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Astroturfing For More War In Ukraine
Fellaraktar🇺🇦@fellaraktar – 14:46 UTC · May 29, 2023
As a British citizen I want to say that arming Ukraine is the single best use of tax payer money for decades
My only criticism is that the west aren’t sending enough, fast enough
Ukraine is paying for political posturing with the lives of their sons and daughters
Do more now
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Karen Goetz📯🇺🇦 @KarenGoetz362 – 22:18 UTC · May 29, 2023
As a German citizen I want to say that arming #Ukraine is the single best use of tax payer money for decades. My only criticism is that the west aren't sending enough, fast enough. Ukraine is paying for political posturing with the lives of their sons and daughters. Do more now!
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Oksanna Oricia (Оксана Збігла) 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @Roxanne_Oricia – 1:46 UTC · May 30, 2023
As a 🇺🇦 #Canadian I want to say that arming #Ukraine is the single best use of taxpayer money in decades.
My only criticism is that the west isn’t sending enough, FAST enough.
Ukraine is paying for political posturing with the lives of their sons & daughters.
#ArmUkraineNow ✊🏼
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Thomas C. Theiner @noclador – 4:57 UTC · May 30, 2023
As an Italian citizen I want to say that arming Ukraine is the single best use of taxpayer money for decades.
My only criticism is that the west aren’t sending enough, fast enough.
Ukraine is paying for political posturing with the lives of their sons and daughters.
Do more now!
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brit engr 🇬🇧 🏴🇺🇦 @brit_engr – 8:15 UTC · May 30, 2023
As a British citizen, I want to say that arming Ukraine is the single best use of taxpayer money for decades.
My only criticism is that the West aren’t sending enough, fast enough.
Ukraine is paying for political posturing with the lives of their sons and daughters.
Do more now!
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bitiv @bitiv30 – 9:29 UTC · May 30, 2023
As a #Romanian citizen, I want to say that arming #Ukraine is the single best use of taxpayer money for decades. My only criticism is that the West isn’t sending enough, fast enough. Ukraine is paying for political posturing with the lives of its sons and daughters. Do more now!
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Anne @KidsFromUkraine 🌷❤🌻 @AnneFella – 17:03 UTC · May 30, 2023
As a 🇳🇱#Dutch citizen I want to say that arming #Ukraine is the single best use of taxpayer money in decades. My only criticism is that the west isn’t sending enough, FAST enough. Ukraine is paying for political posturing with the lives of their sons & daughters. #ArmUkraineNow
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Thibaud Ochem @Thibaud_Ochem – 18:51 UTC · May 30, 2023
As a 🇫🇷 citizen I want to say that arming #Ukraine is the single best use of taxpayer money 4 decades. My only criticism is that the West isn't sending enough, fast enough.🇺🇦is paying 4 political posturing with the lives of their sons & daughters. Do more now! #weapons4Ukraine
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MH @Mickhavoc – 1:14 UTC · May 31, 2023
As a Canadian citizen I want to say that arming #Ukraine is the single best use of taxpayer money for decades. My only criticism is that the west aren't sending enough, fast enough. Ukraine is paying for political posturing with the lives of their sons and daughters. Do more now
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Bogdan Stech @BogdanStech – 22:07 UTC · May 31, 2023
As a #Poland citizen, I want to say that arming #Ukraine is the single best use of taxpayer money for decades. My only criticism is that the West isn’t sending enough, fast enough. Ukraine is paying for political posturing with the lives of its sons and daughters.
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Well, by now you will have understood the idea …
There are many more such tweets.
In total I count more than one hundred by various NAFO troll accounts. All the tweets were issued between May 29 and June 6.
This is astroturfing on a fairly sophisticated level:
Astroturfing is the practice of hiding the sponsors of a message or organization (e.g., political, advertising, religious or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participants. It is a practice intended to give the statements or organizations credibility by withholding information about the source's financial backers. The term astroturfing is derived from AstroTurf, a brand of synthetic carpeting designed to resemble natural grass, as a play on the word "grassroots". The implication behind the use of the term is that instead of a "true" or "natural" grassroots effort behind the activity in question, there is a "fake" or "artificial" appearance of support.
