Just a reflection on the Western Government trolls.
Propaganda means the things which are to be propagated. It is about information and misinformation, concerning your strengths and weaknesses, what you present and what you hold back.
When you are the defender, you present yourself as strong, fearsome. When you are the attacker, you present yourself as weak, the more easily to slip under the radar, attack and kill.
Now, propaganda is not sloshing about negative or meaningless comments. Propaganda has a purpose: it serves the aims of the war.
What are those aims? For Ukraine, it is about land and borders, also ethnicities. For Russia, it is as stated at the start to “demilitarize” and “de-Nazify” the country.
My point is as always a simple and obvious one. When the trolls talk of Putin's wish to be a dictator, or to conquer new lands, or to re-form the Russian Empire or Soviet Union; when the trolls tell us that Russia is out of weapons, out of men, out of morale; what is the effect of their words?
Who is their audience? Surely not the Curious truth Seeker as their comments are hardly worth reading therefore Their audience must be themselves and those already suffering from russophobia.
All I want to say that it is very strange that in this war Russia does not generate any propaganda, as far as I can see There are open conferences and meetings with journalists that are recorded and no doubt questions are pre-prepared, but other than that Taas is not read by anyone and just generates basic facts.
And why might this be, why is Russia a black hole emitting no "information" to the West? Probably because the trolls here are doing the Russians' work for them. They are painting the Russians as essentially weak, ill-equipped, unprofessional and lacking fibre and morale. And Ukrainians read this and believe this.
That is exactly what the Russians want.
Not only that, but by their inane comments, the trolls present a picture of western publics as foolish and culpable. Imagine the shock and public reaction when confronted with reality. How many politicians and journalists will lose their jobs?
THE TROLLS ARE BATTING FOR THE OTHER SIDE
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