It’s high time for the US government to wage psychological war inside Russia and exploit Putin’s vulnerabilities. How? I explain this with David Shedd in
@politico
“I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity.” Two decades ago
@MrsMThatcher
said THE brutal truth about Putin but the West was immensely naive. Very wise words ⬇️
Donald Rumsfeld was absolutely right when he said: “You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. That's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the East. Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem.“
Russia in the UN Security Council meeting accused the West of Russophobia. The UK had a brilliant strategy - they turned the tables on Russia and accused the Kremlin of ruining the reputation of Russia.
@ferguseckersley
spoke in Russian. This is really good. 🇬🇧👏
A reminder. Austrian ex Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl was dancing with Vladimir Putin at her wedding. Then was given a seat on the board of directors 🇷🇺 oil industry giant Rosneft. Strategic corruption in the West is a security threat. End of story.
We, Eastern and Central Europeans, can’t trust 🇩🇪 and 🇫🇷 anymore. After the war in Ukraine, we should rethink our security and make security pacts with 🇺🇸 and 🇬🇧.
Angela Merkel has stubbornly refused to apologize for the disastrous policy of appeasing Putin. Russian tanks rolled into 🇺🇦 , her reputation collapsed. Now her legacy lies in ruins.
🚨I have just received a threat from the high level Serbian government official that after consultations this week they might initiate criminal proceedings against me for injuring the reputation of Serbia. Nothing new from the KGB/UDBA intel playbook. This will be a sight to see.
‼️NATO member Montenegro expelled six Russian diplomats. I cannot emphasize enough what Russia is doing in the Balkans and how it's undermining NATO...
Dear Europe,
I apologize for interrupting your summer vacation. This is a rally in North Macedonia and if you don’t see that 🇷🇺 is sowing chaos in Bosnia via new protests and what’s coming in Montenegro this week, you have a serious issue with your intel.
Disgraceful. “The Ukrainians have killed their own 28 civilians.” This is how Serbian govt controlled media reports about the news after a deadly Russian strike on Dnipro apartment block.
All nationalists in Russia and Serbia should ask themselves why their “elite” is sending kids to private American and British schools instead of public schools in Russia or Serbia.
Tens of thousands of people rallied today in Belgrade against the government. I wish I were there.
When I was a kid, I was playing in this park every day ❤️ and once 🇷🇸 becomes democracy and free, I will visit Belgrade. So proud of all my friends who were there today.
Viktor Orban is in Washington to push for an end to 🇺🇸 military support for 🇺🇦.
His target audience? 🇺🇸 conservatives.
Dear fellow conservatives,
Orban is no conservative. He is an opportunist who is far from a model for American values.
Don’t fall for Orban’s game🧵
The Kremlin says the West is preparing Maidan in Serbia.
The Serbian government thanked 🇷🇺 intelligence for this info.
Now, the Serbs are mocking with the EU and “Euromaidan” flags. :)
Russian propaganda is so angry.
Humor is the best weapon against dictators. 👏
Merkel has been appeasing Putin for years and her legacy is destabilized Eastern Europe and now we have to clean her mess. She is back in media every week with the same message over and over again & Russia couldn’t be happier.
As Russia marks today the 70th anniversary of the death of Stalin, I highly recommend this brilliant and hilarious🇬🇧 satirical film, which was banned by 🇷🇺 government. They said it was British psychological warfare on Russia. If only.
Why are people so surprised by Scholz’s decision regarding tanks? reminder: Putin brought his dog to a meeting to scare Angela Merkel knowing her fear of dogs. What did she do after? Nothing. Putin enjoys humiliating weak people. He is emboldened by our weakness so no surprise.
Germany has a great opportunity to stop Russian aggression quickly by sending Leopard tanks to Ukraine. Don’t fear Russian “red lines” regarding escalations. Our weakness emboldens Putin. Just do it.
No Western country can discipline Russia better than 🇬🇧. The British Ambassador to Serbia had a meeting with Serbian President wearing a scarf with the Ukrainian anthem lyrics. The Russian and Serbian media are so so upset. I truly respect the UK. Thank you
@SianCMacLeod
This is brilliant! 😂👏
A Finnish newspaper
@hsfi
is banned in Russia but now they use the Counter-Strike video game to deliver the news to the Russians about Putin’s war in 🇺🇦.