I wonder whose taxpayer money gets wasted on it.
Yesterday the Russian President Vladimir Putin had a public talk with war correspondents. Yekaterina Agranovich, a blogger, asked him about 'western' propaganda and the people deceived by it. Putin responded:
The information space is a battlefield, a crucial battlefield.
So, if someone uploads or writes something and provides an address, this is one thing. However, if there is no address and it is not clear who is writing or speaking, this is a completely different story. You and I are well aware that you can post things online using well-known technical means, and you can make it look like millions of people have seen these videos and commented on them when in fact there is just one person behind it who simply uses modern technology to replicate it endlessly. But, of course, there certainly are people who have a certain frame of mind, and they can express their point of view.
What can we do to oppose this? I think this audience will know what I mean. This can and should be countered not so much by restrictions or administrative or law enforcement constraints, but by effective work in the information environment on our part. And I am really counting on your help.
Well, he did not talk to me. And no, I do not post at Moon of Alabama to help Russia or Putin, but to lay things out as I see them. If that is at times consistent with whatever this or that other public person says, it is likely to be a coincidental and temporary state.
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Hat tip: Syriacide
⚡️ Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (June 14, 2023)
◽️ Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched group strikes with sea and air-based long-range high-precision weapons at the places of concentration of reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries, as well as warehouses of ammunition, weapons and military equipment of foreign production. All assigned objects are hit. The aim of the blows has been reached.
◽️ Over the past 24 hours, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have made unsuccessful attempts at offensive operations in the South-Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions, continuing to suffer significant losses in manpower and equipment.
📊 Since June 4, Ukrainian The armed forces lost about 7500 servicemen killed and wounded only on the line of contact, not counting the dead military personnel as a result of the use of Russian high-precision long-range weapons and aircraft in the depths of Ukrainian territory.
◽️ On the Vremevsky ledge near the settlement of Makarovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the selfless and competent actions of the defending units, air strikes and artillery fire of the Vostok group of forces repelled the attacks of two motorized infantry companies of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the support of four tanks and 11 armored combat vehicles. During the fighting, four enemy tanks and seven armored fighting vehicles were destroyed.
💥 In the area of the settlement of Prechistovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the attacks of two company tactical groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were successfully repelled. Enemy losses amounted to five tanks and five armored fighting vehicles.
💥 In the areas of the settlements of Rivnopol of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Levadne of the Zaporozhye region and the Oktyabr state farm, five enemy tanks were knocked out by Russian troops.
💥 In the Zaporizhzhya direction, attack aircraft thwarted the attack of units of the 128th mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Zherebyanky, Zaporozhye region.
💥 In total, over the past 24 hours, enemy losses in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions amounted to more than 800 Ukrainian servicemen, 20 tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, 15 armored fighting vehicles, two M777 artillery systems, howitzers: Msta-B and D- 30, as well as a combat vehicle of the Grad multiple launch rocket system.
💥 In addition, an artillery ammunition depot of the 65th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the settlement of Novoandreevka, Zaporozhye region.
💥 In the Donetsk direction, the active actions of the “Southern” group of troops in the areas of the settlements of Pervomaiskoye and Petrivske of the Donetsk People’s Republic successfully repelled two enemy attacks.
💥 During the fighting, the losses of Ukrainian troops amounted to more than 205 military personnel, two armored combat vehicles, seven vehicles, and two D-20 howitzers.
In the areas of the settlements of Seversk Maly and Chasov Yar of the Donetsk People’s Republic, ammunition depots of the 45th artillery and 57th motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
💥 In the Kupyansk direction, the activities of three Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were suppressed by assault and army aviation strikes, artillery fire and active operations of units of the “Western” group of troops in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Berestovoye and Artemovka of the Kharkiv region.
💥 During the day , up to 30 Ukrainian military personnel, an armored fighting vehicle, two vehicles, as well as self-propelled artillery mounts M109 “Paladin” and “Krab”.
