russians leave before election ends, fearing mobilisation to follow The evil empire is going to collapse https://t.co/nVt4tmULYQ #Russia #Election #Mobilization #RU
These nerve-wracking elections every weekend. Last week the knife-edge results coming in from Sweden. And now the Duma elections in Russia. Too close to call. 😬 Meanwhile, mobilization starts Monday. #Elections #Politics #Russia #SE #RU
Questo post, ha al suo interno il contributo AI, tempo di lettura 10min: Questo contenuto fa parte di una strategia di disinformazione russa molto specifica. Il video in questione, che mostra un soldato apparentemente ammanettato all'interno di un autobus con scritte in italiano che attaccano il "regime di Zelensky", è in realtà un falso clamoroso architettato dalla propaganda del Cremlino. [1] (https://unn.ua/.../propagandists-spread-a-fake-video-of...), [2] (https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46336)Le verifiche indipendenti condotte dalle agenzie di intelligence e di fact-checking mettono in luce la vera natura del filmato: [1] (https://unn.ua/.../propagandists-spread-a-fake-video-of...), [2] (https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46336)1. Chi c'è davvero nel video?Il Centro per il contrasto alla disinformazione ucraino (CCI) e diverse testate giornalistiche internazionali hanno analizzato il filmato originale. È emerso che: [1] (https://unn.ua/.../propagandists-spread-a-fake-video-of...), [2] (https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46336)Gli uomini ammanettati sul mezzo sono soldati russi, nello specifico appartenenti alla 15ª Brigata Fucilieri Motorizzati delle Guardie della Federazione Russa. [1] (https://unn.ua/.../propagandists-spread-a-fake-video-of...), [2] (https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46336)Nel video originale non censurato (nato sui canali russi per denunciare i problemi interni al loro stesso esercito), i militari parlano con un marcato accento russo e non indossano in alcun modo le divise ufficiali delle Forze di Difesa ucraine. [1] (https://unn.ua/.../propagandists-spread-a-fake-video-of...), [2] (https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46336)La didascalia originaria del video, rintracciata su canali Telegram russi di protesta, recitava originariamente: "I disertori del 108° Reggimento d'Assalto Aereo vengono portati a una missione di combattimento in manette". [1] (https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46336)2. Come opera il ribaltamento della propaganda pro-Putin?I canali di propaganda russa e i profili complottisti occidentali (inclusi quelli italiani come l'account "Cronos" nello screenshot) hanno preso questo video, lo hanno decontestualizzato e ne hanno ribaltato la narrazione. [1] (https://unn.ua/.../propagandists-spread-a-fake-video-of...)Hanno aggiunto scritte ad effetto come "Il reclutamento forzato del regime Zelensky" per far credere che l'esercito ucraino sia alla disperazione, ridotto a legare i propri cittadini pur di mandarli al fronte. [1] (https://unn.ua/.../propagandists-spread-a-fake-video-of...), [2] (https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46336)Il contesto reale (perché la fake news attecchisce)Questa narrazione funziona tra i complottisti perché fa leva su un briciolo di dibattito reale. È vero che in Ucraina la mobilitazione militare è un tema teso e divisivo, e che la nuova legge sulla leva ha generato forti discussioni interne nel paese. Tuttavia, la propaganda russa cavalca sistematicamente questo argomento creando falsi totali (attori che recitano la parte di reclutatori violenti, o video russi riciclati come questo) con tre scopi precisi: [1] (https://www.avvenire.it/.../ucraina-ribellioni-contro-la...), [2] (https://www.rsi.ch/.../L%E2%80%99Ucraina-e-i-reclutamenti...), [3] (https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/.../kremlin-claims-1-7-million...), [4] (https://cpd.gov.ua/.../fake-video-about-mobilization-in.../)Demoralizzare la popolazione ucraina e i suoi sostenitori.Creare l'illusione che la Russia stia vincendo facilmente e che l'Ucraina non abbia più uomini.Convincere l'opinione pubblica occidentale che sostenere Kyiv sia inutile perché "il popolo non vuole combattere". [1] (https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/.../kremlin-claims-1-7-million...), [2] (https://time.com/.../russia-disinformation-ukraine.../)In conclusione, siamo davanti a un classico esempio di specchio riflesso: la propaganda mostra i metodi coercitivi usati dall'esercito russo sui propri soldati ribelli e li attribuisce al nemico per infangarlo. [1] (https://unn.ua/.../propagandists-spread-a-fake-video-of...), [2] (https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46336) A ri-propagare queste fake, i componenti delle così dette "camere di compensazione": All'interno di queste comunità chiuse si attivano dei meccanismi psicologici e digitali precisi: Il bias di conferma: Le persone che frequentano questi spazi non cercano la verità dei fatti, ma la conferma di ciò in cui credono già (ad esempio: "Zelensky è un dittatore", "I media ci nascondono tutto"). Se un video supporta questa tesi, viene accettato immediatamente senza alcuna verifica. La polarizzazione e l'isolamento: Chiunque provi a portare prove reali o a fare fact-checking viene bollato come "troll", "pagato dal sistema" o "addormentato". In questo modo l'echo chamber espelle il pensiero critico e si protegge da qualsiasi smentita. Gli algoritmi dei social: Le piattaforme tendono a mostrare agli utenti contenuti simili a quelli con cui hanno già interagito. Se un utente inizia a guardare video complottisti, l'algoritmo continuerà a proporgliene, creando una bolla in cui quella fake news sembra l'unica realtà esistente e condivisa da tutti. Chi crea questa propaganda (spesso fabbriche di troll o agenzie statali strutturate) sa benissimo come sfruttare queste dinamiche: non ha bisogno di creare un falso perfetto, gli basta che sia emotivamente impattante per fare in modo che le echo chamber lo amplifichino da sole, gratuitamente e in modo virale.