P.S. I’ve been tracking 🇷🇺 Roskomnadzor & they plan to impose more restrictions on Western video
I always watch how Russian allies behave as it’s often an indication what’s going on. When Serbia returned its gold reserves from safes in Switzerland and England in November, it confirmed my intuition and other rumors abut the war in 🇺🇦. Pay attention to 🇷🇺 allies now.
March 10, 1991
Hundreds of thousands of protesters pack Moscow's Manezh Square demanding the resignation of Gorbachev.
No protests in 2023? Russia has been using domestic psychological warfare to install apathy and fear since the Cold War as the West naively stopped using info
How are Russia’s economy and banks doing?
As 🇷🇺 Rouble tumbles to lowest in a year, there are more and more videos with people waiting in lines in Russia.
St. Petersburg ⬇️
Russian government is obsessed with history & loves to mock 🇺🇸 that we have no history. Always remind them this “decadent” and “no historical” country founded Harvard University in 1636. Moscow and St. Petersburg Universities were founded in the 18th century. They will go crazy.
My friend from the Balkans (I won’t name a country) got a job in the government. He told me he must cut all ties with me because of my writing and work as he fears for his safety. First, I was angry because of his cowardice (as I’d never do this to my friend) but then I tried to
I was in two minds whether to share this publicly or not. After I wrote about 🇷🇺 plans in the Balkans, *someone* sent people in DC to ask me (furiously) about my sources and who ordered this to be written. I’ll leave it here… some ppl often forget this is democratic 🇺🇸 & not 🇷🇺.
President Zelensky: “ Russia is trying to start a war in the Balkans”…."Pay attention to the Balkans. Believe me, we have information. 🇷🇺 has a long plan.”
Unfortunately, he is right. I’ve been warning about it for a long time. 1/2
Interviewed by AFP today, Macron repeated “Russia must not be humiliated because we need to leave a window for diplomacy”.
He also stated that France will mediate in the relations between Russia and Western countries once the war is over.
The hell with it … even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free
On this day Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative journalist was shot dead in Moscow.
In 2004 she wrote: “We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance,"
The West didn't want to hear.
Russian & Serbian propaganda wrote that Jason (
@officejjsmart
) and I are 🇺🇸 intelligence & plotting a color revolution in Serbia against authoritarian Vucic’s regime.
Well… if they insist.
Belgrade this morning ⤵️
I recently testified before EU Parliament on Russia’s information warfare and during my testimony Clare Daly had a temper tantrum. Now we know why. Disgraceful. ⬇️
USS Gerald R. Ford, arrived in Split (Croatia) this morning.
It looks like Putin and Vucic will think twice before they try to cause chaos in the Balkans.
Wow! I recently testified before the EU Parliament on Russian information warfare and Ms. Clare Daly (a member of the European Parliament) had a temper tantrum during my testimony. When 🇷🇺 government retweets your posts, it’s telling…
There’s an aggressive information operations campaign for the Western audience related to nazism in Ukraine… this will soon be linked to a new Russian pretext related to terrorism… Putin had an interview last week and now 🇷🇺 is fighting “terrorism”…be ready for this.
Wow!
@David_Cameron
says 🇬🇧 should show growing frustration with the Serbian 🇷🇸 government. He also openly calls Serbia, Russia’s proxy and warns about Moscow’s plans to destabilize the region. Finally he said “we should be raising our game by what we can do to combat that”. 👏
The EU should support a bloc-wide ban on visas for Russians and we should use international law to our advantage.
Let Russia try to go to international court and claim that the West has violated international rules. It will be a sight to see.
Russia is sowing chaos across the world with economic unrest and protests. We should respond by organizing economic unrest inside Russia. I know this is taboo for many in the West but let's show Moscow that two can play at that game.
“Ukraine has attacked Russia” February 22, 2022. Serbian media.
After one year, still pro-Russian propaganda is in Serbian media ( 🇺🇸 biolabs, 🇷🇺 nuclear threats, WW3 etc.) and Serbian-Russian accounts are cooperating in the information space. When is the West going to counter
The belief that dictatorships can become democracies through trade and investments is one of the greatest illusions.
