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and individuals on Russian TV are talking like this:
Yes, I forgot to mention the lady is one of the leading figures at RT. I suspect RT has some fans on this forum.Margarita Simonyan is the Grand Poobah at both RT and Sputnik.
She pushes whatever propaganda Putin tells her to push.
Yes and No.
During the Cuban Missle Crisis both Russia and the West only had long range ICBM nuclear weapons and both sides realized that such a war was unwinnable for either side. That realization has not changed.
What has changed since then is both sides now have smaller, battlefield nuclear weapons.
Would use of these by one side or the other quickly escalate into a larger nuclear war? Yes.
Those clips are made less for the Russian people and more for you and me. It's to scare us away from providing Ukraine with military aid.Russia and the West are closer to nuclear war than they were during the Cuban Missile Crisis, warns Nikita Khrushchev's daughter - 60 years after her father backed down.
Do you agree with this statement?
Please note the latest development:
The UK has predicted that Vladimir Putin will use Russia's victory day parade on May 9 to announce the mass mobilization of his reserves for a final push in Ukraine.
and individuals on Russian TV are talking like this:
I disagree. Propaganda in Eastern Europe works on fear to present a problem and then come up with a solution themselves. It is meant to scare the population in order to group them together around a Messiah, in this case, Putin, the "strongman".Those clips are made less for the Russian people and more for you and me. It's to scare us away from providing Ukraine with military aid.
I didn't say it's not for them. It is. But they know we're listening, and if you had to explain the utility of such a message, it makes much more sense that it would be made to scare the West into abandoning Ukraine.I disagree. Propaganda in Eastern Europe works on fear to present a problem and then come up with a solution themselves. It is meant to scare the population in order to group them together around a Messiah, in this case, Putin, the "strongman".
9/10 when I call old relatives back home and there is a political crisis, I can hear the TV blasting in the background, and fear is what is talking, not reason. After a few days like this, then a fixer is presented and everyone calms down.
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