If you doubted that Kremlin uses exactly the same narrative to describe the reasons for invasion in Ukraine as for the WW2 here's proof. The LDA of the Medinsky's Ru history textbook shows that the word "Ukraine" suddenly appears in the claster related to the reason of the WW2 🧵

7/ But if this is how one political group can now be de facto eliminated in the Russian system, where is the guarantee that this won't happen to others?

Countries of the Global South,including India and Brazil, are disillusioned with the Western-centric world order they see as unjust. While this keeps them from aligning with Kyiv on the war, it also prevents the Kremlin from deepening partnerships or building an anti-Western axis

To counter the Global South aligning with Kyiv and the West on the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin has intensified its outreach to developing states since 2022 — focusing on BRICS+ and Africa. By mid-2024, it landed on a the productive narrative about the "world majority." 2/

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