The Antidote

I recognise the family resemblance and MANA of Ruschist Disinfolklore in MAGA because as a diplomat I worked in Russia-occupied Ukraine for three years. My job was to collect and analyse what I now recognise as Russian Disinfolklore. It is identical to Trump-Brexit Disinfolklore. And I have invented “Counter Disinfolklore: Controlling War Magic” as an antidote to the nonsense. Counter Disinfolklore empowers us to see patterns in Disinfolklore, and to design Counter Disinfolklore. Like this.

Source: Pensees 36

Russians themselves say that they are going to continue to prosecute their mental war after the end of the kinetic phase. Russia’s mental war is hidden inside Disinfolklore. I am proposing a solution which many of us can integrate into our own mental algorithms. To vaccinate ourselves against the contagion of Russia’s mental war against us.

Source: Combatting Russia’s Mental War

Two metaphors for what Counter-Disinfolklore does: it is an antidote (neutralising poison already ingested) and a vaccination (building immunity before the next infection). The author’s unique qualification: three years inside Russia-occupied Ukraine, collecting what he now recognises as Disinfolklore.

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