The official Twitter account of NATO has a ten-tweet thread called “Pavlo’s story.”
The story begins this way:
I’d never served in the Armed Forces before. Hadn’t even done compulsory military service. I’d always been a journalist – both before 2014, when I lived in Crimea, and after 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and I had to move to Kyiv. Then in 2022, on day two of Russia’s full-scale invasion, I went and joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The ninth tweet in NATO’s thread sure has caught some attention, and here it is:
🗣️ Ukraine is hosting one of the great epics of this century
❝We are Harry Potter and William Wallace, the Na’vi and Han Solo. We’re escaping from Shawshank and blowing up the Death Star. We are fighting with the Harkonnens and challenging Thanos.❞
[9/10] pic.twitter.com/HBji5RoWws
— NATO (@NATO) February 23, 2023
Wait, “one of the great epics of this century”?
this simply cannot be real life
— Justin Rowland (@RowlandRIVALS) February 23, 2023
And yet here we are.
This tweet is reason enough to abolish NATO.
— Aaron Schrank (@aaronschrank) February 23, 2023
Bro NATO hired a redditor to run their feed lmao https://t.co/lFGAy61rqy
— Mutahar (@OrdinaryGamers) February 23, 2023
We're being forced into a third World War by people who write tweets like this https://t.co/GKf5DnFKRZ
— Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) February 23, 2023
This is maybe the worst tweet of all time https://t.co/b4HRE5vFcE
— Alaric The Barbarian (@0xAlaric) February 23, 2023
The competition is fierce as always but it’s right up there.
War is just entertainment to these people. Unreal. https://t.co/VgqWC6R0kQ
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) February 23, 2023
While this tweet may seem like ridiculous self-parody, it's an authentic reflection of how "Western" officialdom encourages the moral and ideological dimensions of the war to be viewed through the prism of commercial mass entertainment https://t.co/4XK9pOPaPX
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) February 23, 2023
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