#potemkinvillage — Public Fediverse posts

Today's Russian idiom:

" #PotemkinVillage"

#CatherinetheGreat visited #Crimea in 1787. #GrigoryPotemkin constructed fake villages along the #Dnipro River to convince her all was well

It was not

An old story, still very relevant:

To defeat your enemy, know your enemy

And for #Russia, that means pierce the veil of lies

Show how something "strong" is not

" #Ukraine destroys air defenses protecting #Putin's palace near #Gelendzhik, Russian media report"

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukraine-destroys-air-defenses-protecting-1786377788.html

#UkraineWar

https://www.europesays.com/people/172824/ Bangkok Post – Russia: Home of the Potemkin nuclear threat? #geopolitics #MilitaryStrategy #NuclearDeterrence #NuclearWeapons #PotemkinVillage #Russia #UkraineConflict #VladimirPutin

Bangkok Post – Russia: Home of the Potemkin nuclear threat?

There’s a lot of performative militarism in Russia at the moment, which is unsurprising given that the Russian…
#EuropeSays #Russia #geopolitics #militarystrategy #nucleardeterrence #NuclearWeapons #potemkinvillage #Ukraineconflict #VladimirPutin
https://www.europesays.com/russia/45576/

https://www.europesays.com/3164595/ Bangkok Post – Russia: Home of the Potemkin nuclear threat? #geopolitics #MilitaryStrategy #NuclearDeterrence #NuclearWeapons #PotemkinVillage #Russia #UkraineConflict #VladimirPutin

“So perhaps it was only a matter of time before the president erected his own #Potemkinvillage: the #GreatAmericanStateFair, where almost nothing is what it pretends to be.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

The Great American State Fair ...

“We have constructed an artifice, a #Potemkinvillage of an #ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off the back of Santa's sleigh, not been ripped from the earth.” open.substack.com/pub/orbitpol...

A Potemkin Village of an Ecosy...

“We have constructed an artifice, a #Potemkinvillage of an #ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off the back of Santa's sleigh, not been ripped from the earth.” open.substack.com/pub/orbitpol...

A Potemkin Village of an Ecosy...

“Venezuela and the ‘Clan of #Pedophiles That Wants to Destroy #Democracy’”

by BettBeat Media in BettBeat’s Newsletter on Substack

@VenezuelaRevolucionaria
@venezuela
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews

“By examining the bombastic seizure of Venezuela’s president, we perhaps find not strength but the desperate pyrotechnics of a dying hegemon”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bettbeat/p/venezuela-and-the-clan-of-pedophiles

#Press #US #Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #Imperialism #Hegemon #MonroeDoctrine #Oil #Collapse #PotemkinVillage

Funny thing about the Republicans' Potemkin village is that it's ALL entirely fucked up. They can't even get the fake facade right.

#PotemkinVillage #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #AmericanFascistParty #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

> The poor performance of the #SyrianArabArmy troops at Aleppo shows.. that for foreign patrons to stand up a friendly government and back a client army can produce a #PotemkinVillage, a facade with no reality.. which easily falls to pieces . This.. disintegration afflicted the #IraqiNationalArmy built by George W. Bush, the #AfghanistanNationalArmy built by Bush, Obama and Trump, and now the Syrian Arab Army stood up by Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
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@mrcompletely

#PotemkinVillage was my metaphor to describe enterprise data management projects in regulated F100 enterprises.

It was all a show for SIFIs to perform for the Fed.

IEEE Spectrum: The Messy Reality Behind A Silicon Valley Unicorn. A VC-backed startup's push for growth left little time for actual engineering. https://spectrum.ieee.org/unicorn-startup #startup #potemkinvillage

For #APEC , #SanFrancisco has transformed itself into a #PotemkinVillage.

I hear that the city cleaned up its transit cars and stations, and rided its streets of homeless camps, drug needles, and human feces.

The many foreign visitors might never know how filthy and dysfunctional #SF usually is every day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

I’m excited to share with you my new profile as I start my new academic faculty position as Associate Professor in News and Political Communication at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/emma-briant 🤓 #academicmastodon #potemkinvillage #journalism #propaganda #disinformation #research

As the dust settles on the #coronation, @nesrinemalik sets out its role as a #potemkinvillage to hide the significant problems that the UK's ruling elite have no real interest in solving;

this was a classic weekend of the politics of distraction.

ooohhh look at these shiny things & forget your trip to the #foodbank tomorrow

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/coronation-desperate-nation-rotten-system

In Russia, facade is everything. Many have long since seen through the act, but few are willing to give up the pleasant illusion.

Buildings, videos, pictures and texts present Russians with a world that doesn’t exist: Putin’s Potemkin Village.

https://www.nzz.ch/english/in-russia-the-facades-are-more-important-than-the-truth-ld.1717025

#Russia #WarInUkraine #PotemkinVillage

@geannascimento @hugobbezerra
@Rosa

Seu histórico como congressista antes de se tornar presidente, onde não escreveu leis, mas encontrou muito tempo para degradar mulheres, gays e a democracia deveria ter sido suficientemente alertou a todos sobre seu pequeno estilo #PotemkinVillage de governança.