Stickers with the slogan ““Russia is not my enemy” have appeared in Romania, France, and Italy.
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“Russia has launched the propaganda campaign ‘Russia is not my enemy,’ which has reached Romania. Stickers with this message are appearing in cities as part of the Kremlin’s hybrid campaign aimed at creating the illusion of a ‘peaceful partnership.’ Through such tools of influence, Russia seeks to portray itself as a peacemaker, downplay its own crimes, and sow discord within European societies,” the statement by the Center for Countering Disinformation under Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council said.
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The Center added that the purpose of the campaign is to undermine citizens’ trust in the rule of law and democratic institutions in their countries, cast doubt on the Euro-Atlantic course, and discredit support for Ukraine.
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Russia has significantly intensified hybrid attacks on the EU’s critical infrastructure since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
I remember the Cold War and the fall of the iron curtain. It was quite tiresome that every other American movie had the bad guys be Russian (with some older movies having Germans instead).
I feel we’re going back to that.
Expansion in Eastern Europe you say? Yes, it rather does feel like we’re going back to that - and it appears quite justified
You hear that? That’s the sound of lemmy.ml deleting this post from their instance.
Ah there’s your problem, the news always forgets to translate Kremlinese. The stickers all say “Russia is my enemy”. Easy mistake to make, no harm done.
Am Russian. Russia is my enemy…
… as well as US, Israel, Iran, and any other government currently commiting crimes against humanity.
You, personally, are not my enemy… unless you are a nazi then fuck you too. But, hopefully, you are not, and I am not your enemy either.
I might get downvoted for this, as I know the emotions are strong in this topic, but I’ll try and voice my humble opinion once again:
The Russian PEOPLE are not my enemy, KREMLIN is! And I don’t need stickers to tell me this. There are plenty of reports coming from independent journalists all over of not only the horrors that Kremlin motivates soldiers to commit in Ukraine, but what Kremlin is doing even towards civilians inside Russia! There’s a reason for the mass emigration and protests across Russia when this conflict first broke out, and that is that most of the people do not want unnecessary conflict. The Russian people suffer more and more, and also want this to end.
As long as Kremlin and its supporters are allowed to abuse their power however, the suffering will continue, so no mercy for them.
I was born in russia, and the current behavior of russia is downstream of the political system that is dominant in russia, which itself is downstream of the russian culture (the sum total of the ideas in people’s heads and their interplay). Things got this way because russian people let things get this way. https://vasily.cc/blog/the-russian-template/
I was born in russia
What was the intention behind this sentence? You’re clearly not Russian, nor have lived in Russia for any considerate amount of time, as the blog post you’ve linked is full of markers of someone who has spent their entire life in Kiyv. Whom are you trying to fool here?
You’re clearly not Russian
Thanks for recognizing this. Yes, most people in russia aren’t “russian”, they have just been assimilated into the amorphous imperial identity.
nor have lived in Russia for any considerate amount of time
Oh wow, something new to learn about myself I guess. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.
What do you mean by markers? Indicators?
Why does linking to an article by someone originally from kiyv indicate they’re not Russian? What does it matter whom the article is from when it matches their experience as a Russian?
Linking to it doesn’t indicate its their own article.
What do you mean by markers? Indicators?
Yes, usage of certain words, sentences, points one would only pick up by consuming local propaganda. One example of which would be the word “Muscovite”, which is not even a word in any Russian’s vocabulary.
Linking to it doesn’t indicate its their own article.
It is their own article. Just open their profile, ffs.
Can the EU also start lauching propaganda: The EU is not your enemy. Make posters of how it was before and after the EU. Make a campaign with The US, Russia and China being the enemies and how only a united EU can be strong enough to stay relevant in modern geopolitics?
The countries that escaped the clutches of Russian rule need no reminding. They know what a shitty failed state it was and is.
In my country, the part that escaped the clutches of Russian rule absolutely needs reminding, unfortunately.
Paradoxically, it is there where Russia is still heavily romanticised.
Sounds like something an enemy would say.
Russia is my enemy.
Only traitors say the Russian government isn’t their enemy
The Russia of today is my enemy.
Until the likes of Putin are dead and democracy has been established, I assume that Russia is not a good thing. Here’s hoping that Ukraine can conquer or shatter Russia, so that it can be reformed into something that doesn’t suck.
Come on, they only have tried (and failed) for 500 years! Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt!
/s
Fuck Russia, fuck them today and tomorrow. For them to become normal they have to first cease to exist.
Again: cheaper than tanks and rockets and feeding your people. Hybrid War is real.
