Putin Births an Arctic Narrative
Russian President Attempts to Build Framework for Trump's Dangerous Aggression Towards Greenland and Canada.
Vladimir Putin appears distressed that his recent speech in the Arctic North hasn't hit mainstream Western media - so his disinformation networks are now aggressively seeding it across X and other platforms. The speech itself is lengthy, typically impenetrable, and few journalists would have ventured to the remote Arctic capital to witness it.
But the fact that Putin gave this speech, that it operates in tandem with Trump's aggression, and the subsequent coordinated disinformation push demands our attention. This isn't random rhetoric - it's calculated narrative construction with dangerous implications.
I'll embed the speech below, but first, let's expose what Putin is really doing here.
Manufacturing Historical "Precedent"
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