QAnon originated in Russia as early as 1998. This is based on activity from a still operational English website that originates within Russia.
Putin wasn’t President, so this operative thinks that he wasn’t a major force in Russia.
Real smart, Matt.
Russia runs a ton of psychological operations, most of them that never catch on, including QAnon which was dead until Flynn’s Digital Soldiers went to town. Yet the Russians and their American allies, keep on trying because they hate having to compete with Democracy and open societies. When the Russians had Americans, some unwittingly others knowingly, working to undermine the US, the success rate of their joint ventures went up considerably.
Matt doesn’t work directly for Putin. None of these people do. Their work benefits Russia indirectly, by damaging US elections and trust in Democratic institutions. Those are facts based on present evidence available.
QAnon would have never succeeded if not for influencers like Matt Donovan, Douglas Stewart, Logan Strain (AKA Travis View), and Mike Rothschild on the “left” along with the bigger well-known names on the right such as Mike Flynn, Posobiec, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson and especially now Elon Musk. That’s because they promoted and spread the narratives far and wide, on both sides of the political spectrum that many became radicalized.
For those who don’t know, Matt Donovan, one of the biggest operators of networked single purpose hate accounts runs so many of these that they all sort of blend together in one Gordian knot. He is likely behind this account that reads so much like his voice.
Matt, who broke Federal laws terrorizing San Francisco voters, journalists, etc during the San Francisco School Board Recall, has been running these influence operations for a very long time. During that operation, he clashed with Louise Mensch, who identified a small number of his accounts, then pretended to be good at OSINT when honestly, these two know far more about each other than they let on.
Matt, like his pals Susan Portnoy and Louise Mensch, operate similarly, rotating handles on their accounts suggesting all three were trained using the same system, alleged to be that of Erik Prince. While Donovan isn’t working for Yonder, things he does as work and has also said show he likely did work with Yonder before at some point. More importantly, Matt, like Doug StewAnon Stewart, are going to be sweating over the next ball to drop based on the Mackey prosecution and Microchip flip. And he knows it.
While I don’t know everything about what Matt has done, his years long involvement with Doug as part of his crew led by Rocco Castoro, strongly suggests his communications are already monitored, along with past server logs and DMs being already in Fed possession.
I’ve said I’m gonna make s’mores over the fire when the joyful day arrives that they’re forced to burn all of their accounts. 🔥🏕️
In Matt’s case, he has so many socks to burn, it’s gonna be a big ass bonfire within a dumpster fire inside of a forest fire, topped off with fireworks.
Burn, baby, burn. 🔥🔥🔥