NATO has NEVER attacked, annexed, or crossed the territorial boundaries of any state because it is a DEFENSIVE alliance.
If you yap about “the dangers of NATO’s expansion,” you’re either brainwashed by Russian propaganda or an actual agent of the Kremlin.
Get help!
What is NATO?
Short explanation for Musk&fans:
•history’s most powerful alliance
•aims: protect member countries’ freedom& security, politically & militarily
•combined GDP >$32.4 trillion, 45% of the world economy, dwarfs Russia’s
•nuclear weapons states🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸
Now sit down.
Yesterday I faced major Russian troll account attacks, so I’m revising a topic I covered before, but with fresh insights.
In 2023, Russia spent $1.6 billion on pro-Kremlin propaganda worldwide.
What are their manipulation methods and how much do trolls earn?💰
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I was born in Romania, a state living in the shadow of 🇷🇺
Russia’s aggression has always threatened more than its neighbors. This isn’t just a regional issue.
Here’s why Russia’s defeat matters for global democracy AND why it should concern YOU too, wherever you live:
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After 20 years of NATO membership, the Romanian village on the Black Sea coast, Mihail Kogălniceanu (MK), is set to become NATO’s LARGEST AIRBASE in EUROPE.
I mean, how cool is that? 🤍
Iran’s President Raisi could be dead after helicopter crash (sources).
The Islamic Republic threatens not just the West, but primarily its own people, executing >500/year for protesting the theocracy. I’ve been BANNED and SUSPENDED for sharing these pics* but I’ll keep raising
GUYS, HELP. SERIOUS QUESTION.
CAN YOU SEE THIS POST?
Yesterday I got ratioed by Russian trolls when I said the entire world hates Russia :(
Are you with me? Can you confirm that we all actually hate Russia???
@David_Leavitt
@elonmusk
Because Tate the rapper (drop one “P” from “rapper”) represents exactly what Elon Musk believes in.
The far-right ideologies: racism, bigotism, misogyny, totalitarianism.
NATO is the strongest and most powerful alliance in the world, unmatched in history.
Welcome to the family, Sweden!🇸🇪
Next goal: Ukraine wins & joins NATO
Most of you have never experienced occupation & the suppression of freedoms under 🇷🇺 rule and it shows.
REAL Eastern Europeans could NEVER support a state like Russia because for them, history isn’t just in the books—it’s in their blood.
The past is a lived reality, not a story.
PLEASE BE THANKFUL IF YOUR COUNTRY IS FAR AWAY FROM RUSSIA.
🇷🇺 ambassador: “Romania has to expect consequences. Romania owes more to Russia than Russia to Romania.”
Is this the free speech you defend?
Facing these threats isn’t just unsettling—IT IS A REALITY for us, Romanians!
The UK has fallen victim to russian interference since BREXIT.
Now, the chaos in England was fueled by a far-right disinformation campaign. A shady Russian-linked outlet (Channel3) has incited the violence.
Do you still not see who the enemy is?
Brief history lesson: The Pitești experiment in Romania’s Gulags (1949-52). No other European state has ever implemented such extreme & successful methods of forced “reeducation.”
❗️WARNING: GRAPHIC DETAILS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY
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Never again is now.
So Elon Musk criticizes the $95.3B aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, & Taiwan, claiming it won’t help Ukraine.
Who the * is Musk to dictate the fate of nations battling for survival??
Where was he when RUSSIA ATTACKED UKRAINE??
Oh, right…aiding Russia with Starlink
Powerful message.
reminder that the
#UKRiots
are a russian op meant to destabilize the West, divide us, spread hate, demonize Muslims, whites, Jews, blacks.
This is how russia works against humanity.
#FaragesRiots
aka divide et impera.
Tucker Carlson is in Moscow.
He’s celebrated on Russian state TV. Do you think he’s a defender of the US &human rights? You’ve fallen for Russian propaganda.
I’m speaking as someone from a former USSR state: Russia directly threatens global democracy& the US. The danger is real.
Putin invaded Ukraine & Tucker Carlson fans were cheering.
Giving a platform to leaders accused of war crimes will legitimize their actions.
How many human rights violations does it take to become a prime-time interview subject these days?
PROPAGANDA IS NOT FREE SPEECH!
