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Originally Posted by richard-john56
I would like it if they would stop using the term the West v Russia and use the World against Putin more often. jfman is wrong about the USA strategic objectives and they pull the funding for it they have stated as long as it takes many times. We must do much more on the properganda information war as well.
Now the Russians blame our Royal Navy for blowing the Nord Stream gas pipe supply up.
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The vast bulk of Russian propaganda is for domestic consumption and is designed to perpetuate Russia’s sense of victimhood (which is strong) and to ensure the Russian public continues to remain content to allow the elites to run the country. Russians often blame us for stuff, even more so than the USA, because we’re a real bogeyman to them. Probably goes back to the wars of the 19th century. Take it as a compliment.
As for the world v Putin, well unfortunately it really isn’t. Where Russia’s propaganda has found a receptive audience, there is far less willingness to openly condemn. Large parts of Africa are ambivalent if not outright supportive. In some cases, Russia looks a better bet to them that their former colonial masters. India is continuing to try to have its cake and eat it (it buys most of its arms from Russia), though it is seemingly more willing to quietly criticise Putin now than at the outset. China would have preferred Russia not to reawaken NATO’s sense of unity and purpose, or to behave in ways that have indirectly shone a light on its own designs on Taiwan, but nevertheless remans a firm ally to Russia. And Iran … well like it or not Iran is part of the world and Iran is selling Russia loitering munitions (aka kamikaze drones) by the bucketload.