I’ve written before about Russia’s Stealth Genocide.
This podcast and the evidence below is about the openly admitted violation of the Genocide Convention’s prohibition against transferring children across international borders in times of war.
Many struggle to understand or to explain the aggregate of the billions of actions that constitute Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine.
The mass kidnapping of children is the point of the war. Russia wants repopulate its 1/6 of the world’s surface with white Europeans.
This is the whole point of the war I argue in this podcast.
See below for some of the documentary evidence I have collected and published about these Crimes Against Humanity, the Laws of War and the Genocide Convention:
Hi there, I'm Decoding Trolls. I want to decode the actual rationale, the really substance of the meaning of the Ukraine-Russia war. I want to decode the motivations of those prosecuting this war and leading this war. And one word sums up the entire basis for the whole war, demography.
So when you hear these stories about Russian language speakers in Ukraine or NATO expansion or Ukraine was asking for it, Ukraine is run by criminals and therefore Russia came in to liberate. And this whole system of stories, which we constantly hear in our information space,
I want in future you just to focus on this one word, which is called demography. So I worked in Eastern Ukraine for seven years between 2015 and 2022. And one abiding joyful memory I have of my time there was every now and again, I would be invited as a foreign diplomat to speak to groups of school children.
And in one school, one day in a now occupied part of Eastern Ukraine, as I arrived there, the head teacher, as was always normally the case, she met me and she said, you're going to be delivering your talk and your lecture and answering questions from the final year students. However,
I have picked out all of the activist students, uh, from all the previous years. So there'll be a few people from each boys and girls from each year, school year, and they'll also be asking you questions. And there was this, uh,
A look in her eye and a sense of pride as she presented this group of activist children to me. That really warmed my heart at the time. It really stayed with me. Here was a modern European outlander. looking teacher who had this concept of activist students, which I didn't really understand until perhaps I met them.
And so there was the girl with the spiky hair wearing black. There was the kind of nerdy college kid who was doing political campaigning. There was somebody who talked to me about Greta Thunberg and actually two students who wanted to do the school strike in the school.
And we had a great chat before and a really engaging time. And after the de-occupation, maybe I can post pictures of this. But what breaks my heart today and every day I wake up and what motivates my work to help us decode the trolls around Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and in fact its invasion since 2014, is
is the memory of these children in this school and how... Almost as soon as the occupation began, Russia began forcibly transferring children from the occupied territories into Russia. And as some of you might know, I worked, I was one of the main sources acknowledged, and if you look at my pinned tweet,
you'll see the link to this report, I was a main source for the first intergovernmental report on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which was published in early April 2022 by the OSC Moscow Mechanism Mission. It was commissioned by 44 nation states. And I worked with a group of legal scholars to...
the outlines of the different crimes which Russia was committing in not only invading Ukraine, but the particular way in which it was invading Ukraine. And one part of this was about the forcible transfer of Ukrainians and children, which is a specific breach of the Genocide Convention, which is signed by most states.
And it's also a breach of the laws of war. And Russia, from the very first days and moments of the invasion, was focusing an enormous amount of resources on corralling children. and humans through what they call these filtration centres and bringing them into Russia. And for much of the first year of the war,
I focused a lot of attention on this wonderful city called Melitopol in southern Zaporozhia, which was an area I covered as an OSCE diplomat. looking after environmental security and political issues. So I went to meet all as many of the elected officials leading village and city and town councils, particularly in this area,
because I knew it would be subject even as far back as 2015. I and many others anticipated the full scale invasion. I did not anticipate the horrors and I did not anticipate the forcible transfer of at least 700,000 children, which Russia itself boasts about.
Now, we know that Putin, the so-called president of Russia, a warrant was issued for his arrest by by the International Criminal Court in March 2023 for the specific crime of the forcible transfer of children from Ukraine into Russia. And in order to have this warrant issued against a sitting head of state who enjoys the presumption of immunity,
the collection of evidence which I participated in collecting in early part of the war and which me and others have continued to collect, including the confession by Putin and his accomplice, who is ironically the head of the Children's Commission. And so we have here is many different strands to this war.
