Extraordinary account of the son of a CIA deputy director who ended his life fighting for the Russian imperial war machine in Ukraine. His tragic journey ran from social justice to hippy counterculture to multipolar fascism. istories.media/en/stories/2... Some key points in my🧵to follow… - ThreadSky

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Extraordinary account of the son of a CIA deputy director who ended his life fighting for the Russian imperial war machine in Ukraine. His tragic journey ran from social justice to hippy counterculture to multipolar fascism.

https://istories.media/en/stories/2025/04/25/michael-gloss-story/

Some key points in my🧵to follow…

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speedofella.bsky.social•4 days ago

bskybeetlegeuise.bsky.social•3 days ago

Really you are so intellectually incurious that you don’t find the story of the son of a CIA director horseshoe theory-ing around to die for Russian fascism interesting at all? And you stopped to say so?

speedofella.bsky.social•2 days ago

Do you not understand what NAFO represents? Couldn't care less about the death of a person volunteering as a ruzzian soldier in the genocidal war against the Ukrainians. Obviously the Kremlin doesn't care about their soldiers and you think that I should? He was sent into a meatwave. Lol.

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•2 days ago

In my view It’s sick to laugh at the death of anyone except the most evil, let alone a mentally ill child sent as cannon fodder. It’s foolish to not want to understand the mechanisms and narratives that make this happen.

bskybeetlegeuise.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah, I’ve run into self-righteous pieces of fucking shit before…

bskybeetlegeuise.bsky.social•2 days ago

If you don’t find this story, interesting your intellectually incurious. If that is your reason, then you’re also a twat.

bskybeetlegeuise.bsky.social•2 days ago

Imagine thinking you’re not allowed to read shit about people without cosigning on their existence. What the fuck is wrong with you?

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you! I was hoping they just meant no one cares about the boy dying, but that’s a bad attitude too. It’s tragic that a young well intentioned idealist gets warped into dying for an evil cause, and surely it’s worth exploring why it happened.

speedofella.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nope, let's consider Sven Hassel as a starting point. The 'boy' died fighting in a war, guess what... that's what they do. He chose a side that has evil intentions and yes, for the greater part, NOBODY FUCKING CARES.

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don’t get the Sven Hassel starting point. But anyway it’s kind of bizarre to spend a bunch posts saying nobody cares in all caps when lots of people are obviously fascinated and even you are drawn in.

bskybeetlegeuise.bsky.social•2 days ago

Are you familiar with these NAFO fucks? Everything in their mind is “Russia evil” and they literally can’t see anything else in a conversation or the world through it.

bskybeetlegeuise.bsky.social•2 days ago

Confirmed. You’re a clueless twat with no intellectual curiosity.

ladyevenstarbpe.bsky.social•2 days ago

👍Oh dear... 😉

krychevska.bsky.social•2 days ago

oh noes..he went to my country to k*ll my people and FAFOed, what makes him even worse than those invading 🪳🪳 is that he really didn't HAVE to....no 'valid'😐 excuse..he should've stayed home...🙄

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•4 days ago

Michael Gloss had fairly common white middle class social justice warrior views, including deep antipathy to “America” as the embodiment of capitalist evil. He seems to have radicalised while involved in the Rainbow Family hippy cult, where he hung out with a 🇷🇺 crowd…

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-dark-side-of-the-rainbow-gathering/

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•4 days ago

Anti-Americanism led Gloss to embrace the ideal of a “multipolar world”, in which “BRICS” countries led by Putin challenge American hegemony – ideas seeded in countercultural scenes by followers of Dugin and LaRouche…

(See @areidross.bsky.social: https://leftrenewal.org/articles-en/reid-ross-the-multipolar-spin/ )

airwolf.bsky.social•4 days ago

I did not know there was a Venn Diagram overlap of Dugin and LaRouche ideas but it’s clearly a very bad place.

vorkoz.bsky.social•4 days ago

One of Dugin's books about Geopolitics/Eurasianism has a chapter introducing to readers two american 'geopolitical thinkers':
Lyndon LaRouche and William Engdahl.

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•4 days ago

Israel’s brutal war in Gaza was another key vector of Gloss’s radicalisation, helped by conspiracy theory videos about Israel itself perpetrating the October 7 attacks (a theme heavily promoted by the pro-Russian YouTubers of the Grayzone) and the false idea that 🇷🇺’s regime is pro-🇵🇸…

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•4 days ago

Gloss also really invested in tankie retro-Stalinist aesthetics, loads of USSR/Red Army imagery…

oldsquida.bsky.social•3 days ago

a really confused kid

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•4 days ago

Glass seems to have flirted with Islam, and adopted some of the “Eurasian” mythologies associated with Duginism, while continuing to embrace wacky New Age/eco-utopian & alternative health ideas. It’s a bizarre but depressing story that sadly fits a wider pattern of paths from radicalism to fascism.

punchnazisitsokay.bsky.social•4 days ago

Estrogenics in the water 😞😞😞

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