And nothing will be done about it because goverments are scared of meta, xitter and reddit, just point angrily at it and let the propaganda flow.
To quote a military yutuber I watch now and then: WW3 started in 2014. It’s just that the kinetic element has been limited to Ukraine.
YOU get a trump! And YOU get a trump! And EVERYBODY gets a trump!
What if we already have one?
Double. . . trump?
Dear god!
This is fucking sad, all gorbachev and putin wanted was to be accepted by the west but the supremacist views run so deep. I feel like this will be the last attempt at extending a branch of friendship to europe. No doubt it will be thrown back in their face and europe will remain more isolated, more beholden to the seppo empire than eper before.
Ol’ Gorba might’ve wanted to be accepted by the west, but Putin wants Lebensraum.
Please tell me this is sarcasm… please?
no. it’s an example of propaganda pushed by russian troll farms.
I guess the west should just be more accepting towards dictators invading other countries.
Plot twist.
They did not.
Unfortunately for you, even Gorbachev wasn’t as pro-West as many would like to think he is. He himself expressed concerns of NATO expansion after the collapse of the Soviet Union. One would think that the leader who warmed up and made overtures to the West, actually wants to join NATO after, but nope.
Putin asked to be invited to join NATO, and so did Stalin, but were refused. Knowing the two, it is their mind games to test if the alliance is indeed anti-Russia, without actually intending to join.
It was only under Yeltsin at Clinton’s behest did Russia seriously considered joining, but Germany at the time refused. NATO is indeed an anti-Russia alliance. But that’s not necessarily a damning fact, because much of the Russians are not pro-West anyway and they are jingoistic. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the anti-communist writer and was hailed by the West, was a jingoist and anti-West but the West deliberately put that aside. Even Putin’s late rival, Alexei Navalny, was an ultranationalist who supported the annexation of Crimea (he recanted his views in the last election just before he died, but he was probably only saying the things that the West and others wants to hear to support him against Putin). Navalny was survived by his wife but she is also similarly ultranationalist.
What a lot of people miss on the discourse is the fact that Russians are first and foremost, nationalists and then whatever comes second.
It was only under Yeltsin at Clinton’s behest did Russia seriously considered joining, but Germany at the time refused.
Do you have a source for that?
It’s a recent revelation after the records were made public by Germany. https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-documents-from-the-1990s-how-close-was-russia-to-nato-membership-a-613a9896-ac9f-46ac-b27c-00547d96b9fb
Nice, so the Ukraine war can expand into another world war because the requirement is fulfilled that Germany caused it.
Even if Russia did join NATO, would much of the Russians even like it? I’ve been meaning to expand it on my original comment, but what is always lost in the discussion is that Russians have Eurasian ideology, they think they have their own piece of the pie. As mentioned, even in the higher echelons of society, even those who oppose whoever is in power in Kremlin, they are still ultranationalists who all agree that Russia stands alone as a power and wants their own sphere of influence.
Overall, I’d say both are at fault. Nationalism is a bitch.
Damn, I had no idea people still performed lobotomies
It’s a requirement for .ml and Hexbear.
You are correct. The supremacist views of putin run very deep.
Want friendship with Europe? Stop invading sovereign nations like imperialist scum.
all gorbachev and putin was to be accepted by the west but the supremacist views run so deep
I’m sure Putin weeps tears of regret over the peaceful future that could have been had the “evil west” let him, when he sends deluge after deluge of shahed drones and missiles flying into people’s homes every night so he can murder parents and children in their beds hundreds of kilometers away from the frontline.
Putin, the successor of the guy that coup’d Gorbachev? Gorbachev who died heartbroken that Putin was attacking Ukraine?
Leave it to a Hexbear to try and be an apologist for Russia and completely ignoring their imperialist agenda. Russia got itself into this mess, and it should not be given leniency.
Watch the popular “influencers” and you’ll notice the beginnings of pro-Russia propaganda trickling in on the more gullible and “moderate” channels.
Russia is not my enemy.
The Russian government is my enemy.
(The US government is also my enemy.)
But you repeat yourself.
/s, although Putin has some kind of weird extra influence.
I mean its true. Russia is not my enemy. Just their leadership and those who support it are. Its pretty much the same with the us or north korea.
Naming the country never ever meant the population but the leadership
Im pretty sure with propaganda they are trying to not make a distinction.
Though that exactly is what russia as a whole is. Not all support but a big amount
Im betting its like the us. Some small amount totally behind and actively keeping it going. A large amount just accepting it. A large amount not accepting it but just trying to live their lives and not fighting that hard. A small amount actively fighting it in every way they can.
