Ukrainian Hit Lists Wage Cold Terror on Americans
Militants Threaten Americans In An Effort to Control the Ukrainian Narrative
The recent brutal murder of InfoWars reporter Jamie White has brought to the fore suspicions regarding the motives of the murderer. Local authorities claim this was simply a car theft gone wrong. However, the fact that White posted about his placement on a Ukrainian "enemies list" has fueled concerns that this was a hit job.
To add heft to that conjecture, InfoWars head honcho Alex Jones revealed he's heard from General Michael Flynn that he too is in danger. Here again the suspected actors are associated with Ukraine.
Recall that the second Trump assassin, Ryan Routh, was also tied to Ukraine and that details regarding the first assassin, the one who actually hit Donald Trump with a bullet, are still unclear.
This begs the question: Why does it seem that Ukraine or elements associated with Ukraine are so frequently tied to these high profile instances of violence or threats? Because that's what an "enemies list" is: a threat. It's a form of coercion meant to make those who have been singled out fear for their safety.
Look at the reaction to the White murder. Some people will simply believe the police narrative. Yet others will reject that narrative out of hand, unable to shake the suspicion that there could have been some form of state involvement. Regardless of the facts of the case, there is nothing you can do to convince this second group of people otherwise.
Why?
Because of the list.
If there were no such thing as an enemies list, there would be no reason to question the story about White's murder.
Jordan Peterson is also on this list. If God forbid something were to happen to Jordan Peterson, you can bet that people will again suspect Ukrainian involvement. Even if the Ukrainians had nothing to do with it.
By its very existence that list becomes a possible explanation for any ill fortune that befalls anyone it names.
Maybe the Ukrainians are involved, maybe they aren't. Or maybe it's the work of nut jobs like Routh who've been brainwashed into believing any negative or neutral opinion of Ukraine means you're a Putin puppet.
These nefarious actors can make this list, publish it, and then leave it up to the randomness of the universe to do their dirty work for them. Suddenly everyone is looking over their shoulder for Ukrainian assassins. Over time, fear can only grow.
And who exactly is on this list? Lots of people. People whose names you would recognize. And it might also interest you to know that there happens to be more than one list. A fact which adds to the confusion regarding the lists.
MYROTOVETS CENTER LIST
Of all the lists we're looking at, only one, the Myrotovets Center list, tracks the status of those it names. Any of the registered persons who are killed are listed as dead. That makes this list the one true "hit list" of the bunch.
That's why this is the most cited example of a hit list of Ukrainian enemies. It's propagated by the Myrotovets Center under the name "Purgatory" in Ukrainian. Myrotovets isn't an official government organ (none of these listing sites are), and the list itself seems to be just a page of entries from a database. How large this database is, I can't say; it isn't set up for open-ended queries. From what I can tell, though, the people on that list are all Russian citizens, most of them in pictures wearing Russian military garb.
The site is set to import massive amounts of data from spreadsheets should you happen to have your own Ukrainian enemies to add. But the field input requirements explicitly state that all personal names be entered in Russian while all other fields need to be entered in Ukrainian. (Yes, those are two different languages.) So by design the list isn't built to include non-Russians. It assumes the person you wish to register is a Russian. Which makes sense given the war.
So, all in all, the Myrotovets Center list doesn't appear that scandalous. It's a hit list, but it's a hit list of Russian combatants and not non-Russians. There is a question as to who this list is for. Is it for Ukrainian military operations? The fact that it's publicly available means that PR is among its goals.
The other lists are more coy. They're not explicitly characterized as hit lists. The groups behind those lists are Molfar OSINT (OSINT being short for Open Source Intelligence) and Texty.org.ua. These lists aren't limited to Russian military or public officials. No, these seem to have been designed with the explicit purpose of putting a target on the backs of ordinary citizens around the world. Including Americans.
MOLFAR OSINT LIST
We can start with the Molfar intelligence firm -- a group that, despite its pretensions to being shadowy, enjoys a good deal of Globalist media recognition from outlets like The Guardian and PBS. Their list includes war criminals and other Russian state actors.
But they also have list under the heading of "Foreign Propagandists." Molfar claims you earn a place on their registry if there is "evidence of crimes against Ukrainian statehood." And of course it's all "guided by the principles and norms of international law."
So there. Perfectly aboveboard.
Who does Molfar consider as having evidence of "crimes against Ukrainian statehood?" Why Kanye West, of course!
Also included on this list are a number of politicians in other countries. People like Kazuhiro Haraguchi of Japan, Marine Le Pen of France, and Luiz Lula da Silva (no relation) of Brazil.
Looking at the cited "evidence" of these "crimes," it becomes clear that all it takes to get added to the list is skepticism about the cause of the war or expressing any sort of realistic vision of Ukraine's ability to resist.
Basically the most commonly held views today.
It's not just political power brokers and politicians. Molfar's list includes some rather obscure internet personalities like a Japanese pacifist blogger who goes by "Eric C." He's on the list for what he posts on X, as are many others.
