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Chris Snow’s Big Reveal of Putin’s vicious propaganda regime at Medium, threatening the US and the West as well.  Excerpt:

The four main pillars of Russian propaganda:

1) Who knows if anything in politics is true. Russia sows doubt about the existence of an objective truth itself. Humans have an inner urge to truth and a resistance that anything is true. Russia sows doubt about anything being true.

2) Russia aims at foregoing consistency to confuse people and make them lose themselves in their own ideological explanations that they use to make sense of the events.

3) Saturation. Russian propaganda puts a focus on volume. Russia is flooding the information space with conflicting messages. Post truth propaganda does not require something to be true. Here are some examples of how that looks like: “ It didn’t happen, someone else did it, NATO did it, nobody did it, we both did it, it was an accident” and so on and so forth.

4) Motivation and tonality. I’m not trying to change anything and it wouldn’t work anyhow. People should spin out of control by using their own ideological logic against them. Ungovernability is the ultimate aim of Russian propaganda.

“The domestic Russian propaganda has switched back to Soviet style alternate reality propaganda by about 20 to 30 percent.” Vlad Vexler

This propaganda is different from Soviet times. The Soviets were a hard left communist utopian regime. Putin’s Russia is a far right fascist tyranny. Compared to the Nazis or Stalinism, Ruzzia lacks a fully politically activated and fascisized population.

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This erosion process will continue to be a problem even long after the Russian Federation has gone to hell.

These organic factors are:

1) The untethering of communal bonds.

2) The disinhibiting and atomizing effects of social media

3) Mechanisms of exclusion from political participation.

4) The spreading of ideologies of self-realization by political entrepreneurs. These ideologies result in giving up on the idea of solidarity and the public good.

5) Post truth populists take their voters with them into their conspiracy theory where the lie and the truth become the same thing.

Glory to Ukraine!