The Kremlin’s playbook for undermining post-war Ukraine
The Kremlin’s playbook for undermining post-war Ukraine
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While peace talks may eventually silence the guns, the Kremlin disinformation apparatus is already drafting and pushing narratives to fracture post-war Ukraine.
As we mark three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the real possibility of peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia is on the horizon. Not surprisingly, the Kremlin’s disinformation apparatus is already laying the groundwork for its next campaign to skew public perceptions in Russia’s favour.
Drawing on patterns that we have identified through almost a decade of monitoring pro-Kremlin outlets and exposing their bile, we have identified some of the likely narratives and information manipulation operations the Kremlin will deploy in an attempt to undermine Ukraine’s post-war sovereignty.
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How come that on a forum against disinformation on an anarchist server a website is regularly featured that acknowledges the following under About:
Information on this website is basically coming unfiltered from one of the major economic and political forces that is in direct conflict with the subject of its “evaluation”. Why would we trust anything they say?
Accordingly this article brings nothing new to the table and reinforces the idea that we shouldn’t even dare think about peace. That Russia is never to be trusted.
To counterbalance I’d like to suggest watching what Jeffrey Sachs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs) had to say, addressing the EU a couple of days ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA9qmOIUYJA
There exists no such thing as being truly neutral or unbiased. In capitalism, every project has funders, every funder has interests.
This source is often shared because it has a good track record on fighting disinformation.
Obviously, because of inherent interests, the source is biased through selective reporting, like every other media outlet in existence. Which is why the community is open for anyone to share articles themselves, helping vary our sources and focus on different issues and perspectives.
A biased source is not the same thing as a paid for propaganda outlet.
Conflating the two is itself pretty dishonest.
Every source of fact checking has its own problems and biases. I post from sites that I find credible, or at least contain some useful data points. It's up to you whether you find a particular source credible or not, I can't make that assessment on your behalf.
So its hardly surprising to see Sachs providing "critical support" to Russia as well.
Being an anarchist, my main concern is authoritarianism. Russia is an an authoritarian state with [neo]imperial ambitions that does not deserve my support. Anarchists generally don't subscribe to MLs' fixation on providing [un]critical support to authoritarian and only notionally socialist AES states, simply because they are working against US interests. Russia fully deserves to called out for its constant stream of propaganda about the Ukraine war and this particular source does a good job of that. To be clear, I'm not a supporter of the US either, as should be clear from my post history. But I do support Ukraine in it's fight against a foreign aggressor, as I would support Taiwan against a Chinese invasion, or Canada against a US invasion. These are all morally uncomplicated things as far as I'm concerned.
It's the folks trying to legitimize the invasion of a neighboring country that are the real concern to me.
I don’t know. It sounds like disinfo is ok to you if it suits your view. And it’s not very difficult to find support for that view from a wide array of sources, rather than an obvious EU propaganda outlet.
Then….quoting politico of all places to discredit Sachs? How does that even happen?
All of the above is fair, but ending it with quoting Jeffrey Sachs, the asshole responsible for shock therapy (though not the administration, thanks Harvard and Larry Summers), is just as bad.