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Russia is attempting, accidentally on purpose, to blow-up Europe’s largest nuclear power plant: Enerhodar in Zaporizhzhia, which it has been violently occupying since 3 March 2022.

[full thread cataloguing in hundreds of Tweets Russia’s attempt to hold Europe hostage to nuclear blackmail: Provoke the Distress, then Purport to Salve It, which is part of Russia’s Provocation Logic: https://x.com/decodingtrolls/status/1760275518321021345?s=46].

Then yesterday Russia bombed an electricity substation that feeds power to Chornobyl’s reactor number 4 which Soviet Russia blew up in 1986.

This week I want to talk about Mental Routines. They’re immanent in Disinfolklore. Stories that inculcate rules. We’re not really aware of what’s going on and therefore we don’t put up our what I call our Incoming Troll Radar. So we’re not aware that not only are we being told a story but the story itself is going into our minds. It is inculcating certain rules and certain logics. One of the most important logics that most of us come across in this world is what I call the Provocation Logic of Wife Beater Logic: Look What You Made Me Do To You…

I want to talk about an element which I call, I call them mental routines. Basically, they are ‘logics’ which are transmitted through stories and through Disinfolklore.

So a perfect example of what I mean is in... In a folk tale, for instance,

“Elderly Laplanders used to tell their children about the big sea snake that lives in the deep and very cold feet. fjord. When the big sea snake finds a child alone on the shore, she may come out of the death and swallow that child. So this one story advises the children to keep a little bell in their belt.”

Clearly most of us will recognise the mental routine inside the story. The purpose of the story is to inculcate rules into the a child’s mind so that they’re safe; that they don’t go off alone without this little bell.

So we’re not aware that not only are we being told a story and also that the story itself is going into our Inner Minds. It is inculcating certain rules that affect our Mana (our Inner Mind’s energy). Certain logics are being transmitted via Disinfolklore. One of the most important logics that most of us come across in this world is what I call the Provocation Logic. Provocation Cycle Logic, which is: You Made Me Do This.

Basically, we can also call it wife-beater logic. So you provoked me. You forced me to invade your country. You... And this comes into almost every statement that Putin makes. We see it countless times a day in whether it’s on Telegram chats or in other means that we come across.

It comes in to all authoritarians. So Donald Trump. also inculcates this particular logic. Everything is someone else’s fault. Every action which the people take is someone else’s fault. What I realized is that these mental routines are actually taught. So we’re not just sitting listening to a story that inculcates this mental routine that “Ukraine supposedly discriminates against Russian language speakers. So we came in and killed 100,000 native language Russian speakers in Mariupol.”

That’s the logic of what they’re saying. When this is repeated a lot, then we not only hear the story, but we then take into our mind this logic as a unit, as a module.

What put me in mind this week was something that the great @NatalkaKyiv. Natalka Kyiv on X, who is just brilliant. She gives me so much source material. She quotes this guy called, it wasn’t really on my radar, his name is Nesmayan. And then she’s just updated, actually, it said that this guy Nesmayan was added to the Russian government’s extremist list after making this post.

So on the face of it, this post, but there’s just one element in it that I just wanted to take out. So basically, he writes this post about the spiderweb operation. Now he’s been added two days later to the Russian Rosfin Monitoring Service list of terrori