The Bridge Realization

So this is while I was working in Russia-occupied Ukraine and going across the bridge all the time and trying to work out what are they doing? What are they talking about? What is all this nonsense in their information space that’s brainwashing people? Ah, it’s war magic. This is what they’re kind of doing.

Source: Magic as Propaganda Disguised in Disinfolklore

This is the foundational eureka moment. The author, working as a diplomat in Russia-occupied Ukraine, was crossing a bridge daily into occupied territory, immersed in the brainwashing information environment, and struggling to name what he was witnessing. Then the connection crystallised: what the Fifth Dalai Lama did in 1560s Tibet, Russia was doing now. The “nonsense” in the information space was not random — it was war magic. This personal recognition on the bridge is the origin point of the entire Disinfolklore framework.

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