Did you know that by publicly voicing your opinion on the Ukrainian conflict, you might be running afoul of anti-Ukrainian statecrime according to the "norms and principles of international law?"
Aside from Kanye West, there also happens to be a host of other American personalities and politicians on this list. People like Glenn Greenwald, Jimmy Dore, Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, Elon Musk, and Tucker Carlson. That's not all. See for yourself who you recognize.
TEXTY.ORG.UA LIST
There's considerable overlap between that list and the one propagated by Texty.org called, for some reason, "Roller Coaster." This list was compiled with the help of Americans and American sources and consists of nothing but Americans. The data here is presented in a much more slick manner than the others, with color coding and visualized associations between persons and organizations.
It's clear this site was meant to have an impact on the 2024 election as it touts that many of those listed are "Trumpists" or aligned with the MAGA movement. Here again we get plenty of politicians including JD Vance, Vivek Ramaswamy, RFK Jr, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, and Anna Paulina Luna. To name a few.
The fact that researchers go out of their way to list nearly every single person associated with Donald Trump's "ecosystem" while failing to list Trump himself is the kind of overt omission that can only arouse suspicion. The site was last updated in May 2024. Perhaps the purveyors thought it would be a bit too on the nose to name the GOP candidate before his assassination.
But let's not get carried away with ourselves here by assuming foreknowledge.
The list doesn't stop at our political leaders. Also included are whole organizations ranging from activism to journalism. Organizations like Turning Point USA, The Daily Wire, the Cato Institute, and InfoWars. And of course the people associated with those institutions, like Jamie White.
Looking at the data set they have curated for White, it appears to be an exact match to his X post from June 2024:
I invite readers to go to the site and witness the madness for yourself. You might want to do a query on your own name. Can't be too careful.
UKRAINIAN TIES
Like I said, Texty.org uses Americans and American sources, but the site itself is not American. It's based in Ukraine and its founders, Editor-in-Chief Roman Kulchynsky, and Data Journalist Anatolly Bondarenko, are both Ukrainians. Neither includes a headshot in their social media. (An implicit yet ironic acknowledgment of the dangers of having your personal details published online.) Hypocrisy and cowardice. Essential qualities for professionals in the field of intimidation.
Though their website lists a London address, the team behind Molfar are all Ukrainians most of whom I have confirmed list Ukraine as their location.
Myrotovets has no pretensions to being international. They are Ukrainian staffed and run operating from Ukraine for Ukrainians.
THUGISH INTENTIONS
These three lists are all independently sourced, but when taken together they form a pattern. At the very least, the purveyors of these lists published their registries with the intention of socially isolating those they name. There is no other rationale for their existence online. I'll let the good folks from Molfar explain it in their own words:
The main feature of Molfar's foreign propagandists' registry is the uniqueness of the collected personalities. Instead of mentioning famous names of internal Russian propagandists, we focused on the personalities of external agents of Russia. Foreign propagandists of the Russian Federation repeat the theses of the Kremlin leadership, justify Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, call for the lifting of Western sanctions against the Russian Federation, and convince the world that the annexation of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine is legitimate.
The vast majority of Russian foreign propagandists are citizens of the EU, the United States, Canada, or other Western countries. Even though they are actively engaged in propaganda in favor of Russia, the international community has not responded to their activity properly: removal from public positions, the introduction of sanctions, and investigations into personal involvement in crimes. Molfar emphasizes the seriousness of foreign propagandists' actions to undermine the territorial integrity and sovereignty of states, as well as manipulate international law.
Molfar's professionally and dispassionately curated list is meant to expose "agents of Russia" even if they happen to be free "citizens of the EU, the United States, Canada, or other Western countries." That means if you're on the list, it's because in the view of Molfar you're on the take from Putin himself. Yet the evidence Molfar cites provides zero actual receipts other than voicing one's opinion publicly.
And for this, Molfar exhorts the entire international community to respond by deplatforming, sanctioning, and subjecting individuals to criminal investigation. Notice how this mentality, that you either parrot Ukrainian talking points or you're a Putin puppet as well as the tactic of deplatforming and lawfare dovetails perfectly with the establishment view of Ukraine as well as the tools of cancel culture and government lawfare.
This is intimidation. In their own words, these lists are about protecting the nation of Ukraine from the existential threat of Russia. Those are very high stakes. It doesn't take a whole lot of imagination to understand how Ukrainian patriots or their radical sympathizers around the world would respond to threats like this. In their minds, deadly force is very justifiable.
The lists form a spectrum with the Myrotovets Center list of Russian war criminals at one end and the Texty.org list of Americans at the other extreme. In the middle, we have the Molfar list which contains elements of both. So if you end up being placed on one of these lists for an offhand post on social media, you're not merely being called out for your political opinion, you're being lumped in with members of the Russian military suspected of committing war crimes.
Keep in mind that this is the penalty for having the wrong opinion or worldview. While the vast majority of the entries on this list are conservatives (the dreaded MAGA wing of the Republican party), they also name antiwar activists like the group Code Pink and scholar Noam Chomsky.
