Geopolitics

This is a textbook example of the Soviet-era tactic of weaponizing psychiatry for state repression.

"A medical commission of doctors from Moscow’s Alexeyeva psychiatric hospital found on March 15 that Tater showed 'tension, impulsiveness [and] delusional ideas and attitudes', including a sense of 'persecution' and 'lack of critical attitude towards his state'."

In other words: if you come to Russia and are wrongfully detained, you're mentally ill if you're upset about it.

Worse still, the fact that you think you're being persecuted—and that you're critical of Russia instead of the U.S.—is, in itself, taken as proof that you're delusional.

This is a textbook example of the Soviet-era tactic of weaponizing psychiatry for state repression.

"A medical commission of doctors from Moscow’s Alexeyeva psychiatric hospital found on March 15 that Tater showed 'tension, impulsiveness [and] delusional ideas and attitudes', including a sense of 'persecution' and 'lack of critical attitude towards his state'."

In other words: if you come to Russia and are wrongfully detained, you're mentally ill if you're upset about it.

Worse still, the fact that you think you're being persecuted—and that you're critical of Russia instead of the U.S.—is, in itself, taken as proof that you're delusional.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/6/joseph-tater-us-man-awaiting-trial-in-russia-sent-to-psychiatric-hospital