◽️ In the Krasno-Limansky direction, air strikes, artillery fire of the “Center” group of troops defeated enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Nevskoye, Chervonaya Dibrova of the Lugansk People’s Republic, Terny, Torskoye of the Donetsk People’s Republic, and also Serebryansky forestry.
💥 A Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group was liquidated in the area of the village of Grigorovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
💥 During the day, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction amounted to 60 military personnel, an infantry fighting vehicle, two pickup trucks, a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount, a D-20 howitzer, as well as a Grad multiple launch rocket launcher.
💥 In the Kherson direction, up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, nine vehicles, as well as an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed during a day of fire during the day.
💥 Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the day defeated 107 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 137 districts.
💥 In the area of the city of Zaporozhye, the radar station for detecting and tracking air targets “P-18” was destroyed.
💥 During the day, the air defense systems of the Russian Aerospace Forces intercepted two Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles and four HIMARS multiple rocket launchers.
💥 In addition, 20 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Sladka Balka in the Zaporozhye region, Zhovtneve in the Kharkiv region and Valeryanovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation , 442 aircraft, 238 helicopters, 4605 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 anti aircraft missile systems, 9982 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1124 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 5111 field artillery guns and mortars, and also 10947 units of special military vehicles.
🔹 @mod_russia
Posted by: rumod report | Jun 14 2023 14:07 utc | 22
Origins of the SMO Part 1 – That Which We See and That Which We Do Not See
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
– George Orwell
Towards the end of the reign of King Louis Philippe I the Chambre des Députés received a petition from the manufacturers of candles, wax lights, lamps, chandeliers, reflectors, snuffers, extinguishers; and from the producers of tallow, oil, resin, and alcohol. These entrepreneurs claimed to be “suffering from the unfair competition of a foreign rival.” A foreign rival who “enjoys such superior facilities for the production of light, that he is enabled to inundate our national market at so exceedingly reduced a price, that, the moment he makes his appearance, he draws off all custom for us; and thus an important branch of French industry, with all its innumerable ramifications, is suddenly reduced to a state of complete stagnation.”
SOURCE:
http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
This complaint is echoed in contemporary complaint over unfair Chinese competition. But China was not the target of the Candlemaker’s Petition. The French Candlemakers sought state relief from the unfair competition of the sun.
The Candlemaker’s Petition is a parable written by Frédéric Bastiat a man described as “the most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived” by Joseph Schumpeter.
SOURCE:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/artcarden/2019/06/29/the-most-brilliant-economic-journalist-who-ever-lived-a-birthday-appreciation-of-frederic-bastiat/?sh=4f1ffb4a3596
Bastiat’s brilliance derived from his capacity to create easily understood scenarios which illuminated economic fallacy. Once you comprehend the Candlemaker’s Petition you are less likely to accept the US nomenclatura’s policy prescriptions with respect to sanctions against Chinese manufacturing, or Russian energy.
In his 1850 essay “That Which We See and That Which We Do Not See” Bastiat introduced a concept fundamental to an understanding of the origins of the conflict in the UkroReich. This concept is known as “Opportunity Cost” and to illustrate its workings we need to go back in time.
In the era of tribal societies each independent member of the tribe shared in a common pool of knowledge: how to skin a snake, read a trail, recognize the 37 different varieties of snow, identify edible and inedible plants, build a shelter, start a fire. This knowledge was essential to individual and group survival; it was communal property shared among all group members and passed down through the generations.
In contrast, in our modern era, we experience an extreme specialization of knowledge with each labour role requiring the possession of unique education and knowledge. You, the reader, remain dependent on the kindness of others. You don’t know how to grow your own food, repair your car, program a computer, make your own clothes, find the pole star and navigate from x to Y, apply a poultice, start your own war. You are reliant on others. The vast majority of Americans are incapable of avoiding a self-destructive diet. This form of mass dependency goes by the name of “progress.”