And essentially what I have come to propose is my hypothesis that the entire war itself... is a cover for the conscious and determined policy to transfer 700,000 and millions of white Ukrainians to populate the vast expanse of empty territory that Russia needs to populate.
Russia, as we know, possesses one-sixth of the world's surface, and much of that is empty of people. We know the history, the whole of communism, and all the deep mass deportations of people from the Baltic states, and all of the genocidal policies of the USSR. We're also about this mad idea,
which is to fill up the space between Kiev, Lviv and Vladivostok from the central Europe all the way to the coast of Japan and North Korea and China with white Europeans. I've talked before about the Russians I worked with in Ukraine, who were all from the security structures and were diplomats.
And in candid, unguarded moments, all of them always betrayed at some point this visceral fear that... in the very depopulated parts of the Russian Federation, which border China. And China and Russia have thousands of kilometer long border. And on the China side of this border, in some places, there's massive cities of 10, 20 million people.
And then on the Russia side, it's just a mess of a few people and no resources or villages or people. And I've never met a Russian, actually, who isn't obsessed with the idea that the Chinese will come over this border and gobble up all of their land.
I agree with Timothy Snyder that in many respects we can conceptualise Russia's obsession with Ukraine and murdering Ukrainians and destroying Ukrainian culture because they think in their madness that that Ukraine is an easy touch. And this is a displacement of their real fear, their fundamental fear,
which is of China and of China coming over the border and lopping off vast tracts of its one-sixth of the world's surface. And certainly when I heard Timothy Snyder talking about this, I agreed with it wholeheartedly because of the Russians I had met who betrayed an obsession,
an obsessive paranoia about how their land and their people would become gobbled up. So the plan is to populate this area between Central Europe and Japan with white Westerners. And this explains, too, the threats to conquer Lisbon and the mass deportations, which are a perennial factor and part of Soviet and Russian governance.
It's under the guise of criminals or prison camps or to stop nationalism or all of this nonsense, just as today we hear all of these bogus history lessons and nonsense, both from those who are actually leading this war, Putin and his accomplices, his criminal accomplices, who are directing this criminal enterprise, this criminal war,
but also from the people in our information space and in our cultures who have fallen for the troll. who have fallen for all this nonsense about NATO expansion and America provoked the war and all of this accusation in a mirror, which is a phenomenon common to all genocides.
Accusation in the mirror is what we hear all the time from the Russian leadership, which is, to accuse Ukrainians of biolabs, of discriminating against Russian language speakers, of killing Russian children or Ukrainian children, of accusing the other. So Russia is accusing Ukraine always of the very crimes which Russia itself is, is contemplating and executing.
And the mere accusation that, in a mirror, that Ukraine is doing these things, or the West is doing these things, is then used as a pretext for Russia itself to act out these crimes which it is engaged in. And so when you hear that phrase, every accusation is a confession...
It actually has a value in legal terms and in determining the level of intention on the part of the Russian state to genocide Ukrainians. So not all wars or invasions or wars of defense are genocides. But one is when the explicit aim of the war, as manifest in, for instance,
the mass deportation of millions of Ukrainians into Russia, and the International Criminal Court warrant for Putin and his children's commissioner's arrest includes the names of 20,000 named Ukrainian children. And very recently, Yale School of Health has released a very comprehensive report detailing how planes, aeroplanes, which Russia's presidential administration control,
and state adoption websites and a whole system of transporting, trafficking these children, in many cases, whose parents, orphans, whose parents, Russia, deliberately killed, in Mariupol and in Melitopol and in other places, and then stole these children. In other cases, the children were, parents were in occupied areas, were forced to send their children to summer camps.
And they were then passed from summer camp to summer camp. until they ended up in areas, depopulated areas of Russia, where they are given Russian passports. And so I would conceptualise the entire war and Putin himself as the child snatcher. So apart from all of the nonsense which we hear all the time about land for peace
and that Ukraine is somehow going to swap land for peace and they're going to freeze Russia, The conflict lines, just when Russia's at its most weakest, its problems in Syria, it has lost vast tracts of territory, and it's about to lose its main naval base,
which it uses not only to bomb and kill hundreds of thousands of Syrians since 2015, but also to execute policies in Africa, which currently, for instance, in the Sudan region, are leading to the mass starvation of almost a million people and the threatened starvation of millions more.
