Emotion-Moving Rhetoric That Deters

Although preposterous on almost every level, Putin’s archetypal Disinfolklore story here which he has repeated oodles of times serves as a casus belli that has led to maiming and deaths of over one million invading Russian soldiers in Ukraine. Russian Disinfolklore always discloses an Inner / Outer Realm framing. It brands Ukrainians (elders, wives and children) as being tricked out of Inner Realm Russia by Outer Realm Western taboo-transgressors. Russian Disinfolklore is a form of War Magic — its emotion-moving rhetoric deters enemies from fighting back.

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War Magic’s power measured in bodies: over one million Russian soldiers maimed or killed because of a preposterous story they believed. The story deploys Outer Realm framing — Ukrainians branded as tricked by Western taboo-transgressors, Russia as messianic rescuer. The rhetoric is so powerful it deters enemies from fighting back while sending its own believers to die.

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