EU gives Ukraine mine-clearing machines named Vira & Lyubov (Faith & Love)❤️
Ukraine’s progress in
#Kursk
shows that united good can stand up to the evil attacker.
Supporting Ukraine is caring for Europe.
Aiding Ukraine defends freedom.
Ukraine is winning!
Video in Kursk, 🇺🇦😀
Can we take a moment to show some love to Canada for allowing Ukraine to fire their weapons during attacks inside Russia? ❤️
Canadian defense department: “Ukrainians know best how to defend their homeland.”
#Kursk
is Ukraine 🇺🇦
According to a RAND Corporation study, contemporary Russian propaganda has the following characteristics:
- large number of channels and messages
- spreads partial truths or pure fiction
- is fast, continuous, and repetitive
- is inconsistent
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JUST ANNOUNCED: I AM BACK 😂
I need to check how the algorithm works after a few days of TOTAL break. Can you even see me?!
React to this tweet if y’all still think Russia is a terrorist state.
In order to manipulate individuals, news channels and social media platforms are used, with TENS OF THOUSANDS of troll accounts on Twitter, Facebook, etc.
An example of where trolls operate from:
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In addition to recognized Russian sources like RT, there are dozens of proxy news sites that present Russian propaganda, but with their affiliation with Russia disguised or minimized (US Dept of State report, 2022).
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An analysis conducted by The Guardian (2022) suggests that the troll “brigade” acts to steer social media discussions and newspaper comment sections towards pro-Russia opinions. Recent example of an attack:
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Radio Free Europe interviewed a former paid Russian troll. According to him, trolls are on duty 24 hours a day, in 12-hour shifts, and each has a daily quota of 135 comments of at least 200 characters.
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RT (formerly Russia Today) is one of Russia’s main news media channels. With a budget of over $300 million/year, it broadcasts news in English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and several East European languages.
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RT is particularly popular online, where it claims more than 10 billion views and 30 million subscribers.
If true, this would mean it is the most-watched news source on the Internet!
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Reminder that if you support Russia, you also support Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, China, North Korea, and basically every degenerate regime/militant group that exists in this world.
A Russian troll factory” had a budget of $1.25 million in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential elections to intervene in the US political system, according to charges filed by the US Department of Justice.
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Putinist behavior: Far-right pro-Putin Romanian MEP Diana Șoșoacă wearing a muzzle and causing a scene in the EP, moving her antics from the RO parliament to the EP.
She was expelled from the chamber.
This is Georgia NOW.
The Georgian govt passed the Russian law despite mass protests and warnings from the US. Georgians are still fighting.
IF WE DON’T WAKE UP AND ACT NOW, THE WEST IS NEXT.
Russia MUST be defeated.
The “troll factory” has several different departments, each with about 15 people, each dealing with different platforms: one handles YouTube, another Facebook, and another the Russian social network VK etc. You get the point.
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A Russian media organization paid $6.8mil to American conspiracy theorist Benjamin Swann to create pro-Kremlin propaganda about the war in Ukraine and the “cultural war” in the US, according to records from the Foreign Agents Registration Act (US Department of Justice).
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@P_Kallioniemi
Musk himself is instigating a civil war. We’ve all seen how he’s turned this platform into a totalitarian propaganda tool filled with Russian trolls & bots.
The good part is that *WE* know this.
The bad part is that, trolls aside, many ordinary people actually endorse him…
I’m Gordon. I’m 34years old and I used to live in one of the US state. I will not be VOTING for BIDEN 🙅♂️❌ because I am currently detained in Russia even if I am a Trumpist who supports Russia. Weird.
How about you?.
Often, professional Russian trolls do not promote a specific political ideology but exploit human emotions on sensitive subjects (LGBT, immigration, etc.) to then divide the society they have infiltrated. @ Radio Genoa account on Twitter is an example of this tactic.
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Research shows that the troll factory continues to actively and openly recruit and hire staff, describing the job as “a patriotic activity” in support of the “special military operation” in Ukraine.
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Thus, the chances are that a “simple” individual spreading pro🇷🇺messages on social media is,in fact, a paid troll—even if they are not public figures.
🇷🇺troll factories (online groups of agitators)identify grievances in other states & then enter debates aiming to ignite them.
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He said that most trolls were paid about ₽40,000/month ($439 today’s exchange rate)—he earned ₽45,000 ($500); others who worked more were paid more. He posted 120 comments during his service.