🇺🇦 BEFORE PUTIN’S SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS: MAXIMUM PRESSURE ON RUSSIA’S WAR MACHINE Russia plans elections on 18–20 September — and Ukraine says Putin may follow them with another massive mobilization. Ukraine must therefore enter September determined to weaken Russia’s ability to #Ukraine #Putin #Russia #UA #RU
In the last week, 113 thousand Russians escaped through the Russian-Georgian border because they fear that Putin will announce mobilization! (translated)
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Why Leftist Activists and Revolutionaries Can Never Declare Victory Leftist movements face a paradox: they use oppression narratives to gain institutional power, then keep claiming victimhood as that power grows. Instead of disappearing, activism “shapeshifts” inside bureaucracy, media, academia, corporations, and the arts. Even when DEI is challenged, its structures often remain under new names—diversity becomes “belonging” or “inclusive culture.” The logic is permanent revolution: influence depends on the struggle never ending. Goals shift, new categories of oppression are defined, and intersectionality divides people into ever finer oppressor/oppressed groups, creating an endless hierarchy of grievances. If activists declared victory, the justification for ongoing mobilization would collapse. The risk is social atomization: identities replace shared citizenship, and the state shifts from neutral protector to an instrument for redistributing power between designated victims and oppressors. Bureaucracy and propaganda can replace community and argument. History shows recurring purges—once the revolution’s machinery turns inward, yesterday’s enforcers become today’s targets. The result is also a ressentiment psychology: identity forms around an “enemy,” not one’s own strength. This dynamic helps sustain the consultancy model—identify the guilty, define the aggrieved, and perpetuate conflict. Equality with a finish line is manageable; equality of outcomes is not, so there is always another disparity, injustice, or enemy. The movement fears completion less than failure, because ending would make its power machinery unnecessary.
Recent data indicate that Russia is conducting two coherent processes that will, in a short time, increase its ability to generate threats on the western axis. Russia is preparing for a new wave of mobilization while simultaneously trying to obtain even several tens of thousands https://t.co/tDeF9fWAmS #Russia #Mobilization #SecurityThreats #RU
I call on the United States to launch a full World War–scale industrial mobilization of the American economy. America must urgently expand production of Patriot interceptors, artillery shells, long-range missiles, drones, aircraft, ships, explosives, rocket motors, #IndustrialMobilization #PatriotDefense #WarProduction #US
Check out my latest interview with @CurrentTimeTv about the situation in Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk, Sloviansk and beyond, the definition of grey zones manpower problems on both sides, another Russian mobilization, and who is winning the war in Ukraine. ✅You can watch it in #UkraineWar #Kostyantynivka #CurrentTimeTv #UA
Coming soon: Solovyov tells Russians bread is bad for you. Also soon. The price of vodka is going to skyrocket. No bread and unaffordable vodka is a great combination for Putin ordering a mobilization. #Russia #Putin #VodkaPrice #RU
Something dawning on me: Trump and his guys (Miller?) knew full well that SCOTUS would strike down the birthright citizenship EO, because they had to, given how overly broad it was written, but that it thus would deliver MAGA an engagement + mobilization point for years to come. #Trump #BirthrightCitizenship #MAGA #US
While Putin sends his private yacht to safer harbours beyond the reach of Ukrainian drones, he's asking Russia's southern neighbours to close their borders for the coming mass mobilisation coming in Чёрный август, just 30 days from now. https://t.co/IzCf7REqZo #Putin #Ukraine #Mobilization #RU #UA
Soon a black August will come. (translated)
In the near future, the Kremlin will approach Trump to try to get sanctions lifted and end the PURL program, which is funded by Europe and sends US military equipment to Ukraine. It will also launch a mobilization campaign after the September "elections" and make a massive #Kremlin #Trump #Ukraine #RU #US #EU #UA
In Russia, young men are being kidnapped and sent to the meat grinder in Ukraine. In the coming months, these operations will become a daily occurrence. They are a precursor to the mobilization expected after Russia's September "elections." Putin is getting desperate. https://t.co/KNS8YLbzz4 #Russia #Ukraine #Putin #RU #UA
The Kremlin is reportedly planning a new mobilization drive immediately after the September elections. Russia is facing a critical manpower shortage and is currently losing around 30,000 men per month while making very limited gains. The collapse is coming. https://t.co/L1QNkwX9OG #Russia #Mobilization #MilitaryCrisis #RU
The G7 leaders’ meeting in Evian is over, and the declaration confirms that international partnerships need an upgrade. We need to move towards a model built on mutual interest, resilience, infrastructure investment and mobilization of private capital. This is exactly what #G7 #InternationalPartnerships #InfrastructureInvestment #FR #CA #US #UK #DE #IT #JP
Wildfires in Southern California have consumed over 2,000 acres, prompting evacuation orders and the mobilization of over 250 personnel and 40 fire engines to battle the blaze as aerial footage shows helicopters attempting to extinguish the flames near passing vehicles. #CaliforniaWildfires #WildfireEmergency #FireFighting
Watch: California wildfires rage near passing vehicles
With monthly losses in Ukraine at 35,000 soldiers, Russia can’t continue the war much longer at the current pace without mobilization. “If you just mobilize for this war, then you would send a signal that you are not really winning this war,” said Kaja Kallas, the European #UkraineWar #RussianMobilization #KajaKallas #UA #RU #EE
