The Shapeshifting Paradox — Anti-Semitic State “De-Nazifies”

Russia is an anti-semitic state. It is led by anti-semitic men, like Putin and Medvedyev. That Russia, a country where Jews are not safe, should messianically take it upon itself to invade Ukraine, where Ukrainian Jews do feel safe, is off the scale chutzpah. In parsing Russian Disinfolklore and indeed in spotting it, any reference to anti-semitism in Ukraine or Nazis, in any context related to Russia’s genocidal war against Ukrainians, immediately identifies this as Russian Disinfolklore.

Source: Disinfolklore (10)

A paradox that functions as a diagnostic tool: whenever someone invokes “Nazis in Ukraine,” you have identified Russian Disinfolklore. The accusation is the identifying marker — an anti-semitic state accusing a state with a Jewish president of Nazism is so paradoxical that the paradox itself becomes the detection heuristic. This extends the “scanning for paradoxes” discipline with a specific, actionable example.

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