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The “employees”create fake accounts and steal pictures from other social media platforms, editing them to not stand out. Others are AI-generated. Sometimes, the photos were of people who had died, said the former troll. According to him, he had over 100 fake accounts.
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Conversely, public figures and journalists are paid better. For example, the Bulgarian secret service has data showing that Russia pays about €2000/month to public figures, journalists, and politicians to spread Russian propaganda.
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Evidence shows that the troll factory uses Telegram to actively recruit and coordinate new supporters who then target the social media profiles of critics - spamming them with pro-Putin and pro-war comments (UK Govt report, 2022).
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It’s been 17 years since Romania officially detached from the Kremlin’s influence and joined the European Union. After joining NATO, this was the most important step we took for democracy.
Happy European Union Day! 💙
Can you see me? Please, any reaction to this message would help me recover my voice 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭
I think I’m shadowbanned after twitter locked me out for “violating the rules.
Some friends copy/pasted my last post and it didn’t show up, and shadowban test looks like this:
Yes, some of you have seen my post from my alt account.
I’ve been locked out of this account and I had no other thing left to do than delete my tweet. THIS IS ABSURD! WHEN I REPORT ACTUAL NĄŹ1Ș, NOBODY FROM
@X
@Support
ACTS! THEY FLEE FREELY ON THIS PLATFORM!
IT’S THOSE WHO
@MikeNellis
We are with you, okay? Keep up the great work, don’t take into account the øpiniøns of haters! Let’s do this and fight totalitarianism!
From Europe with love,
❤️
Guys, I learned today: when well-known Russian propagandists like
@GeromanAT
start quoting your tweet, insulting you and the West, it means you’re doing democracy right! 😂
(I blocked Russia’s troll but was still funny)
TikTok is another platform where Russian trolls operate. It's estimated that the salary of "influencers" on TikTok ranges from ₽2,000-20,000, (approx. $17/post) - criticized for selling out for so little (Vice interview).
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Another department deals with creating memes - including those of a pornographic nature. These are passed on through messages, and then the trolls post them on various sites and social media platforms.
Example of an anti-Western meme posted by trolls:
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Y’all.
I was today years old when I found out that convicted Kremlin propagandist Kim Dotcom’s real name is actually Kim Dotcom 🤣
He thought changing his name from Schmitz would save him from jail time 😭
Anyway. Extradition time.
Other sources claim that Putin's trolls earned almost ₽120,000/week (about $1800 at that time) in 2018, spreading anti-Western propaganda on Facebook and Twitter (The Sun, 2018).
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Extreme movements in the West are backed by totalitarian actors—RU et al.
These actors support fringe groups to destabilize the Western societies from within. Russia’s main strategy is to present itself as THE alternative to the “decadent” West. I’ll briefly explain.
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CAN YOU SEE THIS THREAD? THEN DON’T STOP TALKING ABOUT IRAN!
Iranian President Raisi, Khamenei’s protégé, is dead. It’s been 45 years since Iran shifted from a pro-West monarchy to an anti-West, anti-Israel theocracy.
Tehran faces turmoil, but overthrowing dictatorships is TOUGH.
On World Humanitarian Day, let’s remember that in the past 30 years, russia invaded:
Moldova 1990, occupied Transnistria in 1992
Chechnya 1994-1997, 1999-2000
Georgia 2008
Syria 2015
Ukraine 2014, 2022
This doesn’t even include the actions of the USSR.
It’s more than just support for Ukraine on the agenda.
Is Orban practicing his best apology bow to Romania’s president for his wild revisionist dreams about Romania? 🤣
Nice try, Orban, but we’ve got history’s number on speed dial 😂
TRANSYLVANIA IS ROMANIA🇷🇴
Regardless of where you live/where you’re from,🇷🇺defeat is NOT just a regional issue,it’s about ensuring a future where every nation can determine its own path without fear of coercion or invasion.
This is why we must care,must stand together,must support those who resist tyranny
Russia’s defeat would discourage other authoritarian regimes from aggressive expansions & attacks on democracies. Standing united against dictatorship demonstrates a strong, united global democracy against totalitarianism.
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The worst threat to our democracy is hybrid warfare.