COLD TERROR
Since the days of the War on Terror, Americans are familiar with the concept of embedded civilian combatants operating in our midst in terrorist cells. The tactic is extremely discomfiting -- which is the whole goal of terrorism.
These lists constitute an inversion of the usual method of bringing terror to a civilian population. Instead of embedding combatants in our midst, they embed radical extremist ideas in the minds of the current population. It paints targets on the backs of those who express their political views -- a target that glows only in the minds of those who have been ideologically captured by unbending pro-Ukrainianism.
Like the traditional terror tactic, this too is coordinated. All three sites are run from Ukraine. Though they may be organized by people with either overt or implicit connections to the Ukrainian government, there is no reason to assume that a country under martial law would tolerate this behavior if it was not indeed sanctioned in the first place. Ukraine has a history of disappearing journalists who the government finds inconvenient. Therefore, these actors, be they concerned citizens or "data journalists," can only be operating with the approval of the Ukrainian government.
Which ultimately implicates the US government as well -- Ukraine being a puppet state since its CIA-led color revolution ensconced Zelenskyy in power. The Myrotovets Center list cites sources from the American FBI and NSA as well as an alternative address in Langley Virginia.
As stated earlier, Molfar enjoys US media propping with citations in PBS, The New York Times, Forbes, Gizmodo, Hackernoon, CNN, Vice, The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and Business Insider.
The Texty.org site lists a number of US sources which may or may not be aware of their use by this organization. These include Media Bias Factcheck based in North Carolina, SourceWatch a project of the Wisconsin-based and politically liberal Center for Media and Democracy, Influence Watch which is a project of the Capital Research Center in DC, Wikipedia, and an advocacy group called Republicans for Ukraine.
Since I have begun work on this research, the organization's list, the one referenced by the now deceased InfoWars reporter Jamie White, is no longer available on its English language website. White was murdered on the 10th of March and by the 14th, that list he posted had been taken down. There are some archives of the page but unfortunately the table of personalities and organizations cannot be searched past the first 10 of a total of 462 results.
Fortunately, the original Ukrainian language page still retains the full table. And, because the entries are all in English even on the Ukrainian page, it was no hassle to copy the table contents for posterity's sake.
These lists are tool of fomenting terrorism -- they are a psychological operation meant to turn a population on itself with the compliant attacking the non-compliant. It's psychological in the way the Cold War was also psychological.
There's a fair bit of subterfuge here, too. Protected by the iron curtain of their dictatorship state, the malicious actors who manage these lists enjoy anonymity and freedom from repercussions. Remote actors and the intentional hiding of incriminating data is the kind of slippery behavior you expect from Cold War actors.
Next thing you know, there will be dead drops, listening devices, one time pads and number stations.
Thankfully, the terror here doesn't involve explosive devices, planes diving into buildings, or vehicular homicide. But as the suspicions surrounding Trump's attempted assassinations and Jamie White's death show, that doesn't preclude the potential for violence, chaos, and death.
Ask a Korean or Vietnam war vet. The Cold War wasn't without its bloodshed. What made it "cold" was that the conflicts were ideological instead of geographic or national. This meant that, in addition to boots on the ground, the war was prosecuted with psychological weapons.
These Ukrainian list makers are using psychological warfare to wage a geographic conflict with the intention of programming us into believing this is actually an ideological clash. Coercion and threats are a form of mental manipulation, after all.
This "Cold Terror" tactic is unusual. For Ukraine it's employment is incredibly stupid. Only a complete moron would try to bully the free citizens of the country they are most reliant on for money and materiel. It's a tactic that's almost guaranteed to backfire spectacularly.
We see that in the decreasing levels of support for Ukraine across our country. We see it in the victory of Donald Trump in the 2024 election despite the best efforts of groups like Molfar and especially Texty.org to isolate the isolationists.
Anti-Ukrainian sentiment is rising. Americans don't take kindly to being told what to do or how to think. Especially when those doing the telling are unelected tyrants hostile to our nation's people and values. We see these lists as an affront to our civil rights which come from God no matter what the Zelenskyys or Bidens of the world think. It's hard to be concerned for Ukraine's territory and sovereignty when her citizens are conducting psychological warfare within our borders to violate our civil rights to free speech.
Ukraine, and the pro-Ukraine crowd must disavow these lists. The contents as well as the intent to commit Cold Terrorism on American soil. Ukraine's survival depends on our general good will. What they are doing now is fomenting our outright hostility.
Molfar and Texty.org, must cease and desist.
Or they will end up losing utterly the very country they purport to save.
Matt da Silva once worked at the highest levels of government trust as a Japanese and Mandarin Navy linguist. In addition to working at the tip of the intel spear, he also has the distinction of having served 18 months in federal prison for his involvement in Jan 6. Now he's pardoned and using his intel analysis and writing skills in defense of the 21st century civil rights movement known as America First. You can find more of his writings at his substack (which is free). You may also want to give him a follow on X and TruthSocial. Please subscribe!