Top PsyOps of the Week (20.04 – 26.04.2026): A Puppet Theater of Burning Refineries. From Glamorous Terrorism to Digital Marauding. How to Impress Kharkivites?

— "Hello? I was wondering, did his conscience actually wake up, or did a contract with Iran just turn out to be more lucrative than his old MAGA hat?"

Tucker Carlson, who took up criticizing Trump following the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, has indeed "flipped the script" mid-air this past week. Quote:

 

"...I feel this is a moment to seriously reckon with one's own conscience. I will be haunted for a long time by the thought that I played my part [in electing Donald Trump]. And I want to say that I apologize for misleading people."

Well, well! In modern politics, conscience is like a GPS navigator: it always recalculates the route depending on which way the wind blows and where the pay is better. The situation practically begs for political satire. When the "heralds of truth" start publicly repenting because reality finally gave them a painful flick on the nose, it always looks like the finale of a cheap vaudeville show.

Meanwhile, in the aggressor state, the so-called oppositionists began to "PEACE-offuse" with feigned piety... Under the mask of peacemaking and "common sense," the jet-powered information-missile volleys have begun to thunder once again.

…This weekly review analyzes the latest Russian Information and Psychological Operations (PsyOps) targeting Ukraine.

The author dissects the shifting narratives of Western media figures like Tucker Carlson, the manipulative "peace" rhetoric from the Russian liberal opposition (represented by Vladimir Pastukhov), and the use of AI-generated deepfakes.

The article highlights how aggressor-state propaganda evolves from "glamorous" social media influence to high-tech digital deception, all while attempting to undermine the resilience of frontline cities like Kharkiv.

Read more in the Ukrainian edition....