My New Substack: Four Points of Reference for Trump’s Ukraine Comments.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-149527804

In the early months of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, Trump acknowledged that it was a genocide, or attempt at genocide. He was pressed by a reports.

Unfortunately, Trump’s more recent comments have been following a pattern of never blaming Russia, never acknowledging their ubiquitous genocidal rhetoric, always exaggerating Russia’s strength, and referring to the war as a tragedy only in general terms.

This probably gets some traction with people who have no context. Here are four points of reference which I wish MAGA supporters would consider.
1. Using threats to take things has ALWAYS been a strategy of Moscow, as well as the absence of compromise and always demanding the maximum.

Here is Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas quoting an ex-Soviet Prime minister about this strategy. It is stated as explicitly as could be stated:

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My New Substack: Russia in the alt-media

https://substack.com/home/post/p-148540008

I’ve been writing about Russian Propaganda in dissident groups since 2015. Here’s one of the essays that best summarized my findings: Nine Lessons of Russian Propaganda.

Yesterday, two Russian nationals were indicted for funneling about $10 million to Tennessee-based Tenet Media. Tenet Media funsd popular figures in the right-leaning alt media like Tim Pool, Lauren Southern, and David Rubin.

You can look at their twitter account to see the topics they’re interested in. I think it matches the interest of many “MAGA” people. They tweet about Candace Owens, RFK Jr., and constant “own-the-libs” content. I’m not entirely unsympathetic to it, but I know it is deeply corrupted by Russian influence.

Elon, unsurprisingly for me, but perhaps surprisingly for you, has a long history of promoting Tenet Media. Here’s are example:

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My new Substack: Putting Russian Talking Points into Perspective

https://substack.com/home/post/p-148285682

I’ve met some American political commentators who’ve described themselves as “paleo conservatives”. This includes Paul Gottfried and Peter Brimelow. They were active in the 70s and 80s. One comment they made in passing stuck with me. At the time, the victory of communism over the relatively free West seemed inevitable. They thought they were putting up a good fight out of obligation, but would eventually lose to the rising tide of communism.

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X’s / Twitter’s Russian backers are Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich

https://x.com/DenisDanilovL/status/1827282706574537013

Elon Musk has complied after all and provided a list of X Holding Corp shareholders who helped the billionaire buy Twitter. And who do you think turned out to be the investors of the X platform? That’s right, Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich. Now it is absolutely obvious where Musk got such love for Russia and where the roots of “filters” due to anti-Russian publications grow from. Let me remind you who Aven and Moshkovich are.

Petr Aven is a Russian billionaire, founder of Alfa Group, which is one of the main wallets for Putin. This man is controlled by the Kremlin as much as possible, for example, in 2018 he traveled to Washington with his colleague Fridman to lobby on behalf of the Russian government to lift international sanctions on Russia. Aven is one of Putin’s oldest friends. In general, without Peter’s interference, Putin would be in jail rather than becoming president. After all, Aven covered for Vladimir Putin in 1992, when he organized the illegal trade in export licenses. Aven promptly approved him as an authorized representative of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Affairs with the right of foreign economic activity, thus saving the future dictator from prison. Aven also attended a meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022 to mark the start of the invasion of Ukraine. He did not express any protest, started the special military operation and silently supported Putin. By the way, he along with Friedman is trying to get sanctions lifted, just yesterday he received another rejection in this matter.
Twitter is represented in the purchase by 8VC Opportunities Fund II, L.P., a company in which his son Denis works.

Vadim Moshkovich is a sub-sanctioned Russian agrarian billionaire who was a member of the “Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation”. In other words, he was officially part of Putin’s closest circle. Moshkovich owns Russia’s largest agricultural holding Rusagro. Naturally, he also attended the meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022 and, like Aven, did not express any protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Twitter is represented in the purchase by 8VC Opportunities Fund II, L.P., a company in which his son Jack (Eugene) works.

Also an interesting personality is Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud, who both personally and through his Kingdom Holding Company is represented in the list of investors as many as three times. This man continues his investment business in Russia and does not publicly support Hamas in the war against Israel. He regularly works with Rosneft, Lukoil and Gazprom on investments in Russia.

Knowing all of this, how can there even be a discussion about Elon Musk’s bias? Everyone was thinking how is it possible that Twitter (X)’s stock is plummeting, advertisers are breaking contracts, and no one is doing anything about it. I mean, that’s a direct loss to investors. But what everyone overlooked was the fact that investors didn’t care about profits, they needed a platform to promote their narratives, such as: supporting Putin and Russia; lobbying to freeze the war in Ukraine; taking the Ukrainian agenda out of the top news; the righteousness of Hamas, etc.

It is now obvious that all the changes to Twitter that are ruining this beautiful platform are a consequence of Elon Musk’s collaboration with people like Moshkovich and Aven.

“Russia must invade as many countries as possible.”

In a candid moment, Russian propaganda chief points out that in this golden era in which the US absolutely refuses to stand up for allies, Russia must invade as many countries as possible.

In a candid moment, Russian propaganda chief points out that in this golden era in which the US absolutely refuses to stand up for allies, Russia must invade as many countries as possible. pic.twitter.com/nphjOCQty8

— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) May 24, 2024