CC Creates Spectacle of Desperation

“Coercive control” describes Russia’s main governance technique perfectly. Like an ultraviolent spouse or the evilest monarch imaginable, Russia conjured up a state of desperation inside its victims’ minds, usually through physical, economic, psychological, or sexual violence (and often all four). Then, Russia would offer conditional access to a sub-standard escape route from the terror its own actions had wrought.

Russia would always look for credit for salving the pain it has caused. If any damsel Russia’s violent coercive control strategies had distressed had the temerity to refuse their persecutors’ proffered assistance, then Russia used that refusal as an excuse for further violence against its subjects.

Source: Disinfolklore (1)

The convergence of Coercive Control and Spectacle. Russia creates the spectacle of desperation — conjuring terror through violence — then offers itself as the rescuer. The spectacle has two acts: first, ultraviolence creates desperation; second, the abuser performs generosity by offering a “sub-standard escape route.” If the victim refuses, the refusal becomes the pretext for Act Three: more violence. A cycle that never ends.

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