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@/WarWritings: Here are some valuable reasons why russian army are not “ordinary guys in absolutely extraordinary situation” like russian propaganda says. These reasons are war crimes. Unfortunately the list of war crimes is being updated every day.
do you unironically believe russian psyops are a real thing. be serious.
And to be clear: Every government engages in psyops. Psyops is literally a term that comes from our own government's actions.
It would be great if western leftists actually read material from leftists and anarchists in Russia and Ukraine, but that would destroy their narrative that everything is NATO's fault and would lead them to support actual liberatory politics in the region.
I notice more and more that non-Ukrainians who see our posts about Ukraine, first of all, don't see a lot of them, and second of all, don't posses information over how to help us because of the first reason.
So let's try to break our informational bubble so that more people have the instruments to access the truth.
This is a video from the Ukrainian journalistic platform Suspilne Kultura that discusses russian propaganda inside and outside of russia. The video is in Ukrainian but has English subtitles.
Please give it a watch.
Short in English: Roskomnadzon (rusian goverment part which block sites that they don't like/opposes them) is going to update their tools which can render vpn useless. Second is: In Crimea they started to block vpns more actively (both screenshots are from tg channel Crimean wind)
On which I kindly suggest them all to go fuck themselves because what the fuck is this. They can go all the fucking way out of my home and stop with their ten-years long bullshit.
Russian lies are meant not only to disinform, to make action more difficult, but also to demotivate, to make action seem senseless. Russian memes work not by presenting Russia as a positive alternative, but by demoralizing others. No one wants to be close to "Nazis," and the simple introduction of the lie is confusing and saddening. The same holds with the Russian meme to the effect that Ukraine is corrupt. A completely bogus Russian source introduced the entirely fake idea that the Ukrainian president had bought yachts. Although this was entirely untrue, Representative Greene then spread the fiction. Senator J.D. Vance also picked up the "yacht" example and used it as his justification for opposing aid to Ukraine. The larger sense of that lie is that everyone everywhere is corrupt, even the people who seem most admirable; and so we might as well give up on our heroes, on any struggle for democracy, or any struggle at all. Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelens'kyi, chose to risk his life by remaining in Kyiv and defending his country against a fearsome attack from Russia which almost all outsiders believed would succeed within days. His daring gamble saved not only his own democracy, but opened a window of faith that democracies can defend themselves. It confirmed the basis lesson of liberty that individual choices have consequences. The lie directed at Zelens'kyi was meant not only to discredit him personally and undermine support for Ukraine, but also to persuade Americans that no one is righteous and nothing is worth defending.
Timothy Snyder