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If your proxy war demands nonstop PR spin and mass media propaganda at maximum aggression to manufacture public consent for it, maybe your proxy war is immoral and bad.
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Phoniest, most PR-intensive war of all time. pic.twitter.com/Vnr5vrAv4M
"- Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) October 9, 2022
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The only way you can believe Russia is threatening with nuclear weapons in a way the US is not would be to think the US has a No First Use nuclear policy. Which would of course be false and silly.
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When one side of the new cold war wants multipolarity where world power is much less centralized and the other side wants unipolar planetary domination where the entire world obeys Washington DC and its puppet masters, it's not hard to figure out which side is the aggressor.
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Be completely dismissive of those who object to your criticisms of western imperial aggression. The one and only reason they expect their dopey opinions to be taken seriously is because their position has been artificially normalized by copious amounts of propaganda. That's it.
The one and only thing making your worldview look strange and suspicious and the worldview of empire apologists look normal is the fact that we've all been swimming in empire propaganda our entire lives. It's got nothing to do with the factuality or validity of anyone's position. In reality, focusing one's criticisms on the most dangerous impulses of the most powerful and destructive power structure on earth is the normal thing to do. It's not strange and suspicious when you do it, it's strange and suspicious that everyone else does not.
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