Quote (Lebanon961 @ 23 Mar 2022 07:04)
TL;DR Russia has no real and rational strategic interests in Ukraine, ya okay :)
I think the propaganda was less effective simply because full-fledged invasions are never popular and there is no simple reason the layman can understand. It is harder to do propaganda using convoluted arguments about geostrategy. The Russians tried to make a bullshit "simple" reason with cleaning Ukraine of Nazis thing, but were much less successful than US with WMDs :)
Of course Russia has an interest in turning Ukraine into a vassal state under a puppet government. Doesn't mean that this interest is
legitimate or justification enough to invade their neighboring country and shell its hospitals and residential areas.
The US argument with the WMDs in Iraq was evidently bullshit and consequently didn't gain a lot of traction either. France, Germany and Canada outright refused to participate. So the lead-up to the Iraq war actually confirms rather than disproves my argument that the success of war propaganda is heavily influenced by how much meat there actually is to the accusations.
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In any case I don't think the trend of uproar in the West is shared by most of the world. China, India, Middle East, and more places around the world are more understanding of Russia's motivations than the average Westerners.
This is not surprising at all. It's part of human nature to pay more attention and to be more invested in crimes and crises in close proximity than ones taking place in far away countries. This is a war taking place on Europe's doorstep, it's geostrategically trageted at Europe and it's Europe that's bearing the brunt of the economic and human fallout
That other countries of the world don't care as much about this war as we Europeans does not, however, mean that they are more understanding of Russia's motivations. China is geopolitically aligned with Russia and is the main strategic beneficiary of this war, so they keep their mouths shut on war crimes and cover Russia's back in the diplomatic sphere. India is equivocating based on strategic and business interests, but most definitely dislikes the war and the war crimes. The Middle East doesn't care about human rights and loves how this war drives up oil prices and thus their revenue.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 23 2022 06:08am