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Russian propaganda spreads fake news about Ukrainian soldiers
surrendering en masse after U.S. election
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-factcheck/3927319-russian-propaganda...
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|u/leggitysplit - 20 hours
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|Manipulation tactics never seem to change, sadly.


  |u/Punta_Cana_1784 - 19 hours
  |
  |"united states wasted 20 years in Afghanistan. I was laughing at them
  |the whole time. Man, they are so stupid. Why would a country invade
  |another country and stay for 20 years accomplishing nothing? Only an
  |idiotic country with stupid leaders would do a thing like that. So, I
  |decided to invade Ukraine almost 11 years  ago now! Wow! time flies!
  |In another 9 years we will be in Ukraine for 20 years! And please
  |don't forget to keep laughing at how stupid the US was for invading a
  |country for 20 years! I will never make same mistake as US! Who would
  |ever invade a country for so long for purely stupid braindead reasons?
  |Who wants a meaningless braindead war for that long?" - Putin


    |u/Gnidlaps-94 - 14 hours
    |
    |Hilarious Joke: ask what the Soviets were doing 1979-1989


      |u/Janitor_ - 14 hours
      |
      |the soviets or Russians, whatever joke you want to call them. Lost
      |in Afghanistan multiple times.


        |u/leauchamps - 2 hours
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        |EVERYONE loses in Afghanistan! Even the Afghanistanis, if they
        |are female


      |u/Open_Pineapple1236 - 14 hours
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      |Losing badly. Not as bad as Ukraine, but bad.


        |u/RampantPrototyping - 12 hours
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        |Dont forget they collapsed right after


          |u/TheKanten - 12 hours
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          |But surely the problem was "the West", not the system of
          |government being inherently unsustainable to the point the
          |same collapse happened in nearly *every* Communist nation.


        |u/Leon-the-Doggo - 9 hours
        |
        |The Russians lost badly because Rambo was helping the Afghans.


    |u/Ok-Friendship1076 - 11 hours
    |
    |The US lost like what, nearly 2,500 soldiers in Afghanistan over 20
    |years, and of those, 2,000 were in combat?


|u/GayPerry_86 - 19 hours
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|Setting the stage for a deal and a declaration of victory perhaps? Why
|suggest that the war was going well if not to claim victory when it
|ends. Russian tea leaf reading is tough. Counter arguments?


  |u/Aggravating_Set_8861 - 17 hours
  |
  |Putin's out is Trump. But its really not an out.  Putin is way smarter
  |than Trump. The US is being eviscerated by Trump, and will be putting
  |Trump "loyalists" into cabinet and positions of power. A true,
  |absolute, tragedy. Embarrassing.  Putin will reconstitute and attack
  |again, most likely witihin the next two years. It will definitely
  |occur while Trump is in power.  You see, I dug trenches. Fired various
  |weapons. Spent weeks eating MREs. Went to uncomfortable places.  Trump
  |is a bitch. A coward. And he will give up a "little" to placate Putin.
  |Trump would be throwing women and children aside to get to a rescue
  |boat on the Titanic. A true coward.  Putin is smart, brutal, and
  |egotistical. He can be defeated. Ukraine has been doing it, with help,
  |but its Ukrainian badasses on the front lines; with support from rear
  |echelons, fucking shit up.  Trump is a bitch. Putin is a bitch. They
  |will combine to the detriment of Ukraine, and the rest of the world in
  |the


    |u/GayPerry_86 - 17 hours
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    |I completely agree, but I’m more interested in what this propaganda
    |means.


      |u/internet-arbiter - 12 hours
      |
      |I dunno guys trying to call out propaganda that could be
      |detrimental to Ukrainian moral while going right to the comments
      |to spread Russian propaganda that would be detrimental to
      |Ukrainian moral.


