The situation in Ukraine is dominating the news headlines and most conversations since Putin decided to invade last week and if you’re anything like me then you’ll probably have noticed some idiots who you went to high school with posting absolute nonsense takes on everything, usually referencing The Great Reset and digital control.
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I didn’t go to school with Carole Cadwalladr and she is a somewhat respected journalist who broke the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal a few years ago, so and so does have some kind of authority around the subject – as well as padding her short thesis out here with facts – but I’m not sure if I’m buying everything that she’s saying here. The thread has gone massively viral on Twitter though and I think a lot of it can definitely be verified, so I’m just gonna share it here and let you make your own conclusions. ‘Do your own research’ as the phrase goes:
It was Putin’s fury at the removal of President Yankovych in Feb 2014 that kicked everything off. Information operations were first crucial step in invasion of Crimea & Donbass. A deliberate attempt to warp reality to confuse both Ukrainians & the world.
2/— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) February 27, 2022
But it wasn’t just Ukraine. We now know Russia began another offensive in Feb 2014. Against the West. Specifically, but not exclusively, America. How do we know this? Because the FBI conducted a forensic, multi-year investigation. That almost no-one paid any attention to.
4/— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) February 27, 2022
And just *one* of the ways Russia attacked 2016 US election was via the tech platforms. Especially: Facebook. This was a military technique, it pioneered in Ukraine in 2014. By 2016, it refined, iterated & supersized these. Most brilliantly of all, they were entirely invisible
6/— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) February 27, 2022
But also it *was* Russia. That’s what the Mueller Report proves. And, again, Ukraine is at centre of it all.(Read @profshaw‘s thread here. Note walk-on role for Arron Banks’s business partner & his friend the Russian spy)
8/https://t.co/ycjRcCy2wh— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) February 27, 2022
We failed to acknowledge Russia had staged a military attack on the West. We called it “meddling”. We used words like “interference”. It wasn’t. It was warfare. We’ve been under military attack for eight years now.
10/— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) February 27, 2022
(Not that it mattered.) The US media & therefore public failed to understand the real lessons of Mueller Report. And in the UK? We didn’t even bother trying. We allowed Johnson’s govt to sweep 2016 under the carpet. Nigel Farage. Arron Banks. Facebook. Russia. The lot.
14/— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) February 27, 2022
And this new front, the invasion of Ukraine, is not just about Ukraine. We are part of the plan. We have always been part of the plan. And Ukraine is not just fighting for Ukraine but for the rest of us too.
16/— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) February 27, 2022
If it helps, the penny dropped for me with Skripal. Planned by the GRU – Russia’s military intelligence. As was the weaponised hack-&-leak of Hillary’s emails. Military doctrine carried out by military officials in military operations. Just like the one now in Ukraine.
18/— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) February 27, 2022
The story of Arron Banks is intertwined with every single element of the above. That’s for another time. What matters now is Ukraine. And the key to helping it is to understand that Putin isn’t just coming for us next. He already has. https://t.co/dMmuvUqjqH
FIN— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) February 27, 2022
Yeah like I said at the top, I’m not really going to comment on all that because I don’t really feel qualified in talking about it and don’t want to push my uninformed opinions/conjecture on you all. It does sound like Carole knows what she’s talking about and she has backed a lot of it up with facts, but I’m sure there are some articles/studies out there that you can probably find that possibly disprove some of her claims. I guess that’s what she means by saying that we’re in the middle of the Great Information War…..
Either way it’s something to be wary/vigilant of in the future. Keep your eyes open.
For more of the same, check out Anonymous hacking Russian TV to show accurate footage from Ukraine. Straight out of a dystopian nightmare.
