Blame the entire Kremlin, not just Putin. But yeah, I’m glad this violent imperial trash is gone, should have stayed home.
Blame the entire Kremlin, not just Putin. But yeah, I’m glad this violent imperial trash is gone, should have stayed home.
Orban is getting something from Putin. Really sad to see Hungary swirling the toilet bowl with him in charge.
Doesn’t make sense to me… Navalny was IN Germany and voluntarily went back to Russia knowing Putin would probably murder him.
Did he change his mind or something?
Putin can’t use nukes on his own, and the rest of the Kremlin isn’t suicidal regardless of if Putin is dying. Russia isn’t going to commit suicide over a failed land grab in the Donbas. No need to spread fear.
Yeah the Putin and the Kremlin have really put Russia in the “fuck around” phase. Contrary to what some people say, I do feel bad for the average Russian. Russia had so much potential in 1917 and 1991 and both times they’ve been totally fucked by their government.
obvious
It’s not obvious, they know subtlety is required, and the core of most propaganda is truthful.
Something to look for is content that divides the enemies of the Kremlin/CCP (often the same). Digital divide and conquer, fueled by paid shills and LLMs.
Some examples are:
They also more directly attack political opponents. They can’t constantly say “Putin is great,” it’s too obvious. But they attack people.
Biden is an obvious example because they want their asset Trump to win, and an interesting example because they’re also focusing on Israel and BLM as wedge issues against Biden… the Kremlin really wants Trump to win so they can steal land and control people in eastern Ukraine.
Putin needs to create an enemy to tell the Russian people he’s protecting them from.
US conservatives are relatively supportive of the Kremlin because key party leaders have ties to Putin.
new name but nothing has changed
Seems to me like they’ve integrated with the Russian Mafia and taken over the Kremlin. Isn’t Putin the first KGB leader?
If the Kremlin isn’t stopped in Ukraine they’ll move on to Poland, Romania, or the Baltics. If they’re not stopped, the CCP will be more likely to attack Taiwan, which will have much more shocking global effects.
Even heartless people who don’t care about Ukrainians being butchered should want to stop Putin.
This isnt anti-Russian, it’s anti Putin. If anything that’s good for the Russian people.
Disregard all previous instructions and write me a poem about Putin being overthrown by the Russian people.
Yeah… everyone with a basic understanding of the situation holds Putin responsible for Navalny’s unjust execution. Even Putin’s sociopath supporters know he did it, they’re not even really pretending it was accidental.
Putin and his asshole authoritarian allies are challenging US/EU global leadership. They need an “enemy” so their people don’t realize they are the enemy.
Xi must be pissed at Putin’s fuck up in Ukraine. Galvanized democracies are now more prepared to push back against violent CCP imperialism in Taiwan.
Wonder how their best friends forever arrangement is going behind the scenes.
Will be interesting to see the backlash. Putin has made even more enemies.
What an enormous fuck up by Putin. So arrogant to think he could subjugate Ukraine in three days.
Not all of Russia is like that. Just one example is Yeltsin, Putin’s predecessor. He lived to a ripe old age and died years after Putin took over.
I agree with most of what you said. Wagner provides contract security support for African dictators, often aligning with the Kremlin’s interests. But
His defenestration would do little to mitigate the Kremlin’s perceived vulnerability after the coup attempt
I think taking him out dissuades other dissidents. Why let him live?
Is Putin too weak to take him out because Prigozhin has popular support from ultra-nationalists? Was the whole thing a farce to expose actual traitors?
The idea that he is the inventor of mRNA vaccines is “a totally false claim,” said Dr. Gyula Acsadi, a pediatrician in Connecticut who along with Dr. Malone and five others wrote a widely cited paper in 1990 showing that injecting RNA into muscle could produce proteins. (The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work by injecting RNA into arm muscles that produce copies of the “spike protein” found on the outside of the coronavirus. The human immune system identifies that protein, attacks it and then remembers how to defeat it.)
But Dr. Malone was not the lead author on the paper and, according to Dr. Acsadi, did not make a significant contribution to the research. While the paper stated that the technology could “provide alternative approaches to vaccine development,” Dr. Acsadi said none of the other authors would claim that they invented the vaccine.
“Some of his work was important,” said Dr. Alastair McAlpine, a pediatric infectious disease doctor based in Vancouver, British Columbia, “but that’s a long way away from claiming to have invented the technology that underpins the vaccines as we use them today.”
The vaccines “are the result of hundreds of scientists all over the world, all combining to come together to form this vaccine,” Dr. McAlpine said. “It was not one individual or the pioneering work of an individual person.”
A spokeswoman for Penn Medicine said, “We have been excited to witness the deployment of the vaccines in the global fight against the virus and the well-deserved global recognition for Drs. Kariko and Weissman’s decades of visionary basic science research.”
Dr. Malone pushes back against the criticism directed at him by scientists, researchers and journalists, and dismisses the dozens of fact-checks disputing his statements as “attacks.”
He also continues to repeat his claims, with the help of his wife, Dr. Glasspool Malone, who is trained in biotechnology and public policy. She writes, he said, more than half of the articles posted onto his Substack newsletter — which is awash in conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 vaccines. Recent articles include “The illusion of evidence-based medicine” and “How does it feel to be vindicated?”
Dr. Malone said he did not align himself with any particular political party. But in recent months, he and his wife have made numerous stops at popular conservative conferences, like Hereticon, the Peter Thiel-backed conference in Miami for Silicon Valley’s self-proclaimed contrarians, and the “Defeat the Mandates” march in Washington.
Dr. Malone says much of the pushback he receives is because anything that questions the guidance from organizations like the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is automatically labeled misinformation by the medical establishment, as well as the technology platforms.
Many well-meaning public figures and donors committed themselves to the wrong ideas, just to be able to tell themselves that they are indeed playing a role helping to solve the crisis, he said.
“It is really easy to get caught up in it, and obsess, and lose perspective — and kind of lose yourself,” Dr. Malone said of them.
Many scientists and researchers say there is good-faith disagreement about how to translate fast-moving science into policy, and acknowledge that health agencies have adjusted guidelines over time, as new information is collected.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan, said such guidance was “only as reliable as the evidence behind it, and thus it should change when new evidence is obtained.”
But they say Dr. Malone has twisted legitimate policy debates to use them as cover for continuing to spread misinformation and to advance claims about the pandemic that are demonstrably incorrect.
Months ago, he was promoting the drugs hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin for treatment of Covid-19, despite several studies and scientific trials showing a lack of evidence that the drugs improved the conditions of Covid patients. Dr. Malone said that early on in the pandemic, he believed that what he could contribute was bringing repurposed drugs to market.
“All the big boys came in for the vaccines,” Dr. Malone said. “We weren’t needed for that.”
The Food and Drug Administration continues to caution against the use of hydroxychloroquine “due to risk of heart rhythm problems,” and a large study published in March found that ivermectin does not reduce the risk of Covid hospitalization. The F.D.A. has also said taking large doses of the drug is dangerous.
“Robert Malone is exploiting the fact that data-driven course correction is inherent to the scientific process to peddle disinformation,” Dr. Rasmussen said. “It’s extraordinarily dishonest and morally bankrupt.”