Wife-Beater Logic: “You Made Me Do This”

One of the most important logics that most of us come across in this world is what I call the Provocation Logic. Provocation Cycle Logic, which is: You Made Me Do This.

Basically, we can also call it wife-beater logic. So you provoked me. You forced me to invade your country. You… And this comes into almost every statement that Putin makes. We see it countless times a day in whether it’s on Telegram chats or in other means that we come across.

It comes in to all authoritarians. So Druidey Don Disinfolklore the Shaman Trickster Trump also inculcates this particular logic. Everything is someone else’s fault. Every action which the people take is someone else’s fault. What I realized is that these mental routines are actually taught.

Source: Wife-Beater Logic

The domestic abuse analogy is not metaphorical — it is structural. The same coercive pattern (create dependence, inflict pain, blame the victim) operates at the level of the individual abuser and the state. Russia’s governance of occupied territories mirrors the dynamics of domestic violence precisely. See Coercive Control.

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