Very cool research topic, doing language analytics on telegram channels is a pretty interesting case study for modern war propaganda. That being said, I think

Very cool research topic, doing language analytics on telegram channels is a pretty interesting case study for modern war propaganda. That being said, I think the theoretical framework presented here is flawed. Many political scholars would say that the definition of politics is the process of defining ingroups and outgroups. Fundamental to understanding political group dynamics is analyzing power, which a major component is the capacity for violence. This research provides a "Model of Othering" which, when properly understood, is really just synonym for political rhetoric. There are a lot of subtle moral presuppositions being made throughout this research that doesn't seem appropriate for a serious scholarly analysis. This might also be getting a bit too far off topic, but it also strikes me as fairly tone def to be publishing research comparing Russian war rhetoric to Nazi Germany when politicians from both of America's own political parties are currently calling Iran a "terrorist country".