How Russia just tried to capture a NATO state. Romania’s president just declassified documents detailing how Russia used China’s TikTok to capture Romania’s presidency.
Source: Volya: Four Years
A NATO member state. Captured through Disinfolklore. Not through tanks. Not through missiles. Through TikTok. Through the same archetypal manipulation that conquered Luhansk, that conquered MAGA, that is conquering every society that fails to understand the Disinfolklore Universe.
This is why the framework matters beyond Ukraine. This is not a Ukrainian problem. This is a civilisational problem. And it requires a civilisational response.
Russia has declared war against us, if only we would listen to its own words. Last March one of the world’s preeminent information warfare collectives, InformNapalm, published the hacked “Export Chaos Abroad” blueprint. Signed by Putin himself.
Source: Volya: Four Years
The blueprint exists. It is published. It is signed. And we ignore it. Because the data-resistant archetype of “Russia as a normal state” — a state with which we can have “normal relations,” a state whose “concerns” must be “respected” — this archetype is so deeply embedded in Western minds that no amount of evidence can dislodge it. Unless we rearchetype it. See also MAGA Galaxy as Ecosystem and TikTok as Mind-Hacking Apparatus.
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