The BEST of my Writing / Videos about Russian Propaganda (since 2014)

Small Wars Journal

Nine Lessons of Russian Propaganda (2016)
probably my best and most insightful essay

A Look at Russian Civilization: Power, Truth, Trust, and War

Early Writing

Putin’s Libertarians (Trilogy)
This was my first shocking encounter with Russian propaganda, and these three essays went from attempting to convince people, to slowly realizing that they were deliberate propagandists completely uninterested in getting to the bottom of things.

The Conflicting National Myths of Russia and Ukraine

American Thinker – Writing to US Conservatives about Russian Propaganda (post 2022)

Why the Russians Cut Off a Moscow Bombing Suspect’s Ear and Made Him Eat It

Russia’s anti-Ukraine propaganda targeting the West is pervasive and mendacious

My attempt at a Youtube Channel –

The TRUE STORY of how I was probably paid $35/month to promote Russian Propaganda + my thesis about their information operations.

1 hour compilation of Russian Threats and Belligerence

Russian Propaganda Tier List

TOTAL OBLITERATION of Russia’s “NATO Expansion” Propaganda

Short Essays on my New Substack

Four Points of Reference for Trump’s Ukraine Comments.

Russia in the Alt-Media – Finally some stories are getting out.

Putting Russian Talking Points into Perspective

My New Substack: Russia in the alt-media – Finally! These stories are getting more traction.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-148540008?source=queue

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.

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My New Substack: Putting Russian Talking Points in Perspective

https://substack.com/home/post/p-148285682?source=queue

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.

Among the books I reviewed on my Youtube Channel was “Total Resistance” written by a Swiss Major, and describing a plan for resistance in case of a communist take over. How many people today have the sense that this was a looming fear in Switzerland in the 1950s?

It saddens me that what was then a pervasive feeling is lost to history.

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Why the Russians Cut Off a Moscow Bombing Suspect’s Ear and Made Him Eat It

Last Friday, terrorists attacked Moscow’s “Crocus City Hall” music venue, killing over a hundred people. My condolences to their families. Within a day, leaked footage showed a suspect getting his ear cut off and being made to eat it. Additional footage showed a suspect in great pain with electrical equipment attached to his genitals.

It was the type of gruesome footage from which we tend to turn away. We form our private opinions and don’t discuss them. I fear the silence allows some observers to regard this as extreme but effective justice. Perhaps people will tell themselves the word that has justified centuries of Russia’s self-inflicted tyranny: “order.” Marquis de Custine wrote 200 years ago, “Officially, such brutal tyranny is called respect for unity and love of order.”

To say nothing about the dangers of presumptions of guilt and unconstrained authority, this episode points to important differences between Russia and the West, which most of us do not understand and, I fear, cannot understand. But I will try to explain them anyway.

Russia is a society held together by fear and threat. Creating fear is almost always the first thing they do. When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, one of their first actions was to kidnap Simferopol resident Reshat Ametov, a Tartar activist, and leave his body to be discovered later with signs of torture. Weeks later, when they invaded Donbas, one of the more outspoken pro-Ukrainian city council members, Volodymyr Rybak from Horlivka in Luhansk Region, was similarly kidnapped. He was drowned, and then his body was mutilated and left to be discovered. These stories never gained much traction. Russian disinformation was so good that everybody was discussing if Russia was invading and never got to describing how they were invading.

The terror worked for Russia. It drove opposition underground and helped the Kremlin’s propagandists and useful idiots in the West proclaim that the regions were pro-Russian. We in the West do not think that lies could be so vulgar and horrific, but they are. For Russia, this is normal. The world is held together not by laws, customs, and social norms but by barbarism. If you want to be beautiful, just murder everyone who might say otherwise, and you will be beautiful.

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Saddam Hussein and the Dark Princes of Love
Television - a story about the Iraq War
Convoy Home
Fire and Forget
Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform
The Tea Party Explained
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Saddam Hussein and the Dark Princes of Love
Saddam Hussein and the Dark Princes of Love
Television - a story about the Iraq War
Television - a story about the Iraq War
Convoy Home
Convoy Home
Fire and Forget
Fire and Forget
Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform
Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform
The Tea Party Explained
The Tea Party Explained

Russia’s anti-Ukraine propaganda targeting the West is pervasive and mendacious

Recently, Donald Trump Jr. responded to a question by Timcast IRL co-host Luke Rudkowski about Ukraine.

Trump Jr. said, “We’re creating a class of billionaire oligarchs in Ukraine” by way of the country’s corruption.

Previously, he mocked Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky for seeming ungrateful for the aid received. Earlier, Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis described Russia’s full scale invasion as a “border dispute,” then backtracked.

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