European Union leaders today announced they have agreed to launch what is being called a “propaganda war” against Russia, with officials trying to develop an “EU narrative” to disseminate in the Russian language media.
Officials agreed to the “propaganda war” alongside extending existing sanctions against Russia, and say they intend to use staff from the EU and its member nations to create content that “challenges” Russia.
Baltic states tried to tie the entire propaganda war to the Ukraine ceasefire, and to attacking Russia for “disinformation” regarding it. This may be a struggle, however, with EU nations disagreeing strongly with one another about the situation.
British officials opposed the negotiations of the Ukraine ceasefire in the first place, while Baltic states have alleged massive numbers of violations by ethnic Russian rebels. Germany, by contrast, has insisted that the ceasefire is holding well, and has accused the US of being behind propaganda that claims it isn’t.
If it's about trying to mimic what RT & PressTV may have accomplished in English, it'll be a huge backfire. Picture PeeWee Herman trying to persuade you of his well-developed coordination and adult masculinity…slyly.
I don't think Russians have trouble getting a sense of the 'western' perspective. Look at Bibi, look at Nuland. You're done.
I know nothing about Press TV but RT certainly is a "huge backfire" (I have it on my cable!) . It's really just American nonentities talking to American nonentities and treating Russian affairs as an American foreign news story. It really is an American TV station posing as a Russian TV station and nobody but Americans take it seriously. I call it WNUT! It seems to be no more than (yet another!) US neocon propaganda outlet. Another of the teams that promote Kremlin ideas on social media!
In a country where the immensely popular President enjoys a staggering 87% approval (something the western war-criminals could sell their mothers for) , and growing, just for his dedication to the country and stance against the US and their €U vassals imposing hostile regimes and building up an invasion force around it´s borders, that might be a mission impossible or rather, it is.
Add to that Russia´s popularity outside the hysterical echo-chamber of western regimes and their MSM, both in the anglo-zionist sphere and certainly in BRICS and the rest of the free world…
In a country with no independent polling organisations, I'd love to know how this blogger arrives at 87% ("and growing"!). Also, I can see no sign of any Russian "popularity" anywhere else in the world. Second smallest of the BRICS countries, Putin walked out of the G20 in a huff. I assume that was because he imagined that the other BRICS countries would line up behind him. They're not going to get into a fight for such a small and technology backward country. Equally, Russia is no longer rich enough to dole out aid to the poor countries in the was the Soviets did, nor does the present oligarch-run gangster state have the ideological basis for doing so. Thus, the poor countries see no reason to make enemies for the sake of a Putin who has nothing to offer them.
As Putin said the real problem is the 239 missiles the US is deploying in Romania, 409 in Poland and on 32 ships in the Mediterranean "to defend us against Iran!" Anyone who believes that fairy tale is a bloody fool. But some people actually believe the fairy tale.
They don't have to worry about the fairy tale anymore, they will probably come out of the closet soon and admit the missiles are aimed at the Russians.
I remember a propaganda war against Russia when it was still the USSR. Slogans such as "Mit Europa gegen den Bolschewismus". It morphed into a real war which that Europa lost.
Maybe this announcement is aimed at a Western audience and is intended to underpin the idea that it is the Russians who are spreading disinformation.
There are plenty enough Western mouthpieces in Russia already, most Russians will just laugh at an EU propoganda station.
First paragraph is the right one. I doubt if Russians need a foreign propaganda station to realise that Putin and the oligrachs he fronts for are a bunch of thieving thugs.
Still trying to hype the "split"! Loved the bit in the article linked to about "the teams that promote Kremlin ideas on social media". I would include most of the American internet in that category (including the "professional" bloggers) !
During communist period there was no real propaganda war because in that time a lot of people from soviet -russain origin were informing soviet people about their misfunctions like for instance the fact that psychiatry was used against dissidents,existance of labor camps for dissidents and absence of passport for people linving in sovkhzesand defence, promoting liberties and thruth.Now the nature of the "war" is different.The nature of western aggressivity is based on anti russian racism, on surrouding by NATO and the will implenting anti christian values -How can west defend the idea of sourounding Russia with missiles ? It is for your own good ? It will not work;
WHAT !!! do you mean it has been all truth before this???