WW3: The Trigger-Fear-Surrender Cycle

If we interfere with Russia’s genocide in Ukraine (the trigger), there will be ‘World War Three’ (which is the shorthand in Russian Disinfolklore for ‘nuclear armageddon’). Such a Disinfolklore tale might even paint a graphic picture of your city or town being targeted by a hypersonic missile with a nuclear warhead. So, you experience fear. And your response, the Disinfolklorist hopes, will be to halt any effort you are contemplating to help Ukraine resist Russian genocide.

Source: Full Working Draft, Ch. 10

The complete Trigger-Experience-Reaction cycle applied to nuclear Disinfolklore. The trigger is the threat of interference with genocide. The experience is visceral fear. The reaction is paralysis. This is Tool 5 in its most dangerous form.

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