The “incapacitation” of the Ukrainian Armed Force’s Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny and the critical information war of denial

A May 26th article in the Ukrainian English language press, the  Kyiv Post [sic], triumphantly declared a victory in a specific information war against Russia when announcing an appearance by the Ukrainian Armed Force’s Commander-in-Chief, Valeri Zaluzhny, in a video allegedly produced on the previous day. “Bot farms”, it stated – thus implying More...

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By P W Laurie On Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023
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Where’s the Zaporozhe “offensive”, Tony, Brian…, Maureen?

Or, The First Of The Anti-Tyranny “Terrorism”; Part Two: Alternative Media Although this is an article in the series about the conviction of Oliver Lewin, it has to deal with English-language, always controlled More...

By P W Laurie On Saturday, March 18th, 2023
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We need to talk about your being stupid, featuring H G Wells’ “The Country of the Blind”, and Plato’s cave

Updated.  Let it be understood, first of all, that this piece will be useful to regular FBEL readership because it will illustrate the Masonic meaning of another work by he who is quite possibly our favourite revelator More...

By P W Laurie On Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
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The end of the “Battle of the ‘Svatove–Kreminna’ line”

If some alternative media is talking about how the Russians have reached the “suburbs of Kupyansk” and are “edging very much closer to ‘Lyman’”, it’s more than likely it won’t understand from its More...

By P W Laurie On Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
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The Russian Offensive

The Russian Ministry of Defence has been using the word “offensive” in its daily briefings to describe the activity of its forces in the northern section of the front line of its Special Military Operation More...

By P W Laurie On Friday, January 13th, 2023
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What the Russian religious holiday ceasefire told us about Ukrainian artillery and therefore alternative media (as we should’ve already known)

There’s an obvious reason why alternative media is chock full of “former” intelligence agency/military personnel, but that is a fuller subject for another time. Suffice to say, the superficial rationale by More...

By P W Laurie On Tuesday, December 20th, 2022
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The offensive that isn’t on 17th December: Russian activity in the Kupyansk And Krasny Liman Directions

While noises that sound like defeat management are emanating from London, and the Ukrainians essentially admit what the Russians have done to their standing army, and also then to the “million man” army so that More...

By P W Laurie On Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
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While AFU resorts to using cars and Mi7 propaganda projects other terminal Ukrainian weakness, Russia continues to take Donetsk

Your alternative media, reader, might not be telling you this, but for several days in October (now consistently heading into November), in its daily briefings the Russian Ministry of Defence is having cause to More...

By P W Laurie On Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
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The Zaporozhe “offensive” and for it the shaping of the battleground in Kherson (the “war on the fields”), according to propagandists for Ukraine

On Saturday 15th October the extraordinarily well-supported OSINT-mongering twaterati on social media reported to its huge audiences that a new manoeuvre by the armed forces of Ukraine was taking place in Kherson, More...

By P W Laurie On Thursday, October 6th, 2022
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Beware Ukrainian maps (and those who swear by them)

This is an exercise rather like the one performed in the previous FBEL article, Some Quietly Stated Surprises Despite General Russian Silence In Special Military Operation. The point is to notice the disparities More...