Self-Provocation: Russian Military Doctrine

Muscovy has a decades long record of self-provocations. It’s hard-wired into its governance structures’ models. There is no evidence Ukraine has mainstreamed similar self-provocation logic cycle routines into its military or civilian personal or collective decision-making structure.

Source: Twitter archive (note-tweet)

Now, Russia can use N Korean shells to provoke itself in line with its innovative Wifebeater / Victim blaming / Provocation Logic.

“Why wait to become a victim? Just bomb yourself using N Korea shells blame NATO or Ukraine. Suddenly, you have an iron clad Casus Belli.”

Source: Pensees 94

The ultimate innovation: self-provocation. When you control the provocation logic completely, you don’t even need a real provocation. Shell your own positions with foreign ammunition, blame the enemy, generate a pretext. The false flag is the provocation logic taken to its logical conclusion.

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