#b) become an active war party by sending troops. and thats. hmm. bad. putin is already waving around his nukes

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I just saw that post about Disney+ supposedly removing Anastasia for xenophobia reasons

- Which, just to be clear, is not true, the film was removed for licensing reasons and will be put up on a different channel. -

and it is I think a good example to explain what the purpose of Putin's propaganda is and what narrative he's trying to spin.

If you're trying to spread misinformation, getting people o believe you is very difficult. What is easier is trying to get people to disbelieve everyone else.

The propaganda probably can't convince you the war is just self-defense and anyway, there's no war, just a peacekeeping operation. It can, however, do the next best thing: It convinces you that your government, your media is irrationally biased against Russia and you therefore cannot trust anything they tell you about Putin's regime. That last bit is the end goal here. "Look how ridiculous the virtue-signalling has gotten! Do you really want to believe this bunch of halfwitted xenophobes?"

Nevermind that at least where I am, media and politics makes an effort to constantly empathize that it is Putin, not the Russian population, who is responsible for this war. Seriously, even fucking BILD explicitly names Putin as aggressor and avoids the word "Russians". Nevermind that there are serious efforts to microtarget the oligarchs who profit the most from Putin.

If somebody tells you about outlandish anti-russian things happening, take a moment to ask yourself if this is a) plausible b) true and c) if it isn't what motive could someone have to lie about it. What narrative does the claim support.