This was the Western approach in the 90’s towards 🇷🇺 and now we see the consequences.
The more time I spend in the West the more I see how policymakers don’t
Russian Telegram channels are angry about this map with 🇷🇺 propaganda channels.
Surprise surprise.. there are also Serbian channels linked to Russia that I’ve been warning about for years. And there are more linked to the Kremlin… as 🇷🇸 + 🇷🇺 cooperate in influence operations.
Russian companies are rapidly moving to Serbia and the West is happily doing businesses with them.
@MatthewZweig1
and I have recently warned that Russia will use the Balkans to evade sanctions. When is the EU going to impose new sanctions in the Balkans?
Instead of meeting President Biden (like other leaders in the Balkans this week), Serbian President met with Iran’s President Raisi. The reputation of Serbia has been going downhill since Serbian Prime Minister Djindjic was assassinated two decades ago.. but this is a new low.
Vladimir Putin was never the Soviet super spy he'd like us to believe. He was merely a KGB 'errand boy.’
Finally someone said it.
@BusinessInsider
👏
Since I moved to 🇺🇸people around me have had this fantasy about the strong, shirtless Putin riding a horse. It’s time to start
“You can kill us all. Serbia will never recognize the independence of Kosovo, that monster creation that you made by bombing Serbia.”
This is the same as the rhetoric of Milosevic and Putin.
Make no mistake: his family & the families of his friends will first move to the West.
For people who naively believe that we should negotiate with Russia, I highly recommend this book ( written 70 years ago) by people who *actually* negotiated with Russia… history matters.
Understanding Russian negotiating behavior is crucial. They don’t think like Americans. The role of authority, control & the avoidance of risk are super important. The key question is “who’s stronger and who’s weaker.” Historically, they have servile mentality. Don’t fear them.
This is Russia.
Olesya Krivtsova (a 19 y.o. 🇷🇺 student) criticized Russia’s war in Ukraine on Instagram. Her fellow students reported her & now she is awaiting trial that could lead to 10 years in prison for her online comments
Zoran Djindjic is my personal hero and inspiration. Serbia killed EVERY pro-Western leader and Zoran was killed because he wanted to bring Serbia closer to the West.
Serbia won’t get better in my lifetime. However, believe me, there will be another color revolution, which will
Putin fears protests in Serbia!
As massive protests continue in Serbia, the Russians, who left Russia, have also joined protests against the Serbian government.
Now, the Kremlin is panicking as it fears this may spill over in Russia! No surprise that Putin is working hard to
And there you go. Serbian protesters clashed with the police at the Jarinje checkpoint.. that’s exactly what 🇷🇺 proxies announced two days ago I posted it. Believe them when they say it.
The situation in Kosovo has been escalating for months and 🇷🇸 and 🇷🇺 have been setting informational conditions for today’s events. Nothing new. This will be a 🧵for more information. First, to give you some background please read my warnings here. 1/
The US is so polarized.
I’m a conservative and I’m very very proud to support 🇺🇦 and protect 🇺🇸 national security by writing for conservative media outlets.
Some complain that conservatives don’t support Ukraine yet they attack me for writing in conservative places albeit we
Personal news: I’m honored to join
@KyivPost
as a Special Correspondent where I will write about Russia’s information security. I want to make people aware across the globe how Russia’s military has been using information as THE weapon. The Free World will win the info war!
The EU should support a bloc-wide ban on visas for Russians and we should use international law to our advantage.
Let Russia try to go to international court and claim that the West has violated international rules. It will be a sight to see.
“You’re weak and ridiculous. Soon you’ll realize this - in a painful way.”
Unbelievable! This is what the Assistant Minister in the Serbian government sent me.. One more KGB / UDBA intimidation tactics…
I think Russia should retaliate and ban all western imports. Great Russia should keep its pride and greatness and immediately prohibit all Western goods.
As Serbs are protesting against manipulated elections and Vucic’s dictatorship, Russia’s propaganda is now gaslighting and undermining protests with the following narratives: THREAD (I’ll update it)🧵
P.S. I follow 🇷🇺 media, Telegram (which is important), VK, Instagram & blogs.