Also: Since the beginning of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine, the Kremlin deploys various tactics that align with the #AbuserStrategy pillars:
1. isolate victim from support system
2. discredit victim & support system
3. reverse victim / offender
4. terrorize (coercion)
5. guarantee impunity (courts public opinion / justice)

#Zelensky's misstep is a perfect opportunity for the #Kremlin to pounce on pillars 1, 2, 3 in order to justify 4 and 5

3. #CoerciveControl is about wielding power
#AbuserStrategy is about legitimacy to commit crimes and not be held accountable for them.

In the current information space, legitimacy = visibility, or: the capacity to accumulate and retain attention capital.

This does not need to be a sophisticated process, it just has to grab our attention.
(see my interview in @lemonde
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2022/04/09/desinformation-russe-peu-importe-que-le-faux-soit-grossier-pourvu-qu-il-capte-l-attention_6121341_4355770.html )

Domestic tyrants, for example, demand that all attention focuses on them.

#abuserstrategy has 5 pillars:

- isolate targets from their support systems (or isolate support groups from each other)
- discredit targets and their support
- reverse guilt (offender becomes *the true* victim*)
- instill terror (#coercivecontrol etc)
- ensure impunity (jurisdictions of law, public opinion).

#disinformation #Russia #Prigozhin

1. #abuserstrategy is similar to #DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender), a pattern of behavior theorised by Pr. Jennifer J. Freyd in the 90s to understand why #GBV victims are denied justice.
https://dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/defineDARVO.html

At about the same time, 🇫🇷 feminists from the Collectif Féministe Contre le Viol (CFCV) were theorising another version of the pattern. I find more helpful bc. it includes the end-goal (impunity), and can be extended to support groups (of the victim and perpetrator)