This is the last post in the Plots against Russia blog

MH17 was actually the missing Malaysian flight 370, and all the people on board were already corpses.

Now the Ukrainian conflict isn’t just fratricidal; murdering children is assault on the future itself.

The sky is falling, and everyone under it couldn’t be happier. 

Despite its location, this is a war between Russia and itself.

Western Ukraine partying like it’s 1989

The sheer wrongness of destroying food is directly link to the rightness of eating it.

“We’re here from America. Take some stuff.”

The “Uncle Ben Effect” allegedly caused children to vomit after repeated exposure to the American rice company’s commercials.

The post-Soviet Russia-Ukraine so often plays itself out in alimentary terms:  what might Ukraine be sneaking into Russia’s (political) diet?

Invading Russia from the West without going through Ukraine is theoretically possible, but inefficient

Ukrainians have somehow been brainwashed into thinking they exist.

Were cities and countries truly reverting to their traditional, national names, or was someone just trolling diplomats and journalists?

Ukraine may not have been a “real”country, but Ukrainians, rather than being the enemy, were at worst a variety of Russian who talked funny. 

What does it mean to be a "real" country?

The Russian literary tradition gives little comfort to participants in territorial disputes.

The violence in Ukraine, continually posed as a proxy war, would then be the work of malign forces pulling strings offstage

Engaging with the demonized discourse (whether “zombification”,  “propaganda”, or “fake news”) starts to look suspiciously like engaging in it. 

Zombification is not just based on false psychological and informational premises: it is based on the belief that politics are the product of rational thought.

The directors juxtapose Astakhov with the imagined television viewer in a manner that insults them both.