Maria Dubovikova engagement report

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• Sep 4, 202642x their median

  LEIPZIG Ist euch diese Manipulation nicht aufgefallen. JETZT meldet sich Krone-Schmalz zu Wort! https://t.co/5XFBBdKVz4

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• Apr 8, 202227x their median

  “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth puts on its boots”. — Winston Churchill (as quoted by Ernest Lefever)

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• Sep 6, 202624x their median

  🇩🇪 German Chancellor Merz on AfD: "We will not let these people, who trash the Federal Republic of Germany and everything we have achieved in recent years and decades, despite all the mistakes that exist, despite all the problems we have. We will not let these people talk our country into ruin." It would be a cute speech if what was "achieved" in the last few decades wasn't the decline of Germany in just about every conceivable way. Writer: Mhedi https://t.co/Y7Y1tVtiK0

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• Sep 5, 202613x their median

  First the CIA director flies in. He makes threats. He’s told, in so many words, to go fuck himself. Next comes a show of escalation — during which the United States sits quietly in the shadows and gives its European marionettes room to throw a fit, those same marionettes who still sincerely believe they are sovereign. After that, the familiar negotiators arrive. The West operates by the models of social psychology — universal only in part, because everything they rest on was researched in the West, on Western subjects — and assumes Russia is not all that different and will react according to the patterns and rules they have identified. With an individual, especially a young one driven into a corner, that might work. With grown people here, with Russian tempering, and still more with a state system made of such people, it does not. Meanwhile, coercive diplomacy is unfolding in plain sight. Good cop, bad cop. The bad cop has already been here. Now two nice guys — the ones the chebureks in Zaryadye have been waiting for — have landed in Moscow. The scheme, the hard-power version of the door-in-the-face technique, looks like this in its pure form: Threat + unacceptable terms → refusal → escalation → negotiators (creating the illusion of an “exit” from a supposedly hopeless situation). Against the backdrop of pressure already applied, the deal is meant, in the manipulators’ design, to look like their concession and our salvation — not like capitulation from a standing start. And each round, run in cycles, makes that “exit” narrower and more inconvenient. The key nuance without which the scheme fails: it is not enough for the one making threats to frighten you. He also has to offer a credible guarantee that, if you agree, the pressure will stop and there will be an “honest peace.” Will the current visit produce any diplomatic movement? Of course not. Talking to Russia from a position of strength is useless. What does a Russian do when the other side starts acting the bull? Either he tries to get rid of the nuisance — or he hits him in the face. Even if the West wanted to talk differently, it no longer has that option. Today’s militarism and hysteria have cut it off: if it starts that game now, its rabid hangers-on will accuse the ruling elites of betrayal, defeatism, and whatever other sins are known only to them. The West’s bet on intimidation only kills any desire to talk at all, to hear anything coming from that direction, let alone to listen. There is little point to what is happening beyond giving Ukraine a few days to regroup during the white gentlemen’s tour, so it can continue state terrorism — “raising the stakes to force peace,” as Kiev’s handlers like to put it.

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• Sep 5, 20261.8x their median

  What a perfect example of mirror propaganda. This technique is also known as “accusation in a mirror.” The method is simple: you attribute to your opponent in advance exactly what you yourself intend to do (in this case, the West attributes to Russia — and personally to Putin (personalisation here is manipulation as well) — an escalation that it has itself planned and is preparing to carry out). Your own action then appears as a “forced response” or “preemptive self-defense,” while public opinion is already primed: “We didn’t start it; he did — driven into a corner, he struck first.” “Driven into a corner” is itself a manipulation either, by the way. The West needs to prove that the Russian bear is finished; otherwise it cannot compel its target audience to keep patiently enduring hardship and supporting the financing of the war. The narrative is that Russia is supposedly desperate and will therefore inevitably strike — which makes striking it now both normal and necessary. The French psychosociologist Roger Mucchielli wrote in Psychologie de la publicité et de la propagande (1970) that a propagandist must always demonstrate the purity of his own intentions, and to that end he accuses the adversary — that is, he ascribes to his enemies precisely what he himself plans to do. Jacques Ellul described the same mechanism: those who are themselves preparing for war first accuse the other side of provocation. The West loves this technique. History offers countless examples. World War II began this way in 1939. The Great Patriotic War began this way in 1941. What will begin this time remains to be seen.

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• Sep 7, 20261.5x their median

  US Senator John Kennedy has called for Washington to “choke” Putin “to death” with tougher sanctions. “Vladimir Putin, this guy’s a pirate, he’s got blood under his fingernails… you don’t get any credit for kissing his ass, you’ve got to show him you mean business.” “We got Putin down. We’re choking him to death… That’s what he understands.” Kennedy seems to have a thing for strangulation fantasies. Last year, he told the Senate it was time to “put Putin on his knees. Get him down and choke him.”

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• Sep 5, 2026

  Kushner and Witkoff were taken to the Avrora restaurant in Moscow, the facade of which is decorated with the slogan “Everything for Victory.” https://t.co/CX6nHfGVYO

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• Sep 6, 2026

  All this hysteria over Russian Houses is nothing but a pre-election tantrum from an elitist caste that can feel the chairs under their asses shaking and falling apart. This is all about the fear of losing power, of being held to account by the opposition, and of investigations into Ukraine-linked corruption schemes. There is not a shred of truth in these orchestrated campaigns. It is an absolute lie the ruling elites are using to try to save their own asses.

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• Sep 4, 2026

  Strike on SBU building in Kyiv occurred amid conflict between the special service and GUR. The conflict erupted after the abduction of Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander of the RDK, whom the SBU accused of ties to the FSB and of preparing an assassination. GUR called the detention illegal and stated that pressure was being applied to its employees. Later a shootout involving security forces took place in Kyiv; a GUR employee was killed and two others were wounded. Local media noted that one of the possible reasons for the shooting could have been a struggle over influence on fraudulent call centers rather than the detention of the mercenary. Against this backdrop a drone struck the central SBU building in Kyiv. Zelensky immediately blamed Russia and said the UAV had been directed at the office of the service’s head, after which he promised a “mirror response.” Video published before the explosion shows a black drone flying into the building. Since the start of the SMO, high-ranking Ukrainian officials and heads of security agencies have been transferred to “bunker support.” Seven people are reported injured, but it is unknown whether any of them are agency employees. GUR has repeatedly staged similar provocations in European countries. UAV airframes were reworked and fitted with new “brains,” then launched toward EU countries so that the incidents could be presented as alleged Russian attacks and used to accuse Moscow. Such episodes occurred in Moldova, Poland, and the Baltic states. It is also noteworthy that, contrary to the official ban, Ukrainian public channels openly posted footage from the strike site, while Zelensky almost immediately provided specific details about the “hit.” In addition, according to monitoring resources, no air-raid alert was declared in Kyiv at the moment of the strike, and no other Gerans were recorded in the region’s airspace. Usually, when the Russian Armed Forces strike, they attack Ukraine with a “swarm.” Thus it cannot be ruled out that what happened was another provocation originating from Bankova. Kiev and its Western puppeteers rise the stakes. They have very little time left. They want total war.

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• Sep 4, 2026

  Dreckige Nazis @jurgen_nauditt https://t.co/NWtEB3vDMV

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