As my friend Mystery Grove Publishing Co. pointed out, the propaganda coming out of the Ukraine/Russia conflict is what Orwell referred to when he said that intellectuals created "emotional superstructures" around events that never happened during the Spanish Civil War. Much of what we are seeing is engineered to appeal to the emotions of people whose worldview is based on superhero movies and reality TV.
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“The Western secular imagination doesn’t get this. It looks at Putin’s speech the other evening, and it describes him as mad — which is another way of saying we do not understand what is going on.”
https://unherd.com/2022/02/putins-spiritual-destiny/
https://unherd.com/2022/02/putins-spiritual-destiny/
UnHerd
Putin's spiritual destiny
The religious president wants to rebuild Christendom
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Americans’ understanding of Russia before Russia Gate was bad. But Americans’ understand after Russia Gate is far, far worse.
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‘Freedom Fries’ was stupid and pulling Russian products off American shelves is just as clownish.
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MIKE CERNOVICH: “Russia’s propaganda is making the war seem small. If they posted victory videos, it would backfire.
Ukraine’s storytelling is for movie fans, people who aren’t deep or serious, and who fall for disinformation.
Hard to say who is doing better propaganda. Different aims.”
Ukraine’s storytelling is for movie fans, people who aren’t deep or serious, and who fall for disinformation.
Hard to say who is doing better propaganda. Different aims.”
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Russian airborne landing happening now in Borshchahivka, Kiev: reports.
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TRUMP: “The real problem is that our leaders are dumb…so dumb.”
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Reducing complicated conflicts to simple white hat/black hat narratives is easier than dealing with thorny realities, especially when your own side is culpable. Still, it’s alarming seeing so many on the American Right fall for the comic book narrative on Ukraine/Russia.
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America's intervention in Kosovo is inextricably linked to today's crisis with Russia in Ukraine.
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Many people are learning it's easier to catch fake news at home than to detect it abroad. At home, you have lived experiences to reference combined with independent streams of information.
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MAP BREAK: The Insitute for The Study of War shows the situation in Ukraine. The picture on the left is from today. The one on the right is from yesterday.
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Trump slams Trudeau's 'left-wing fascists', stands up for Canadian truckers, freedom protesters
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-slams-trudeaus-left-wing-fascists-says-we-stand-with-canadian-truckers?utm_campaign=64502
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-slams-trudeaus-left-wing-fascists-says-we-stand-with-canadian-truckers?utm_campaign=64502
The Post Millennial
BREAKING: Trump slams Trudeau’s ‘left-wing fascists’, stands up
for Canadian truckers, freedom protesters
for Canadian truckers, freedom protesters
“They have been slandered as Nazis and terrorists and treated
worse that murderers. We stand with the truckers and the
Canadians!”
worse that murderers. We stand with the truckers and the
Canadians!”
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BREAKING (Sky News) — Ukraine and Russia set to hold peace talks at Belarusian-Ukrainian border, says office of President Zelenskyy.
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ROBERT BARNES: “Regime change by military intervention in the name of national security is always wrong, unless of course it's Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, most of Central America, much of Latin America, key countries in Africa or Asia, and it's us doing the regime change.”
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JUST IN — Council of the Russian Federation: Russia will be delivering precision strikes on individuals in Ukraine's territory who transport arms to Kiev.
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AMAZING: Bridge after bridge on the John Kilpatrick Turnpike in Oklahoma City is filled with freedom convoy supporters.
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MUST-WATCH: Freedom convoy gets a big welcome in Oklahoma City!
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