Ceasefire Negotiations

For several years my job was negotiating local ceasefires between the armed Russian bridge trolls unlawfully occupying the south bank of the Donets River, and with the Ukrainian soldiers defending the northern shore. We whose fate it was to participate in the daily array of diabolical dramas staged there by Russian war lords became like stock characters in a long-running soap opera. The cast of players acting out roles in this tragicomedy included diplomats, mercenaries, traders, soldiers, Russian occupiers, spies, and ordinary folk just like you and me. Archetypal characters from folklore who were constantly being repurposed into unwilling participants in Russia’s Disinfolklore Apparatus’s attempts to hack our minds.

Source: Book Proposal (May 2025)

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