    |u/Punta_Cana_1784 - 16 hours
    |
    |Join together and call it The RUkraine (roo-kraine)... much better
    |idea than Trump's. Countries joining together should be seen as a
    |good thing....i'm talking about a democratic agreement or
    |something....not by force. U guys might think im joking, but im not.
    |(Im also applying this idea to countries in general...not just
    |russia and ukraine)


      |u/calrogman - 15 hours
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      |It never even occurred to me that you might be smart enough to
      |intentionally joke.


  |u/ImaginationSea2767 - 18 hours
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  |Media and online tiktok youtube reports breaking the news for Putin.
  |Putin wants to stop the count for the war right here, just like Trump
  |wanted to stop the count on the 2020 election.


    |u/PragmaticSparks - 17 hours
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    |Yeah the real news. Totally disinformation and manipulation prove.


    |u/TonySu - 11 hours
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    |Do you honestly think that if this drags on, Russia would lose? With
    |Trump’s election and the rise of the right throughout Europe,
    |Ukraine’s days are numbered. Trump’s allotments are literally filled
    |with anti-Ukraine people, can you honestly say Ukraine can win
    |without US aid?


      |u/Nanyea - 8 hours
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      |They can, but the EU would really need to step up and may even
      |need a direct hand :(


  |u/andreasbeer1981 - 15 hours
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  |I mean, with that kind of leadership, you just need to fallback in the
  |center rapidly, wait for them to advance down the road, cut off the
  |retreat and then clench em from all sides until they surrender.
  |They're more afraid of being shot from the back then walking into a
  |trap.


  |u/Basketbally - 15 hours
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  |That's nice and all but I heard about Ukrainian soldiers surrendering
  |en masse after U.S. election!


  |u/PragmaticSparks - 18 hours
  |
  |Damm, yeah the REAL news. There's no disinformation in TikTok and
  |Instagram.


    |u/MeanMomma66 - 17 hours
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    |Disinformation is on MSM too! There’s plenty of it to go around,
    |can’t leave anyone out!😔


|u/pnellesen - 19 hours
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|So when Katarina's son doesn't return to Moscow from the front in 2
|weeks, what are they gonna tell her?  Oh wait, Moscow residents don't
|have to serve, do they?


  |u/Punta_Cana_1784 - 19 hours
  |
  |Force Putin to go the frontlines and he'd be shitting his pants
  |screaming to bring the troops home. Probably be sitting knee deep in
  |his own shit.


|u/According_Smoke1385 - 17 hours
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| so wtf Does Russia have a dept of misinformation?  Like office
|buildings just full of Russians on computers interfering with
|everything?  Or do they get to work from home.


  |u/Rogthgar - 16 hours
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  |They do have bot-farms for these kinds of things. Probably makes up a
  |huge chunk of the X audience now.


  |u/Banksmuth_Squan - 15 hours
  |
  |That's exactly what they have


    |u/manfromfuture - 15 hours
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    |https://www.state.gov/russias-pillars-of-disinformation-and-
    |propaganda-report/
    |https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades


      |u/TheKanten - 11 hours
      |
      |They're not even trying to disguise the Communist symbolism, just
      |throw that shit right in your logo.


  |u/Aggravating_Set_8861 - 17 hours
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  |Yeah, they probably have a department for that.


  |u/plumbbbob - 5 hours
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  |A lot of news about these operations came out in 2015–2017 — that's
  |exactly what they have. The "Internet Research Agency" and other
  |"troll farms" are easy to search up. At one point a (Dutch?) newspaper
  |had footage from, I think, an unsecured webcam that oversaw one of the
  |offices. I think their main focus at the time was Ukraine, but the USA
  |was also a major target.


|u/Torak8988 - 19 hours
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|that's a bit desperate by russia  so they want to shape the idea that
|ukraine is somehow losing  and that the war must end now  but at the
|same time, they demand kursk back without anything in return  i feel
|like we are going to get another episode of russia shooting itsself in
|the foot by the different propoganda offices making material that
|conflicts with one another, russia lacking a united vision and just
|wasting money on failed efforts


  |u/Punta_Cana_1784 - 18 hours
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  |Im just waiting for Zelenskyy to write a declaration saying " Ukraine
  |recognizes the independence of Russia as Ukrainian territory and Putin
  |is illegitimate President." I wonder if Putin would agree with that.


