War propaganda.... make the other guy appear as evil, unreasonable and outright insane as possible... there is zero justification for his actions, no grounds for empathy or sympathy with the other sides perspective.
There is no alternative explanation for how we ended up at war except that Putin is literally Hitler bent on the total destruction of Ukraine to instigate WW3.
I guess we have no choice, we have to invade Russia (again).
War propaganda.... make the other guy appear as evil, unreasonable and outright insane as possible... there is zero justification for his actions, no grounds for empathy or sympathy with the other sides perspective.
There is no alternative explanation for how we ended up at war except that Putin is literally Hitler bent on the total destruction of Ukraine to instigate WW3.
I guess we have no choice, we have to invade Russia (again).
I guess we have no choice, we have to invade Russia (again).
So I'm not a history major, but can you clear up when the USA invaded Russia the last time?
It's staggering to me how badly the info war has gone for Russia. I don't have any delusions about them being unable to "beat" Ukraine but this sure has put a strain on the probably already limited political will to do so
Russia has largely banned Twitter and Facebook internally
But that just became harder, at least for Russian users, with the Russian Government restricting access to Facebook, over claims that the platform restricted the accounts of four Russian media outlets.
How is this unexpected that the western dominated social media and tech platforms would censure all of Russia as a form of control over the narrative? Of course if it favors your perspective of being Pro-Ukraine in this instance, you don't see this or don't care to see it. That is how the echo chamber works.
How is this unexpected that the western dominated social media and tech platforms would censure all of Russia as a form of control over the narrative? Of course if it favors your perspective of being Pro-Ukraine in this instance, you don't see this or don't care to see it. That is how the echo chamber works.
they do this all the time. this is par for the course when they don't like something, and in the case of fighting a war, that's an obvious strategy. a very old strategy.
This is propaganda 101, if I was fighting a war I certainly wouldn't want the other side offering any counter-narrative to my own, especially among the general populous whose support I depend on.
I don't think whatever the plan is in play, is going as smoothly as Putin had hoped, which could lead to an escalation that is even worse. I think he expected this to perhaps go more like it did in Georgia... but the Ukrainians are more stubborn and have a lot more, very public, western support. A lot more is at stake for the west than merely defending their moral principles and "doing the right thing".
Ukraine is a very strategic location on the board of a very old game.
Facebook and Twitter banned Russian State Media first.
It's surprising because it's basically a series of unforced errors in sequence that compromise their own info war. They push the Donbas narrative super hard internally, position their actions as peacekeeping, then don't actually even commit enough to achieve those strategic goals because they essentially planned to not encounter resistance. So instead of merely liberating the separatist regions OR quickly decapitating Ukraine's regime they're sending a bunch of Russian soldiers/materiel into the grinder so that they can get sanctioned and negotiate anyway. It's scatterbrained