So what is making me increasingly convinced that demography and the mass transportation is the actual reason for the war and everything else is just a distraction to have us all... fighting over something else. But the main reason why the war is being prosecuted is to get not just Ukrainian children,
obviously they are obsessed with Ukraine and obsessed with destroying Ukraine, but also to get all Central and Western Europeans. And I'd like us to bear this in mind and perhaps in the communities in which we participate, when we hear people talking about, oh, Ukraine should just surrender its land and there will be peace.
I want people to focus their mind on not just the moral, how morally diabolical and illegal and unlawful it is to take, to snatch the children of any parent, but to do it on this scale where... potentially millions of children and humans, mostly women, who are forcibly transferred into Russia.
It is the fact that Russia is not going to stop doing this when it empties Ukraine of as many people as it can. It's moving westwards. It wants to shell Lisbon. It wants to shell London. It wants to destroy Dublin. It wants to get to Paris. And why? Because it wants the people.
It wants your children and my children. and our children's children, as it did to all of the Baltic and Eastern European and Ukrainian and Central European and former Soviet socialist republics under the guise of various population migration, criminal policies. The one constant in this this governance unit we call Russia,
is mass deportation and trying to populate this vast area with white Europeans. At the beginning of the war and in March, as I was doing all of the research for this report, the OSCE Moscow Mechanism Missions report, and I was looking at the granular detail of what was going on in Melitopol, what the Russians were doing.
It was really curious to me that Russia, which at the time was really not having a good battle or a good war, but even while they were fighting for control of parts of a city, they were also focusing on deporting and forcibly transferring countries. children in a very organised way. And that tempo has never stopped.
There's been no pause in it. And it was very curious to me, why if you were simply trying to take land or capture natural resources, oil wells or nuclear power plants, or to pay the West back for humiliating us or any of this nonsense, why are they investing so much in
in the forcible transfer of people and children. And the answer to this now, I believe, is because the whole point of the invasion and occupation is to replace, at the moment, 700,000 dead or injured Russian soldiers... have already been replaced by 700,000 clever, innovative, young Ukrainian children,
some of whom may well have been listening to my talk in Zaporosha, in southern Zaporosha, who horrifically might be these activist children, boys and girls, who I met that day when I visited the school. And so I propose this as the dominant determining approach And that should inform every conversation we have about trying to force Ukraine to
sacrifice its children. Because there aren't enough Ukrainian children to satisfy the bloodlust. or the need for the Muscovite European power, which is always based and ruled around St. Petersburg and Moscow, to rule one-sixth of the world's surface with not enough people. And so Russia is... Not only is Putin and Russia obsessed with democracy,
but I don't think we're thinking big enough when we look at, for instance, people like Peter Thiel or Elon Musk or any of these people that are obsessed with Sulla and his depopulation policies of ancient Rome. and the depopulation of huge territories. And at the same time, they're also personally obsessed with controlling women's reproductive systems and
making women... bear as many children as possible. It's said that Musk has many children and wants to have thousands of children. And these people like Putin are also obsessed with demography, as are the people around them. the oligarchs, and not only are they making a personal contribution to impregnating as many women
as possible so that their own special genes and genome is promoted, but they also have this huge vision for our society and our community. Now, I'm not saying the bromance between Elon Musk and Butler is because of this. I believe it's because of two factors. One,
The threat to destroy the SpaceX's satellite network in space, which Russia continues to speak about. And the second is the most of the Russian nomenclature is money, I believe, is in Russia. Santa Clara County in Silicon Valley, where a quarter of the world's venture capital is invested, and half of America's venture capital is invested,
is in Silicon Valley. And what explains the opposition to Ukraine's glorious fight against this genocidal invasion, and all of the 150,000 war crimes which have been documented, continue to be documented, the horrific The horrific events which happen all the time, I believe, is explained by these oligarchs' fear of secondary sanctions, which would involve them necessitating,
unwinding all of these venture capital funds. from Silicon Valley, which contain Russia and Putin's billions and trillions or whatever amounts of money they have, which are all wrapped up in there, and they want to avoid that. But there is also a meeting of minds. This conservative, neo-patriarchal, evangelical view that population,
the women should have as many children as they want. They don't need to have or experience human rights or choice or control over their own reproductive rights. powers and we need a society of people with very little freedom who can work like little hamsters on the wheel and in the fields and replace the migrants.
