#Putin seeking to #manipulate #US leadership & break out of isolation, #Zelensky told Sky News

His remarks come after several #deadlines set by #Trump passed without new US #sanctions.

Putin definitely wants to trick the US. He’s doing everything he can to avoid sanctions, to prevent the US & Trump from putting sanctions on him.

“If you keep postponing applying sanctions any further, then the Russians will be better prepared.”

https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-warns-putin-is-trying-to-trick-trump/

#RussianPropaganda #HybridWar #Ukraine

Putin is trying 'to trick the US' and evade sanctions, Zelensky warns

"If you keep postponing applying sanctions any further, then the Russians will be better prepared," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

The Kyiv Independent

#manipulate : to treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required

- French: Manipuler

- German: manipuliert

- Italian: manipolare

- Portuguese: manipular

- Spanish: manipular

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Gaslighting: How to Manipulate Someone to Question Their Own Sanity

This is an excellent article by Cynthia Chung which goes way beyond capitalist attempts at mass persuasion techniques to intervening to change the brain structure itself. She highlights the work of William Sargant in his book Battle For The Mind along with the work of Ewen Cameron who also attempted

Socialist Planning Beyond Capitalism

@lauren

The "things have gotten too emotional" line out of the Kremlin seemed designed specifically to poke Trump in a weak spot.

Putin really is a master manipulator, particularly when it comes to the more-loud-than-smart types, exhibit #3742.

#manipulate #Kremlin #Putin

#Elections in Romania: #Russia’s Attempts to #Manipulate #Democracy

In April 2025–May 2025, Russia actively interfered in Romania’s presidential elections by promoting pro-Kremlin candidate Gheorghe Simion.

Using Telegram, X, and Facebook, Russian propaganda pushed narratives about “European elites usurping power” and Romania’s supposed “loss of sovereignty.” Disinformation also targeted neighboring Moldova—falsely accusing President Maia Sandu of interference.

#manipulate : to treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required

- French: Manipuler

- German: manipuliert

- Italian: manipolare

- Portuguese: manipular

- Spanish: manipular

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Did Trump Manipulate the Stock Market?

President Trump’s post on social media caused the stock market to respond in an unusual way. Rob Copeland, a finance reporter for The New York Times, explains whether this could be considered market manipulation by the president. #Trump #Manipulate #Stock #Market

https://10bmnews.com/2025/04/did-trump-manipulate-the-stock-market/

Did Trump Manipulate the Stock Market? - 10bmnews

President Trump’s post on social media caused the stock market to respond in an unusual way. Rob Copeland, a finance reporter for The New York Times, explains whether this could be considered market manipulation by the president. #Trump #Manipulate #Stock #Market

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“Our timetable will achieve the stature of a natural phenomenon,” his father said. “A planet’s life is a vast, tightly interwoven fabric. Vegetation and animal changes will be determined at first by the raw physical forces we manipulate. As they establish themselves, though, our changes will become controlling influences in their own right—and we will have to deal with them, too. Keep in mind, though, that we need control only three per cent of the energy surface—only three per cent—to tip the entire structure over into our self-sustaining system.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/03/25/our-timetable-will-achieve-the-stature-of-a-natural-phenomenon-his-father-said-a-planets-life-is-a-vast-tightly-interwoven-fabric-vegetation-and-animal-changes/

#achieve #animal #atFirst #book #changes #control #controllingInfluences #dealWithThem #determined #Dune #DuneImaginaryPlace_ #DuneImaginaryPlaceFiction #DuneLieuImaginaireRomansNouvellesEtc #DuneChronicles #energySurface #entireStructure #EpicFantasy #establishThemselves #fabric #fantasy #father #fiction #FictionScienceFictionGeneral #frankHerbert #GuerresEtBataillesImaginairesRomansNouvellesEtc #ImaginaryWarsAndBattles #ImaginaryWarsAndBattlesFiction #inTheirOwnRight #keepInMind #LifeOnOtherPlanets #LifeOnOtherPlanetsFiction #manipulate #naturalPhenomenon #need #onlyThreePerCent #ourChanges #physicalForces #planetSLife #PopularFiction #quote #raw #ScienceFiction #selfSustainingSystem #spaceOpera #SpaceOperas #stature #threePerCent #tightlyInterwoven #timetable #tip #vast #vegetation #VieExtraterrestreRomansNouvellesEtc

“Our timetable will achieve the stature of a natural phenomenon,” his father said. “A planet’s life is a vast, tightly interwoven fabric. Vegetation and animal changes will be determined at first by the raw physical forces we manipulate. As they establish themselves, though, our changes will become controlling influences in their own right—and we will have to deal with them, too. Keep in mind, though, that we need control only three per cent of the energy surface—only three per cent—to tip the entire structure over into our self-sustaining system.” - The Hermetic Library Blog

“Our timetable will achieve the stature of a natural phenomenon,” his father said. “A planet’s life is a vast, tightly interwoven fabric. Vegetation and animal changes will be determined at first by the raw physical forces we manipulate. As they establish themselves, though, our changes will become controlling influences in their own right—and we will […]

The Hermetic Library Blog

“A #Japanese transport ministry raid found #Toyota – along with #Mazda, #Honda and #Suzuki – submitted inaccurate #SafetyData and used specifically modified vehicles to #manipulate crash-test results.

Production resumed in September 2024 after the vehicles were retested and Toyota apologised – but this may have been the catalyst for the car maker dropping them from their range, the ageing models to be effectively replaced by the new-generation #Corolla that launched in 2018.”

#Australia / #cars <https://www.drive.com.au/news/toyota-corolla-axio-and-fielder-models-dropped-in-japan/>

Toyota Corolla Axio and Fielder models dropped in Japan

Toyota will stop making the Toyota Corolla Axio and Fielder later this year, following suspended sales in 2024.

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