|u/PorkyPorquinho - 16 hours
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|Russia is the mother of lies


|u/Tooterfish42 - 16 hours
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|Must have been [the
|IRA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency)


  |u/azraelwolf3864 - 16 hours
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  |You do that, then they would let the nukes fly. How about no.


    |u/Rogthgar - 16 hours
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    |Last time they tried to test one of those, it blew up in the silo.


      |u/azraelwolf3864 - 15 hours
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      |Do you want to run the risk that all of them will fail?


|u/Ami00 - 14 hours
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|That's nonsense. Everyone knows that Trump promised to end the war in a
|matter of days.


|u/magicfitzpatrick - 7 hours
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|In your dreams Russia


|u/rainbow_killah - 3 hours
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|More like Russian soldiers being decimated by increased meat attacks!


|u/leauchamps - 2 hours
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|They have forgotten about the fact that their troops have been murdering
|Ukraine POWs, so why would they do this. Also the news from Kursk belies
|this bollocks


|u/gachiweeb - 5 hours
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|They've been spreading this fake news en masse before U.S. election too,
|but I guess we focus on the "after U.S. election" part because we got an
|agenda to push?


|u/M1R4X - 20 hours
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|Most shit in the media atm seems to be propaganda from either side


  |u/FarawayFairways - 19 hours
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  |To a large extent it always has been but a big part of the problem is
  |that facts, truth, and well researched information are behind paywalls
  |and subscriptions. Bullshit, lies, and conspiracies by contrast are
  |both plentiful, accessible, and free to view.  America is particularly
  |vulnerable in so much as the country confuses 'freedom of speech' with
  |'freedom to lie, mislead or ignore unfavourable reporting', so when it
  |allows a more powerful medium such as television to openly campaign
  |without consequence, the population can be much more easily played by
  |private plutocrats  I think the rot starts with Reagan, but you can
  |definitely draw a line to GWB and the big Iraq lie which caused a lot
  |of hitherto trusting believers to start to lose confidence in the
  |media, as they came to realise they'd be put away (more palatable to
  |accept you were cruelly deceived than admit you were stupid in the
  |first place).   There was a time when Americans in particular chanted
  |the mantra of "freedom" and seemed to be genuinely believe it.
  |Nowadays it seems the more frequent use of the word is laced heavily
  |with sarcasm


    |u/alppu - 18 hours
    |
    |>mantra of "freedom"  Freedom is thriving in US. At least the
    |freedom from consequences on the top.


    |u/jagcalle - 16 hours
    |
    |It started in 1865 when there were no real consequences for the
    |politicians and officers on the loosing side…


  |u/Syn7axError - 19 hours
  |
  |Totally. And then you have places like Reddit that filter it all with
  |upvotes and creates bubbles.  But there's still a big difference with
  |something like Russia, where the propaganda is legally enforced.


  |u/Exciting_Bat_2086 - 19 hours
  |
  |there’s something to be said about media illiteracy aswell


  |u/The_Man11 - 16 hours
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  |YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, it has all ramped up since the
  |election, and it’s all unwatchable.


  |u/FickleRegular1718 - 18 hours
  |
  |As far as I can tell Ukraine seems to wield the truth as a sword
  |outside of like weapons deliveries timelines and such...


|u/Ok-Maybe6683 - 13 hours
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|the Ukraine info we consume is unbiased


  |u/gbs5009 - 6 hours
  |
  |Yeah.  Better swill some flagrant Russian propaganda to "balance
  |things out" \s


|u/SinkTheBoatsLOL - 8 hours
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|Trump is going to end this war.