Alright, let’s talk about @mfa_russia, the official Twitter clown car for the

By Susan Pearson (@susanpearson1941.bsky.social)
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@mfarussia is the official clown car of russian foreign policy, and every tweet is a new low in state-sponsored cope. imagine the onion, but the punchlines are war crimes and the laugh track is just bots with anime avis.

the blender method

these guys dont just spin the news, they put it in a blender, dump in some soviet mayo, and call it an official statement. cold war cosplay, soviet nostalgia, and a social media intern who thinks sarcasm is a foreign policy tool, thats the whole vibe. every post is a fever dream where reality gets redrawn to fit the mood, not the map.

take their latest: “🇷🇺⚡Ukrainian controlled Zaporozhye.” sounds spicy, but its pure fiction. maps, news, even their own wikipedia links say otherwise. but facts are for losers, the mfa is here for vibes. if the lada wont start, just say its a feature, not a bug.

choose your own delusion

this is not a one-off, its the whole playbook. every claim is a choose-your-own-adventure of denial, deflection, and delusion. russia “advances” in zaporizhzhia, which means getting lost in a sunflower field and calling it a tactical retreat. its like losing at chess, flipping the board, and insisting you invented “strategic repositioning.” the only thing advancing is the number of excuses.

they flood the feed with:

nobody buys it except the guy still waiting for his lada to start and the bots farming engagement.

sources you can color in

dont even get me started on their “evidence.” when your proof is a wikipedia map and a reuters headline that doesnt back you up, you are not doing propaganda, you are speedrunning embarrassment. showing up to a debate with a coloring book and yelling “checkmate” is the mfa brand.

their idea of proof:

if you want facts, look literally anywhere else. if you want to see a government mainlining its own propaganda, this is the show.

the exhaustion strategy

heres the real kicker: this is not some troll account, its the official mouthpiece of a country that still thinks its a superpower. they cosplay as the voice of reason while the world screenshots their posts for the group chat. the regime floods the zone with so much bullshit that people just give up trying to keep track.

its not about convincing you, its about exhausting you

they dont want you to believe, they want you to stop caring. every tweet is a new layer of confusion, distraction, and meme warfare from a ministry that lost the plot somewhere between crimea and telegram.

the circus never ends

@mfarussia is not a source of information, its a live-action roleplay of a ministry that forgot what its job was. their mission is to confuse, distract, and meme their way through a war theyre losing both on the ground and online. the only thing more tragic than their propaganda is the fact they think anyone outside the kremlin is buying it.

the clowns will never admit theyre the joke, but the rest of us are just here for the screenshots.