The Ransom Mechanism

The only reason the Russian and Ukrainian armies faced off at that geographical point was because Russia had invaded Ukraine. Russia was holding the Ukrainian land it occupied and the Ukrainians who lived there to ransom: Conform to our diktats which violate the Geneva Conventions, or Russia will exile, torture, detain, starve, or kill you. Now that Russia had invaded Ukraine, Russia could not simply let people pass over the bridge unmolested — that would be against its nature as a coercive control addict. Russia had to use the bridge as a means of coercively controlling, herding, tuning, and conditioning the behaviour of everyone involved in that demi-monde.

Source: Disinfolklore Inculcates Rules

Russia as a “coercive control ADDICT” — it cannot help itself. Even when there was no strategic reason to make the bridge crossing miserable, Russia had to coerce, herd, tune, and condition. The ransom mechanism is not a policy choice; it is Russia’s nature.

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