Critical to our modern era is the principle of opportunity cost first described by Bastiat. If you spend your time earning credits in computer programming then you cannot spend the same amount of time earning credits in organic farming. The opportunity cost of learning six units of python is six units of learning how to capture and cook a python. The seven years spent obtaining a doctorate in economics is done at the cost of spending the same seven years understanding the laws of physics, or the geologic structure of shale gas reservoirs, or how to combat a structure fire, captain a deep sea vessel, or treat hypothermia. In short, the opportunity cost of a seven year economics degree is seven years of lost opportunity to engage in any other area of study; the more you know about economics the less you know about any other topic. As your education progresses you invariably come to know more and more about less and less. Once you acquire enough education you will know absolutely everything about almost nothing. You will be an “expert.”
The extreme specialization of contemporary society results in the creation of a population increasingly ignorant of any topic outside of its own extremely limited area of specialization. Modernity results in a society that is increasingly ignorant. If you do not believe this then please, go make your own shoes. Blend your own gasoline. Perform your own Heimlich manoeuvre. Gather your own mongongo nuts.
This state of intense ignorance is compounded by the extreme time demands found in modern industrial society. Tribal society was a time of comparative leisure. A study undertaken in the 1960s found the ǃKung worked only 12 hours a week to survive, a small fraction of the weekly survival hours required in modern society once commute times are factored in. In the modern era the greatest scarcity is time; few feel they have enough. The opportunity cost of knowledge is not seen, or understood. Even the professed “economic experts” fail to understand the application of a fundamental theorem underpinning their own discipline.
A society exhibiting severe opportunity cost ignorance (OCI) demonstrates extreme dependence on “official” explanations. It takes time to fully understand complex modern issues. Since the opportunity cost of this understanding is a reduction in recreational time, or other essential pursuits, it is easier to simply accept whatever the “approved experts,” or “talking heads,” say.
The result is a population increasingly vulnerable to manipulation via opinion formation initiatives. As stated by uncle tungsten | Jun 12 2023 2:42 utc | 64 – “IMO the largest contributor is the concentration of media ownership […leading to…] a hugely unified propaganda wall.”
The average citizen lacks the time to fully investigate false claims made on the part of the state, or industry. It is not until the issue becomes so unmistakeably evident (as in the recent US case of “beer transvestitism”) that the public begins to rebel.
Opportunity cost ignorance has both micro and macro effects. The micro effects are demonstrated in reports:
Which highlighted how NATO instructors were training Ukrainian fighters on weapon systems the instructors themselves had no clue how to load or handle. Photos showed NATO instructors incorrectly teaching AFU how to load DShK machine guns, not to mention with incorrect ammo types.
However, as one observant Ukrainian soldier pointed out, all the pictures actually served to prove was that the NATO ‘experts’ have no clue about how to handle the weapons used by the Ukrainian military.
As a result, following the instructional course conducted with the NATO instructors’ help, Ukrainian machine gunners don’t even know how to properly load their heavy machineguns’ ammunition belts, says volunteer fighter Roman Donik.
SOURCE:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/analysis-of-kofman-lees-urgent-new?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
So you have groups of men being incorrectly trained and then sent to their deaths in the conflict zone. One is forced to ask “Whose side is NATO on?”
The macro level effects are equally pernicious. Opportunity cost ignorance permits the inversion of reality such that political and industrial elites engage in wholly self defeating behaviours such as the present day German de-industrialization, actions advancing western social collapse, or the unending supply of arms and money to a UkroReich which carries out pogroms against its own citizens in the name of protecting western democracy.
The lead quote is from a 1946 Orwell essay. Mr Blair was forecasting our current future well before 1984.
Today, no one today reads Orwell. His prose is uncomfortable, even useless. Who has the time to learn how to shoot an elephant? No one wants to understand “the real motives for which despotic governments act.” And that is most unfortunate for it is not true that “ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” Nothing inscribed on the halls of the proud “We lie, We Cheat, We Steal” CIA is likely to be true.
The truth will kill you. It will do so instantly in one incandescent thunderflash and ever slowly, slowly, as you fumble to insert rounds of incorrect calibre into your ancient DShK.
Posted by: Sushi | Jun 14 2023 15:59 utc | 63
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