And let me add, this is not my vision, but this is mainstream among this group of people who believe that the fundamental struggle in our time, and this is something that Putin believes, he's talked about it a lot in the paleoconservative moment, that what they fundamentally believe is that the division today is between those
who believe in the post-World War II legal order guaranteeing human rights, the right to participate in public life, which... makes discriminating on certain protective grounds such as sex or political viewpoints or gender identity illegal and the aspiration we have to a more equal society. Where everyone,
the activist children and the conformist children and all of us have the same rights of access to education, health care, jobs and a future and to build or create of these amazing opportunities. that many of us listening to this, and certainly I have had, to try and sculpt a life,
which have brought me to this point where I'm now able to speak to you through these amazing technologies. What they want to do is a handmaid's tale, basically. And this is what unites them all. And these mass deportations, mass murder, mass deportations of people and children... are very much consistent with this. So their vision,
the vision of these guys in Silicon Valley or these paleoconservatives in the West and in Russia and around Putin are completely consistent with each other. And I would like to just leave this there, this idea that the invasion is all about this Eurasian, this crazy idea of populating these areas with white Europeans.
And while the focus is on Ukrainians and the Russians have destroyed their country permanently, on the basis of their hatred and their othering and their genocidal war against Ukrainians. But, and this is my message and has been my message consistently, Russia will not stop at Ukraine. Russia's aim is to destroy our entire civilization.
Its aim is to capture all of our children and do to them what they are doing to Ukrainian children. The trajectory is clear. When I worked in Eastern Ukraine, I worked from between 2015 and 2018 in Russia-occupied Ukraine, where I developed my understanding of distant folklore and how Russia uses information warfare to brainwash people.
And the success in Russia occupied Luhansk and Donetsk could be seen in how Ukrainians, over the course of a number of years, were convinced that they weren't Ukrainian, that they were Russian. And that other Ukrainians, their fellow Ukrainians, wanted to kill them. We're trying to come across this river where I worked on.
I worked on this bridge, this river in a place called Stanitsa Luhanska. And the people in Russia occupied Ukraine, which is on one side of the Donetsk River. were convinced through vast, what I call, disinfolklore apparatus. Think what MAGA, these systems of communications which MAGA has created, they're very similar systems, uncannily similar,
but many of the same people who designed MAGA also designed MAGA. Other aspects of this war, people like Paul Manafort, who is one of Trump's advisors, and was also the advisor to Yanukovych, who was the president of Ukraine, who fled in February 2014 in the face of protest, and Paul Manafort, who was jailed for fraud in
and for working as a foreign agent without registering. His own daughters, his own daughters, in text messages we got access to a year after the Maidan in 2015, his own daughters believe and accused their own father of... purposefully provoking the massacres and advising his then boss, the now exiled, impeached president of Ukraine,
to shoot at the protesters because of this mad idea that if they shot at the protesters and killed some of them, then the European powers would pressure Ukraine to capitulate. And so we're still in this story again and again, and many of us will come across in our communities
this idea that Ukraine should just sit down at the negotiation table and give away its land and give away its children. These are children just like yours and mine and our friends and the children we see playing in the park, the children I saw in these schools when I spoke about the West and about Europe.
And these are children who want to live in free democratic societies. And whenever anyone is trying to work out what is this war about, I'd like us to think that it is actually the dominant determinant of the war is Russia's mad obsession with demography.
white supremacy, peopling this vast track of land where they have subdued and subverted and genocided. I think it's 82 small numbered people. That's their official term of the indigenous people in these areas between Siberia and Ukraine, which itself is three different kinds of indigenous people, the Crimean Tatars and and to two other indigenous, designated indigenous peoples.
So I'll just leave you with that. The war is about demography and it's about the mass transfer of children. And that should be foremost in our mind as we persuade our politicians and those people who have influence to help arm Ukraine to resist the suppression and liberate the land from, I mean, there's no other word from it.
It's monstrous. Thank you for listening.
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