A friend of mine who left Russia years ago told me earlier they do this with internal news as well, one day something is amazing the other day it is total crap, without being told about a meaningful event in between.
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A friend of mine who left Russia years ago told me earlier they do this with internal news as well, one day something is amazing the other day it is total crap, without being told about a meaningful event in between. Not just geopolitics, but for example a certain brand of bread or a member of a low government. They would for ages say some village somewhere is a really good place to travel because of pristine nature and the next day say they never seen a place so ugly (omitting that some factory spilled chemicals in the lake or something like that). I also believe the smaller news stations don't really know what happened at all but just hear what they are supposed to say and also that nobody with a pro-government audience even dares to investigate something. They are just echoing the message they received from the ministry of news or whatever it is called.
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A friend of mine who left Russia years ago told me earlier they do this with internal news as well, one day something is amazing the other day it is total crap, without being told about a meaningful event in between. Not just geopolitics, but for example a certain brand of bread or a member of a low government. They would for ages say some village somewhere is a really good place to travel because of pristine nature and the next day say they never seen a place so ugly (omitting that some factory spilled chemicals in the lake or something like that). I also believe the smaller news stations don't really know what happened at all but just hear what they are supposed to say and also that nobody with a pro-government audience even dares to investigate something. They are just echoing the message they received from the ministry of news or whatever it is called.
..thats why I'm convinced Putin could end his war on Ukraine at any time if he actually wanted to. Some people say Russia is too invested in Ukraine and would need a "face-saving exit", but I think he could spin it however he likes and people would buy it as much as the rest of the crap they are presented in his media.
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..thats why I'm convinced Putin could end his war on Ukraine at any time if he actually wanted to. Some people say Russia is too invested in Ukraine and would need a "face-saving exit", but I think he could spin it however he likes and people would buy it as much as the rest of the crap they are presented in his media.
I think in a direct sense you are right, but they will also have to spin the economic consequences and they might be able to spin the story but they don't get to choose about everything. He might only be able to solve this by starting another war somewhere else, which they could also spin to be believable but they can't decide wether they will win that war either. Also I think the reasons the war was started are very different to why they are continued.
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..thats why I'm convinced Putin could end his war on Ukraine at any time if he actually wanted to. Some people say Russia is too invested in Ukraine and would need a "face-saving exit", but I think he could spin it however he likes and people would buy it as much as the rest of the crap they are presented in his media.
They just need a tiny win on paper, like Ukraine not joining NATO but only EU for that.