlled by the government and not the people. People were not allowed to solely own their own property or businesses, and if they were to speak up about problems and issues facing their economy or speak out against propaganda or the government, they would would face the harsh and legal consequences (i.e. prison camp or deportation). Moralton is quite similar to that, except it’s in the United States where people have more freedom to do want they want and express themselves.

Many people in Moralton tend to be “cold”, reserved, strict, and cynical, which is a common stereotype among Russians.

The townspeople’s love for classical arts, music, and theatre, like in the School Pageant episode. Also Bloberta comes from a family of choir singers/musicians and her singing voice is similar to that of an opera singer. Russians are known for their love for classical and opera music as it is a very significant part of their culture. I’ve met many Russians who come from a family of musicians, are talented musicians outside of their occupation, or happen to own a musical instrument in their homes.

Moral Orel is a satire that explores the hypocrisy of religious and social institutions with a touch of dark humor and irony, which is similar to the works of Russian authors like Fyodor Dostoevsky, who used similar techniques to critique religious and social mores.

Moral Orel is a stop-motion animated series and Russians are very fond of stop-motion animation as it has a rich history in Russian media and cinema. Famous Russian animators such as Roman Kachanov, Ladislas Starevich and Ivan Ivanov-Vano were pioneers of stop-motion media during the Soviet Era. Many beloved animated films and shows made during the Soviet Era were stop-motion animated. Also a lot of stop-motion animated media known today (such as Coraline, Corpse Bride, Isle of Dogs, etc.) are becoming very popular in Russia. Also, Orel loves making little stop-motion movies!

Thanks for reading! 😁

[generallemarc]

Romania's top court annuls first round of presidential vote won by far-right candidate

A top Romanian court has annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election, days after declassified intelligence alleged Russi

Let's assume our pro-Russian friend is right, and that he had no help from Russia and did this all on his own. If he's right, then surely this means nothing and he'll just win all over again. And for those rolling their eyes at this, remember how much closer Romania is to Russia and just how much weaker and poorer its government is than America's. Thanks to Ceaucescu's unique brand of communism, Romania is the poorest country in the EU. We're not talking about $100,000 of facebook memes in an election with $100,000,000 campaign budgets here. Assuming the whole world is like America is the left's shtick-let's not make things worse by adding ourselves to the list of morons who can't perceive anything out side of an America-centric lens.

EDIT: Apparently he cannot run in the redo due to too many instances of breaking the law.

[feministdragon]

The notion that the war is unwinnable because of Russia’s dominance is a Russian information operation, which gives us a glimpse of the Krem

“The Kremlin’s principal effort is to force the United States to accept and reason from Russian premises to decisions that advance Russia’s interests, not ours. The Kremlin is not arguing with us. It is trying to enforce assertions about Russia’s manufactured portrayal of reality as the basis for our own discussions, and then allow us to reason to conclusions pre-determined by the Kremlin. Accepting Russia’s premises and reasoning from them may proceed in a formally logical way but is certainly not rational, since it is divorced from actual reality and from our interests. Soviet mathematician Vladimir Lefebvre defined this process as “reflexive control”– a way of transmitting bases for decision making to an opponent so that they freely come to a pre-determined decision.[9] A key example: Putin takes the false assertion that discussions of Ukraine’s NATO accession posed a clear and imminent danger to Russia along with the false assertion that Ukraine is not a real country and builds them into a false conclusion that he was justified in launching a war of conquest.[10] Another assertion: Russia has the right to a self-defined sphere of influence, and, therefore, a right to do whatever it wants to those within this sphere – including invading, killing, raping, and ethnic cleansing – with no repercussions.[11] The degree to which Western discourse includes serious consideration of these falsehoods marks the success of long-running Russian information operations.

Some sincerely accept the Kremlin’s false predicates and resulting conclusions. Others may accept the predicates but stop short of leaping to conclusions that any of these arguments justify the Kremlin’s invasion and atrocities. Many can see past the Kremlin’s manipulations and recognize that Russia’s war is an unprovoked war of conquest, however.

The Kremlin then targets this last category on a different level of reasoning – the predicates that inform our will to do something about Russia’s war and the lengths to which we are willing to go. The Kremlin targets our perceptions of costs, priorities, risks, upsides, alignment with our values, and effects of our own actions. Two main categories of false assertions that the Kremlin is trying to enforce in this respect are that: a) Ukraine cannot win this war; supporting Ukraine is a distraction from ‘real’ US problems; Ukraine will be forced to settle; the United States is at risk of being stuck in another “forever” war; and b) the risks in helping Ukraine defend itself, let alone win, are higher than the risks of failure in Ukraine for the United States - it is too costly, too risky, and that Ukraine is not worth it. ISW and many others have thoroughly debunked these assertions, yet they remain pervasive in US discussions about opposing Russia.[12] The Russian goal is to have us freely reason to a conclusion that Russia’s prevailing in Ukraine is inevitable and that we must stay on the sidelines — and Moscow is succeeding far too well in this effort.

It is important to emphasize that by no means all who oppose continuing or expanding support for Ukraine are doing so as the result of Russian reflexive control measures. The point, however, is that Americans must recognize the enormous effort the Kremlin is putting into these and other assertions in order to create a picture of reality that, taken in its totality, is false — Russia had no right to invade Ukraine, has no rights to control Ukraine, was not provoked into such an invasion, will not inevitably win, will not inevitably escalate to fighting a full-scale war against NATO, and helping Ukraine liberate its strategic territories as the only viable path to a durable peace remains the most prudent course of action to secure US interests.”