My favorite subject, and it all begins around Kherson/Zaporizhia, whether it’s the UN Commission of Inquiry on War Crimes in Ukraine or the Yamna community, who a relatively small number of individuals created the language, the linguistic structures, the words we use almost in every sentence, the religions, the solid immanence in many Indo-European religions, including I would characterize Christianity as an Indo-European religion. Buddhism was also an emanation of and created by this community’s descendants, which just in itself is an amazing just amazing, absolutely amazing. Because most of us grow up… We have a mental model of Greece, Rome, maybe ancient Egypt before Greece and, um, And then our cultures. It turns out this is not true. And that Greek, Greece and Rome, Greek, well, Italic culture, Italic and Celtic languages, as far as we know, formed inside a mixture of the Yamna community from this area in Hearson, Micolae, Oblast. right around the river where Russia and Ukraine, this has been an intersection point, an interaction point for millennia, out of an interaction between migrating Yamnaf from there after 2500 BCE westwards, near Odesa, just east of Odesa, and this community of people there. Linguists and archaeologists have suspected, many of them have suspected this for decades, for a few decades. But... And Jung refers to the reason why Jung explains why he believes that these archetypes are part of the collective unconscious of humanity is he just he can’t understand how else they could have come from, where else they could have come from. And he talks, Jung talks about the wildest migration theories, which now we know since 2015, ancient DNA. as it’s known in the literature, is scientific facts. So the scientific fact of the genetic content of people from India to Ireland whose genetic ancestry comes from what they call the steppe, what I call ancient Ukrainian. So for me, a lot of my work is about re-archetyping Ukraine inside the mental models of humanity because I realized, as many of us did, there was nothing, there was some problem that people had, whether it was the former German policy or the policy of many of our governments. They all were perceiving, and perhaps many of us did this as well before we became aware about Ukraine and its importance, not only in our current day, in our current moment, but its importance over time. that there was something they basically, Russia was managing by controlling, by monopolizing the myth of Russia’s superiority of Ukraine, archetyping Ukraine as not a real country. By every time Donald Putin speaks, he’s re-archetyping Russia as this great power. Many of us and many of our friends perhaps still will perceive Russia’s culture as somehow justifying its genocide in Ukraine and its activities in Ukraine or Dostoevsky or ballet. And I’m a great fan of, uh, those writers because I think they’re very insightful and very helpful to us. I realized that basically from the very beginning of the war of the full-scale invasion without really, um, understanding it as being archetyping at the time. But I realized that what I had to do, my mission was to try and at least campaign for parity of esteem between Ukraine and other countries. modern nation states, which have won the monopoly by fair means of foul, certain communities of people after World War II, who had managed to become UN members, including Ukraine, which was a founding member of the United Nations. signed the UN charter in 1945. But then as I dug into it more deeply and followed this path from when I was in Eastern Ukraine, working in Eastern Ukraine, I accidentally discovered the Yamnaya when some property developers were destroying this extraordinary structure in a posh suburb of Dnipro. And it made the front page of the New York Times, and all of the local people were protesting. And so I went to, in my capacity as a monitor, to monitor the security situation, I went there to try and discover what was going on. And what I discovered was these property dwellers had destroyed a Yamna burial mound in which was buried the local monarch. and various other people throughout the millennia, including the last person to be buried in there was the head of the collective farm, believe it or not, in like 1932. So delusions of grandeur there and continuity. And underneath this mound, when they destroyed it, was found the stone circle, which was created by one of the major ingredient cultures in the Yamna. And And through that, I began to, from a position of extreme skepticism, that we could trace the linguistic journey of certain people carrying not just a language, not just the words, the vocabulary, the sounds and meanings which we use today. There’s about a thousand sounds and meanings in what we call Proto-Indo-European. or I call ancient Ukrainian, which is the language spoken by the Yamna between 4,100 BCE and 2,500 BCE. And I recognize I’m throwing out these dates. For me, it’s really chartered to territory for most people. Most of us, our history kind of begins maybe around 1,000 BCE with the first date. King David in the Bible or whatever. But again, what I’m trying to do, and part of my mission, is to re-archetype our mental models, our idea of not just Ukraine, humanity, our human history, and our European history, and Ukrainians’ position in it, but to create these new structures and these frameworks. Because that’s how what I call dis-folklore and disinformation unfold. does it creates frameworks untruthful frameworks in our minds um so you know people inside maga in the maga disenfoked or galaxy you know they have all these in in jokes they they know all about these different things which you and i wouldn’t know about and and this is this is how it works as i understand this is how russian uh disinformation is why it’s so successful because it’s it’s not a question of people’s intelligence or their education or or anything like that it’s about how people’s minds are are changed so i’m quite upfront about this when i outline these histories and all of this stuff which is you know the ancient dna studies is published in nature and science the pre and preeminent scientific journals i stay away from from anything that’s in any way unkosher or not backed up. But yeah, so feel free to follow up on anything to do with the Indo-European thing. Yeah, part of what helped me see this pattern, this is what I really do, I hunt for patterns in data, And I assimilate, as many of us do, who participate in X, because X, as we now know from the third report on foreign information manipulation and interference by the European Union, which was released. I highly recommend to anyone. to read along with the first two reports, which was published a couple of weeks ago. X is where on a data set, I think it was over 40,000 FIMI instances of FIMI that were collected by the European Union. X was involved in 86% of them. So this is where we all are. And I know many of us have ethical dilemmas about should we be here, should we not? And most of us are also part of Blue Sky and other places. But the fight is here and the examples are here of whether it’s, I saw Maid Marian Simonian tweeting again in her folksy distant folklore way where she does this a lot where she tells these stories as indeed as donald they tell these stories of frankly horrifying things this is going to your question james uh really horrifying things uh like for instance don’t the way donald communicated and i think it was march 2024 that if uh that if the head of a major nato country said to him um we can’t pay for our NATO membership. Would you protect us? And he said, I’d say to do whatever the hell they want with you. And then this unit of information was then reported by CNN as a fact that Donald had had told this head of state that America wouldn’t protect him. But we’re not clear whether this ever, ever happened, but it was reported as a fact by CNN. And so you see these folksy stories get taken up. Simone, tonight, she’s talking about how people in the offices, and these terms really interest me, and they made me, I’ve seen them For years now, and if it’s a pattern, which is what, along with the horror of what they’re saying, if it’s a pattern that made me suspicious something methodical was going on here, which is what I’ve used this folklore to explain and to interpret. She says, oh, people in the offices in Moscow are saying that if Germany gives their weapons to Ukraine, that they will, Ukraine won’t be able to do anything with them without Germany’s help. therefore germany is complicit and so we’ll have to strike berlin and so this is a classic piece of distant folklore there’s a distancing uh in the narrative form it’s presented as a folksy story people in the offices of moscow as if she’s she’s just been uh and the image in our head is she’s she’s just heard this gossip uh and she said this before when she’s spoken the saint petersburg economic forum in June 2022. Many of us will remember this here, where she said people in Moscow are saying that all our hope is in the famine. And then she interprets what these folksy people are supposedly saying. And she’s sitting beside the head of state. She’s sitting beside Donsi Putin himself. on the days at St. Petersburg Economic Forum, dressed in green, which is why I call her Made, Marion, Simonian, like a reverse Robin Hood. And this is an aspect of the distant folklore analytical method that we can use these folklore archetypes to interpret those who are themselves using these folksy archetypes to combat them. And she said, the people in Moscow are saying all our hope is in the famine. And what they mean by that is, this is her saying that she understands what the folk what the ordinary folk in Moscow are saying. They are saying that there will be famine in Africa and the migrants will come
