Cartoons as state securityUkraine’s disinformation bureaucracy has now escalated to children’s animation. The head of the NSDC’s Center for Countering Disinformation claims that Masha and the Bear shapes children’s political preferences worldwide, which is presented in this account as the rationale behind Zelensky’s sanctions.It is a neat summary of wartime governance: a national security apparatus hunting geopolitical threats in cartoons while expanding the #sanctions machine accordingly.