Russia uses MEPs as influence agents and stirs divisions across Europe before this year’s elections. Below is a 1-year-old map of pro-🇷🇺 parties in Europe.
Could we update it with missing parties to better combat 🇷🇺propaganda?
Some get mad when they see this map and label states like 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 as UNFREE.
These claims insult the fight for freedom and mock the reality of TRUE OPPRESSION! You’ve never experienced dictatorship!
Let me show you what a REAL DICTATORSHIP MEANS.
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As a Romanian, I’m SHOCKED AND DISGUSTED to see support for dictators.
I shared this dark chapter from our past because we must remember history’s lessons and fight tirelessly to prevent such atrocities from happening again!!!
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Some will say they “don’t like” 🇺🇦.
Well, this ISN’T just about ONE country; it’s about DEFENDING FREEDOM& MORAL VALUES worldwide.
Today is🇺🇦but tomorrow will be more states fighting for human rights (I’ll talk about why 🇮🇱matters too)
How EVIL can you be to support massacres?
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🚨ALARMING
Chinese surveillance equipment, flagged for espionage in the US & UK, is extensively utilized by Romanian defense and state agencies, including Parliament.
The SBU disclosed that Russia exploited similar cameras in Ukraine for live wartime intelligence.
One year ago, Iranian President Raisi suggested that the Holocaust didn’t really happen and implied that Israelis have no right to exist.
Are you still doubting who actually supports genocide?
For the sake of our world’s safety and freedom, the Axis of Evil must be destroyed!
When one nation’s freedom is at risk, our collective democratic values are on the line. We live in a globalized world (duh!)
Russia’s actions have been widely condemned as violations of international law, including the principle of state sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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Steven Seagal declared himself “one million per cent Russian” and said “Putin is one of the great living world leaders” 🤡
Supporting Putin is a beauty killer.
Not liking this post will turn you into Russian Seagal 🤣
Before Russia. After Russia
Someone show Medvedev & his fanboys this real map.
NO, Medvedev & fanboys, Ukraine is NOT Russia.
Not even Russia is Russia—it’s just an aspiring USSR 2.0 and it is destined to FAIL just as the original USSR has collapsed.
@WarMonitor3
Uhmmm…. No. Actually no. He gave Central and Eastern Europe to the USSR.
It’s called the Percentages Agreement.
As a Romanian, I’m not a fan of him.
He is NOT my hero.
Why must smaller states monitor the actions of powerful states?
1944—Churchill decided to split (sell) Central & E. Europe by spheres of influence, & gifted that region to the USSR. Churchill had essentially condemned those states to years of terror under communist rule.
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Supporting the VICTIMS OF AGGRESSION stands for JUSTICE, FREEDOM, and HUMAN RIGHTS that unite all democracies. It’s a global call to arms against tyranny—any nation could undergo such a trial.
What makes you think you’re “superior” and won’t be attacked by terrorists??
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When you see the pro-Putin gang actively trying to undermine Ursula von der Leyen, it should be clear that she is the perfect fit for the European Comission presidency.
Are you team Ursula too? 🇪🇺
I’m being attacked.
I blocked & reported 100+ trolls just today!
The issue is that it’s not only Russian trolls & tèřřořiśm trolls.
It’s a cult of hate that poses a severe threat to our society!
But I will NOT STOP protecting democracy!
THE AXIS OF EVIL MUST BE DESTROYED!
russia invaded too many countries, its revisionism will be dealt with.
Listen to me.
Kursk will be liberated.
Do you still have faith that Ukraine will win? I do!
Ukraine will win!!🙏🏼🇺🇦
For more than a century, Russia has perpetuated antisemitic propaganda while accusing Ukraine of Nazism. The Jewish community should take a closer look at these dynamics.
Russia is nobody’s friend. Neutrality inadvertently supports the aggressor.
I’ll explain in a thread🧵1/20
Alarming news from RO🇷🇴, an EU and NATO member state:
Recently, two petitions initiated by the Group for Romania emerged, appealing to Putin & Xi for help to save Romania from the “Judeo-Euro-Atlantic political regime.”
One letter explicitly requests Putin's intervention.
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Your involvement matters as every conflict impacts global security, economy,& democracy we often take for granted;a threat to one nation’s freedom risks democratic values globally. 🇷🇺 defeat would lead to greater regional& worldwide stability. NOBODY wants to be attacked!
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