5/6/2023 0 Comments Shifty eyed spies![]() ![]() “The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has established itself as the vanguard of digital authoritarianism. It’s the center of gravity of this entire worldview. This sells around the world where authoritarians seek to stay in power.įocus on the regime legitimacy part. Pro-Russia propagandist unmasked as New Jersey tropical fish seller However, Ms Bils denied being personally involved. NAFO later compared the footage, which included her voice and home décor, with Donbas Devushka's postings.Īccording to the Wall Street Journal, the Donbas Devushka Telegram account played a key role in the dissemination of intelligence documents allegedly leaked by Airman First Class Jack Teixeira, by reposting them onto an array of obscure online chat rooms. She appeared on as episode of the Aquarium Co-op Podcast, an online show about fish tanks, in June 2020. Ms Bils’s enthusiasm for tropical fish was to prove her undoing. Her reputation among tropical fish enthusiasts was good, with the community regarding her as well-informed and trustworthy. She also divided her time between serving in the Navy and running Cascade Aquatics, a business selling tropical fish and imported food from Poland. The reality, however, was that she was embroiled in a court case with her husband of three years in Oak Harbor, Washington. She claimed that back then Kyiv was killing people in Luhansk where the population is 53 per cent Ukrainian and 47 per cent Russian. Ms Bils told her followers that in 2014 she had been travelling between the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and Luhansk in Ukraine. The discrepancies between her social media persona and reality are striking. Using assorted pseudonyms including CheburekiVibes, MeatballSubZero, YuGopnik, GhostofLugansk, she has amassed 135,000 subscribers to her podcast on which she broadcasts with a cod “Russian” accent.Īccording to public information records she was born in Vorhees, New Jersey and enlisted with the US Navy in November 2009. She built up a sizeable social media following on Twitter, Telegram and YouTube, emerging as the face of Russian propaganda, raising money and selling merchandise for the Russian cause. To her devoted followers, “Donbas Devushka” – or Donbas Girl – is a Russian Jew from the occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk, who has faithfully broadcast Kremlin propaganda for months.īut in reality, she is Sarah Bils, a 37-year-old divorcee from New Jersey and a US Navy veteran who served as an aviation electronics technician at Whitby Island in Washington State. Her story is connected to the sharing of leaked, classified materials by Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira. She’s a former E-7 in the US Navy knocked down to E-5 before her discharge. Amid much bigger headlines, Sarah Bils is the insider threat story you haven’t heard about. ![]()
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