Scenting Tankydom Mana

The Mana of tankydom. When I hear the stock qualifier of an anti-Ukraine positioning attempting to conceal itself - “of course, Putin is a dictator and has done war crimes…” This is exactly the kind of thing we hear when we hear the Russian opposition.

What is the smell of tankydom? What is the smell of pro-Russian-ness? Because they disguise it all the time. Fig leafs.

Source: Combatting Russia’s Mental War

This passage gives War Magic detection a visceral, sensory quality. The “smell of tankydom” is the Mana left behind when anti-Ukraine positioning tries to disguise itself with a fig-leaf qualifier: “of course Putin is a dictator, but…” The author trains the reader to recognise this olfactory signature — the trace energy of pro-Russian framing even when it wears a liberal mask. This is Tool 3: Mana in the Meme applied directly to detecting concealed War Magic in supposedly neutral or oppositional speech.

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